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New York Comic Con 2025

October 6, 2025

I’ll be at the New York Comic Con this Thursday through Sunday! My friends at the Department of Lore generously invited me to use a small part of their booth to promote and sell my books. (And, of course, I will help them promote Maya as well.)

If you plan on attending and would like to say hi, you can find me in the exhibitor hall booth 3325:
https://www.newyorkcomiccon.com/en-us/exhibitors-and-artists/exhibitors/showroom.html?gtID=636323&exhibitor-name=Department-of-Lore-Inc

Meantime, major kudos to the Maya team for their runaway success of the Kickstarter, which has just entered its final week. They’ve raised $168,000 so far! The book is fabulous (I should know, I performed the developmental edits on it), so do grab a copy for yourself!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/741743042/maya-1

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Flights of Foundry 2025 Schedule

September 27, 2025

This Sunday I will participate in several programming items for Flights of Foundry, a virtual SF/F convention. Please check it out here as there are many other programming items happening throughout the weekend.

Here’s what I’ll be doing (events listed in East Coast time):

10am: Chill-N-Chat. This is an informal chat with me about my upcoming projects or anything else you wish to ask. It’s limited to 6 participants so you may want to register in advance.

12pm: Interview with 2025 Dream Foundry writing contest winner Victoriia Silina, author of Kharkiv: A War City.

3pm: Building the Sum of Its Parts: The Joy and Challenges of Publishing an Anthology, with Sheree Renee Thomas, Ann LeBlanc, and Dawn Vogel

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Capclave 2025

September 18, 2025

I’ll be in Rockville, MD this weekend attending Capclave! Here are the panels and events where you can find me (and I will also be at the Mass Signing on Saturday at 7pm.)

https://www.capclave.org/capclave25/Admin/individual_schedule.php?pid=203

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Worldcon 2025 Schedule

August 13, 2025

As per the previous post, I will spend much of my time at the Card Advantage Games booth, but here are also some panels, signings, readings, etc. where you can find me in the coming days. Please do say hi if you see me! I am friendly and (mostly) house-broken.

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Balticon 2025

May 20, 2025

Come see me in Baltimore this weekend!

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Boskone 2025

February 11, 2025

I’ll be attending Boskone in Boston MA this coming weekend. Here’s where you can find me!

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Amusing Jews Podcast

December 16, 2024

This week I’m a guest on the Amusing Jews podcast, talking about Dreidel of Dread, HP Lovecraft’s racism, and my days playing cards for a living!

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Philcon 2024 Schedule

November 20, 2024

I am going to be at Philcon this coming weekend. Here are the panels and a signing where you can see me. Or just come up and say hi!

https://schedule.philcon.org/?_gl=115xl117_gaMTcyMTM1MjEwMC4xNzIyNTI5MDE0_ga_D81PG2VY6F*MTczMjEyMzI5MC4zLjEuMTczMjEyMzI5NS4wLjAuMA..#part/22369

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Dragoncon 2024

August 27, 2024

I’ll be attending Dragoncon in Atlanta, GA this weekend. Here’s my event schedule. I will also be available for meetings; please feel free to reach out if you’d like to set one up. And if you want to buy my signed books at this convention, the best place to do that will be the Fantasy Gather on Friday evening.