Amy L. Herring (Louise Herring-Jones) writes speculative fiction, with a preference for historical fantasy and alternate mystery. Her stories, appearing in fourteen anthologies, include “The Poulterer’s Tale” in God Bless Us, Every One—Christmas Carols beyond Dickens (Voodoo Rumors Media). Amy coordinates the HSV Writers’ group in Huntsville, AL. Visit her online at http://www.louiseherring-jones.com.
New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon charmed writers and alumni at Jody Lynn Nye’s Writers’ Workshop with tales of her writing, publishing, and marketing trials, travails, and ultimate victories. Kenyon was first published in a magazine in 1978 although she wrote her first story for her mother when the author was only in third grade. Becoming an NYT best-selling… Read more →
Coming into the Hyatt today, I had the distinct pleasure of listening to a spontaneous quartet of three bagpipers and a drummer. Although they had never played together before the convention, they granted my request for the “Skye Boat Song” (also the musical theme for the series Outlander, based on Diana Gabaldon’s time-travel/historical romance books). For an American Scot like… Read more →
Baen Books publisher Toni Weisskopf enlightened writers about the mysteries of publishing at Jody Lynn Nye’s Dragon Con Writers’ Workshop. According to Nye, these include incantations, spells, secret handshakes, tattoos, and, Weisskopf added, a prized chili recipe. Weisskopf, now the publisher at Baen Books, began work at Baen in 1987. Before her start in publishing, she moved from the Northeast… Read more →
The Writers’ Track is offering new and emerging authors 15-Minute Mentor Sessions, a chance to meet with a “successful industry professional [authors, editors, and publishers] about business, promotion, the writing process, & career advice.” How could I resist? This afternoon, I met with D. J. (“Dave”) Butler as my selected mentor. Dave’s published novels include Witchy Eye, The Kidnap Plot,… Read more →
Fascinated by the unique name and online presence, I asked Jane Crow from The Murder of Jane Crow band for more details. Daily Dragon (DD): Please describe your musical style. Do any genre labels fit? The Murder of Jane Crow (MJC): Classical Cabaret Gypsy Goth! The feedback we get at literally every show we play is that we don’t sound… Read more →
Cosplay is great, but some among us are truly living their dream. Meet real-life rocket scientist David Hewitt. Although David is returning to Dragon Con’s science- and tech-centric tracks, he also exercises his artistic talents playing bass and singing with fellow space fans in the Nerd Rock band Foot Pound Force. David will appear at Dragon Con in the Science,… Read more →
J.D. Blackrose led a panel of celebrated authors, S. M. Stirling, Janny Wurts, and Alethea Kontis, in a Saturday evening panel that identified myriad ways to conquer writer’s block, that ubiquitous inability to bring on words that plagues many writers. Addressing the pervasive problem, Blackrose noted that writer’s block is pretty universal and asked what we can do to fight… Read more →
A nuclear engineer for over 40 years, a war gamer for more than half a century, and an avid reader of science fiction for even longer, Jim E. Beall has life experience including work as a U.S. Navy nuclear officer as well as design, construction, inspection, and/or policy work for public and private agencies. He attended Dragon Con for the… Read more →
