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Friday, November 7 • 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Going from Reader to Writer

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Best selling alt-sexual genre authors come together to discuss how they translated their passion for reading to a career in writing. Discover what an aspiring writer might need to know to capture their own enthusiasm and turn that zeal into a solid novel readers will love.
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Venona Keyes

Venona Keyes has experienced love and loss at the deepest level, and is thankful for writing and daydreaming, for it kept, and still keeps her sane. Writing also introduced her to some of the most supportive and wonderful people, to which she will always be grateful.   Venona is... Read More →

Guests
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LE Franks

LE & Sara write M/M Romance in a unique mix of humor and drama with enough suspense to produce fast-paced stories filled with emotion and passion and featuring characters that are quirky and complicated. Don’t expect the typical, rugged hero or sophisticated businessman with the... Read More →
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Belinda McBride

Belinda is an award-winning, top selling author of erotic romance, speculative fiction and LGBTQ romance. She lives in far Northern California with her family and a pack of Siberian Huskies.  A graduate of CSU Chico, she managed to attend the notorious party school without once... Read More →
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Jet Mykles

As far back as junior high, Jet used to write sex stories for friends involving their favorite pop icons of the time. To this day, she hasn’t stopped writing sex, although her knowledge on the subject has vastly improved. An ardent fan of fantasy and science fiction sagas, Jet... Read More →
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Cherie Noel

Cherie was born with the storytelling gene. No, really. By the ripe old age of seven she’d already penned her first country ballad as well as numerous poems such as “Ode to a Honeybun” and “Oh Twinkie, My Twinkie”… the second poem might have been an early clue about the... Read More →
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Piper Vaughn

Piper Vaughn wrote her first love story at eleven and never looked back. Since then, she’s known that writing in some form was exactly what she wanted to do. Piper grew up in Chicago and loves to put characters of every ethnicity in her stories, so her fictional worlds are as colorful... Read More →

Exhibitors
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Inkslingers

Inkslingers is a collective for west coast writers, supporting individual members in their work, selling books directly to the public, and developing a dialogue to encourage and support authors as they craft primarily queer fiction and romance through meetings, conference panels... Read More →

Friday November 7, 2014 4:00pm - 5:00pm PST
Panel Rm - Zebes
  Writing, How-To, InkSlingers

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