Though I’ve been moderately active on my Facebook and Twitter pages, I realize the ol’ blog has been neglected for almost a whole year, and I’m working on putting on my “Real Author” pants and hammering out a schedule to keep that from happening again. In the meantime, I’d like to fill you in on a bit of what’s been going on in the adventure of bringing The Afflicted Saga to more readers.

At the very beginning of the year, I was fortunate enough to learn from some of the greatest in genre fiction at the Superstars Writing Seminar in Colorado Springs. It was an amazing experience, full of a whole heap of insight to help me incorporate the business side of writing into the passion side of writing (something that’s always been a bit of a struggle for me), bunches of the most down-to-earth authors I’ve ever met, and a couple faces who you might have seen before 😉 If you’re an author wanting to take your game to the next level, I cannot recommend this seminar highly enough. It’s a great group of people with lifetimes of inspiration and knowledge to learn from.

I left Colorado Springs with more information than I knew what to immediately do with and am still working through everything Superstars had to offer to help bring Abaeloth to more readers and to bring more exciting content to my current group of fans.

Then in April, I got to do one of my absolute favorite things–meet a whole bunch of new readers! It’s always energizing and exciting to talk to people who love books as much as I do, and I’ve never left a public event where I didn’t bring home a list of new titles to hunt down thanks to recommendations from attendees.

RavenCon 13 was an absolute blast. I gave a reading to Bishop the Raven, ended up introducing nearly two dozen readers to Nessix and Mathias (yay!), and came home with a whole box of new books from other fantastic authors (double yay!). It may not have been as big of an event as Awesomecon, but it had great energy and I sincerely hope to return to this particular convention.

The last update regarding my whereabouts that I have for you right now is a Really Big Deal to me. You see… since I was 13 years old, Margaret Weis has been my writing hero. She’s the reason why I let myself believe that a daydreaming girl could grow up to become an epic fantasy author. When I found out that she consistently attends GenCon, I vowed to someday sell my books there, too. It became my “larger than life” dream. Long story short, a couple years into this publishing gig, I will be selling my books at GenCon next month! Of course, this means I now get to come up with a NEW “larger than life” dream (and am willing to take suggestions on that front), but for now, I’m good with enjoying the excitement that comes from knowing even great big goals can be achieved. If you’re going to be at  GenCon this year, swing by Authors’ Avenue for a visit. I’d love to talk books with you!

So that’s my updates of the where I’ve been over the past year. Stay tuned for updates on what I’ve been up to in that time, later this week. Until then, happy reading!