Dates for our 39th annual San Diego conference are Presidents’ Day Weekend, February 14-16, 2025. Discounted pre-registration is now open. While regular updates will begin in August, here’s all you need to know now: THE WEBSITE: WritersConference.com is currently being revitalized to [Click For The Rest...]

Craft is where it’s at. With a lucky break from the rain, and despite unanticipated challenges with the venue, our plot of writers celebrated the weekend by digging in and doing the work. Janis, Rick and I thank all for placing their trust in the SCWC. A hearty thanks to our workshop [Click For The Rest...]

Returning to the SCWC with her sixth novel, Where Butterflies Wander, out February 6th from Lake Union, #1 Amazon bestselling author Suzanne Redfearn will regale and inform us with her travels and travails negotiating an ever-evolving publishing landscape. She replaces our previously [Click For The Rest...]

In a starred review Publishers Weekly proclaimed, “Rick Cahill’s extreme physical and emotional vulnerability is on full display in Shamus Award-winner Coyle’s superior eighth outing [Last Redemption] . . . Contemporary hard-boiled PI novels don’t get any better than this.” Number ten[Click For The Rest...]

Rod Stewart’s lyric licked it best, “Every picture tells a story, don’t it?” Me likes to think, at least in the writing world, “Every person IS a story, idn’t it, if not a volume?” But where and how to publish that story is the challenge. There’s been big changes in the traditional pu[Click For The Rest...]

First off, we’re moving! Just minutes from the airport, a venue we’ve had our eyes on since returning to in-person events, one much better suited to the SCWC’s needs and long-term objectives, DoubleTree by Hilton San Diego – Hotel Circle will be our new home. Much like the pre-COVID p[Click For The Rest...]

Today’s guest blogger is Ryan K. Hunter, a technologist and AI engineer with a diverse career spanning twenty years. He debuted his “AI, The Writer: Pitfalls, Potential, Practices” workshop at our recent Irvine event. This article is cross-posted from: RKHunter.net Before we div[Click For The Rest...]

Dates for our 38th annual winter event in San Diego are Presidents’ Day Weekend, February 16-18, 2024. Steeply discounted pre-registration is now open. Even this far out, it’s already shaping up to be another great gathering. While regular updates will begin in October, here’s a[Click For The Rest...]

There’s a scene in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 The Godfather in which semi-retired mafia don Vito Corleone discloses to Michael, now reluctant acting-head of the family business, what aspirations he had for his son … VITO: I never wanted this for you. I lived my own life. I don’t apol[Click For The Rest...]

There’s nothing quite like sharing a few days – and nights – with a plot of writers immersed in the work, aspiring for excellence and determined to settle only for exceptional. And what a weekend it was. So many fascinating stories came through; so many new friends made. Wes, Rick, Li[Click For The Rest...]