Celebrating “a life of high adventure guided by the inspirations and invigorations of smoking marijuana,” Tom Huth’s uplifting new memoir, Forty Years Stoned: A Journalist’s Romance, is now out and gaining a lot of traction. In addition to thoughtful inner-travelogue, the memoir chron[Click For The Rest...]

Publishers Weekly declared her 2010 thriller Rock Paper Tiger an “electrifying debut.” The book went on to become a New York Times bestseller and has since been followed by two other titles featuring Beijing-living Iraq War vet Ellie McEnroe. Hour of the Rat was short listed for Left [Click For The Rest...]

Author of the freshly released Cold Barrel Zero (Mulholland Books), national best-selling thriller writer Matthew Quirk will be joining us in September. Of his latest unrelenting page-turner, in a starred boxed review Publishers Weekly concluded, “Quirk goes flat-out explosive in this[Click For The Rest...]

While the bulk of LA14 (Irvine) big updates don’t begin till mid-March, there’s just too much good “muse” as of late not to grant some notable shout outs to SCWCers in the interim. Off the recent announcement of the 2016 Independent Publisher Book Award winners (the “IPPYs” as they’re[Click For The Rest...]

Gwendolyn Womack is the author of The Memory Painter, a dazzling debut novel that skips through time and blends romance, intrigue, mystery and science with masterful flair. Of it, in a starred review Library Journal declares, “It’s best not to try to analyze the ambitious plot o[Click For The Rest...]

In the jubilant afterglow of our San Diego celebration we now turn attention to September’s event in Irvine, which will be our 48th conference in 30 years. And regardless of whether you’re a writer pursuing the traditional route or one opting instead for a more personal path to public[Click For The Rest...]

Our return to Irvine was more than worth it. Great weather. Great hotel. Great staff. And, most important, exceptionally great writers. So much so that we even introduced a new award just to lend proper recognition of the talent in our midst. A couple other new things debuted at LA13.[Click For The Rest...]

Fresh off the just-announced news of his winning the Gold in Sports Fiction at the 2015 Readers Favorite International Book Awards for his breakout success Game of Love (Curiosity Quills Press), Ara Grigorian rounds out our LA13 Special Guest Speaker slate. It’s been one helluva journ[Click For The Rest...]

Joining SCWC for the first time, Stephanie Kegan, author of Golden State (Simon & Schuster), will be our Friday evening Special Guest Speaker. Named a Top Ten Must by Entertainment Weekly and declared “Riveting” by Kirkus, Stephanie’s haunting literary drama explores the extraordi[Click For The Rest...]

Whether found in print or online, short stories remain a popular way for writers to reach new readers. In fact, some of our most memorable stories were written in the short form. But writing a great one can be tricky. So, given all the markets currently available–many of them pa[Click For The Rest...]