--2007 Director of Young Authors' Conference @ MSU
--2006 Created MI Non-Profit Organization: The Infinity Projects
--2006 Director of Clarion East Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop @ MSU
--2006 Director of Young Authors' Conference @ MSU
--2005 Graduate of Clarion East Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop @ MSU
The Clarion Young Authors' Conference was created in January of 2006 to bring middle and high school students out of the classroom and to a conference where they could meet other mid-Michigan young adult writers. Included in this conference were lectures on writing, the future options for writers, critique time in the Milford Critique style, and Guest Authors who gave both a reading and interactive lectures. The 2006 Guest authors were Holly Black and Charles Coleman Finlay.
The 2007 Clarion Young Authors' Conference took place February 2-3. Our Guest Author was Tobias Buckell with special Guest Author/Illustrator Darrin and Karen Brege
The Clarion Young Authors's Conference was run by The Infinity Projects.
I participated in the 2006 National Novel Writing Month (NaNo) this year. And somehow (I still don't know how I found the time) I did it! I wrote 50,000 words over the month of November to a new young adult book entitled: The Shadow of the Wall
The History of WHY The Infinity Projects was created: In September of 2006 the Clarion Foundation decided it was in their best interest to move the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing Workshop (an intensive 6 week "boot camp" for genre writers) from Michigan State University to the University of California: San Diego. The MSU Clarion office, with the input and support of mid-west writers, colleagues, and MSU faculty and staff, decided to make the best of the situation by creating something new and different in writing workshop and yet holding onto the flavor of what made Clarion great:: it's excellence in teaching creative writing outside the classroom.