Friends and followers, I'm so excited
to share with you an opportunity coming right here to
The Upstream Writer!
A few
years ago, an author I followed invited me to participate in
something called a "Virtual Convention." In a sense, it was
kind of like a small convention, and everybody was organized by
genre, and everybody had their own event page or their own post in
the big event, or even their own segment in a Facebook Group to share
about their works and attract readers from other authors' networks. I
participated in my first "Virtual Con" before Princess
of Undersea was released, but I
still had plenty of fun. Actually having published works to talk
about just made everything more fun
in the ensuing years!
After
last year, though, the group who organized and hosted the "Virtual
Fantasy Con" announced that they wouldn't be doing it anymore. I
wondered if that was going to be the end of virtual cons for me.
Then I
joined the Our Write Side group. Originally it was because they had
opened up for submissions into an anthology of Cinderella-themed
fairy tale twists (which was the reason I started writing "The Dragon's Mark") but when my story ended up double the word count
and way past the deadline, I decided to forgo the anthology, but stay
connected to the group. It was innovative, exciting, and I figured it
was worth keeping an eye out for any future opportunities for
anthologies or something.
Then
OWS announced that they were going to do a Cyber Con of their own--and I eagerly leaped on board. I signed up under all the genres
I had published stories for, and sat back to watch what was going to
happen next. Since OWS had its own website outside of Facebook, I
knew it was going to look a little different--I wondered how
different.
The
answer came very shortly thereafter: it was going to be very
different.
First
of all, the Con is organized so that our "booths" are not
on Facebook at all, but on the forums for the official OWS site.
Click >HERE< to go straight to my booth, under the Fantasy
genre!
Second,
I ended up in THREE different CyCon-specific groups, because I had
registered for Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and Urban Fantasy. THEN.... Each of
those groups had a blog hop they were doing, so when I signed up for
those, I ended up in FOUR blog hops, with each organizer requesting
that the posts be published before the
weekend of the Con.
Folks,
the Con is next weekend.
SOO!!
Here's how it's going to work! I'll have a new blog hop post every
day this next week, and you'll
get an opportunity to head over to the OWS forum for fun and
excitement (so you might want to go back to my >Author Booth<
and bookmark it!), OR if you want to stick around Facebook, the link
to the official event is >HERE< and also there will be some
CyCon activity going on in the >Fantasy and Sci-Fi Reader's Lounge< for the whole weekend, too!
That
being said, here's a schedule about what blog posts you can expect
next week! I'll also be coming back to this post to share links to the different blogs where my own posts end up! Stay tuned!
Tuesday:
World-Building Showcase Part 1--Science Fiction Goes Punk! (Guest
Post) (My Post is HERE)
Thursday:
World-Building Showcase Part 2--Unbound To Earth! (Guest Post) (My Post is HERE)
Saturday:
Fantasy and Sci-Fi Reader's Lounge Takeover Hour!
Am I a
glutton for punishment for taking on so many things?
More than likely.
Am I
going to shy away from this opportunity to plug the things I love and
interact with more readers while spreading the word about things I've
written? Not even a little bit.
Wish
me luck! And most of all, I hope to see you there! As always...
Catch
You Further Upstream!
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