Archive for the 'Speaking' Category
Getting ready for a week away
I get to go be a writer for a week. When you’re balancing hats like I am (CIO/writer/futurist), getting a bit of a break to be any one of them alone for a week is a fine and rare treat. I will be on the coast in Lincoln City, Oregon, with the dog, a pile [...]
When Reaching an Audience is Hard
I talked to the good folks at the National Association of Consumer Shows this morning in Memphis Tennessee. I walked away feeling as if I did a good job but not a great job. I did talk to quite a few of them individually and I enjoyed a nice barbecue lunch with a convention goer, [...]
Join Three Women of Speculative Fiction on Wednesday
Join me, Robin Hobb, and Louise Marley at Park Place Books on Wednesday evening at 7:00 PM. We’ll be discussing our books and how science fiction and fantasy can be positive images for young adults. I hope to see some of you there. I know it may be a sunny evening, but come on out, [...]
Getting Ready for FiRE
FiRE is a futurist conference that will be held in San Diego in a week and a half or so. FiRE is put together by Mark Anderson, who is one of the futurists I most enjoy following. He is an original thinker and I am always intrigued by his blogs and talks. I have never [...]
Bioethical Issues: All in a Day’s Work
Yes, this is where the futurist speaker and the writer in me get all tingly….
I spent all day working on my next futurist presentation. After all, my last slide deck was made BEFORE the election and the recession and all that change. So I’m talking about three topics – demographics, medicine, and the environment. My [...]
Me on Video, then in Portland
Now that I’m back from the Rainforest Writers retreat, I have two more “shows” in the next two days:
Tomorrow I’ll be doing a video with Glen Hiemstra and a few other folks, which will how up on my website soon. Think of it as futurist speaking marketing, I guess. People keep saying they don’t have [...]
I’ll be at RustyCon this weekend
I’ll be at the Seattle Airport Marriott at the Rustycon convention — Panels I’ll be on include:
Saturday at 10: The Next 50 Years in Space
Saturday at noon: Characters are People, too
Saturday at 3:00: World Creation in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Saturday at 5:00: BIG Strides Forward
Sunday at 10:30: Signing
Sunday at 11:00: A grimy Slimy Future
Sunday at [...]
Appearance at Seattle Barnes and Noble in Honor of Louis Braille Tomorrow
Saturday, January 3rd
12:00 pm Jake and the Secret Code
1:00 Beedle Bard Story time
2:00 Author Signings
Brenda Cooper, Amber Kizer, Louise Marley
Sunday, January 4th
2:00pm Happy Birthday Louis Braille ~ Braille ~ Life, Literacy & Learning
3:00 pm Author Signings
Kat Richardson ~ Larry Karp
Hosted by: Barnes and Noble
Pacific Place Mall, Downtown Seattle
1 Block North of the Convention Center [...]
Some signs of hope on the horizon
I went out for coffee this afternoon, and in the rainy fall bluster, the Tully’s I found was nearly full. I ended up sharing a seat with a gentleman who was dressed entirely too well for a Veteran’s Day holiday, so I asked him about it. Turns out the black suit was all about a [...]
Reading April 25th in Kirkland
At Park Place Books. This is a local independent bookstore that was flooded out during the winter storms this year and is struggling to recover. The staff is great and they have both books and gifts available. There is also a good sushi restaurant and a good wine bar nearby, and free [...]
