Tag: 2025

*Taylor Jenkins Reid

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: […]

WorldCon 2025-

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 […]

Texting & cursing

I realized recently while texting on my phone that my voice to text did not know the word “dadgumit” at all. Instead, my iPhone typed “dammit.” Not at all what I wanted to my very religious friend!

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 […]

Writing to Music

Do you write to music? I often do. But it has to be the right music, at least for me. And it really depends on what stage I’m writing in—first […]

Worldbuilding with Words

Geography: panoramic display world, building

Worldbuilding with Words is a study of what makes great worldbuilding, from the word choices wemake to the entire universe we create. Students will learn tools to create fascinating worldbuilding […]

Start Date: Monday, October 5, 2026
End Date: Friday, October 30, 2026

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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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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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