Readings this Weekend: Berkeley & LitCrawl SF + World Fantasy Con

READINGS THIS SATURDAY:

I am reading this Saturday, 10/18 in Berkeley at Sumiko Saulson's book release party for Happiness and Other Diseases from 2pm-5pm at The Dark Entry, 2589 Telegraph.

2. After that, I will be reading in San Francisco 10/18 at LitCrawl in the Mission with others under the Damnation Books publishing umbrella (Haunted Mansion Project Books I and II). The venue is Casa Bonampak, 1051 Valencia. We go on at 8:30pm.

WFC:

I will be at World Fantasy Con in Virginia, November 6-9, 2014. Here is the information on my panel:

Poetry in Fantasy: Yesterday and Today
Time: 11am-12pm, Nov. 7, Regency F
Panelists: Mike Allen (M), Maria Alexander, Rain Graves, David Lunde, Laurel Winter
Description: Including poetry in fantasy, both by the author and quoted from other sources, used to be more common, such as Alice in Wonderland, The King of Elfland’s Daughter, The Lord of the Rings, and The Worm Ouroboros. Why is poetry not as prevalent now as in the past? Are certain types of poetry, such as non-formal or non-rhyming verse, under-used in fantasy?

I should also be part of the Mass Autograph Signing as well and will have books.

November Challenge: Genre Poetry Class with Rain Graves

Genre Poetry Enthusiasts - Special Announcement:

November Challenge: Genre Poetry Workshop with Rain Graves
$200 per person, limited to 15 people
$25 discount for HWA Members with Member ID

Learn how to perfect your poetry in this intensive four-week course for genre writers of all levels. Learn how to turn your short stories into poems, poems into short stories, classic form poetry, free-verse, and reading to an audience. Students will be given assignments and study points, followed by a graded critique, designed to get your work ready for sending to publishers, and to give you the confidence you need when giving readings. Classes and critiques will take place via email and Skype (where available to the student - you will not be turned away if you do not have Skype), providing one-on-one care and attention to your work, including line-edits. Whether you are writing a collection, a series for magazine submissions, or just a few poems for yourself...this course will be invaluable to your growth as a writer.

Four Weeks; classes and assignments will be given every Tuesday, beginning November 4, 2014, at 6pm PST / 9pm EST. Students will receive the syllabus and required reading for each class upon sign-up. No refunds for no-shows. If you must skip a class, make-ups will be given on a case-by-case basis. Payments can be made via paypal at spiderwords@gmail.com, or via Square in person.

About the Instructor: Rain Graves is a two-time Bram Stoker Award Winning Poet (2002, 2013), whom Publisher's Weekly hailed as "Bukowski meets Lovecraft," for her work in BARFODDER: Poetry Written in Dark Bars and Questionable Cafes in 2009. She lives and writes in San Francisco.

San Mateo County Fair Author Day, June 14, 2014

Join me with nine other horror, sci-fi, and fantasy authors as we read and sign books at the San Mateo County Fair's Author Day on June 14, 2014 from 1pm to 4pm, with the signings occurring from 2-4pm. Here is a link to the location details, etc., on SFGate.

Four Elements Takes Home 2013 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Poetry

The Four Elements by Linda Addison, Rain Graves, Charlee Jacob, and Marge Simon has won the 2013 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Poetry. We were presented with the award at the Stokers Banquet this past weekend in Portland Oregon, and were surprised, delighted, and honored to have won. Linda and I were present, and thanked our publisher, Bad Moon Books for believing in the project, Donald Sidney-Fryer for his wonderful essay and blurb on the book, and of course, each other...for being such great partners in crime. Thank you to the HWA, and everyone who voted for TFE. Your support of our work means the world to us. Here is a link to all the winners, in all categories.

You may also view the full awards presentation here:

WHC 2014 Schedule, Portland, OR

Here is my basic Schedule for WHC in Portland this week (as final as I know it to be). If you would like a tarot reading, ping me privately to schedule. Rates are as usual - $25/half hour. I won't arrive until after 10pm on Thursday, but will have fliers/sign-up available for The Haunted Mansion Retreat in 2015, as well as books at the Mass Autograph Signing (books available listed below the shedule):

FRIDAY

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Hawthorne
Reading: Rain Graves

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Writer’s Workshop #7
(Sign-up required – The Pros evaluate up to 10,000 words of your work in Constructive Critique)

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Ross/Morrison Panel: Violence And Verse
(Mike Arnzen, Rain Graves, Dan Clore, Linda Addison, James Dorr)
Bards who dwell in the dark discuss the horror poetry market

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Ladies of Horror (FB Group) Gathering (TBD)

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Willamette Foyer
Mass Autograph Signing
All of your favorite writers are in one spot and are willing to sign books!

10ish - Asinthe Party (offsite)

SATURDAY

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Sellwood
Panel: Finding Your True Voice
(Mary SanGiovanni, S.P. Somtow, Rain Graves, Tim Waggoner, Gord Rollo, John Urbancik )
A few horror authors have such a unique voice that whatever the book is, their fans never want that author's world or universe to end past the last page. How does any writer find their voice?

6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Multnomah/Holladay
The Bram Stoker Awards Banquet

10:00 PM
Oregon Room
Bram Stoker Awards After-Party
HWA and our sponsor Samhain Horror would like to invite all convention attendees to join us for the traditional party after the presentation of the Bram Stoker Awards. Come and celebrate!

BOOKS I WILL HAVE ON HAND FOR PURCHASE AT THE MASS SIGNING:

--The Four Elements
--Haunted Mansion Project - books 1 and 2
--Barfodder
--Zombies vs. Robots: Women on War

The Four Elements makes Final Bram Stoker Award Ballot, Women in Horror Month, & WHC 2014

The final ballot for the 2013 Bram Stoker Awards has been posted, and The Four Elements, written by Linda Addison, Rain Graves, Charlee Jacob, and Marge Simon has made the cut for Superior Achievement in Poetry. The awards ceremony will take place during The World Horror Convention 2014, in Portland Oregon. I will be attending the convention and participating in the programming.

In other news, Women in Horror Month continues, and here is a nice article in The Examiner about 10 Bay Area women who write horror, in case you were wondering who has (and is) walking your local streets.

See you in Portland!