Tag: 2025. conventions

Compliments on my banner!

I was blown away! At July’s Texas Author & Reader Con (now Texas Horror Con) at the Irving Convention Center in Irving, Texas, I got the best confidence boost ever! […]

Event after thoughts

TX Indie Author Fest, my vendor table 2025

So, I just returned from the Texas Indie Author Festival in Katy, Texas, and whew, am I tired now! These vendor events are always fun, and always a bit tiring. […]

DFW Writers Conference

DFW Writers Conference

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 […]

P-CON SciFi Fantasy LitCon — ATTENDING!

P-Con

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 […]

ArmadilloCon 47 — ATTENDING!

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 […]

RWA Conference

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 Indie Book Fair – ATTENDING!

Texas Indie Book Fair

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. […]

SoonerCon 33

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 […]

FanExpo Dallas 2025

Everyone is a fan of something, and FAN EXPO Dallas is a place to celebrate all things pop culture. Get an autograph or a photo with your favorite guest then […]

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End Date: Friday, October 30, 2026

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Generating Gorgeous Genre-Using Genre Elements and Tropes to Enhance Your Stories

Start Date: Monday, July 6, 2026
End Date: Friday, July 31, 2026

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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.

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