Penguin's San Diego Comic-Con Events, Day by Day: FRIDAY 13 Jul 2013 | 02:32 am

PANELS Spotlight on Ellen Forney 11:00 – 12:00PM Room 9 Cartoonist Ellen Forney presents her New York Times bestselling graphic memoir, Marbles: Depression, Michaelangelo, and Me, a darkly funny chr...

Penguin's San Diego Comic-Con Events, Day by Day: THURSDAY 13 Jul 2013 | 02:11 am

(Names marked in red are Penguin authors and/or staff.) PANELS Paranormal Passion 10:30 - 11:30AM Room 24ABC Authors discuss the inclusion of romantic elements in their action-packed novels at the ...

Writers! Readers! Twitter chat with editor Abby Zidle and romance writer Adrianne Wood! 6 Dec 2012 | 05:41 pm

Heads up, romance readers and writers! (Especially you writers who are considering self-publishing!) I'm hosting a Twitter chat tonight with my good friend and romance writer Adrianne Wood (@Adrianne...

My New York Comic Con Schedule! 10 Oct 2012 | 07:51 am

The good folks at Penguin's Ace/Roc Books and Penguin Books for Young Readers have joined forces and roped me into moderating two fantastic panels for them at this year's New York Comic Con: Geek Geek...

Remembering. 11 Sep 2012 | 04:49 pm

Writing in a Vacuum: Why Community is Essential to Writers 4 Jul 2012 | 02:37 am

One piece of advice that most writers get at the beginning of their careers is this: Don’t write in a vacuum. What does it mean to write in a vacuum? It means that you never share your work with anyo...

Dusting off this blog....and a question for YOU! 18 Apr 2012 | 12:11 am

Yeah, I know, I know. I've been a slacker at blogging the past six months. But I'm getting ready to dust this thing off, and relaunch The Swivet. I'm getting the itch to blog again, and sometimes Twit...

Video posted for the "We're No Angels" NYCC panel! 18 Oct 2011 | 04:45 am

For those of you who weren't able to join us at New York ComicCon yesterday to meet all the extraordinary women writers on the We're No Angels: Leading Ladies of SF/F panel that I moderated, you can n...

New York ComicCon: Etiquette for fans, pros AND exhibitors! 14 Oct 2011 | 12:18 am

Nerd prom New York ComicCon starts this week at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City. Tonight is Preview Night, which is basically a nice way of opening up the floor to exhibitors, pros, and the p...

Come say hello to me at New York ComicCon! 8 Oct 2011 | 04:22 pm

If you're headed to New York ComicCon next weekend, swing by the Book Country booth (#2028) to say hi and grab some swag (like the awesome Nerd Alert button that Totoro is modeling up top there)! You ...