C. J. Lavigne is a Canadian speculative fiction writer. Her urban fantasy novel In Veritas (NeWest Press, 2020) was a 2021 Crawford Award finalist; her short fiction has appeared in On Spec, Fusion Fragment, Augur Magazine, and Daily Science Fiction. Her hobbies include being a full-time media studies scholar who specializes in pop culture, gender, and queer theory.
Writers from a variety of countries discuss their experiences, their goals, and what they might need from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers “of America.”
A Writing Date is basically productivity through peer pressure and honestly, any co-working is welcome.
A Writing Date is basically productivity through peer pressure and honestly, any co-working is welcome.
You’ve got the contract! Your book is coming out! Congrats. Now, you have to promote it. Truth is, even the “big” houses require writers to do much of the marketing footwork themselves, and there’s lots of info on what to do and when. But, for us introverts, the shy, and the neurodiverse, stumping our own work is, at best, a source of fraught ambivalence, and, at worst, a gauntlet of terror. There are ways to push through, though. Come hear from other introverts who’ve made it through marketing in one piece, more or less.