Where I and Queen of Swords Press will be in 2025

Dec. 31st, 2025 09:18 am
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 It begins!

January:

February:

  • ReadOUT Festival - February 14th-16th, online and in person from Gulfport, FL. Author Dee Holloway (Little Nothing) will be a featured author on panels and readings.
  • Queer Writes Romance Book Fair - February 16th, 11-3PM. The Machine Shop, Minneapolis, MN. Local event for writers, publishers and bookstores hosted by Twin Cities Pride. We'll have a Queen of Swords Press table.

March:

  • MarsCon - March 7-9, Minneapolis, MN. We’ll be there with a book table and Michael Merriam and I will be on programming.

April:

  • 13 Gears Steampunk Festival - April 5-6th, Squirrel Haus Arts, Minneapolis, MN. Queen of Swords Press will have a table with authors Michael Merriam and Patrick Marsh.
  • Herstory Book Fair - April 12th, 12-3PM, Midtown Global Market, Minneapolis. Catherine Lundoff will be signing and selling her books.
  • Minicon - April 18-20. The Hotel Formerly Known as the Radishtree, Bloomington, MN. Michael will be tabling for Queen of Swords Press on Friday and Sunday and will be on programming, Catherine will be there on Saturday (unconfirmed).
  • Speculations Reading at DreamHaven Books - April 23rd, 6:30-7:45PM. Catherine Lundoff reads from her work and signs books.

May:

June:

  • Pride Month StoryBundle - Kicks off end of May and runs through end of June, placeholder. Lots of books by amazing queer authors and we're raising funds for Rainbow Railroad again!
  • 4th Street Fantasy - June 13-15th, Minneapolis, MN. Catherine Lundoff will be attending.
  • Temporal Textual Talks Virtual Book Club - June 22nd, 4:30-6:30 PM PST. Terror at Tierra de Cobre by Michael Merriam is the featured title and Catherine and Michael will be there.
  • Twin Cities Pride - June 28th-29th, Minneapolis, MN. Queen of Swords Press will back in the Queer Writes Tent, near Harmon Place this year.

July

  • Inbound Brewing Book Fair for Grown Ups - July 12th, 12-7PM, Education Building, MN State Fair Grounds, St. Paul. There is an admission fee with this one, but it comes with a drink ticket. Queen of Swords Press will be there with books.
  • Readercon - July 17th-20th, Burlington, MA. Catherine is planning on being there and on programming.

August:

  • Seattle Worldcon - August 13th-17th, Seattle, WA. Some of us will be there online and some will be there in person. Catherine, Alex, Jennie and Heather will be there in person! 

September:

October:

November:

December:


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Where I (and Queen of Swords Press authors) will be in 2024

Dec. 31st, 2024 08:16 pm
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2024 - Updates as I get 'em!

January:

  • We're taking January a bit slow. Catherine did a book club appearance is updating our TikTok with some short videos about our books and our history to celebrate our 7th birthday. Also going on: edits! And planning! We're putting out 7 books this year - Terror at Tierra de Cobre by Michael Merriam (Weird West novella with ensemble cast) and Melissa Scott's Astreiant Series, which includes 5 previously published books (Point of Hopes, etc.) and a brand new novella! It's going to be a great year!

February:

  • Capricon 44 - February 1-4, Chicago, IL. Catherine Lundoff is one of the Guests of Honor and on a bunch of programming items. Author Michael Merriam will also be attending.
  • Queer Writes - February 25, 12- 5PM. Urban Growler Brewery, St. Paul, MN. New local event for writers, publishers and bookstores hosted by Twin Cities Pride. We've got a table and will be there with books.

March:

  • MarsCon - March 8-10, Minneapolis, MN. Author Michael Merriam is a Guest of Honor as no we’ll both be on programming  and we'll be there with a book table and his latest books and more!
  • Cleveland Concoction - March 8-10, Ohio. Author Melissa Scott is a Guest of Honor!
  • Minicon - March 29-31, Minneapolis, MN. Catherine Lundoff, Jennie Goloboy and Michael Merriam will be there and on programming. We have a Queen of Swords Press reading on Saturday from 3-4!

April:

  • Story Hour - April 3rd. Online, 7PM PST. Author Dee Holloway will be reading along with another guest writer to be announced.
  • "Current Trends in the Publishing Industry" - April 9th, 6-7:30 PM CST. Online panel hosted by PEN. Catherine Lundoff will be one of the panelists.
  • 13 Gears Steampunk Festival - April 13-14, Roseville, MN. Queen of Swords Press will have a table with authors Michael Merriam and Patrick Marsh.
  • DreamHaven Books Reading - April 18th, 6:30 PM, Minneapolis, MN. Michael, Jennie and Catherine will be reading.
  • Can*Con Virtual - April 20th. Online, Ottawa, Canada. Jennie Goloboy will be on
    “Agents Are Just People (No, Really!).

May:

June:

  • Pride Month StoryBundle - Kicks off May 31 and runs through July 1.  14 books by amazing queer authors and we're raising funds for Rainbow Railroad again!
  • Story Hour – June 5th. Online, 7PM PST. Author Dee Holloway will be reading along with another guest writer to be announced.
  • 4th Street Fantasy - June 14-16, Minneapolis, MN. Catherine Lundoff will be attending.
  • Midwest Book Awards - June 22nd, 6:30-9:30 PM, Minneapolis, MN. Death by Silver by Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold is a finalist.
  • Temporal Textual Talks Virtual Book Club - June 23rd, 4:30-6:30 PM PST. Death by Silver by Melissa Scott and Amy Griswold is the featured title and Catherine and at least one of the authors will be there.
  • Twin Cities Pride - June 29th-30th, Minneapolis, MN. We'll have a table in the Queer Writes tent (over by the bridge to the Sculpture Garden)!

July

August:

  • Mythcon – August 2nd-5th, Minneapolis. Michael Merriam will be tabling with a selection of Queen of Swords Press titles and his other books.
  • Boom Con – August 10th, Minnnetonka, MN. Michael Merriam will be tabling with a selection of Queen of Swords Press titles and his other books.
  • Glasgow Worldcon - August 8th-12th, Glasgow, Scotland. Some of us will be there online and some will be there in person. Catherine, Alex, Jennie and Heather will be there in person!
  • Carver County Pride - August 31st, Carver County Fairgrounds, Carver County, MN. Queen of Swords Press will have a table.

September:

October:

November:
  • Fediverse BookFair - November 2nd-3rd, online. Mastodon - Catherine Lundoff will be posting on Wandering Shop. Follow the hashtag #FediBookFair to see all posts.
  • Writers Drinking Coffee - Air date, 11/1. Catherine Lundoff was this week's guest.
  • Odd Mart Odd Market - November 24th, 12-4, Minneapolis. Catherine Lundoff will be selling books at Minneapolis' emporium of the weird.

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Silver Moon translation is here! And sundry other things

Oct. 20th, 2022 10:15 pm
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I forgot to mention that we also voted early and got our COVID boosters and flu shots. Also sold or rehomed several items as part of my cunning "let's start cleaning out the house just in case" longterm plan.

So this week:
  • Silver Moon is out in the new German translation from Ylva Publishing today! Get your menopausal werewolf fix in Deutsch! Right at this moment in time it is #1 in Lesbian Fiction for Kindle and #2 for print. I'm savoring this delightful event for a bit.
  • Started my new contracting gig and it is every bit as much chaotic nonsense as I anticipated, but the people are nice so far. So we'll see how it goes. Also, I'm tired and my sleep is hosed, but such is the nature of first week.
  • I'm teaching Crimson Peaks and Menacing Mansions: Writing Gothic Horror at the Rambo Academy on Sunday, 10/23 and we got room for more signups! I'm fun, I'm entertaining and I know my shit! Come take a class with me!
  • I got profiled as a entrepreneur for Canvas Rebel this week.
  • Jana's new companion care PCA started today and it sounds like they had a pleasant outing. We're easing into this with 2 hours a week, which is about what our friends were doing for free, but cannot do consistently right now due to kids being back in school, etc. PCA care is not cheap so if you have room in your budget to do a bit of gift shopping on Jana's Etsy, it would help (she also sells things at the Open Book's MCBA Shop).
  • You can still sign up for Jennie Goloboy's upcoming virtual reading from Obviously, Aliens at Space Cowboy Books this Tuesday 10/25! Jennie gives a good reading and Space Cowboy Books (in Joshua Tree) has been getting a lot of big names in lately. Come join us!
  • Queen of Swords Press news - Rem Wigmore's sequel to Foxhunt, Wolfpack, will come out in midJanuary instead of mid December to give us all more time to get stuff done. Rem has a great new essay up at the Climate Fiction Writers League here.
  • More Queen of Swords Press news: the ALA's Barbara Gittings Stonewall Book Awards committee requested a review copy of The Language of Roses by Heather Rose Jones for consideration! A book has to be recommended by a librarian or two get considered for this and it's only our second book to be nominated. Roses is also up on the Nebular Award Reading List - it is eligible in the Novella category for the Nebs, the Hugos, World Fantasy and anything else that considers fantasy at the 40k word limit. Please consider nominating it!
  • Looking forward to another fine Mysterious Old Radio Listening Society show this Sunday night! Seriously, they helped me stay sane during lockdown and I haven't missed one of their shows in a couple of years now.
  • Going to The Queen's Ball: A Bridgerton Experience next month because I have the perfect group of friends to go with. And I need good, fluffy fun. Especially after I spend 3 days at the Minneapolis Convention Center the weekend before that tabling at Twin Cities Con, which is going to be wild.
And now to bed and trying to catch up on sleep. I hope the coming days bring good things your way.
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All the things...

Apr. 1st, 2021 09:24 pm
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Which often feels like my entire life, but wow, has this month been full!
  • I did the blog tour and multiple events (see promo post below for links).
  • Queen of Swords Press got offered a Reddit AMA in June, just at the start of the Pride StoryBundle kickoff. We also got an intern for the summer so I can finally tackle that Kickstarter I've been pondering. We'll also open for submissions.
  • I'm in talks to have one of my books translated and sold in an overseas market. More bulletins when I have them!
  • I landed a reading slot at StokerCon, 2 panels and a Dealer's Room table at Flights of Foundry, a reading at virtual Outwrite and who knows for other venues. I've applied for the Nebula Weekend programming as well as for GCLS, so we'll see how it goes from there.
  • This week included my first vaccine, my birthday and the first anniversary of my mother's death so it's been a LOT.
More coming soon - I need some sleep!

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2020 in review - Writing, Publishing and Teaching

Dec. 31st, 2020 02:37 pm
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Let's start with the good parts first, shall we?
Here's a list of my own 2020 publications:
  • "The Adventure of the Missing Fiancé." The Book of Extraordinary Sherlock Holmes Stories edited by Maxim Jakubowski. Mango Books, 2020. (Mystery).
  • "Cardinal's Gambit," LHMP Podcast, 2020 edited by Heather Rose Jones and narrated by Cherae Clark. (Historical F/F)
  • "The Rani's Dream," Sherlock Holmes and the Occult Detectives edited by John Linwood Grant. Belanger Books, 2020.(Mystery, with supernatural elements)
  • "Inheritance," March, 2020. Haunting Shadows: The Wraith: The Oblivion 20th Anniversary Anthology edited by Matt McElroy.  Onyx Path Publishing. (Media tie-in/Horror)
  • "Class Photo" - Letter to Yesterday Podcast, June, 2020. (Autobiographical essay).

Queen of Swords Press published the fabulousness that is The Voyages of CInrak the Dapper by A.J. Fitzwater and Wireless and More Steam-Powered Adventures by Alex Acks made the finalist list for the Midwest Book Awards.I am so proud of both of these books! And A.J. and Alex both worked their butts off this year, as did I. Here's a list of some of the events and places that one, two or all of us appeared in 2020:
  • CoNZealand
  • RainbowSpaceMagic (online LGBTQ convention)
  • Fights of Foundry
  • SFWA Nebula Conference
  • WORD Christchurch
  • Super Relaxed Fantasy Club (U.K. YouTube reading series)
  • Hannah's Bookshelf (Radio show in Manchester, England)
  • Verb Wellington (NZ Writer's Conference)
  • MileHiCon
  • Madame Askew's Temporal Entourage Book Club
  • LHMPodcast
  • DreamHaven Books
  • Cream & Amber's Fall Mini-festival
  • MultiverseCon
  • 13 Gears Steampunk
  • Twin Cities Pride
  • Glitchy Pancakes Podcast
  • The Not So Silent Planet Reading Series
  • St. Cloud Pride
  • Duluth-Superior Pride
  • Columbia Height Pride
  • WomenVenture's Women Mean Business
  • Quorum's Coming Out Day Luncheon
  • WisCon
  • Twin Cities Book Festival
  • CONvergence
  • C'monffluence
  • Geek Girl Con
  • Pueblo PrideFest
  • Outwrite DC
In addition, A.J. did blogs and interviews at Mary Robinette Kowal's My Favorite Bit, Cat Rambo's Kittywumpus blog, John Scalzi's Whatever, Helen Lowe's blog, LGBTQ Reads and several newspapers and podcasts in New Zealand. I taught 7 workshops for Cat Rambo and 1 for Broad Universe and had 2 other classes that didn't carry elsewhere. I also resurrected a novel in progress from a few years back and started working on it for my Patreon. It has been a LOT. Oh, hey, and I finished my Silver Moon sequel, Blood Moon, that I've been working on forever. Stay tuned for cover reveal and preorder links tomorrow!

Personal stuff goes in the next post. HUGE thank you to everyone who hosted us, bought books, reviewed our books, recommended them, supported the Patreon and in any other way helped us get the word out about our work! You are much appreciated! Next year will be better, dammit! Hugs all around!


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Appearances and other fun

Jun. 24th, 2020 11:31 am
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SO MUCH GOING ON! See local updates below. In the meantime:
If the 15 minutes video above intrigues you, there's a much longer video from DreamHaven Books last week.DreamHaven is still recovering from the burglary, etc. so please consider buying books and contributing to their fundraiser. They do sell Queen of Swords Press titles as well as bunch of other fun things. And I may be in Publishers Weekly soon as a plug for the store; awaiting updates.
  • Queen of Swords Press is also a vendor at Twin Cities Pride Virtual Marketplace on 6/27 and 6/28. I'll be doing a virtual hangout on Sunday night from 5-7 (check TC Pride website for code). I'm also running a sale that's going on right now: get 15% off any purchase over $3 direct from the QoSP website using code TCPride2020 now through 6/29. Print and ebook available1
  • The Pride StoryBundle is going into its last week and change. Pick up your copy today and help support Rainbow Railroad's work with LGBTQ refugees at the bonus level!
  • Me and Minneapolis - well, things are still very lively, though with less sense of immediate peril. There's a bunch of volunteer requests at the George Floyd Memorial site as well as at the new homeless sanctuary in Powderhorn Park and for various food giveaways and cleanups (too many to list - ask around or check online). Fundraising is still ongoing for everything, but a lot of restaurants, etc. are calling it quits since between the COVID shutdown, the economic impact and the riots, there just isn't anything left to keep going (so please keep donating to emergency funds here and elsewhere in the Twin Cities - it's going to be a very hard summer).
  • I took a sick day yesterday (mostly due to just being very tired and having a growing migraine) and went to see my dentist - she's an African-American woman in her sixties who runs a dental practice that's entirely staffed by women of color, located a few blocks east and south of us. They're all pretty edgy about everything, not surprisingly, but on the pandemic front, they have the whole office divided into tents and are sanitizing like mad. I'm noticing that those of us who live here are beginning to talk about time in terms of before and after George Floyd's murder so I think it will be a pivotal event for a very long time to come. At any rate, after that, I did a Seward Co-op run, then went up to Lake Street briefly. I find that I'm having to take it in small doses.Yesterday was a visit to Bill's Imported Foods (open) and an attempt to stop by Steamship Coffee and Games (open, but not when I was there). I could see take-out signs in front of Bryant Lake Bowl. They all looked pretty good, but the gas station is a burnt out husk and several of the other businesses were trashed and are either closed forever or for repairs. From there, I went on to the Lake Harriet Rose and Peace Gardens (open for walking) and spent a lovely soothing hour there before heading home to read and nap and recover. Doing a bit better today.

  • The video from last week

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Where I'll was in 2019

Dec. 31st, 2019 04:33 pm
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January:
  • greydogtales - Online. Queer Horror Month Celebration (collaboration with Gingernuts of Horror). Monthlong through January. I have a lengthy interview up about my work and thoughts about queer horror; plus, my short fiction collection Out of This World: Queer Speculative Fiction will be on sale 1/21-1/27.
  • Queen of Swords Press 2nd Birthday Celebration at Bingley's Tea Salon - Minneapolis. January 19th, 2-4PM. Books, munchies, chocolate and excellent company! Come celebrate with us!
February:
March:April:May:
  • Wordplay, Minneapolis, MN - May 11-12th. The Loft Literary's new author festival. Michael Merriam and I will be reading on the Pop-up Stage at 2PM on 5/12.
  • Cream & Amber Author Reading, Hopkins, MN - May 19th. 2-3:30. Michael Merriam and I will be reading from Scourge of the Seas of Time (and Space)
  • WisCon, Madison, WI - May 24th-27th. A panel on marketing books, a presentation on small press publishing and a Queen of Swords Press party for our new titles.
June:

July:

August:
  • OutWrite 2019 - Washington, D.C. August 3. 4PM: Queering the Grotesque reading.
September:
  • Queer Voices Reading, Quatrefoil Library, September 20th, 7PM-8:30PM. I'll be reading with Rachel Gold and other contributors to the anthology.
  • St. Cloud Pride in the Park, St. Cloud, MN, September 21st, 11-4:00 PM. Queen of Swords Press will have a table.
  • Steampunk Tales and Tea - Bingley's Tea Salon, Minneapolis. Saturday, September 28th. Afternoon, TBD. Michael Merriam and I will be reading steampunk stories! We may end up in the art gallery downstairs from Bingley's - stay tuned for details.

October:
November:
  • "Breaking Out of the Slush Pile" - Online class at Hidden Timber Books, Moved to February 2020! Check link for pricing. I'll be talking about ways to make your work noticed in a good way and answering your questions.
  • DreamHaven Books/Ampersand Club- November 7th, 7PM. DreamHaven Books owner Greg Ketter and I will be talking to the Ampersand Club about running small press publishing companies and genre fiction.
  • A Room of One's Own Bookstore - Madison, WI. November 14th. 6-7:45. "Running a Small Press" - publisher talk and short readings from Queen of Swords Press titles.
December:
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Presenting My 2018 Year in Review post!

Dec. 27th, 2018 06:56 pm
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Well, 2018 was a year...and so very much of one. It's difficult to disconnect my personal life from the national and global trainwreck, but I'll do my best. It was still a hard year: bad health news for close friends, bad financial and other news for others, the unexpected ending of a long-term friendship, my mother's increasing dementia, the sudden and abrupt news that I wasn't going to be laid off after all (bear in mind that I had three years to plan and prep for a nice break and down time, which I'm not getting), other sundry things. On the other hand, there was a lot of good stuff, too. Queen of Swords Press grew, I went to a lot of great events and met nice people, I'm ending the year with almost all the same people in my life that I hoped would still be there, I had some interesting new experiences and have been learning a lot, I don't have to go job hunting at the moment and I'm a lot healthier than I was this time last year (Norovirus recovery takes longer than you would think).

Starting with the events and experiences part of things, I was interviewed on North Manchester FM's radio show "Hannah's BookShelf" by the amazing Hannah Kate herself, then appeared a few weeks later on the Cocktail Hour Podcast. I did a reading at the University of Minnesota's Tretter Collection in March for the annual Quatrefoil Library's Women's Reading, went to ClexaCon in Las Vegas as a vendor with my pals from Blind Eye Books and hosted a Queen of Swords Press party at WisCon. I got interviewed at Shelfies by Bill Kieffer,  got interviewed with author Rachel Gold in the St. Cloud Times (best headline ever!), interviewed by Paul Weimer at the Skiffy and Fanty Blog and answered 5 Questions for author Loren Rhodes. As Emily L. Byrne, I did the WLW Blog Hop, and had guest posts up at I Heart Lesfic, Women & Words and on Sacchi Green's blog, Reaching Out. In addition to ClexaCon and WisCon, I did readings and panels at Outwrite in Washington, D.C., DreamHaven Books and Eat My Words Books and WordBrew 6 in Minneapolis. Queen of Swords Press had tables at St. Cloud Pride, the Twin Cities Book Festival, the Minnesota Women's Art Festival, 2 instances of the Books and Beer Pop-up Store, the Queer Author Holiday Fair and probably something I'm forgetting.

Writing and editing. Queen of Swords Press/me and company put out three books this year: Catherine had 6 stories published this year:
  • “A Winter’s Tale” in A Few More Winter Tales edited by Matthew Bright. December, 2018 (Fantasy).
  • “A Cry in the Night,” forthcoming TBD. World of Darkness: Ghosthunters (final title TBD).
  • “The Letter of Marque” reprinted on Curious Fictions. August, 2018. (Historical)
  • “Faceless” and “Firebird” reprinted in the OutWrite 2018 Journal, Issue 1. August, 2018 (Fantasy).
  • “The Mask and the Amontillado,” Tales of the Unanticipated #32, edited by Eric Heideman, July, 2018. (Horror)
  • “One Night in Saint Martin,” March, 2018. Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast, edited by Heather Rose Jones. (Historical)
  • And had an excerpt from Silver Moon in D.C.'s Metro Weekly

Emily (Other Me) had 4 stories published this year - I also helped raise money for Rainbow Railroad, The Aliveness Project and SAGE: Advocating for LGBT Seniors, donated book packages to Con or Bust and Sirens, and volunteered for my second year in a row as a member of the Community Review Board at PFund Foundation. Wow! I did more than I thought I had! Plus more fun stuff in progress, of course. Big shoutout to all the venues that hosted me, the Press and colleagues, all the other writers who tabled with or did appearances with me, to my wife Jana for helping out and splitting a table at the MN Women's Festival, to my authors, cover artists, copy editor, book designer, videographer and web guru (not all the same person!), to the folks who interviewed me, bought books, reviewed my work, the folks who boosted the signal and recommended books to others, folks who helped with marketing and to my friends who were there for me this year - thank you all very much!

Now for a brief respite, then on to 2019!

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All the things!

Feb. 8th, 2018 08:07 pm
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It's been a full week! Lots of writing, recording of a podcast and looking at plans for the year ahead.
So far, I've confirmed ClexaCon in Vegas, have in proposals and such for WisCon in Madison, confirmed OutWrite in D.C. and confirmed the St. Cloud Public Library for out of town events. Currently talking to folks about perhaps collaborating on several winter events, including Geek Girl Con in Seattle in October. Stay tuned!

This weekend is the annual (and fabulous), Women's Prison Book Project Breakfast on Saturday and the Cedar Commissions Concerts both Friday and Saturday. I won tickets from KFAI to both nights so I'm looking forward to bringing friends along to hear some new local musicians that we haven't heard before. I'm particularly excited to hear Julia Hobart's feminist response to murder ballads. Should be interesting!

Next week's adventures include a production of Pirates of Penzance at Park Square Theater for Valentine's Day, plus more writing - I've got deadlines and new projects and a novel to finish and more stuff. I have also started applying for internal postings at my day job so we'll see how that goes.

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New review and Patreon news!

Feb. 20th, 2017 10:42 am
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I've decided to start a Patreon - www.patreon.com/CLundoff/ - and got the whole thing set up yesterday. Why am I starting a Patreon? I still have a job and don't need the money at this point on a personal level, but I do a lot of donating and funding and helping folks out when I'm flush. But one of the grants that kept my wife employed has been redirected to a different organization, her Etsy hasn't really taken off, I've had medical bills, the house needs work, some of my project fell through, I'm starting a business, etc. None of it is dire at the present time, but it is stressful and mildly uncomfortable. And it's cut into what I can afford to donate to things and people I'd really like to be supporting. That would be where this comes in. I get asked about a lot of things and provide tons of free advice and connections on all kinds of things. I'm also not always great about carving out writing time when I get stressed out. So the idea is that you pledge me, I donate your money to cool things, I produce recommendation lists on various topics and writing about interesting stuff (and fiction!). This is all spelled out in detail on my Patreon - I'm hoping this is enough to get you to check it out. Please let me know what you think; I am open to suggestions.

In other news, Out in Print gave my new book Out of This World a very nice review. I'm really pleased since I'm pretty certain that this reviewer is not familiar with my previous work so there's that moment of "Yes! New people reading me!" that's always cool. Out in Print gave my novel Silver Moon one of my all time favorite reviews so I'm really glad to see them up and running again. :-)))

And in appearance news, I've had to drop the Golden Crown Literary Conference trip I was hoping to make this year. I didn't get a workshop or programming items and at this point, pricier out of town conventions have to pay for themselves to one degree or another (no programming = less likely to sell books or be able to use as a tax writeoff). I have added one podcast appearance, a new reading at DreamHaven and am in discussion on some other things so I will be out and about.

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Where I'll be in 2016

Dec. 31st, 2016 03:35 pm
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The list in progress!

January:

· Arisia, Boston, MA. Jan. 15-18th. I’m moderating a panel on the Founding Mothers of SFF and helping with the Outer Alliance gathering on Sunday. Otherwise, hanging out and enjoying myself.

· 2016 Lesbian Fiction Appreciation Event – Jan. 21. I’ll be doing a post on things I have pondered while serving as an awards judge for various writing awards.

February:

· DevFest MN 2016 – February 6th, Minneapolis. I’ll be doing a joint presentation on Accessibility and Aging in IT with Twin Cities Women in Tech founder Valerie Lockhart.

· Inflagranti Delicto: Writing Good Sex Scenes – Loft Literary Center, Minneapolis. February 13, 1-5PM. Class that I’m offering at the Loft; it will need to have 6 or more registrants to carry.

· Lavender Ink: Writing and Selling LGBTQ Fiction - Loft Literary Center, Minneapolis. February 27, 1-4PM. Class that I’m offering at the Loft; it will need to have 6 or more registrants to carry.

March:

Women Author's Event - Tretter Collection at the University of MN Libraries (joint event with Quatrefoil Library).March 26, 1-4PM. Featured authors include Jessie Chandler, Judith Katz, Pat Schmatz, MB Panichi, myself and possibly Rachel Gold.

April:

AlterConf Minneapolis - Lead Pages, Minneapolis, April 9, 11PM - 4PM. Tech conference focused on diversity issues in IT and gaming. Valerie Lockhart and I will be focusing on making IT-related workplaces more accessible on multiple levels.

May:

June:

· Au Contraire! 2016 – Wellington, New Zealand. June 3-5th. No idea if I’ll be on programming but hoping to get on a panel or two. Besides, New Zealand! Whee!

CONvergence 2016 – Minneapolis, MN. June 30th- July 3rd. Panels, perhaps a reading. Got sick and was unable to attend. :-(

 

July:

· Diversicon 24 – Minneapolis, MN (new hotel likely). July 29th-31st. Jessica Amanda Salmonson is GOH this year. Panels.


August:

· MidAmericanCon II – Kansas City, MN. August 17th-21st. Worldcon for 2016. Panels (see tag)

September:
Speculations Reading Series -

DreamHaven Books, Comics and Art, Minneapolis, MN. September 21st, 6:30PM. At which I will be reading stuff of my own composition and suchlike.


October:

· Gaylaxicon 2016 – Minneapolis, MN. October 7th-9th. Panels and perhaps a reading.

· Arcana 46 – St. Paul, MN. October 21st-23rd. Panels. Alas, no Arcana for me as I have a conflict. But Kathe Koja is GOH and the rest of you should go.

November:

· TeslaCon, hopefully. For the sheer joy of it. Madison, WI. November17th-20th


December:

 

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News and updates and such

Mar. 7th, 2016 08:18 pm
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I've added the following fun stuff to my schedule:
  • Women's Month Reading at the Tretter Collection at the Elmer J. Anderson Library at the University of MN. Annual event cosponsored with the Quatrefoil Library, Saturday, March 26th, 1-4PM. I'll be reading with Rachel Gold, Jessie Chandler, Judith Katz, Ellen Lansky, Pat Schmatz and MB Panichi.
  • AlterConf Minneapolis at Lead Pages. April 9th, 11-4PM. Valerie Lockhart and I will be doing a presentation on making tech workplaces more accessible.
I also got word that a story of mine has been accepted for an antho I really wanted to get into - details to be announced after I have them.

Queen of Swords Press:
  • Tweeking the author contract
  • On the waiting list for a P.O. Box
  • Got the email working
  • Website is mocked up but waiting on new version of the logo and some text before I link
  • Next up, more Quickbooks, short collections, post for submissions, get ISBNs and start formatting fun. It is moving, it's just slow.

Day job, rolling downhill. Other stuff, in progress. More bulletins soon.

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