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I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Guy Morris, the founder of Author Event Network, for a recent episode. We dove into my journey as an author and discussed various aspects of my career and experiences as a Portland-based writer.
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I had the pleasure of joining The Creative Penn podcast to talk about adapting to life as a freelance writer and author after experiencing an injury. In this episode, I share my journey and offer tips for managing work and energy when life throws unexpected challenges your way. We discussed a range of topics, including: Adapting to changing circumstances: How I navigated my career shift after my injury and the lessons I learned along the way. When medical situations affect your author business: Practical advice for handling the impact of health issues on your work. How changing appearances affects us at a…
We titled the second volume of our offbeat anthology the Zoom Situation for pandemic reasons — but by the time we actually got the reading scheduled most of us were vaccinated and able to do live events again. The result was a strange, hybrid event where four of us read live and two of us read via Zoom — which was broadcast to both the in-person and virtual audience. Here's the replay. The audio's fine, though the video's a bit jerky. It might be the bandwidth issues, or it might be the space cocaine. It's hard to tell. The cast of instigators…
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I have a love-hate relationship with our new virtual world. On the one hand, my day job has always been virtual (I'm a freelance writer), so I'm pretty comfortable conducting business via video and phone call. And now that everyone else is doing it, I've had so many experiences with friends and family that we should have done before. Virtual game night with friends in Seattle after their kids went to bed? Why weren't we always doing this? Virtual craft play dates with my sister's kids who live 3 hours away? Why weren't we always doing this? Happy hour book…
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I joined the Vintage Books Live podcast for a conversation about my books, my work editing the Crooked anthologies, and my upcoming nonfiction book, as well as the differences between scifi and fantasy and what makes writers want to write.