Over the years, I’ve spoken at science fiction/fantasy conventions, romance conferences, multi-genre conferences, bookstores and libraries, colleges and universities, writers groups and writing workshops, writers retreats, high schools, readers groups, museums, and civic associations. I’ve done panel discussions, chat-with sessions, formal speeches, informal Q&As, I’ve lectured and taught workshops, I’ve done readings, and performed some MC [...]

Maybe twenty years ago, I was on a business trip with my husband.  He was visiting the Los Alamos National Lab.  And I was along for the ride.  Sort of.
Before I agreed to go on the trip, I wanted to make sure I could also work, since I had a novel under contract.  This was [...]

Not long ago, Elaine Isaak wrote about going to conventions, and the subject really caught my attention. See, I’m not what you’d exactly call a new writer since I’ve got a few romance books out there under the pen name “Crystal Green.” But I am fairly new to the urban fantasy world as “Chris Marie [...]

Barry B. Longyear, the esteemed author of Enemy Mine, The God Box, and many other marvelous works, says that an important reason why we write is to identify other members of our tribe:  those individuals who recognize something primal in our work, something that sings to their spirits as to no others, and calls them [...]