Tomorrow afternoon — Thursday, July 6th — we’ll be closing down the pre-registration for Writers Cantina this Saturday, July 8th! Prices at the door will be $20 for anyone 13 and over, plus $5 for each child under 13. Save five bucks by registering now!
As promised — fresh off the digital presses, and available at Amazon! Stranded in Salt Lake City by bad weather, Attorney Owen Vail goes to sleep in the Airport Hilton. He wakes up in a different room. In a different city. In a different body. Swept up in the aftermath of a ruthless billionaire’s experiments, …
Reminder #1: At the WC presentation “Real-Time Reaction,” hear a pair of editors/acquisitions editors/publishers, Holli Anderson and D.J. Butler, share what immediately attracts their interest and what turns them off as they react on-the-spot to real query letters for fiction books, submitted anonymously by conference attendees. They will give their reactions to what they are reading, …
As a promo and fundraiser for Writers Cantina, a bunch of us from the informal “steering committee” have completed a short round-robin novel: one person writes a chapter, passes it to the next person who comes up with a chapter, etc. Yr obt. servant is in the midst of editing and harmonization of the final …
It takes several people working together to deliver a mistake this big! At the 2pm presentation “Real-Time Reaction,” hear a pair of editors/acquisitions editors/publishers, Holli Anderson and D.J. Butler, share what immediately attracts their interest and what turns them off as they react on-the-spot to real query letters for *fiction* books, submitted anonymously by conference …
At the 2pm presentation “Real-Time Reaction,” hear a pair of editors/acquisitions editors/publishers, Holli Anderson and D.J. Butler, share what immediately attracts their interest and what turns them off as they react on-the-spot to real proposals for nonfiction books, submitted anonymously by conference attendees. They will give their reactions to what they are reading, both positive …
Exactly what it says on the tin. We’ll have a big table (or multiple tables, as needed) where you can drop off your unwanted paperbacks and pick up new hits of that sweet sweet reading habit. Just don’t take more books than you leave. (On the honor system. Don’t be an ass.)
Want to see what’s on the menu at Writers Cantina? The first-look schedule is now posted! (The order may yet change, but the subjects and participants are pretty much set.)
Craig Nybo writes and composes novels, musicals, and boardgames. His novels include Dead Girl, Bieber’s Finger, The Pan-Galactic Promshow, and Small Town Monsters. His musicals include Space Funk: A Science Fiction Funk Opera, and Tesla V Cthulhu: A Musical. As a game developer, Craig has produced Shoot Your Friends, CHOPS, and Rites of Cthulhu. Craig …
Jay Barnson is the author of the Blood Creek Saga, the Vanished series, and dozens of published short stories and articles. He’s a former (or lapsed?) video game developer based in the Salt Lake City area. By day, he creates Virtual Reality-based training simulators, and by night he writes imaginary worlds. It’s questionable if he …