Writing Excuses, Westercon, and Shadows Beneath
This coming weekend, July 3rd through the 6th, I'll be at Westercon 67 alongside Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal, and Dan Wells. We're all Guests of Honor at the event, and we'll be launching the first ever Writing Excuses anthology, SHADOWS BENEATH.
Writing Excuses is the podcast I've been co-hosting with this team (and lots of special guests) since February of 2008. SHADOWS BENEATH contains stories that we brainstormed during episodes of the podcast, as well as episode transcripts for the upcoming episodes in which we critique the stories. Better still (assuming you're into the whole writing process thing), every copy also includes author commentaries and a draft version for each story, so that you can peer behind the curtain a bit and see how we do the things we do.
If you buy the hardback, you get the ebook for no additional charge.
Westercon 67 is in downtown Salt Lake City, and besides the Writing Excuses crew, Cory Doctorow, William Stout, Christopher Garcia, and Bradley Voytek are all Guests of Honor. Westercon is running concurrently with FantasyCon, which is literally right across the street, and if you buy a badge for one, you can get into the other. It's like two conventions in. In fact, it's EXACTLY like that.
Thursday at 1pm we'll be having the SHADOWS BENEATH launch event, and at 2pm we'll begin recording episodes in front of a live audience. We'll do at least one Q&A episode, and our audience will be providing the questions.