Ready to start 2024 off on the right foot? Our second panel of the day is on Burnout & Time Management, perfect for those looking to set up their coming writing schedule and/or struggling to find balance. Join us as Sarra Cannon and Becca Syme cover these difficult topics!

HEA Quest is a special virtual meetup presented by SFWA’s Romance Steering Committee. It’s available to all Nebula 2023 conference attendees–or, if you would like to register for HEA Quest only, you can do so here for $10 USD.

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Are you curious about professional editing and what happens after you turn your manuscript over? Join us for the first of the three panels: Editor Roundtable! We have three fantastic editors, from freelance to big 5, happy to share their knowledge: Melissa Frain, Monique Patterson, and Liz Pelletier.

HEA Quest is a special virtual meetup presented by SFWA’s Romance Steering Committee. It’s available to all Nebula 2023 conference attendees–or, if you would like to register for HEA Quest only, you can do so here for $10 USD.

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When we spend time outside, our senses tend to be on high alert. Drawing upon visceral memories (your own or someone else’s) can be absolutely fantastic fodder for horror stories. Writers who love or have have successfully used the outdoors as setting or premise for their sinister tales discuss the many horrors waiting for us right outside our flimsy doors.

Read more about Nature is Terrifying: Writing Horror in and about the Outdoors

Carrie Vaughn talks about her recent Kickstarter campaign for her new short story collection – How she did it, what she learned as a mid-career author running her first campaign, and what advice she has for other authors new to Kickstarter.

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Genre categories and conventions can set expectations with readers, but to some authors they represent limitations to the imagination. However, a story that subverts “the rules” can be challenging to place in the market–how can authors find an audience for books that break the mold? Join us as we experiment and celebrate coloring outside the lines!

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Read more about Genre Benders and Blenders: Storytelling Beyond the Tropes and Conventions

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Please save the date for our annual business meeting! We hope you will join the SFWA Board of Directors, staff, and key volunteers as they share what they’ve been doing, where the organization is going, and respond to your questions.

Come hear how we’re working for you, all writers in our genres, and the genre community at large!

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One of the challenges facing the indie writer, especially one with limited means, is how to organize the different roles you need to play–writer, editor, promoter, and so on. If you’re also submitting work to traditional publishers, how do you keep it all together?

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Read more about Organization for Indie and Hybrid Writers

The cliche is that the character dies in the end… because satisfying conclusions are so tricky with so little space? Do three act structures apply? How do you approach a short story with a strong resolution in mind? Join this session to discuss.

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Read more about  Sticking the Short Story Landing

Virtual reality is set to explode onto the gaming scene as is the conventional media industry in general. Writing science fiction often entails a vivid mental vision of characters engaged in a moving, very real, all-enveloping environment. So, how will this meeting of the imagination and high-tech living dreamscapes happen? Will novels step up from book, e-book, audiobook, to VR book? How can authors get their hands on (hands in!) VR products and the tech industry’s vision of the future might enlighten us all as to what to expect in our writing lifetime?

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Read more about Virtual Reality and SFF Story-Sharing: The Meeting of Imagination and High-Tech

This panel will analyze this relatively new subgenre and its overlaps with SFF. What are the essential aesthetic and plot elements? What kind of commentary, if any, does this subgenre make about higher education?

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Read more about Diving into Dark Academia