I wrote one at the end of 2024 and forgot to even post it since my website then was in disarray. This year I migrated to WordPress for ease of posting my events because the big lesson of 2025 was LIVE EVENTS. Maybe it was the forced isolation of lockdown, but in-person events was a … Continue reading Julia’s 2025 Year-End Publishing Wrap Up
I read a lot of Urban Fantasy. I read broadly but UF is probably my favorite. As a reader, I was totally unaware of publishing trends. But in the last few years I’ve had to learn a lot more about publishing and then I started to hear that “urban fantasy is dead” from publishing insiders. … Continue reading Urban Fantasy is Undead
Booksellers, the Lifeblood of Publishing at CALIBA 2023 Spring Forum Asian Urban Fantasy, On Writing Yesterday I thought I thought I would be all fired up because of seeing EBONY GATE in print, and I was, but turns out what really fired me up yesterday was meeting so many booksellers, meeting other authors, and just being surrounded by … Continue reading CALIBA 2023 SPRING FORUM
Craft On Writing The other day, I participated in a panel discussion alongside David Wragg, Sebastien de Castell, Marina Lostetter, and Jennifer Dewes (J.S. Dewes) for the SFF Addicts Podcast. We talked about developing character through dialogue. All of the panelists are authors who create books with a wide-ranging cast of characters. Our initial focus was … Continue reading Character Through Dialogue
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