Get a free story when you subscribe

Author, Editor, Media Tie-In Writer

Westercon 65 Panel

Westercon 65
Itinerary for Jennifer Brozek

Panel StartPanel EndPanel Title
Panel LocationPanel Description
Moderator in Bold

Fri Jul 6 11:00:amFri Jul 6 1:00:pmFairwood Writers Workshop RR1
Penthouse SuitePanelists will read (before the con) and critique manuscripts submitted by beginning- to intermediate-level writers.
Chris Bodan Jennifer Brozek Michael Ehart Richard A. Lovett

Fri Jul 6 3:00:pmFri Jul 6 4:00:pmThe Horror of Everyday Things
Cascade 7-8Monsters are inherently scary. But what about everyday items? How can the horror author turn the mundane terrifying?
Gadget the Emperor Gwen Perkins Jennifer Brozek M Todd Gallowglas Miss Amber Clark

Fri Jul 6 7:00:pmFri Jul 6 8:00:pmThe Liar
Cascade 5Panelists can get tired of answering the same questions over and over again: Do you need an agent? where do you get your ideas? how did you sell your first work? how about collaborating with me on this great story idea I have? are those dragons aerodynamically sound? So on this panel, the audience asks the questions and the panelists answer in any way they see fit.
Brenda Cooper David Boop Gibbitt Rhys-Jones Jennifer Brozek Michael Ehart

Sat Jul 7 12:00:pmSat Jul 7 1:00:pmArmageddon 101
Cascade 3-4So you want to destroy the universe? Maybe just a planet or two? Join the melee as some of our favorite experts work out a few scenarios that might just do the trick.
Anna Sheehan David Brin Gadget the Emperor Jennifer Brozek Ted Butler

Sat Jul 7 4:00:pmSat Jul 7 5:00:pmIs Science Fiction still a forward looking field?
Olympic 2In an era where steampunk and alternate history are popular subgenres does the field of Science Fiction still have a mandate to present the future in a realistic fashion?
Gadget the Emperor Jennifer Brozek Ted Butler

Sat Jul 7 5:00:pmSat Jul 7 6:00:pmWriting Media Tie-Ins: Heaven or Hell?
Cascade 6What's it like to play in someone else's sandbox? How does it differ from just doing your own thing?
David Boop Janna Silverstein Jennifer Brozek M Todd Gallowglas

Sun Jul 8 1:00:pmSun Jul 8 2:00:pmCollaborating With Artists
Cascade 7-8Authors frequently collaborate with artists from other media: Painters, photographers, and prop makers. Collaboration requires excellent communication between creators who speak different languages. It's not as easy as most people think, especially when both sides can be temperamental. Panelists will give their tips on effective communication for artistic collaborations.
David Brin Jennifer Brozek Michael Ehart Miss Amber Clark Solarbird, the Lightbringer



Meet Jennifer Brozek

Jennifer Brozek is a multi-talented, award-winning author, editor, and media tie-in writer. She is the author of Never Let Me Sleep and The Last Days of Salton Academy, both of which were nominated for the Bram Stoker Award. Her YA tie-in novels, BattleTech: The Nellus Academy Incident and Shadowrun: Auditions, have both won Scribe Awards. Her editing work has earned her nominations for the British Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and multiple Hugo Awards. She won the Australian Shadows Award for the Grants Pass anthology, co-edited with Amanda Pillar. Jennifer’s short form work has appeared in Apex Publications, Uncanny Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, and in anthologies set in the worlds of Valdemar, Shadowrun, V-Wars, Masters of Orion, Well World, and Predator.

Jennifer has been a full-time freelance author and editor for over seventeen years, and she has never been happier. She keeps a tight schedule on her writing and editing projects and somehow manages to find time to teach writing classes and volunteer for several professional writing organizations such as SFWA, HWA, and IAMTW. She shares her husband, Jeff, with several cats and often uses him as a sounding board for her story ideas. Visit Jennifer’s worlds at jenniferbrozek.com or her social media accounts on LinkTree.

Browse the archives

You may also like...

As “Declutter Monday” is currently “Project Monday” and I don’t think “crocheted 1/3 of a baby blanket today” is all that interesting, I thought I’d talk about something I’ve noticed recently. I’m part of the SFWA mentoring program. This is a program where SFWA pairs a mentor with a mentee based on a questionnaire from both sides. The official mentoring relationship lasts for six months. You “meet” and have contact every other week. From my point of view, the program matched me up with a very good mentee. Through my work with them, I’ve discovered something: sometimes I need to hear exactly what I’m telling my mentee. I have to admit, this can be annoying. I’m not the one being mentored. I’m not the one who needs to learn the lessons I’m teaching. I’m the experienced knowledgeable one in this conversation. Right? Well, yes and no. Some lessons are easy...

scroll-horizontal

Happy Book Release day to Mario Acevedo and Hex Publishers! Over at Hex Publishers, our favorite stories are those when things go bad. And bad in a big way. In my critique group, one that I share with Josh Viola, we are a macabre, sadistic bunch. There’s seldom a story that we read where one of us doesn’t chime in with, “You know what would make this plot more interesting? If the mother takes an ax to her daughter-in-law.” And that story is supposed to be a romantic comedy. Our conversations draw upon what we’ve gleaned from coroners and medical examiners. We routinely rehash crime-scene investigations from Forensic Files. Blood spatter analysis is a favorite topic of conversation. While we love debating the dramatic potential of poisons, shivs, arson, and my favorite—suicide by autoerotic asphyxiation—what really gets us going is a discussion about the why. For example, at what point...

scroll-horizontal