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The SFWA Independent Authors Committee invites you to join us at our virtual meetup. Each month, the meetup features an expert speaker for thirty minutes of programming followed by opportunities to ask questions and network with the SFWA indie authors community. This month’s topic: Effective graphics for promotion keep changing…so what’s working right now? Excerpts? Review Quotes? What kind of backgrounds, what kind of fonts, what colors are currently effective?

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The SFWA Independent Authors Committee invites you to join us at our virtual meetup. Each month, the meetup features an expert speaker for thirty minutes of programming followed by opportunities to ask questions and network with the SFWA indie authors community. This month’s topic: What did and didn’t work for you in Third Quarter 2025? Sales, other industry stuff–what’s changing?

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Please join the Comics Committee for September’s Comics Chat featuring Joe Kelly (Amazing Spiderman, I Kill Giants). Kelly will reveal the secrets of Marvel’s Character Wheel, a fantastic writing tool to create character and conflict, raise dramatic tension, and address powerful themes. For questions, please contact Jessica Maison at comics@sfwa.org.

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The SFWA Independent Authors Committee invites you to join us at our virtual meetup. Each month, the meetup features an expert speaker for thirty minutes of programming followed by opportunities to ask questions and network with the SFWA indie authors community. This month’s topic: Vanessa Ricci-Thode discusses how she catapulted her self-published middle-grade/YA novella, “The Young Necromancer’s Guide to Ghosts” into winning the 2025 Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction, becoming the first self-published author to win a Nebula.

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The SFWA Independent Authors Committee invites you to join us at our virtual meetup. Each month, the meetup features an expert speaker for thirty minutes of programming followed by opportunities to ask questions and network with the SFWA indie authors community. This month’s topic: Book covers. They can make you tear your hair out. Let’s talk book covers with Rachel Rosen.

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Join the July Comics Chat featuring a special presentation about Convention Networking with comics writer and educator, Buddy Scalera (Deadpool, Agent X, X-Men Unlimited). Buddy created the popular convention panel, Creator Connections, which is like speed dating for comics creators, and he co-hosts the educational show, Comic Book School. He will share best practices and tips when networking at a convention. For questions, please contact Jessica Maison at comics@sfwa.org.

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The SFWA Independent Authors Committee invites you to join us at our virtual meetup. Each month, the meetup features an expert speaker for thirty minutes of programming followed by opportunities to ask questions and network with the SFWA indie authors community. This month’s topic: What’s changed in the indie author business during second quarter 2025? What’s working and what isn’t?

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Join special guest, writer Jack Campbell (John G. Hemry), while he discusses his experience adapting his New York Times best-selling Lost Fleet series into comics and how that process differed from writing short stories and novels. For questions, please contact Jessica Maison at comics@sfwa.org.

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The SFWA Independent Authors Committee invites you to join us at our virtual meetup. Each month, the meetup features an expert speaker for thirty minutes of programming followed by opportunities to ask questions and network with the SFWA indie authors community. This month’s topic: the mysteries of a successful book launch–how far out should you promote, what on earth can you do to get reader attention! Bring your favorite strategies.

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