All you Utah and mountain area writers & teachers, or those close enough to travel, I will be presenting and conducting workshops from 9:00 am until 4:30 pm this Saturday, Oct 9th as part of the Autumn Writers Conference sponsored by the American Fork Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts.

The sessions I’ll conduct include:

• Finding and Working With an Agent
• How to Write a Story That Rocks: First Principles & Story Concept
• Creating Characters that Rock
• Plot
• Writing Scenes: The Basic Units of a Novel

There are four other tracks. Find all the details, including cost and contact info, on the organizer’s site: CalebWarnock.blogspot.com. I’m totally stoked for this. I’ll be sharing what I think are the Pareto factors in each of these areas — things I wish I would have known when I started and would have shaved years off my journey to publication.

A number of other authors will be there including:

• Annette Lyon (women’s fiction and a new cook book called Chocolate Never Faileth)
• Josi Kilpack (mystery and suspense)
• LeAnne Tolley (health and wellness)
• Scott Livingston (poetry)
• Caleb Warnock (self-sufficiency)
• Loraine Scott (mystery)

Malak and Revan of Dungeon Crawlers Radio will be doing a live interview with me tonight on UtahFM at 6:20 PM Mountain time tonight, Oct 4th (that’s 5:20 pm Pacific, 7:20 pm Central, and 8:20 pm Eastern). You can access the show by going to www.DungeonCrawlersRadio.com and clicking on the listen live link. This is going to be fun. Here’s your chance to show up and ask questions! Or submit them early by contacting them via their site. Maybe I’ll reveal how I almost became a cult leader. If you have an iPhone with a blue tooth adapter you can stream it through the phone with the UtahFM app. Contact Dungeon Crawlers Radio for more details.