For over 40 years the SCWC has guided both aspiring and accomplished authors through an ever-evolving – sometimes confoundingly so – publishing landscape. Fostering craft and community, facilitating opportunity and encouraging market acuity, after four decades of doing so one constant[Click For The Rest...]

Pinch ’em by the nose (with a pitch or query letter that demands attention) and kick ’em in the ass (with riveting prose that won’t let go)! Succeed at doing both and you’re halfway there with readers. Most writers don’t. At least not on their first go-round. Some never re[Click For The Rest...]

Linda Thomas-Sundstrom, author of well over 40 novels rooted in contemporary, paranormal, and urban-fantasy, returns to the SCWC with a new workshop, “The Full Story: Tackling Beginnings, Middles, and Ends That Make Your Story Shine,” tackling how to craft openings that orient and ent[Click For The Rest...]

As writers, how do we get from here to that place we want to share with strangers across the page? Online events offer convenience, but they can’t match the impact of in-person interaction and support with like-minded souls devoted to doing so like the SCWC. So let’s get to it … For S[Click For The Rest...]

A writers’ conference can’t be everything to everybody. What it can be, when doing its job well, is in-person; invested in providing personal attention and vital information that aspiring authors need to publish well in an increasingly fickle marketplace, full of travails, trap doors,[Click For The Rest...]

Unity. Community. Being an essential part of something greater than one’s self is a tenet that the conference has nurtured for some 40 years in Southern California. Being a kid from Newberg, and longtime resident of Central Oregon myself, I’ve wanted to establish that same ethos[Click For The Rest...]

Yesterday I was deeply indulged in the preparation of shooting a pilot for a limited run television series I’d been noodling and developed over the past year or so–storyboard’s rendered, camera setups meticulously attuned, lenses selected for three cameras, lighting grid locked,[Click For The Rest...]

No foolin’… After a five-year absence and major renovation, the SCWC will return to our home of nearly two decades for our 40th anniversary, the Crowne Plaza San Diego. While the Tiki motif is gone, in its place is a fresh environment that will further foster lasting personal co[Click For The Rest...]

Who woulda thunk? The years “post” COVID have been tough. Trepidation regarding in-person events remains high. Wildfires are prevalent. The moon is waning. Sun setting. Cocktail prices spiking. Personal lives, aspirations, even dreams, thwarted for many. This past weekend, however, fo[Click For The Rest...]

Rounding out the Special Guest Speakers for our 39th annual San Diego event are two writers we especially like. Ever-prolific USA Today bestselling novelist and short story writer Kristi (K.A.) Fox joins us. Writing across genres under a variety of names, spanning young adult urban fa[Click For The Rest...]