Conferences are part of a writer’s life.
From April 25-27, 2025 Bethesda, Maryland was where you wanted to be. Malice Domestic is a fan conference celebrating the[…]
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Category: Conferences
It’s Showtime! Tips for Moderating Author Panels
I was starstruck the first time I moderated a panel of writers at a local library. I hadn’t finished the[…]
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Standing Up to My Inner Critic
Among the high points of 2012, my first year as a published novelist, was the Debut Authors breakfast held in[…]
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A Different Way of Pitching
On March 1, I’ll be moderating a panel at the Gotham Writers Genre Fiction Conference. Something that makes this conference[…]
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How to Write a Mystery
Over the next few days, I’ll be teaching a class on “How to Write a Mystery” at the Cape Cod[…]
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Part One: What happened at Malice …
…doesn’t have to stay at Malice. My panel was “International and Off the Beaten Path Settings. Here’s the low down[…]
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Should I Go or Should I Stay?
I’m talking about writers’ conferences, not relationships! Returning last week from Left Coast Crime in Bellevue, Washington, I found a flurry of comments in my inbox, addressing the question: was it worth it? It’s a good question to ask.
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A new conference
I’ve been addicted to short stories since reading Shirley Jackson’s, “The Lottery.” Although only 3,400 words long, that story has[…]
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Teaching Writing in Dubai
Earlier this month, I traveled to Dubai to teach a Novel-Writing boot camp at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature.[…]
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International Mystery-Writing Conferences
Last year, the ten winners of the prestigious Emirate Literary Fellowship came to Gotham Writers in NYC, where I work.[…]
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