Konn Lavery at When Words Collide 2018 I am pleased to say I will be participating at When Words Collide this year. I will be offering: A presentation DIY Graphic Design for Authors. A panel for introduction to self publishing. I will also be participating in the...
YEGman at Red Deer Chapters
Head over to Chapters in Red Deer for your copy of YEGman! I’ll now be heading over to Chapters Southpoint for a signing of YEGman July 21. Drop in for a meet & greet the author, artwork, and of course, the books themselves. When and Where: Saturday, July 21st...
Red, Then White
A cruise on the highway to Jasper is a pretty regular thing for Canadians to do. Vehicles stopped dead on the highway are not normal. Neither is your radio spontaneously turning on then playing distorted chanting. What’s with the random lighting too? Red Then White is...
Book Event Promotion
Do you have an event coming up? A book reading, launch, or signing? Great! Now we need to discuss your book event promotion. How are you going to get people to know about it? We briefly chatted about this in two previous blog posts, What To Do at a Book Launch and The...
Planning Your First Con
You have your book completed, great. The launch is over and maybe you have tried some book signings. You’re interested in getting your book out into more people’s hands. Where do you go? You can always find your way online, what if this isn’t your strongpoint? What if...
Try New Things
May, almost over and it has not been nearly as crazy as April. The previous month was loaded with trade show work for clients, tax season and the launch of YEGman, wow. Not really sure how I managed to get it all completed. I suppose sleep was sacrificed to the gods....
Runner
Runner is the first of the monthly short story with each containing a transmedia storytelling experience. The story, artwork, and audio component is included. The story can either be listened to in audio format or read directly below.The purpose of these flash...
Pure Speculation Festival 2018
I'll be at this year's Pure Spec festival, a friendly little science fiction & fantasy festival in Edmonton, AB, Canada. Learn more about the festival at their website. When? June 15th & 16th, 2018 11:00 am – 7:00 pm daily Where? Alberta Avenue Community Hall...
The Agony and Ecstasy of the Short Story
by Sarah L. Johnson Life is like an owl pellet. Why? I dunno. Owl pellets are cool and there are worse things life could be like...the owl itself, for instance. Thing is, I've wanted to write an owl pellet story for a long time and I had an idea once, but it turned...