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Office Hours

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Often the best conversations at a convention are the ones that carry over after a panel. Here we have provided a space for authors, editors, agents, and our partners to share their expertise in intimate meetings. These can either be a one-on-one about an area of expertise such as hypnotism, sailing, or contract law. Or it could be an offer to talk shop such as brainstorming sticky plot points, world-building dilemmas, or how to set up book tours.

On Friday, available topics are:
Clarion, Clarion West, MFA programs, story brainstorming, story problem-solving
History, Digital Humanities, Online and Archival Research
Humor, narrative hooks, research, creating magic systems, calligraphy
Social media! Tips/tricks/advice (Feel free to bring your device)
Book Advertising & Marketing, Indie Publishing Tactics & Techniques
Brainstorming, World-building, Dialogue, Workshopping, Fight Scenes, Flash Critiques, and Fabulata
Pronoun
Patreon
All Things Military

Speakers

Jonathan Brazee

Writer

Jonathan is a retired Marine infantry colonel and now a full-time writer living in North Las Vegas with his wife Kiwi and twin infant girls, Danika and Darika. He has been a Nebula and Dragon Award finalist and is the chairman of SFWA's professional education committee.

Carrie DiRisio

Author

Carrie Ann DiRisio runs multiple popular social media accounts including @BroodingYAHero, and has worked for Serial Box Publishing. She is the author of the upcoming YA Parody novel BROODING YA HERO'S GUIDE TO ACHIEVING MAIN CHARACTER STATUS.Her speaking engagements include talks... Read More →

Andy Duncan

Associate Professor, Frostburg State University

I have been publishing science fiction and fantasy at the short story, novelette and novella lengths since 1997, receiving a Nebula Award, a Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and three World Fantasy Awards. I have taught undergraduate writing since 1993. I attended Clarion West in... Read More →

Kevin McLaughlin

Writer, Role of the Hero Publishing

Kevin McLaughlin is a USA Today bestselling author of science fiction and fantasy novels, with over thirty books published. He has been a speaker at DragonCon, the Nebula Conference, 20Books, WorldCon, Arisia, Boskone, and other events. He believes in giving back to the writing community... Read More →

Jody Lynn Nye

Author

Jody Lynn Nye lists her main career activity as “spoiling cats.” She lives near Atlanta with three feline overlords, Athena, Minx, and Marmalade; and her husband, author and packager Bill Fawcett. She has published more than 50 books, including collaborations with Anne McCaffrey... Read More →

Kat Otis

Kat Otis writes speculative fiction – everything from historical fantasy to urban fantasy, with a bit of science fiction thrown in for good measure. She lived a peripatetic life for almost two decades and is now rather bemused to be living in one place; she’s not recycling her... Read More →

Justin Renard

Head of Marketing, Pronoun

I have over twelve years in magazine, book and digital content marketing, publishing and online retail, in the US, UK and Canada. I've worked with the likes of Kaufmann Mercantile, Amazon Publishing, Amazon.com, Penguin Books, Maisonneuve Magazine and more. Ask me about indie publishing... Read More →

Tracy Townsend

Writer, English Instructor

Tracy Townsend is the author of The Nine, book one of the Thieves of Fate series (Pyr), a gaslamp fantasy debut set in a world where theology is a science, three sentient species live in an uneasy truce, and the fate of humanity rests on the shoulders of nine unsuspecting individuals... Read More →

Friday May 19, 2017 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
Grand Ballroom

Expert Knowledge, Office Hours

2017 Nebula Conference