Novel Spaces is in its 10th year! Over the coming months we'll be featuring some of the most popular posts from our archives. This one ...

            Beginning in April, I’m going to need some author swag. (I wrote a post about swag last July—read it here —and since I’m alway...

C.L. (Cyndi) Pauwels Author of   Forty & Out I’ve been to any number of writing conferences and workshops over the years, and I’ve ...

By Linda Thorne Just finished up today with the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, Tennessee. Great annual local event, but I...

Making a living as a novelist is tough. This has been established. So we need to get creative. At a recent Writers' Digest Writers...

         On August 12 th I had the pleasure of attending the third annual Suffolk Mystery Authors Festival (SMAF) in Suffolk, Virginia. I...

Author panel at Bocas Lit Fest, May 2, 2015 in Port of Spain Gadabout social butterfly that I am, I managed to completely avoid the Boca...

This is my favorite anecdote from my career so far. There used to be a small writers conference called Bare Bones. The San Diego Sisters i...

Amy M. Reade Amy M. Reade is the author of two novels of romantic suspense: Secrets of Hallstead House (Kensington Publishing, July, 2...

Congratulations, up and coming writer! You’ve just received your first invitation to attend Convention X as an author guest. This is great...

On Saturday, November 17, I had the great pleasure of participating in the thirteenth annual Men of Mystery conference in southern Cali...

Now that Devon Archer has moved on from Novel Spaces, we will have occasional empty blogging slots that our writers will use for promotion a...

I went to World Fantasy Convention (WFC) 2011 in San Diego at the end of October, and the second panel I attended was on mixing science int...

Dystopian fiction has so overtaken science fiction and fantasy (sf/f) that only a small percentage of newly published books catch my interes...

Dayton Ward is a science fiction author primarily known for his Star Tre k novels and short stories. He published stories in each of the f...

Last Month marked two firsts for me. I attended my first writer’s conference, Romance Slam Jam. I also had my first book signing. My books h...