Speaking

Schedule permitting, I am happy to come speak to your class, book club, conference, radio show, etc., either in person or by video chat.

Selected Previous Engagements

Doxacon Prime
Washington, D.C., November, 2023
“Suffocation and Ritual Dismemberment: Speculative Fiction and the Spiritual Life” (with Eleanor Bourg Nicholson)

Catholic Writers Conference Live
Schaumberg, IL, July, 2022
“Character-Driven vs. Plot-Driven: False Dichotomy”
Panel Discussion: The Editing Process

Apocatastasis Institute Podcast
May, 2021
“Vampires, Digital Age Publication, and the Author’s Craft”

St. Benedict Institute at Hope College & Collegium Institute at UPenn
April, 2021
Panel discussion: “On the Making of Books: Crafting Catholic Literature for the 21st Century” 

The Catholic Writers Guild Conference Online 
February, 2021
“Tension and Conflict in Fiction”

September, 2019
“Thematic Grace: Stories Without Sermons”

The Catholic Writers Guild Conference Live
Lancaster, PA, July-August, 2019
“Thematic Grace: Stories Without Sermons” and “Horror: The Genre of the Sacred”

The Louisiana Book Festival
Baton Rouge, LA, November, 2018
Panel, “Dark Fantasies: Fairy Tales and Ghost Stories for Grown-Ups”

Doxacon Prime
Washington, D.C., November, 2018
“Sacred Monsters: Horror Stories as Spiritual Parables”

The Catholic Writers Guild Conference Online
September, 2018
“Beyond Showing: The Art of Immersive Writing”

“Meet the Author” Radio Show with host Ken Huck
Radio Maria, November, 2017

Trying to Say ‘God’: Re-enchanting Catholic Literature
Notre Dame University, June, 2017
Panel, “The Marian Effect: Building strong Women in Writing and Life”

The Catholic Writers Guild Conference Online
February, 2017
“Horror: The Genre of the Sacred”

The Louisiana Book Festival
Downtown Baton Rouge, October, 2016
Featured author book talk on Jennifer the Damned

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