tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35321576.post5535638094790386408..comments2023-12-30T04:12:36.718-08:00Comments on Mark Henry • Daniel Marks: Yet Another Conference PostMark Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06157095641807953190noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35321576.post-57571145928338369022007-08-06T20:49:00.000-07:002007-08-06T20:49:00.000-07:00awesome, thanks mark, and congrats on the good blu...awesome, thanks mark, and congrats on the good blurb for your book<BR/><BR/>maybe we can sweet-talk them into comping a Denny's meal for usAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35321576.post-37992827230395781332007-08-06T08:15:00.000-07:002007-08-06T08:15:00.000-07:00and Joe...sounds like good times. I'm gonna need ...and Joe...sounds like good times. I'm gonna need some inside neighborhood stuff. The best ones the worst ones, specific slang. And above all where would I put a large fictional Cathedral that may or may not be a send up of a Scientology Headquarters?Mark Henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06157095641807953190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35321576.post-33455946389268518042007-08-06T08:12:00.000-07:002007-08-06T08:12:00.000-07:00Hey Jes,Yeah you can pay the fee and go. The bigg...Hey Jes,<BR/><BR/>Yeah you can pay the fee and go. The bigger writer's conferences have a wide selection of courses, speakers at lunch and dinner, agents and editors available to take pitches. <BR/><BR/>As a debut uf novelist, particularly one with a teaching background and non-fiction books on sci-fi fantasy topics, could email the programmer for whatever con and volunteer to do a session, or sit on a panel, and get the whole thing free, probably hotel, too. Maybe not airfare, but could be.<BR/><BR/>I've started emailing programmers offering my pathetic speaking voice to their cons. I'm looking at next year, though.Mark Henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06157095641807953190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35321576.post-85233348050611971952007-08-06T06:40:00.000-07:002007-08-06T06:40:00.000-07:00Let me start the picking. For six months I lived ...Let me start the picking. For six months I lived up on 23rd in front of the Rose Garden. Yuppies vs. homeless and I awoke to the sound of people vomiting massive cans of beer into the woods. Worked at Beaverton Borders for a while, sold a travel guide for enough money to quit, then spent my days prowling Goodwill and Powells for books. Wrote copiously but not well, producing an 800 page manuscript so dense that even I couldn't read it when I was finished. Then I left.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02774013548219020994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35321576.post-50409685965487810392007-08-06T00:16:00.000-07:002007-08-06T00:16:00.000-07:00How do these writing conferences work? You just p...How do these writing conferences work? You just pay the fee and attend whatever sessions you're into? Or do you get a special invite? I know nothing from writing cons and comicons, just academic conferences.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35321576.post-61221921052074175932007-08-05T20:27:00.000-07:002007-08-05T20:27:00.000-07:00You lived there? Good news for me. I'm setting t...You lived there? Good news for me. I'm setting the spin-off series there. I'll be picking your brain...apart.<BR/><BR/>Good deal on the book whizzing, and especially the interest. Rocks.Mark Henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06157095641807953190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35321576.post-49053777025136697522007-08-05T15:33:00.000-07:002007-08-05T15:33:00.000-07:00Amtrak sucks. They always know where your jugular...Amtrak sucks. They always know where your jugular is and latch on to bleed you dry. Glad you're having fun in Portland. When I lived there all I worried about was where the book was going. That, and where to get good Mexican.<BR/><BR/>TBIWBTW is whizzing ahead. 80 pages & counting. Somebody already wants to read it along with a synopsis of the rest. So that's where I am.Joehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02774013548219020994noreply@blogger.com