Start date: April 11, 2024
End date: April 14, 2024
All-day event
Location: Hyatt Regency Bellvue, Bellvue Washington
convention | fiction | Mystery & Crime

Seattle Shakedown (Crime & Mystery fiction)


One of my favorite conventions! Crime, Mystery, and Suspense fiction writers and fans on the loose!

 

Thursday April 11

Pitch Black: the Noir Panel (panel)

3:45 - 4:30PM (location to come)

Craig Faustus Buck, Christa Faust, Brian Thornton, Sam Wiebe AKA Nolan Chase, Kat Richardson (M)

 

Friday April 12

Mix It Up: Writers Who Bend Genres (panel)

4:00 - 4:45PM (location to come)

M.H. Callway, Stephanie K. Clemens, Rob Hart, Kat Richardson, Rob Osler (M)

 

Start date: March 28, 2024
End date: March 31, 2024
All-day event
Location: SeaTac DoubleTree Hotel
author reading | book signing | convention | fiction | media | pop culture | SFF | workshop

Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Costume Shenanigans in the Northwest!


The Northwest's oldest SFF convention by fans for fans. I'll be teaching a couple of writing/editing workshops, as well as sitting on several panels. I'll also be reading from my upcoming novel, and autographing stuff, hanging out, and being weird, so come and see me!

 

UPDATE: I have had to cancel and won't be attending Norwescon this year. Really sorry for the last-minute change. Hope to see you all next year!

 

My Schedule was:

 

Thursday March 28

Making it pretty: Self-editing and revision (workshop)

3:00pm - 4:00pm @ Cascade 13

Kat Richardson

 

History as a Source

8:00pm - 9:00pm @ Cascade 13

Remy Nakamura (M), D.L. Gardner, Shiv Ramdas, Kat Richardson

 

 

Friday March 29

How to Pulp a Detective

3:00pm - 4:00pm @ Evergreen 3 & 4

Jessie Kwak (M), Kat Richardson, Dr. Raychelle Burks, Tom D Wright, Jim Butcher

 

Reading: Kat Richardson

Excerpt from upcoming Historical Dark Fantasy/Crime Noir novel Storm Waters (Fairwood Press, November 2024)  Note: this is an R-rated excerpt (language, smoking, drugs, violence)

7:00pm - 7:30pm @ Cascade 3

 

 

Saturday March 30

Autograph Session 1

10:00am - 11:00am @ Grand 2

Brenda Cooper, Daryl Gregory, David D. Levine, D.L. Gardner, Gordon B. White, Gwendolyn N. Nix, Talulah J. Sullivan, Jack Skillingstead, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Jim Butcher, Remy Nakamura, Julie McGalliard, Karen Eisenbrey, Kate Sherman, Kat Richardson, Kate Alice Marshall, Ken Bebelle, Kendare Blake, Liz Argall, Nancy Kress, Neil Clarke, Rhiannon/R.Z. Held, Richard Sparks, Sean K. Reynolds, Spencer Ellsworth, Steven Barnes, Tara Campbell, Travis Baldree, Tyrean Martinson, Dr. Raychelle Burks, Charles Vess, S. L. Coney, Bethany Jacobs, Evan J. Peterson, L.J. Melvin

 

Get to Know the Endeavor Award

12:00pm - 1:00pm @ Evergreen 1 & 2

Jim Kling (M), Sara A Mueller, Ken Scholes, Laura Anne Gilman, Brenda Cooper, David D. Levine, Kat Richardson

 

That's not how this works, that's not how any of this works

3:00pm - 4:00pm @ Evergreen 3 & 4

Jake McKinzie (M), Lawrence Watt-Evans, Agathon McGeachy, Kat Richardson, Dr. Raychelle Burks

 

My Research: Let me show you it (workshop)

5:00pm - 6:00pm @ Cascade 13

Kat Richardson

 

 

Sunday

Heists and Con Artists in Science Fiction

10:00am - 11:00am @ Grand 2

David D. Levine (M), Kat Richardson, Dr. Raychelle Burks, Steven Barnes

 

This World but Different

11:00am - 12:00pm @ Evergreen 3 & 4

Rashida J Smith (M), Kat Richardson, Rhiannon/R.Z. Held, Ken Bebelle, Jim Butcher

 

 

Start date: March 22, 2024
End date: March 25, 2024
All-day event
Location: Vern Burton Community Center & other locations, Port Angeles,WA
comics | convention | fiction | genre writing | pop culture | SFF | workshop

Cryptids, Comics, And Pop Culture Shenanigans!


I'll be teaching a short Magic Systems workshop, and other fun stuff where you can meet me and talk about writing and other creative project stuff, or just get your geek on about cool Pop Culture, Literature, and Art in this nifty little town at the edge of sparkling Strait of Juan de Fuca, and just at the foot of the majestic Olympic Mountains and the entrance to Olympic National Park in Port Angeles, Washington.

Here's my schedule:

Saturday March 23

Creative Writing Process (panel)

2:00 - 3:00PM @ City Council Chambers Main Stage

 

Sunday March 24

Creating Magic Systems (workshop)

10:30 - 11:30AM @ Meeting Room 1

Kat Richardson

 

Writers Meetup (casual meetup)

1:30 - 3:00PM @ Meeting Room 1

Kat Richardson and any writers, readers, students, aspiring creators, fun folk who want to turn up.