Another Orycon is just a week away, and with it another Sci-Fi Authorfest 
at Powell’s Books. From the Powell’s events calendar:
Sci-Fi Authorfest V
A starfleet of science-fiction and fantasy authors descends for one galactic booksigning event. Attending authors include: Camille Alexa, Brent Weeks, David Levine, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Dean Wesley Smith, Peter Orullian, Mark Ferrari, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Kevin James Breaux, Meljean Brooks, Devon Monk, Lilith Saintcrow, J. A. Pitts, Timothy Zahn, Irene Radford, Ru Emerson, Adrian Phoenix, Andrew Mayer, Mary Robinette Kowal, Shannon Page, Claude Lalumiere, M. K. Hobson, Brenda Cooper, Vonda McIntyre, Louise Marley, and Ursula K. Le Guin. And in attendance will be the Cloud City Garrison of the 501st Imperial Legion. . . .”
Come say hi! Bring a book for your favorite regional authors to sign — or not; just saying “hi” is fine too.
WHEN & WHERE: Sunday, November 13th @ 4:30PM at Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd. (800) 878-7323
“I came to writing compressed literature in a backward fashion—or perhaps it’s the natural order: novels, then short fiction, then poems. Turns out my aim is the same regardless of size or form; I want to tell a story, and want that story to mean something, preferably something accessible and entertaining at the same time, not weighted or bloated with its own importance. Freeing my writing from the tether of the probable liberates its themes—loneliness, love, death—and sets it free to shoot like a meteor across the stratosphere or like a bullet into the gut.” — Camille Alexa
In the latest news from Machine Of Death, “Flaming Marshmallow,” a story which first appeared in 