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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

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 […]

* 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 […]

*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 […]

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 […]

Invited to Guest Blog!

Tony Eldridge invited me to blog for his website Marketing Tips for Authors (again!). I was happy to do so. Tony makes me sound sooo professional! Examining Online Media: How […]

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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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