Next Apperance

Invite received and all travel arrangements are made, so I can announce that I will be a pro at CoKocon at the end of August. August 30th to September 3rd specifically, so if you live in the Phoenix area, please come see me. Still arranging things with TANSTAAFLPress, but I should have books with me to sell, too. Of course I’ll happily sign a book you already purchased.

Hope to see you there! 🙂

Yes, I will be at Orycon

While I made brief appearance at Jet City Comic Show, (thank you, SciFiMonkeys) my next convention is Orycon, in Portland, Oregon. I’m on the writing and the filk track again this year.  Yay!  So here’s my schedule if you want to catch me to say Hi!

Fri 7:00pm – 8:00pm Organizing a Successful Critique Group

Sat 11:00am – 12:00pm Group Home for Abandoned Lyrics

Sat 1:00pm – 2:00pm Feedback Workshop

Sat 3:00pm – 4:00pm Learn the songs “everyone knows”

Sat 6:00pm – 7:00pm Urban Fantasy Made Real

Sat 8:00pm – 9:00pm Concert: Starlight

Sun 11:00am – 12:00pm Purple prose

Sun 3:00pm – 3:30pm Stephanie Weippert Reading

You may notice

That there is a big gap in the dates of these posts. That is because I switched from Livejournal to WordPress because not only did a Russian company take over Livejournal and wants me to agree to a new terms of service (TOS), but the Official TOS is in Russian which I can’t read. Oh they give you a translated version, but warn that it is not “official” therefore not binding.

Since I can’t log in to get my earlier posts unless I accept their TOS.  I am letting it all go, because there is no way I feel comfortable agreeing to something I can’t even read.

Norwescon schedule

Hi guys, I will be at Norwescon 40 this year as a panelist (Squeee!). If you’ll be there too, here’s my scheduled panels so you can come by and say Hi! 🙂

PANELS

• What the Frak Is Filk?4/13/2017 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
• It’s All About You (Without It Being At All About You)4/14/2017 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
• Worldbuilding: Alien Cultures that Don’t Dehumanize4/14/2017 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM
• How Big a Fish Do You Need to Be?4/15/2017 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
• How to Be an Author on the Internet4/15/2017 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
• Geekmusic in the Wild4/16/2017 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
• Reading: Stephanie Weippert4/16/2017 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM

I’m back to blogging.

Whether that’s a good thing or not, I’ll have to tell you later.  My editor asked that I take up blogging again, even though I’m on Twitter and Facebook. So Hi!

I hope to blog once a week as my first goal. I think that’s more reasonable for me since blogging everyday was too difficult, and the last thing I want to do is start up again then quit!

Wish me luck.

A Christmas tree Powered by Christmas messages!

A Christmas tree Powered by Christmas messages!

Happy Solstice to Those Who Celebrate!

May your fires be warm and bright tonight.

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A Most Joyful Chanuka to those who celebrate it

Ah, I just love this time of year. Lots of people are happy because they celebrate a holiday in December.

And Now for Something Completely Different

To take my mind off the June n Peaches story in the hands of others, because obsessing is rarely a good thing, I started a fun little project that is completely different. No wizards, no cats, no bad government agency, none at all. This is in a different world, where a crazy physics Professor invents a weather machine and proceeds to get his revenge on the small town that treated him so badly for the last twenty years.

I have no idea if it's marketable, all the 1950s adventure stories may show up one night to get their revenge, and the James Bond books have all been done, but gawd if writing this isn't fun. My protag is an arrogant young pup newbie reporter at a small town newspaper who thinks he's too big for this two-bit town. Here, see for yourself,

Steampunk is much more than gears and brass spraypaint

One of the reason I haven’t joined the Steampunk bandwagon is I don’t want to do it wrong. Like the people described in this musical rant. Enjoy…

So the lesson to learn here is take a little thought in the worldbuilding, just because there’s a road to follow doesn’t mean you can be lazy.