Jeff Reynolds

Jeff is a writer from Maryland who works for Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, home of New Horizons and Parker Solar Probe. He’s only a software licensing analyst, though, and doesn’t do any cool stuff like building space probes or meeting Brian Mays. Jeff’s work has appeared in Clarkesworld, Escape Pod, GigaNotoSaurus, and Apparition Literary Magazine, among others. You can find links to his work at his website, https://www.trollbreath.com. If you want to find him, he’s likely sitting at his desk day dreaming.

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Underserved Market for a Mature Protagonist

May 21, 2022 10:30 am to 11:30 am

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Panelists: Jennifer Brozek, Jeff Reynolds, Alma Alexander, Chris McKinney and Kathy Kitts (moderator)
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With 21.45% of the US population falling into the Baby Boomer category (with another 19.71% being Gen X), readers are increasingly looking for more mature characters in books and movies. Some writers are meeting the demand with heros in their 40s and 50s, but can we go further? Faster? Older? What are the pitfalls and limitations of writing characters beyond the traditionally accepted age groups in SF/F? Better yet, what is the potential?

Promotion for Introverts

May 22, 2022 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm

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Panelists: Elle E. Ire, Jeff Reynolds, Kimberly Unger, Premee Mohamed and C.J. Lavigne (moderator)
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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.