Where I'll be in 2023

Dec. 31st, 2023 07:12 pm
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January:
  • Online celebration of Queen of Swords Press's 6th birthday! There will be a 5 day sale of Foxhunt kicking off on 1/12 to celebrate the launch of Wolfpack by Rem Wigmore! We'll also be doing an Instagram giveaway of Alex's books, Murder on the Titania and Wireless, on the awesomest of online heavy metal shows, Fistful of DOOM! Ylva Publishing will be doing a sale on the German edition of Silver Moon starting on the 13th and running all weekend as part of the general festivities! Plus new author reading videos and other fun.
February:March:
  • Speculations Reading Series: Michael Merriam - March 8th, 6:30-7:45PM, DreamHaven Books, Minneapolis.
  • Marscon 2023 - March 11th-13th, Minneapolis, MN. Queen of Swords Press will have a hall table featuring Catherine Lundoff and Michael Merriam and they'll be on programming as well.
  • Rosemount Writers Festival - March 18th, 9-4:30.Jennie Goloboy and Catherine Lundoff are teaching "Marketability: How Professionals Look at Your Manuscript" from 12:30-1:30 and Queen of Swords Press will have some titles for sale.
  •  No More Lone Wolves: Writing Characters in Community - March 19th, 9:30-11:30 AM PST. Rambo Academy (online class). Catherine is teaching this.
  • The Story Hour - March 22nd, 7PM -8PM PST. Online reading series. Catherine will be reading from some of her recent work, along with another as yet unnamed author.
April:
  • 13 Gears Steampunk Festival - April 1st and 2nd, Minneapolis, MN. Queen of Swords Press will have a table with authors Michael Merriam and Patrick Marsh.
  • Minicon - April 7-9th, Minneapolis. Catherine will be there on Saturday, might be on programming as well.
  • Flights of Foundry - April 15-17th. Online, based out of Chicago. Catherine will be  teaching a workshop and on programing.
  • HU's Women's Resource Center FemFair. April 27th, 4-6PM. Hamline University, St. Paul, MN. Women's Resource Center annual feminist business and art fair and anti-violence fundraiser. Queen of Swords Press will have a table.
  • Hook, Line and Sinker: Winning Them Over with Your First Three Pages. April 29th, 1:30-4:30. The Loft Literary Center, Minneapolis. Jennie Goloboy and I are teaching one of our agent/publisher classes about what grabs us...and what doesn't in a submission.
May:
  • Write On! Radio - May 2nd, 7-8PM CST. KFAI FM Radio, Minneapolis.Catherine is getting interviewed about Queen of Swords Press and her writing.
  • Book Promo on a Budget - May 6, 9:30-11:30 PST. Rambo Academy. Catherine Lundoff will be teaching this online class.
  • Dancing Bear Chocolate Mother's Day Sunday Market - 5/14 - 9AM-1:30/2PM.
  • SFWA Nebula Weekend - 5/12-5/14 - Catherine, A.J. Fitzwater and possibly other Queen of Swords Press authors will be around for the online version. Catherine will moderating a panel on editing anthologies.
  • Rochester Pride - May 20th, 12-5PM. Rochester, MN. Queen of Swords Press will have a booth.
  • WisCon - May 27-30th. Madison, WI. Queen of Swords Press will have a table in the Dealer's Room, Catherine will also be on programming and Heather Rose Jones will be in attendance.
June:
  • Nuts and Bolts of Small Press Publishing - June 4th 1-3PM PST. Rambo Academy. Catherine Lundoff will be teaching this online class.
  • Pride Month StoryBundle - Kicks off May 31 and runs through July 1. 17 books by amazing queer authors like Nisi Shawl, Sean Eads, R.B. Lemberg and Melissa Scott and you can earmark part of your purchase price for Rainbow Railroad!
  • Sophia Ignosi's Pride Month Interviews on Twitch - check out a new interview with Catherine, then listen to the rest of the series with Melissa Scott, Tom Cardamone and Nathan Burgoine.
  • 4th Street Fantasy - June 16-June 18. Minneapolis. Catherine Lundoff and Michael Merriam will be attending.
  • Tiny Diner Art Market - June 29th, 5-8PM. Minneapolis. Catherine will be there with books by local authors and some of Jana Pullman's handmade boxes and books.
July
  • Raedial Reads Book Fair - July 1, 11-5PM. Harriet Island Park, St. Paul, MN. Queen of Swords Press will have a table.
  • Bay Con - July 1-4th. Bay Con, Santa Clara, CA. Heather Rose Jones will be on programming and autographing her books, including The Language of Roses.
  • West St. Paul Pride – July 8th, West St. Paul, MN. Queen of Swords Press will be back!
  • New Queen of Swords Press title coming out out on 7/13! Little Nothing by Dee Holloway is a sapphic historical fantasy novella about magic, weird horse girls and resistance. Stay tuned!
  • Diversicon - July 15th-16th, Plymouth, MN. Michael Merriam and Catherine Lundoff will be attending.
  • Dancing Bear Chocolate Sunday Market - July 23, 9-2PM, Minneapolis, MN. Queen of Swords Press will have a book and art table, including art from Western Slope Bindery.

August:
  • Open Door Bookstore - August 20th. Schenectady, NY.  Little Nothing author Dee Holloway and cover artist Caitlin Cadieux will be doing a book release event!
  • Dancing Bear Chocolate Sunday Market - August 27th, 9-2PM. Minneapolis, MN. We'll be back with a book and art table. 
  • WORD Christchurch - Sunday, August 27th. Christchurch, New Zealand. Check out this great panel on queer joy with The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper author A.J. Fitzwater.

September:October:

November:
  • Artisan, Fartisan - A Maker's Market - Saturday, November 11th, 12-5PM. La Dona Cerveceria, Minneapolis. The Ladies of the Lakes/Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are hosting a holiday shopping market and event and we'll be there with books.
  • To Market, To Market: How Professionals View Your Manuscript - Saturday, November 18th, Loft Literary Center, Minneapolis. Jennie Goloboy and Catherine Lundoff will be teaching this popular workshop.
  • World Oddities Expo - Saturday, November 25th. 12-8PM. Hyatt Regency Hotel, Minneapolis. Queen of Swords Press will have a table at this traveling Goth show.
December:
  • Quatrefoil Library - December 2nd, 2-4PM. Catherine will be doing a presentation on the history of LGBTQ publishing, using books from the collection. Free and open to the public!
  • Minnesota Women’s Art Festival – December 9th, 9:30-4:00 PM. Queen of Swords Press/Western Slope Bindery sharing a booth space with books and pretties.
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So much going on!

Apr. 20th, 2022 08:30 pm
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Some of it very good on the personal level, just for variety. After an action-packed couple of weeks, we have the following to report:
  • Flights of Foundry was once again delightful. Good panels and discussions and a fun virtual time all around.
  • I'll be teaching So You Want to Put Together an Anthology for Cat Rambo's Rambo Academy (online) this Sunday April 24, 11:30-1:30 AM CST and there's still room for a few more signups!
  • My essay, "Queer Gothic, Edward Gorey and Me" has been accepted for Divergent Terror: The Crossroads of Queerness and Horror edited by Waylon Jordan (Off Limits Press, 2022). It's the first of the things that I've been poking at as a result of getting a literary grant from Ladies of Horror Fiction last year. More queer horror-related stuff coming soon, I hope!
  • Thanks to dave ring of Neon Hemlock Press, I'm going to be part of an online small press science fiction and fantasy panel for Library of Congress staff in June. :-D
  • Jennie Goloboy and I will be teaching a free workshop on demystifying agent and publisher relationships and processes for Clarion West Online in June and it just opened for signups! We'll also be teaching at the Loft Literary Center and the Rambo Academy later on this summer.
  • Queen of Swords Press title Foxhunt by Rem Wigmore is a Sir Julius Vogel Award Finalist for Best Novel! And our latest, The Language of Roses by Heather Rose Jones, is getting some lovely reviews!
  • Everything, Everywhere, All at Once is awesome, very queer and very much worth seeing.
Otherwise, things are complicated and stressful. I'm juggling a lot and we'll see how it goes. More updates coming soon!

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SE Wisconsin Fesitval of Books this weekend!

Sep. 16th, 2013 09:01 pm
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LGBTQ writers from the Midwest speak about their work and experiences, focusing on the ways in which literature and writing has impacted their lives and activism.

PANELISTS

RACHEL GOLD, author of Being Emily
CATHERINE LUNDOFF, author of Silver Moon
BRICE D. SMITH, contributor to Hung Jury
LOUIS WEISBERG, publisher and editor of the Wisconsin Gazette

N129 – UW-WAUKESHA

This event is free and open to the public.

 

PROGRAMS

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 4:30-5:30PM • N129 – UW WAUKESHA

NOON HOUR LECTURE:

“Beyond Binaries: Identity and Sexuality”

Robyn Ochs is a national speaker, award-winning activist, and the editor of the 42-country anthology, Getting Bi: Voices
of Bisexuals Around the World and the Bi Women quarterly. Her writings have been published in numerous bi, women’s studies, multicultural, and LGBTQ anthologies.

4-5:30PM:

“The Changing Landscape of Identity: Understanding and Supporting Students of All Gender Identities
and Sexual Orientations”

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10 C101 – UW-WAUKESHA

These events are free and open to the public.

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Writing process, bookses and news

Aug. 22nd, 2013 02:16 pm
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I finally got the book proposal wrangled and am planning on sending it out to the acquisitions editor tonight. It has had things that no other book of mine has had, namely an outline and a synopsis before I've actually written more of the book than the first 20k words or so. It also had some very thorough beta editing, which was really helpful in enabling me to figure out where I had gone wrong (thanks, Rachel Gold!).

Getting to this point involved rethinking how I write, particularly long work. Up until this point, I have been a true pantser: write a scene, build on it, write another scene, eventually go back to the beginning and rewrite what you've done so far, rinse and repeat. I realized that this was just going to take too bloody long to get this done so I wrote up a general outline consisting of world building elements, including what happened before my story started, what I thought was going to happen and my main characters, their relationship to each other and their motivations to be doing the things I thought they should be doing. I learned a ton while doing this. Did it take care of all the hand waving from the original short story and the partial sf erotica novel now on its way to becoming an sf erotic romance? Not yet. But at least I understood where I was falling down. Then I wrote a synopsis. Then I went to work on my first three chapters. I incorporated my understanding of Rachel's feedback, and I gutted both the synopsis and the chapters and wrote them again. Then revised them again. What I'm sending out this week will be seventh draft or so. What changed? The verbiage, the way my protagonist presents herself 9she was more of a jerk to start with), portions of the overall plot, worldbuilding, (hopefully), the giant gaping holes in my original concept.

So it goes out the door because a. I told the editor she'd have it by now and b. because I have to dedicate the next few weeks to Mom move stuff and all that goes with that. And I'm not done yet. Regardless of whether or not this publisher accepts the book, I'm going to write it now because I like it a lot better. I'm also going to try something similar with Blood Moon. Then, we'll see what happens from there.

in other news, I just got asked to be on a panel at the SE Wisconsin Festival of Books in Waukesha. I'll be talking about LGBTQ writing and activism in the Midwest on 9/21 in the late afternoon. More news about it when I have, but I'm very psyched and flattered. :-)


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