Julie Sondra Decker’s The Invisible Orientation has been nominated for a Lambda award and is a Silver Medal winner in the IPPY Awards.

Sarah Beth Durst’s The Queen of Blood has been named one of PW’s most anticipated books for the Fall: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/tip-sheet/article/71042-the-most-anticipated-books-of-fall-2016.html

Sarah Beth Durst’s The Girl Who Could Not Dream has been named a finalist for the 2016 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award.

Kim Hooper’s People Who Knew Me just received a fabulous review in the Wall Street Journal: http://www.wsj.com/articles/new-beginnings-1463775211

Meghan Tifft’s The Long Fire is a VCU Cabell First Novelist Award Semifinalist.

I’ll be at the Atlanta Writer’s Conference in November.

I’ll be teaching a Writer’s Digest Seminar: Writing and Selling Fantasy, Science Fiction, Paranormal, and Dystopian Novels

I’ll be teaching a course through MediaBistro on writing a nonfiction book proposal.

I’ll be teaching a Writer’s Digest webinar Mystery Revealed: How to Write and Sell Your Mystery, Suspense, or Thriller Novel for Any Market on April 16, 2015

Scientific American calls Charlotte Markey’s Smart People Don’t Diet, “Possibly the best book on weight loss ever written.”