For this year's conference finale, Christina Katz  made her second appearance as the Sunday morning keynote speaker.  Her present...

  Since I write short pieces, like blog posts, graphic novels and YouTube video scripts, I strive to use words with maximum impact.  So...

  Novels on average, weigh-in at 300 pages, or about 80,000+ words.  That's a lot of dead trees for an author to toil over and for ...

    The Saturday lunch-time Spotlight session was about Penguin Books.   The presentation was hosted by four Penguin editors; Tracy B...

With my migraine gone, I woke up eager to attend today's workshops.  The first on my list was the Author Master Class , hosted by PNW...

(Image from:  Debbie Macomber's Press Room)   The Friday evening Featured Speaker was Port Orchard resident, Debbie Macomber.   ...

(Image from:  Gizmodo)   In Donald Maas's workshop, two blogposts back, he mentioned descriptions were the most skipped portions...

(Image from the:  Historical Fiction Newsletter)  A couple years ago, Chris Humphreys and Deborah Schneider teamed up to present ...

(The Bookreader of the Future from:  Retronaut)     In the past, the PNWA Summer Conference held a "Lunch with (Insert Name of...

Figures from Chris Humphreys' collection representing the  Royal Horse Guards  and the Polish Lancers. I introduced myself to  Ch...

(Image from:  Archer).   Agents, the book-type, not the secret-type, are the liaisons between writers and publishers.  They know the ...

(Image:  J.K. Simmons, as J. Jonah Jameson in Spider-Man) Getting published can make one feel like a superhero.  But even superheroes ...

(Image from:  Mr. & Mrs. Smith) Meeting a literary agent that you hope will endorse your work, can be an awkward affair, like in ...

(Image:  Seattle Mariners starting pitcher, Felix Hernandez) Sorry sports fans, I'm talking about literary pitches, where an aut...

(Image:  Detail from The Creation of Adam , by Michelangelo) One of the most enjoyable aspects of role-playing games (RPGs) , is cr...