MidSouthCon Panel Schedule

I received my official panel schedule for MidSouthCon in Memphis, TN (March 25-27). It's a short list, but these sound like a lot of fun so I can't wait. Hope to see many of you there!

Friday 10:00 PM (Promenade 2) Ghosts In the Machine -- How phenomena manifest in paranormal fiction and vice versa.

Saturday 1:00 PM (Director's Row 2) Different Flavors of Fantasy -- Panelists discuss the various subgenres of fantasy and why they write the ones they do.

Saturday 3:00 PM (Promenade 1) Guide To Writers’ Organizations -- Cliques, clubs, or covert ops? What are the benefits of professional membership?

Saturday 4:00 PM (Ballroom A Hallway Pro-Row) Sat-4p Autograph Sessions (BLOOD SECRETS swag will be available!)

Blood Secrets Tour

March 8 -- Updated schedule!!! Official BLOOD SECRETS countdown widget now available. Be sure to snag it.

The clock is steadily counting down the days until the release of BLOOD SECRETS. I've already started pulling together the signing, convention, and blog tours.

Here are the confirmed dates and places I have cobbled together so far:

March 25-27 -- MidSouthCon
Memphis, TN

May 20-22 -- MOBICON 14
Mobile, AL

June 18 -- YzhaBella's BookShelf
Interview and Giveaway

June 20 -- What Book is That? (NEW)
Guest blog and Giveaway

June 21 -- The Qwillery
Interview

June 22 -- All Things Urban Fantasy (NEW)
Guest blog and Giveaway

June 27 -- a GREAT read
Interview and Giveaway

June 29 -- Bitten By Books
Virtual Launch and Giveaway

June 29 -- Urban Fantasy Investigations
Guest blog

June 30 -- Books Make Me Happy (NEW)
Guest blog and Giveaway

July 2 -- Signing at Page & Palette
Fairhope, AL
2:00-4:00 PM

July 6-9 -- Thrillerfest
New York, NY

July 10 -- Killer Characters (NEW)
Guest blog in Alex's point of view

July 16 -- Signing at Murder by the Book
Houston, TX
4:30 PM

July 23 -- Signing at Books-a-Million (NEW)
Palm Coast, FL
2:00 PM

June is officially Book Blog Tour Month! If you have a book blog and would like to add BLOOD SECRETS (and/or BLOOD LAW) to your summer review roster or request an interview/blog event, contact me and I'll add you to the list. If requesting a review copy, I will need your name, shipping info, and a link to your blog. Dates are filling quickly.

More dates and locations are in the works and I'll update the list as soon as I have them confirmed.

Updated CONvergence Schedule

The RT Booklovers Convention was a huge success and more fun than I could shake a stick at! I'll have a full report once I'm fully conscious and have finished sorting through all the photos.

While you're waiting for my riveting RT report, feast your eyes on my updated schedule for CONvergence (Sheraton Bloomington Hotel, Bloomington, MN -- July 1-4):

Thursday, July 1

8:30 PM -- Psychology of Criminals

Location: Atrium 4

About: Many SF/Fantasy villains are portrayed as just plain evil, but in reality there is a deeper psychology behind criminal behavior that is not explored outside crime novels. Is criminial Psycholyg ever effectively explored in genre characters?

Panelists: Christoforo Pasquarette, MontiLee Stormer, Jeannie Holmes, Sherry L.M. Merriam, Dana Baird

Friday, July 2

5:00 PM -- Jeannie Holmes and Joel Arnold signing

Location: Autograph Table

About: Jeannie Holmes and Joel Arnold will be available to sign their work.


7:00 PM -- Bad Boys Are Cuter!

Location: Atrium 4

About: Why are we attracted to the bad ones? Batman, Darth Vader, Dracula, Wolverine. Good guys or bad guys, why are the dark brooding one so damn sexy?

Panelists: Amada Marquez, Tracie Peters, Jeannie Holmes, L.A. Banks, James Turnbull


10:00 PM -- Jeannie Holmes Reading

Location: Vista Suite

About: Jeannie Holmes reads from her newly released novel "Blood Law" and other works.

Saturday, July 3

11:00 AM -- How to Create a Good Villain

Location: Bloomington

About: What makes a villain stand out from all the others? How do you write a villain like Dracula or Marissa Coulter and not one like any number of villains we can't remember to use as an example.

Panelists: R. Scott McCoy, Jeannie Holmes, S.D. Hintz, Christoforo Pasquarette

Sunday, July 4

2:00 PM -- Super Sparkly Fangalicious Necromatic Notions!

Location: Bloomington

About: No, it's not on Broadway yet. The evolution of the vampire in modern fiction from sexual liberator to fuzzy love bunny. Fang bangers unite!

Panelists: L.A. Banks, Tangee Harrison, Jeannie Holmes, Nick Larson, Dayna Jean Wolter