*Taylor Jenkins Reid
2025-06-05 19:30 - 20:30 (America/Chicago) | TX
Taylor Jenkins Reid
June 5, 2025 7:30 PM
Reid will be speaking at the Dallas Museum of Art – Arts & Letters Live

In conversation with Susan Ayotte Norman, SMU

Location: First United Methodist Church

Atmosphere, the thrilling new novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid, is set against the backdrop of the 1980s space shuttle program. Joan Goodwin, obsessed with stars as long as she can remember, is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University. This all changes when she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s space shuttle program.
Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants, Joan begins training at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates. As the new astronauts become unlikely friends and prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined. In this new light, she begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her place in the observable universe. Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, it all changes in an instant.
Atmosphere is Taylor Jenkins Reid at her best: transporting readers to iconic times and places while telling a passionate and soaring story about the transformative power of love.

Taylor Jenkins Reid is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of nine novels, including Carrie Soto Is Back, Malibu Rising, Daisy Jones & The Six, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.
*=attending

SoonerCon 33
2025-06-20 - 2025-06-22 | TX
Soonercon 2025
June 20-22, 2025
Embassy Suites by Hilton Norman Hotel & Conference Center
View on MapNorman, OK
Science Fiction Convention with Comics, Fantasy, and Gaming programming
Soonercon is Oklahoma’s premier pop culture convention run by fans for fans. We provide a multi-genre fandom experience like none other in the region.
At Soonercon you’ll find celebrity guests, expert panel discussions, workshops, and live performances spanning film making, STEM, art, writing, gaming, comics, history, pop culture, TV, anime, music, children’s programming, costuming, podcasting, content creation, and much more. There’s always room for another place at the fandom table! Join us.
Soonercon is part of the 501(c)3 nonprofit Future Society of Oklahoma.

RWA Conference
2025-07-16 - 2025-07-19 | TX
RWA2025
July 16–19, 2025 | Niagara Falls, NY
The Brock Niagara Falls-Fallsview (click for brochure)
5685 Falls Avenue
Niagara Falls, Ontario, L2E 6W7, Canad

Texas Author & Reader Con--ATTENDING!
2025-07-26 - 2025-07-27 | TX
Texas Horror Lit Fest, was Texas Author & Reader Con
July 19-20, 2025
CHANGED NAME/FOCUS SEPT 2025
Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas, 500 W Las Colinas Blvd, Irving, TX.

WHAT: annual Book Signing and Meet & Greet event

WHEN: July 26 and 27, 2024 in Dallas

Get signed books and merchandise!
There will be door prizes, giveaways, photo ops, and more! ADMISSION IS FREE!

WHO: Horror, Fantasy, Romance, Western, Military, Mystery, Children’s, Apocalyptic and other authors from across the country

WHERE: Hilton Hotel Dallas/Richardson
701 E Campbell Rd
Richardson, Texas 75080

Ama-Con
2025-08-02 - 2025-08-03 | TX
Ama-Con 2025
August 2-3, 2025
Amarillo Civic Center Complex
Amarillo, TX
Comic Convention with Gaming and Video Gaming programming
AMA-CON started in 2012 and has been growing ever since! In the last 7 years we have served over 25,000 convention goers.

WorldCon 2025-
2025-08-13 - 2025-08-17 | TX
SEATTLE WORLDCON 2025
August 13-17, 2025
This year’s World Science Fiction Convention, aka WorldCon, is in Seattle, Washington, USA.
Worldcon is the annual convention of the World Science Fiction Society (WSFS). It was first held in 1939 and, after a hiatus during WWII, has been held continuously since 1946. The membership of WSFS is every member of the current Worldcon.
Next year’s WorldCon is in Los Angeles, California, USA.
2026, August 27-31: LAcon V (Worldcon 84), Anaheim, California, USA

WriterCon
2025-08-29 - 2025-09-01 | TX
August 29th – September 1st, 2025
at the Historic Skirvin Hotel
One Park Avenue, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | 73102

Arlington Comic Fest
2025-08-30 - 2025-08-31 | TX
Arlington Comic Fest 2025
https://arlingtoncomicfest.com/
August 30-31, 2025
Esports Stadium Arlington & Expo Center
Arlington, TX
Comic Convention with Anime, Fantasy, and Sci-Fi programming
The Arlington Comic Fest is BACK!
We are excited to be in our new venue, the Arlington Expo Center August 30-31, 2025. ACF will once again bring comic, sci-fi, anime and fantasy fans together for one exciting event. Meet and buy from 80 artists, authors and retail vendors inside. Cosplay contest, guest appearances…and more!

ArmadilloCon 47 -- ATTENDING!
2025-09-12 - 2025-09-14 | Austin Southpark Hotel, 4140 Governors Row, Austin, TX, 78744, United States
ARMADILLOCON 2025 — ATTENDING!
Austin, Texas – Sept. 12-14, 2025
Austin Southpark Hotel: 4140 Governors Row, Austin, TX 78744. Phone: 512-448-2222.
Catch me at Austin’s long-running convention for SF, fantasy and horror fans and writers, back for a 47th year!
Independent, non-corporate, fan-organized and fan-run since 1979, from Austin, TX.
Join us at our annual festival and come home recharged from great conversations and panels, with art for your walls and to wear, and with a stack of new things to read!

P-CON SciFi Fantasy LitCon -- ATTENDING!
2025-09-19 - 2025-09-21 | Holiday Inn DFW Southwest, 14320 Centre Station Dr, Fort Worth, TX, 76155, United States
P-CON SciFi Fantasy LitCon–ATTENDING!
Sept. 19-21, 2025
Holiday Inn DFW South
14320 Centre Station Dr, Fort Worth, TX, 76155

Welcoming P-Con Guest of Honor David Weber!

Join us September 19-21, 2025 at the Holiday Inn DFW South to meet renowned author David Weber. P-Con is excited to include David Weber as a Guest of Honor this year. Author of several novels and anthologies, David Weber is the creator of the Honorverse and the Safehold universes. He also plays well with other writers, and can be seen co-writing stories with Jane Lindskold, Jacob Holo, Charles E. Gannon, and several other folks who hang out at Baen’s Bar.

DFW Writers Conference
2025-10-04 - 2025-10-05 | Hurst Conference Center, 1601 Campus Dr, Hurst, 76054, United States
DFW Writers Conference
Oct 4-5, 2025
Hurst Conference Center
1601 Campus Dr
Hurst, Texas 76054
More than 300 attendees, 90+ classes, panels and workshops, 13 agents and editors, and a full weekend of networking.
Featured guests:
Keynote speaker: Carly Watters, Senior Literary Agent at P. S. Literary.
Keynote speaker: Kelly Bishop.
Special guest: Ari Tison

Texas Indie Book Fair - ATTENDING!
2025-10-11 | The British International School of Houston, 2203 North Westgreen Blvd, Katy, 77449, United States
TEXAS INDIE BOOK FAIR!SAT OCT 11, 2025
10a – 5p
FREE!
Join an amazing collection of 115+ Texas-based authors for a book fair dedicated to self and indie published literature. This is your opportunity to shine!
The British International School of Houston (gymnasium)2203 North Westgreen Blvd, Katy, TX 77449
On Facebook: TX Indie Book Fair
Main Website

Steampunk November
2025-11-15 - 2025-11-16 | TX
Steampunk November 2025
November 15-16, 2025
492 Cordes Drive
Venus, TX
Steampunk Event
Steampunk November is a 2-day outdoor festival brimming with live music, captivating entertainment, unique shopping, special events, and more. Camp onsite, indulge in late-night entertainment, and bond over stories by the fire. Join us for an unforgettable celebration of creativity and camaraderie!

FenCon--Attending!
2026-02-20 - 2026-02-22 | TX
FenCon — Attending!
February 20-22, 2026
New hotel venue, stay tuned for more info
FenCon is a literary science fiction and fantasy convention with quite a lot of filk programming, some science programming, an outstanding collection of guests, an art show, a charity auction, a short story contest, a writers workshop, our signature FenCon Cabaret, costuming and maker programming, and members like you. FenCon is a production of the Dallas Future Society.
http://www.fencon.org/

WORKSHOP--Worldbuilding Wizardry
2026-03-02 - 2026-03-27 | Fantasy, Futuristic, & Paranormal Romance Writers Online Group
WORLDBUILDING WIZARDRY
Constructing your setting through tropes, character, setting, culture and style. This class a unique worldbuilding with romance, romantic elements, & relationship focus. Learn how to use your romantic/relationship tropes & elements to enhance your story worldbuilding. Each class attendee receives a FREE PDF of the workbook: The Cosmic Kitchen, a Worldbuilding Workbook for Specuative Fiction Romance Writers.
I’ll be presenting a writing workshop on worldbuilding at the Fantasy, Futuristic, & Paranormal Romance Writers Online Group in March 2026! All writers welcome!
REGISTER FOR THIS CLASS HERE

Instructor: Pat Hauldren
Start Date: Monday, March 2, 2026
End Date: Friday, March 27, 2026
Type: Group.io
Duration: 4 Weeks
USD Fee: FF&P Member – $20; Non-Member – $25
Worldbuilding is all about context. Ninety-nine percent of the worldbuilding we do in our stories is dedicated to creating context for everything else in the story–setting, character, plot, theme, etc.. We’ll delve into what worldbuilding is and what elements we need from it, how to use the worldbuilding elements best in our own stories. We will use the first three pages of your manuscript or story as worksheets focusing on your genre and genre elements and your overall story as a guide. Time to build!
About the Instructor:
Pat Hauldren is a science fiction & fantasy author who teaches writing workshops online and live around the world. She has presented classes with online writers’ groups as well as community colleges and in Europe. Pat’s writing classes are a dynamic working writing experience for the student. The student gets extensive one-on-one time for rigorous personal attention and feedback as well as active class participation.
REGISTER FOR THIS CLASS HERE
READ MORE ABOUT MY WORKSHOPS IN GENERAL HERE

Texas Hot Link Festival--ATTENDING
2026-04-25 | TX
Texas Hot Link Festival–ATTENDING!
April 26, 2026
(downton Pittsburgh, TX)
212 Market Street–Pittsburg, TX 75686
Texas Hot Link Festova; 2026

Lone Star Lit Fest--ATTENDING
2026-06-05 - 2026-06-07 | Austin Southpark Hotel, 4140 Governors Row, Austin, TX, 78744, United States
LONE STAR LITERARY FESTIVAL–ATTENDING
June 5 – 7, 2026
Austin, TX
Austin Southpark Hotel
Experience the vibrant heart of Texas creativity at Lone Star Festival 2026. Celebrating Texas artists, authors, musicians, and innovators. Our event connects audiences with wide-ranging showcases, workshops, and networking opportunities. Join us in fostering a dynamic, creative community in Texas, where inspiration thrives and artistic excellence is nurtured.
https://lsf26.com/

Texas Horror Lit Festival--ATTENDING
2026-06-27 10:00 - 2026-06-28 18:00 UTC | Irving Covention Center, 500 West Las Colinas Boulevard, Irving, TX, 75039, United States
TEXAS HORROR LITERARY FESTIVAL
Jun 27 at 10 am to Jun 28 at 6 pm CDT
Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas Irving, TX
Texas Horror Lit Fest is a two-day literary event spotlighting works in Horror, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and dark or speculative genres.

WORKSHOP--Generating Gorgeous Genre
2026-07-06 - 2026-07-31 | Fantasy, Futuristic, & Paranormal Romance Writers Online Group
GENERATING GORGEOUS GENRE
Using Genre Elements and Tropes to Enhance Your Stories.
I’ll be presenting a writing workshop on enhacing our stories with genre at the Fantasy, Futuristic, & Paranormal Romance Writers Online Group in July 2026! All writers welcome!
Instructor: Pat Hauldren
Start Date: Monday, July 6, 2026
End Date: Friday, July 31, 2026
Type: Group.io
Duration: 4 Weeks
USD Fee: FF&P Member – $20; Non-Member – $25
Genres are special in storytelling. Each genre has it’s own shorthand–tropes or elements–that make a genre that specific genre. Bestselling genre-writing authors use those tropes to feed their readers’s needs. Romance readers crave romantic elements. Fantasy readers desire unreal elements. Regardless of the genre you are writing, weaving in those genre tropes is one of the best methods for feeding your reader’s genre addictions. To generate gorgeous genre stories, we must learn the elements/tropes and use them to best effect. In this class, we’ll analyze others’ work and enhance our own first three pages. Your readers are addicted to those tropes, so let’s feed them!
About the Instructor:
Pat Hauldren is a science fiction & fantasy author who teaches writing workshops online and live around the world. She has presented classes with online writers’ groups as well as community colleges and in Europe. Pat’s writing classes are a dynamic working writing experience for the student. The student gets extensive one-on-one time for rigorous personal attention and feedback as well as active class participation.
REGISTER FOR THIS CLASS HERE
READ MORE ABOUT MY WORKSHOPS IN GENERAL HERE

WORKSHOP--First Page Fixes
2026-10-05 - 2026-10-30 | Fantasy, Futuristic, & Paranormal Romance Writers Online Group
FIRST PAGE FIXES
Analyzing Your First Pages Using Bestselling Authors’ Techniques
Instructor: Pat Hauldren
Start Date: Monday, October 5, 2026
End Date: Friday, October 30, 2026
Type: Group.io
Duration: 4 Weeks
USD Fee: FF&P Member – $20; Non-Member – $25
Bestsellers are bestsellers for a reason. Bestselling authors use their writing toolbox and skills to create a fascinating story. In this class, we will analyze bestselling authors and see how they created their bestseller and apply those techniques to our own. Bestseller here we come!
About the Instructor:
Pat Hauldren is a science fiction & fantasy author who teaches writing workshops online and live around the world. She has presented classes with online writers’ groups as well as community colleges and in Europe. Pat’s writing classes are a dynamic working writing experience for the student. The student gets extensive one-on-one time for rigorous personal attention and feedback as well as active class participation.
REGISTER FOR THIS CLASS HERE
READ MORE ABOUT MY WORKSHOPS IN GENERAL HERE
