James Artimus Owen was one of our guest speakers at the Superstars Writing Seminar last year, and his talks were so popular we invited him to come back. James is a successful bestselling author in his own right, and he wanted to come to Superstars for the experience; he did not get paid for his appearance.  Yesterday he posted a blog about his experiences, and since he had such nice words to say, I asked if I could repost them here. Last year, I was invited by my dear friends Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta to be a guest...
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Finally got home yesterday from Dayton and the end of the main leg of my HELLHOLE AWAKENING book tour.  Very tired, a little under the weather from the persistent laryngitis, but I had all of 14 hours at home to reacquaint myself with the cats, and with Rebecca, with the jacuzzi tub, my own bed...and of course the washer and dryer to do my clothes and repack the suitcase. Sitting in the Dulles airport right now, on our way to Richmond VA for Ravencon all weekend. Yesterday I did receive the wonderful news that CLOCKWORK ANGELS has been nominated for...
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My Tor publicist had scheduled me for a noontime TV interview on “Living Dayton,” so we rebooked my Tuesday morning flight from Atlanta on a much earlier (groan!) flight, so I could get into Dayton in time. Then, as mentioned in my previous blog, I came down with terrible laryngitis Monday morning and could barely talk all day Monday, so I had to cancel the TV interview (TV interviews don’t work too well when the interviewee can’t *talk*!)  But the flight was booked, so I was stuck heading out Way Too Early anyway.  Then in Monday afternoon in Atlanta, Dr...
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Normally, I wouldn’t consider working the weekend as a guest speaker and panelist at a major science fiction convention to be the RELAXING part of the tour, but it was great just to stay in one place for a couple of days, unpack my suitcase, sleep in the same bed. On Saturday I had a worldbuilding panel with Ken Scholes, Brenda Carr, and Stephen Gillette, an autographing, a panel on Sail to Success, Superstars, and other high-end writers workshops with Arc Manor publisher Shahid Mahmud, Nancy Kress, and Jack Skellingstad, a panel on marketing for people who don’t like marketing....
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