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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[…]

Among the high points of 2012, my first year as a published novelist, was the Debut Authors breakfast held in[…]

On March 1, I’ll be moderating a panel at the Gotham Writers Genre Fiction Conference. Something that makes this conference[…]

Write Like Shakespeare, Market Like Scrooge In preparation for a Bouchercon panel on finding success as an indie author, I[…]

…doesn’t have to stay at Malice. My panel was “International and Off the Beaten Path Settings. Here’s the low down[…]

I’ve been addicted to short stories since reading Shirley Jackson’s, “The Lottery.” Although only 3,400 words long, that story has[…]

Earlier this month, I traveled to Dubai to teach a Novel-Writing boot camp at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature.[…]

Last year, the ten winners of the prestigious Emirate Literary Fellowship came to Gotham Writers in NYC, where I work.[…]

Please welcome Clay Stafford, the Renaissance man who has developed KILLER NASHVILLE with its Silver Falchion Award into an international[…]

This Aug. 12-13, Gotham Writers will launch a brand new Genre Fiction Conference, which will focus on writing and selling novels[…]