Jan 12, 2017 | Events |
For those of you attending Arisia this weekend who plan to attend the How to Write Diverse Characters panel (Sunday, 4PM, Douglas), this is a list of resources put together by our panelists:
Online Resources
Not directly related to writing, but still of interest: How Diversity Makes Us Smarter
Recommended Reading
Our Favorite Books Demonstrating Diversity
An audience member noted that the upcoming Northeast Storytelling Conference is specifically about diversity.
And if you need to find someone to talk to about, well, anything, try Quora.com.
Jan 12, 2017 | Events |
I put together a Rapid Fire Reading sign, in case you’d like a taste of what’s to come.
Jan 9, 2017 | Events |
I’ll be at Arisia, the largest science fiction convention in Boston, Friday, January 13 through Monday, January 16. Here’s my schedule:
Fri 7pm – Geeky Parenting (moderator)
Sat 7pm – Latinx SFF
Sat 10pm – Pitch Mania! (moderator)
Sun 4pm – Writing Diverse Characters (moderator)
Sun 7pm – Broad Universe Rapid Fire Reading (moderator)
Mon 10am – What do you mean, 10 and up? (moderator)
If it looks like I’m moderating a lot of stuff, THAT’S BECAUSE I AM. And I’ve never moderated even one panel before, so this is freaking me out a teensy bit, so please come to my panels and lend me some moral support.
I will be selling my books and many others at the Broad Universe table in the Dealers’ Room, so please stop by. I’m offering a special on my books: buy both A WITCH’S KITCHEN and the 2017 YOUNG EXPLORERS’ ADVENTURE GUIDE, and I’ll throw in a copy of MOJO: CONJURE STORIES for free.
I may also make a brief appearance at the Masquerade because I helped judge the Student Writing competition, and they’d like me to be present for the award ceremony. However, the RFR may conflict, and by that point I may also have died a horrible death, strangled by my program. We shall see. I’m working on a costume, just in case…
Hope to see you there!
Nov 1, 2016 | Events, Writing Life |
…and I am all in! If you’ve never heard of it, NaNoWriMo is a challenge to write a 50,000-word novel within the month of November. That’s about 1,667 words/day. I have kids, which makes weekends impossible for writing, so I’ve set myself the goal of writing 2500 words/day on weekdays only. I’ve been feverishly outlining, plotting, and planning for weeks, and now I’ve kicked off my next novel with a respectable 2075 words. I didn’t quite make my goal due to Halloween cleanup efforts (sequins EVERYWHERE), but that’s okay. I can make it up tomorrow, when my schedule is nearly empty.
Most NaNoWriMo participants post their daily word count, but i don’t want to fill your inbox. So if you’d like to keep tabs on my progress, or just keep me honest, check my Facebook page (@diannasanchezbooks) or Twitter feed (@diannabooks). Meanwhile, I’m going to stop posting here for the most part until NaNoWriMo is over, and hopefully I’ll then be reporting on my new novel!
See ya in December!
Aug 26, 2016 | Events, Writing Life |
This has been a crazy, crazy summer, taken up mostly by packing up my entire household and moving. What spare time I’ve had I’ve been pouring into preparations for the release of A Witch’s Kitchen. I realized early in the summer that there was NO WAY I would also have time to revamp my web site. I wanted something fun and inviting for my young readers, but my web design skills are very, very rusty.
Fortunately, I noticed a Facebook post from Erica Schultz Yakovetz, an old friend looking for freelance work, and I swiftly hired her to do the redesign. I am DELIGHTED with the results, and I hope you are, too! We rushed the launch to coincide with Bubonicon, which I’m attending all this weekend. There are even more, cooler features that we’re planning, so this site is still somewhat under construction. Keep checking back for new content, or better yet, subscribe to my newsletter to keep up with all the changes.
In the meanwhile, I’d like to express my undying gratitude to Erica for going above and beyond to get this gorgeous site up. Erica also does book design and production. If you’d like to contact her, she can be reached at:
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