I am exhausted and energized, the mark of a great conference. Had a great time with Oregon City poet and illustrator Anne Paris and Portland science fiction writer Garth Upshaw. Mary Rosenblum was there, but was running around like a speed demon from talk to talk. We kept waving to her as she passed the bar.
Workshops of note were Jessica Morrell: The Sizzle: Tension and Suspense in Fiction and Blood, Roses, & Mosquitoes: Writing with Details. Eric Witchey's Short Fiction for Fun, Money, & Skill, The ABC's of Saleable Fiction, and The Mystery of Voice. Mark Schorr's Criminal Thinking for Writers. Jessica was a one-woman grad school for writers, Eric embodied the evil genius of writing, and Mark showed you what makes an evil genius tick.I picked up a few craft books, and am looking forward to cranking out more and better writing each day.
And Ginger Clark of Curtis Brown asked me to see the first 50 pages of my novel.
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Congrats on the partial request!
ReplyDeleteI met Ginger Clark a few weeks ago. She was at the PNWA (which I did not attend), as was my agent. I met up with a bunch of agents and writers at the 5th Avenue Theater in Seattle. :-)
So who's your agent?
ReplyDeleteOnly the best agent EVER -- Jim McCarthy at Dystel & Goderich. :-D
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