Betsy Dornbusch

Denver Pop Culture Con

It’s coming! Formerly Denver Comic Con, Denver Pop Culture Con’s new name actually is a better one because it is all about different kinds of popular culture. And what’s popular these days?? Science Fiction and Fantasy!!

Just so you have an idea, here’s where I’ll be at these specific times (so far; things tended to get added). My books will be in the bookstore and my kid will be in costume and I’ll be visiting friends and the Tattered Cover booth (and signings; dunno when yet) during the con.

FRIDAY

Writing the Action in Action Scenes 10:30 am Room 601

How we Plot – Or Not 1:30 pm Room 601

SATURDAY

Driving the Novel Train: Keeping Your Novel Series on the Tracks 12:30 pm Room 601

Edit Your Way Out of This 1:30 pm Room 601

Pitch Perfect: Crafting the Best Book Proposal 3:30 pm Room 601

SUNDAY

Non-Toxic Masculinity: Tough Guys in Fiction 10:30 am Room 601

What do I call a female knight? Women Warriors in Our Fiction 11:30am Room 601

Mindful Writing: Social Media & Mental Health for Authors 2:30pm Room 601

Cut to the Chase: Short Fiction vs. Novels4:30pm Keystone City

the black hole of snow and writing

I’m 13K words into a new book that is coming at the speed of dried blood. I’m trying hard not to worry about speed or even how long the dang thing could be. At this rate it might be a novella because I’m not sure there is enough to be a novel. I’m cool with […]

facebook

So yeah. I have deactivated my account on the old book of faces (or tits and asses as it used to be–I’ve long thought of it as assbook, for a lot of reasons). I deactivated instead of deleted mostly because I want to hold onto my identity. Really I only waited so long (since October) […]

review for THE SILVER SCAR

Just dropped in to mention this wonderful review of THE SILVER SCAR. The folks at Skiffy and Fanty read EVERYTHING and know EVERYTHING about SFF, and they support all writers in amazing ways if you haven’t ever checked them out. I always covet a wonderful review from them. While you’re there reading, take a look […]

confession guilt secrets

I’m thinking a lot about these concepts with Liam Neeson’s horrific admittance that he sought out a random black man (cringe; I hate that phrase) to kill after a friend was raped. We can analyze the wrongness of his statements from all sorts of angles: hurting people of color, potentially destroying his platform to do […]

post at a new look on books

I have a blog post up at my friend Rae’s A New Look On Books reflecting* on the importance of mirrors to my writing, stories, and well, really, everybody. *see what I did there? I’m pretty quiet because I’m writing a new book. Not ready to say more than I have a title, characters, and […]

hey lookie I moved

Test Test is this thing on? Ahem… TaDa!! New website! What do you think? Thanks to our longtime friend Tyler, it’s all pretty now. In other news I started a new book and it has some weird mashups so I’m going back to secondary world fantasy for this one. I always feel a bit safer […]

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