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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.

Indie Author Spotlight Reading


September 7, 2025 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm

This year, the Nebulas celebrated indie publishing in fine form with the Andre Norton Award going to Vanessa Ricci-Thode, an indie-published author. Now it’s time to dive in and see what the rest of SFWA Indie is up to, with readings and author Q&As from some of our most dedicated members.

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.

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?

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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