I'll be attending Minicon 49 for the first time here in about a week. Minicon starts in about a week, or April 18th - 20th. It is a literature based convention with ties to both fantasy and science fiction. I'm very honored to be attending, and I just wanted to thank everyone involved for allowing me to be there. These events really mean a lot to me.
I have attached a schedule for the events I'll be doing there below:
SATURDAY, APRIL 19
Why Fairy Tales are for Adults Again - 10:00-11:00AM - Veranda 7/8 (K)
Reading - 1:00-2:00PM - Veranda 1/2
Signing - 5:00-5:30PM - Ballroom Foyer
The Year in SF - 7:00-8:00PM - Veranda 7/8 (Krushenko's)
If you need more information, please check out the Minicon website: here
Thank you everyone for your support. Please come visit me and support independent authors. I'll be doing a reading, book signing, and everything else. I'll be selling Beware the Ills and promoting The Greenland Diaries my apocalyptic blog.
Saturday, April 12, 2014
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Marscon Wrap Up
I've been wrenched away from my blogger duties due to the launching of my new child Calamities Press. If you need more info about it, check it out at www.calamitiespress.com or the blog entry below this one. I wanted to dedicate this entire entry to my experience at the local scifi con here in Minneapolis called Marscon.
First off, I had an amazing experience at Marscon: 2014. I was fortunate enough to be part of some really entertaining panels where I was able to speak my mind and sometimes (though rarely) sound intelligent. Those panels included; How to Market Your Ebook, The Hobbit, Poetry, and Dull and Realistic Characters. All of these conversations were excellent (though in the The Hobbit discussion I was branded the villian since I'm not a huge fan of the movies). Also, the panel seemed relatively certain Azog was never mentioned in The Hobbit, but he was by Gandalf at one point or another. I wanted to mention it, but I was already under fire.
I was also fortunate enough to be part of the author's book signing in the swanky Krushenko's room upstairs. At this event I met a man named Dave, who was the regional Dalek expert (I had no prior knowledge of Dalek's or Doctor Who, may the heavens crash down upon me in streams of fire). He had the most energy of any one person I have ever met. I was trying to figure out if working on Dalek's required ridiculously large amounts of caffeine.
Besides the book signing, and all the panels, I was also able to do a reading at Marscon of my novel Beware the Ills, which was really fun and I'm super thankful for. My reading format is a little bit different from other authors (I do attend a fair amount of these events through courtesy and pleasure). Instead of reading giant strings of narrative for twenty to thirty minutes, I tend to read five to seven small sections from my book. Each section gets broken down to about five minutes each, at the very most. I avoid spoilers, and I pick sections of the book that can give the listener an overall snapshot of my tropes and plots. Also, I tend to read a piece of nonfiction with my novel, in the effort to explain how I got this way and why.
Marscon was an amazing experience, and thank you everyone on the convention commitee for allowing me to be a part of it. I'll be updating this site once a week with what I'm up to, and how I'll be doing everything. Thank you everyone for your support. Please check out The Greenland Diaries, A Phantom Forest, and Chains. Thank you again everyone :)
First off, I had an amazing experience at Marscon: 2014. I was fortunate enough to be part of some really entertaining panels where I was able to speak my mind and sometimes (though rarely) sound intelligent. Those panels included; How to Market Your Ebook, The Hobbit, Poetry, and Dull and Realistic Characters. All of these conversations were excellent (though in the The Hobbit discussion I was branded the villian since I'm not a huge fan of the movies). Also, the panel seemed relatively certain Azog was never mentioned in The Hobbit, but he was by Gandalf at one point or another. I wanted to mention it, but I was already under fire.
I was also fortunate enough to be part of the author's book signing in the swanky Krushenko's room upstairs. At this event I met a man named Dave, who was the regional Dalek expert (I had no prior knowledge of Dalek's or Doctor Who, may the heavens crash down upon me in streams of fire). He had the most energy of any one person I have ever met. I was trying to figure out if working on Dalek's required ridiculously large amounts of caffeine.
Besides the book signing, and all the panels, I was also able to do a reading at Marscon of my novel Beware the Ills, which was really fun and I'm super thankful for. My reading format is a little bit different from other authors (I do attend a fair amount of these events through courtesy and pleasure). Instead of reading giant strings of narrative for twenty to thirty minutes, I tend to read five to seven small sections from my book. Each section gets broken down to about five minutes each, at the very most. I avoid spoilers, and I pick sections of the book that can give the listener an overall snapshot of my tropes and plots. Also, I tend to read a piece of nonfiction with my novel, in the effort to explain how I got this way and why.
Marscon was an amazing experience, and thank you everyone on the convention commitee for allowing me to be a part of it. I'll be updating this site once a week with what I'm up to, and how I'll be doing everything. Thank you everyone for your support. Please check out The Greenland Diaries, A Phantom Forest, and Chains. Thank you again everyone :)
Thursday, March 13, 2014
CALAMITIES PRESS
Because I'm a sucker for a vast amount of projects and ambitions (this might be a product of my generation, we like to multitask while accomplishing little or nothing), I've started a zine/magazine/literary entity known as Calamities Press. This act was not solely done by me, but with the help of various people and places. I must shout-out to a few people:
Alex Wasnick - His graphic design expertise and artistic vision is insanely valuable.
Joseph Soto - He provides the most elusive force on any creative project - positivity.
Calamities Press is what I'm calling a Hodgepodge Zine. The sparkling array of multimedia platforms and servers are giving us such a rapid stream of media, we can barely assimilate the information. Calamities Press strives to wallow in this saturation of material. Calamities Press specializes in a little bit of everything. The format of the site is basic and user friendly. The pieces of writing published are short, tight, and cover a variety of topics, both fiction and nonfiction.
I'm writing two contributing stories for Calamities Press. I'm the president and executive editor of Calamities Press, so yes, it is corrupt that I'm being the contributor. I can't pass up the option to write some stuff. My current narrative serial is called Chains. Here is a description...
Chains: Taking place in Norse Mythology during the start of the Fimbul Winter, two bounty hunters are hired to investigate a city called Frigga on the border of Jotunheim and Midgard. Something dark and terrible was chained down inside the Iron Citadel of Frigga. The two bounty hunters are drawn into a huge conspiracy coming to fruition weeks before Ragnarok and the twilight of the gods. Chains is published every Friday on Calamities Press. Please take a look.
I'm working on another serial for it called The Silverguard. I'm not sure how that one will start, but it'll be a vampire-themed story. Doing a project like Calamities Press allows me to explore these other genres and plot devices. Thank you everyone for your support, and here is the link to Calamities Press. Enjoy!
Calamities Press
Alex Wasnick - His graphic design expertise and artistic vision is insanely valuable.
Joseph Soto - He provides the most elusive force on any creative project - positivity.
Calamities Press is what I'm calling a Hodgepodge Zine. The sparkling array of multimedia platforms and servers are giving us such a rapid stream of media, we can barely assimilate the information. Calamities Press strives to wallow in this saturation of material. Calamities Press specializes in a little bit of everything. The format of the site is basic and user friendly. The pieces of writing published are short, tight, and cover a variety of topics, both fiction and nonfiction.
I'm writing two contributing stories for Calamities Press. I'm the president and executive editor of Calamities Press, so yes, it is corrupt that I'm being the contributor. I can't pass up the option to write some stuff. My current narrative serial is called Chains. Here is a description...
Chains: Taking place in Norse Mythology during the start of the Fimbul Winter, two bounty hunters are hired to investigate a city called Frigga on the border of Jotunheim and Midgard. Something dark and terrible was chained down inside the Iron Citadel of Frigga. The two bounty hunters are drawn into a huge conspiracy coming to fruition weeks before Ragnarok and the twilight of the gods. Chains is published every Friday on Calamities Press. Please take a look.
I'm working on another serial for it called The Silverguard. I'm not sure how that one will start, but it'll be a vampire-themed story. Doing a project like Calamities Press allows me to explore these other genres and plot devices. Thank you everyone for your support, and here is the link to Calamities Press. Enjoy!
Calamities Press
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