Tag: 2025

Steampunk November

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, […]

Arlington Comic Fest

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 […]

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

Bedouins

The Winged Warrior uses a conglomerate of desert-dwelling societies. One of my first images that came to mind when I was writing this novel were the Bedouins, part of a predominantly desert-dwelling […]

Daily Journal 06/07/25 AI

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AI. Is it good or bad? I use Claude for now. How do you use it? Meet Noz Urbina at Truth Collapse.

The novel process 1

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I sat down at my computer desk this morning (well, almost not morning) and realized, I’ve attended a lot of lectures and read a lot of books on the process of producing a novel. Did I remember any of them? eh…

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. […]

*Sarah Penner speaks

The Amalfi Curse by Sarah Penner

author Sarah Jenner in Allen! Tuesday, May 6, 2025 Barnes & Noble Bookstore Watters Creek Village 988 Village Green Drive Allen, TX 75013 (469) 342-1304 New York Times bestselling author, Sarah Penner […]

After the first draft

……………………………………………………………………… Sometimes, I like to call myself a mythogographer, one who is a compiler of myths, who renders myth to page to create something new. The more I write, the […]

* David Sedaris in Dallas

An Evening with David Sedaris April 23, 2025 7:30pm — 9:00 pm Location: McFarlin Auditorium, Southern Methodist University Back by popular demand, David Sedaris, one of America’s preeminent humor writers, returns to share […]

Start Date: Monday, October 5, 2026
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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