Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of Ghost Talkers, The Glamourist Histories series, and the Lady Astronaut series. She is the President of SFWA, part of the award-winning podcast Writing Excuses and a four-time Hugo Award winner. We took a few minutes to ask her some questions about writing and Read more…
Erin Roberts is a Black speculative fiction, game/interactive, and non-fiction writer with an MFA from the Stonecoast low-residency program out of the University of Southern Maine. She primarily writes about worlds that don’t yet (quite) exist – visions of the almost future, sideways glimpses into magic realms, quick trips into the land of the horrifyingly Read more…
Alyshondra Meacham is the Eventbrite Coordinator for the Writing Excuses Workshop and Retreat, and works as Mary Robinette Kowal’s personal assistant. She is an incurable space enthusiast with the fashion sense of Ms. Frizzle. When she isn’t wrangling e-mails, she volunteers as a Solar System Ambassador, creates geeky cross stitches, Read more…
Dawn Wells is a natural-birth-loving mother of six. She and Dan Wells have been happily married for over 21 years. Dawn is the business assistant for both Dan Wells and Writing Excuses LLC. She’s also the Financial Director of this year’s WXR at SiWC. We sat down with Dawn and Read more…
Marshall Carr Jr. is a writer of fantasy and science fiction, the co-host of the Just Keep Writing podcast, and the Audio Tech for Writing Excuses as well as one of the Safety Officers. As we eagerly prepare for SiWC, we reached out to ask him a few questions and Read more…
Piper J. Drake is a bestselling author of romantic suspense and science fiction, paranormal romance and urban fantasy. She is a foodie, a frequent flyer in non-pandemic times, and day job road warrior. She is also WXR’s Communications Director. Piper Mommy, Thai Dramas, and Thai Food Some of the WXR Read more…
Howard Tayler is the writer and illustrator behind Schlock Mercenary, the Hugo-nominated science fiction comic strip. Heading into WXR at SiWC, we asked him a few questions to learn more about him and his creative works. Can you tell us about the first story you ever wrote? What was it Read more…
Mahtab Narsimhan is the award-winning (Silver Birch Fiction Award, 2009) author of The Third Eye, a fantasy-adventure based in India. Her middle-grade novels and pictures books are critically acclaimed. Mahtab is also one of the fantastic faculty members who will be joining us at this year’s WXR at SiWC. We Read more…
Sandra Tayler is a writer of essays, picture books, speculative fiction, and blog entries. She is also the editor, publisher, and business manager for the Schlock Mercenary comic strip. She is the lead Operational Support staff member of the Writing Excuses Retreat team. Managing to be Creative in the Midst Read more…
Dan Wells is a writer of adult and young adult fiction of many genres, and a co-host of the Writing Excuses podcast. In anticipation of SiWC, we asked him a few questions to learn more about him and his writing. What do you love most about writing? The thing I Read more…