Bubble & Squeek for 10 August 2016

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Believe it or not, I’ve kinda laid low this past week… so more Bubble & Squeek. A lot of reading for Speculate! getting caught up on that. Blog posts. Mostly convention prep for Worldcon and Tracon. Still, it’s been exciting. I officially signed the contract for Sekrit Project Alex (complete with NDA, thus the name), and had agent Cherry Weiner accept one of my novels for representation. Right now, I’m trying not to freak out over all the forthcoming travel. We’ve got everything in place, including house/cat sitter, neighbors warned, etc… And then, after Worldcon, I’m going to see two countries I’ve never seen before. It’s going to be awesome.

Anthology: Maximum Velocity: The Best of the Full-Throttle Space Tales. A project I had going on in the background. Kinda of excited about this one. I like WordFire Press.

Article: Here is my Shadowrun tarot card, The Shadows, for the Shadowrun anthology Drawing Destiny, and how I used it.

Article: Why Writers Make Incredible Friends. A fun article I just had to share.

Article: I was the author spotlight on MyLifeMyBooksMyEscape. It was unexpected and cool.

SFWA: In the second SFWA Chat Hour I participated it, I talk about how to hand sell your books to convention attendees. That all said, there is more to this. There are some attendees who do not want to talk to you. Watch their body language. If they won’t make eye contact, leave them be or ask them if they’d like to hear about their books.

WorldCon: I will be at Worldcon/MidAmeriCon II. Come say hello. There is a no-shyness zone around me. I’m happy to chat with you. Here’s my schedule:

Thursday all day, SFWA Board of Directors meeting
Friday 12:00 – 1:00, Rising Stars in SF, Fantasy & Horror
Friday 3:00-4:00, Kaffeklatch with Jennifer Brozek
Friday 5:00 – 6:00, Dwarf Planets and Beyond the Kuiper Belt
Saturday 10:00 – 11:00, Finding the Right Podcast for You
Saturday 11:00 – 1:00pm, SFWA Business Meeting
Saturday 2:00 – 3:00, Autograph Session
Sunday 11:00 – 12:00, Is Mining the Asteroids Feasible?

The largest news is that I am now represented by Cherry Weiner. It’s been an exciting couple of weeks.

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 the Hugo Award. 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.

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