Skyler White

Here’s my schedule for ArmadilloCon in Austin, coming up in two short weeks, Aug. 26-28. I’ll do my best to keep this post current with my actual schedule, but as usual, please check the official program schedule for the final word:

Fr1700T The Magic of Collaboration
Fri 5:00 PM-6:00 PM Trinity
S. Brust, E. Bull*, A. Porter, D. Potter, H. Waldrop, S. White

Sa1700SB The Second Book is Always the Hardest
Sat 5:00 PM-6:00 PM Sabine
A. Downum, S. Leicht, S. Lynch*, A. Marmell, J. McDermott, S. White

Sa1800SA What’s New with Vampires
Sat 6:00 PM-7:00 PM San Antonio
A. Allston, M. Bey*, J. Hall, P. Roberts, D. Sylvan, S. White

Sa2200SB Writing Erotic Fiction
Sat 10:00 PM-11:00 PM Sabine
M. Fletcher, P. Roberts*, R. Rose, J. Vanderhooft, S. White

Su1300SM Finding Your Voice as a Storyteller
Sun 1:00 PM-2:00 PM San Marcos
N. Barrett, J. Blaschke*, S. Brust, A. Downum, W. Spencer, S. White

Visit ArmadilloCon on the web here: http://www.armadillocon.org

Hope to see you there!

Just heard that and Falling, Fly made Library Journal’s Best of 2010 list as one of the top five sci-fi/fantasy titles of the year. ::Beams:: This feels very, very good.

My friend Gabrielle Faust and I will be hosting a costumed Gothic tea event on Saturday 11/20 at BookPeople in Austin, celebrating the recent launch of In Dreams Begin and Eternal Vigilance III: Bound in Blood! We’ll be doing readings, signings, a costume contest and more.

Visit the event page for full details, and please share with friends!

Skye

Skye with friend & fellow author Christine Rose at ‘A Most Unsettling and Possibly Haunted Evening in the Parlour of the Brothers Grimm‘, secret location, Austin, TX, October 2010.

Please visit Christine’s website, covering her writing of the ‘Rowan of the Wood’ Celtic-themed YA series in conjunction with her lovely husband Ethan, and also check out her adult Steampunk writing as O. M. Grey. Do consider sponsoring her NaNoWriMo efforts by making a donation to the Office of Letters and Light youth/adult free creative writing program.

My friend Marta Acosta posted an In Dreams Begin excerpt you won’t find anywhere else (except the book itself, of course, but most of you still have a couple weeks to wait!) today at her blog, Vampire Wire.

Be sure to check out Marta’s new book, Haunted Honeymoon, the final installment of heroine Milagro de Los Santos’s romantic misadventures in the Casa Dracula series. Readers are calling it “saucy, irreverent and surprisingly thoughtful” — can’t wait to check it out myself!

Here’s a taste of the In Dreams Begin excerpt over at Marta’s blog — head over there to read the rest!

Ida’s mind reached out toward the museum’s secret shelves hidden beneath and all around her. They held even the Kama Sutra in translation, locked away. Forbidden to women, of course, its simple, mysterious proximity still contributed to the deep erotic song in the silent air. How much was likewise hidden here? Every forbidden secret, in its original Sanskrit or antique Latin, every true answer waited somewhere on the open shelves ringing her, or in the catacombs and archives underneath. Ida blinked against the jealous tears.

A stray beam of raw spring sunlight pierced the distant clouds and shot through a high, arched window to anoint the handsome, bowed poet in a solitary streaming beam as if God himself reached forth to claim this man for His own. A fervent believer in signs, Ida closed her eyes. Swaying with the hum and whisper of all the world’s knowledge—open and occult—dancing around her, Ida could not find a solitary voice. How do you pluck a single seed from a field of poppies, a solo voice from a chorus, a guiding star from a night sky?

Mr. Yeats glanced absently up, and he saw her.

Ah, perhap that’s how. Had she not read, just recently, in Mr. Wilde’s new magazine, that domed spaces were extraordinarily conducive to telepathy? Ida smiled at the magus, and made a little wave.

Read more …

With Sherry Thomas at Barnes & Noble in San Antonio

With Mari Mancusi at the Texas Book Festival

My friend Gabrielle Faust has once again coordinated what promises to be an extraordinary October evening of coffee, drinks and readings by Texas horror and dark fantasy authors. (She also designed the beautiful poster, above!) I’m happy to be a part of this event and hope to see you there, too! Here’s an excerpt from Gabrielle’s press release:

AUSTIN, TX – For the second year in a row some of central Texas’ most intriguing authors will gather once again to share their recent work. From 5pm to 9pm at Kick Butt Coffee in Austin, Texas on October 16, 2010, the thirteen writers will each perform fifteen minute dramatic readings from short stories to novel excerpts, that will be certain to chill the hearts and minds of all attending. Participating authors include Lee Thomas, Joe McKinney, Gabrielle Faust, Nate Southard, D. B. Grady, Ethan Nahte´, Stina Leicht, Skyler White, Robert Stikmanz, Rhodi Hawk, Hank Schwaeble, Denise Broussard and Frank Summers. The wide variety of styles and influences from the collaborative of literary voices represents a distinct cross-section representation of the strength of today’s Texas writers in the horror and dark fantasy genres. All authors will have copies of their current and past work on hand for purchase and signing.

You can read the rest at her site and learn more on Facebook. Come out for a drink, bite and readings by some of Texas’s darkest!

October 16, 2010, 5-9pm
(My reading slot is 7:45P)
Kick Butt Coffee
5775 Airport Blvd, Austin

I’ll be caravaning from Austin to San Antonio tomorrow with several of my Austin author friends: Robyn DeHart, Julie Kenner, Farrah Rochon, Sherry Thomas, and Tracy Wolff. We’ll be signing, giving away swag and chatting with readers and would love to see you there!

Sunday September 26, 2010, 2PM
Barnes & Noble La Cantera
15900 La Cantera Parkway Bldg 27
San Antonio, TX 78256
210-558-2078

Also, thanks to Judith Bakley at the Austin Examiner for running my first interview for ‘In Dreams Begin‘. The book doesn’t launch for another month, but if you want a sneak-peek at what it took to get it written (along with some of my favorite places from the Ireland research trip), check tout the article.

What was it about the poet, WB Yeats, that you found so fascinating you based your book on him?

He’s almost impossibly romantic – a handsome, tall, Irish poet with a penchant for cloaks and magic. I just completely fell in love with him. And the more I learned about him, the more dark and complex and passionate I saw him as being. So just Will, on his own, would have been enough to attract me, and initially, I thought I’d just write a character based on him. I only decided to really complicate my life and use the real man because his writings and life kept intertwining. Here’s an example …

http://www.examiner.com/writing-in-austin/skyler-white-austin-s-best-selling-occult-author

My son as the 11th Doctor Who at Dragon*Con 2010

A great moment, if not a great photo. A pipe burst in the ceiling, causing water to pour from a light fixture. Luckily, two Doctor Whos were on the scene to address the problem with their sonic screwdrivers (before hotel security removed everyone from the area)

And then … there was THIS: