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 […]
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
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!
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Your readers crave the essential elements that make their favorite genres irresistible—and it’s your job to deliver them brilliantly. Genre fiction thrives on tropes: those familiar yet powerful building blocks that readers expect and love. Master these elements, and you’ll have the tools to craft stories that satisfy genre expectations while standing out from the crowd. In this workshop, we’ll explore how to identify, adapt, and elevate classic genre tropes to create fiction that keeps readers hungry for more.
She’s running from the darkness. But what lurks inside her is darker.
The debut novel from award-winning author Pat Hauldren explores questions of who we think we are vs the truth of who we are, and the price we pay no matter the path taken.
Life is not simple for Zarachiel, freshly escaped from her drug-dealing foster parents in deep South Texas. In Dallas, she stays off the grid. She finds a new family in Gracie, from whom she leases an extra bedroom, and Katie, Gracie’s four-year-old daughter.
The cartel attacks just as Zarachiel makes contact with her biological father. They want what she stole from them.
Amid chaos and survival for both her and her new family, Zarachiel discovers her true nonhuman self as she fights for her freedom and the freedom of humanity.
