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November 16, 2025

November 15, 2025

November 01, 2025

Indie Author Meetup – Effective Promotional Graphic Designs – slides, reels, arrows and more!


November 1, 2025 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

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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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October 09, 2025

Comics Chat with Paul Cornell


October 9, 2025 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm

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Join the Comics Committee for the October Comics Chat featuring Paul Cornell. Paul is the writer of Who Killed Nessie? — a cozy contemporary fantasy mystery. Paul’s previous graphic novel The Witches of World War II was a Hugo nominee. Bring your questions and favorite reads for Paul’s presentation followed by an informal Q & A and chat about comics.

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October 04, 2025

Indie Author Meetup – What Did and Didn’t Work – 3rD Quarter 2025


October 4, 2025 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

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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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September 13, 2025

Comics Chat with Joe Kelly


September 13, 2025 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm

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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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September 06, 2025

Indie Author Meetup – Featuring Vanessa Ricci-Thode


September 6, 2025 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Panelists: Vanessa Ricci-Thode
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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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August 09, 2025

Comics Chat with Kristen Gudsnuk


August 9, 2025 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm

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Please join the comics committee for their monthly comics chat with a special presentation exploring writing for middle grade, YA, and creator-owned comics by writer and illustrator, Kristen Gudsnuk (Henchgirl, Making Friends, Minecraft: Wither Without You). For questions, please contact Jessica Maison at comics@sfwa.org.

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