2014

Seton Hill University’s In Your Write Mind (Greensburg, Pennsylvania, June, attendee only)

Westercon 67 (Salt Lake City, July)

Cascade Writers (Kent, Washington, July, attendee only)

World Domination Summit (Portland, Oregon, July, attendee only)

TypeCon: Capitolized (Washington, DC, July, attendee only)

Loncon 3 (London, August, attendee only)

Shamrokon (Dublin, Ireland, August, attendee only)

LosCon (Los Angeles, November)

2014

BayCon (Santa Clara, California, May)

Program Participant:
A Shot Rang Out
Birth of a Book Cover
Paranormal Romance: Ripping Bodices Since… Yesterday?
Erotic Science Fiction and Fantasy
Do Back Cover Blurbs Work?
Strange Love—Using Romance Tropes in Science Fiction and Fantasy
Fan Fic: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

FOGcon (Walnut Creek)

Program Participant:
Cryptography and Codes
Invisible Disabilities

2012

Westercon (Seattle)

Program Participant:
Ebook Conversion 101
Research for Fantasy Writers
My Town
Humor in Speculative Fiction
Lessons From The Slush Pile

BayCon (San Jose)

Program Participant:
How Has the SyFy Channel Failed Fandom?
Hugo Nominees
Travel is My Drug of Choice
Make a Website that Doesn’t Suck
A Shot Rang Out

2011

Westercon (San Jose)

Program Participant:
Iron Editor
Paranormal Romance
To Market: How to Sell Short Stories
From Kodachrome to Where?

BayCon (San Jose)

Program Participant:
Iron Editors
Travel Is My Drug of Choice
Photography from Film to Digital: What Happened to My Kodachrome?
Tiki Panel

2010

LosCon (Los Angeles)

Program Participant:
Should Some Things Remain Forever Secret?
Delphic Oracle
Open Read and Critique Workshop

2009

BayCon (San Jose)

Program Participant:
When the Last Paper Dies
SciFi vs SyFy
Rejection Letters—Painful Yet Useful Lessons
Twilight: The Beginning or the End?

2008

Silicon (San Jose)

Program Participant:
The Clarion Panel

Westercon 61 (Las Vegas)

Program Participant:
Writers Workshop
Writers and the World’s Oldest Profession
Every OS @$%^!
Authors and Editors
Shout It To The World: Why I Have a Blog
Writer’s Workshops: Vitamins or Placebos?
How to Break an Editor’s Spirit

BayCon (San Jose)

Program Participant:
Pulp Bible
Ideas I Wish I’d Never Had
Writers Workshop

2007

LosCon (Los Angeles)

Program Participant:
Past Masters: Henry Kutner / C.L. Moore (Discussion)
Logged on at Birth
Programming Your Own SF Con

Orycon (Portland, OR)

Program Participant:
Writer’s Workshop Read and Critique

Conjecture (San Diego)

Program Participant:
Care and Feeding of Writers’ Groups
Reading Like a Writer
Clarion in San Diego
Awesome Writers You’ve Never Heard Of
Resources for the (Beginning) Writer
SF&F: The Short Forms

Gnomeward Bound (Westercon 60, San Mateo)

Program Participant:
Shout It To The World: Why I Have a Blog
The Wiccan Culture: An Introduction
The Short Story as an Art Form
Writer’s Workshops: Vitamins or Placebos?
Creatures of the Deep

2006

LA Con IV (Worldcon, Los Angeles)

Participant:
Writer’s Workshop, moderator for workshop sessions

BayCon (San Jose)

Program Participant:
Legal Issues for Web Designers
Themed Reading: Humor
Pros & Cons of Writers’ Groups
Writer’s Workshop Wrapup
Tiki Gods

ConDor 13 (San Diego)

Program Participant:
Structuring Your Novel
Simulating Your Muse: Literary
Crossing Over: Blurring the lines between genres
The Aspiring Writer’s Toolkit: Beta readers, Clarion, writers’ workshops, and more

2005

Due North (Westercon, Calgary)

Program Participant:
Chicks in Chainmail
Why Write?
10 Great Ways to Sabotage Your Writing
Developing Your Voice
Tikis in Paradise
Writing that First Book
SF&F Mysteries
The Hugo Nominees: Best TV Episode
The Hugo Nominees: Best Short Story
Getting the Most from a Writers’ Workshop
Writers’ Workshop
Using Existing Mythologies in Fiction

BayCon (San Jose)

Program Participant:
Villainy for Fun and Profit
Themed Reading: Humor
Getting Started as a Writer
Writer’s Workshop Wrapup
Tiki Panel

2004

Loscon (Los Angeles)

Program Participant:
Writer’s Workshop
Science Fiction Mysteries
The Nuts and Bolts of programming a Convention: How do they do it

ConKopelli (Westercon, Arizona)

Program Participant:
Developing a Computer Website
Tarot Reading
Harry Potter: What’s the Big Deal?
What If it Were Really True? (taking myth literally)

BayCon (San Jose)

Program Participant:
How to Enjoy BayCon 2004
Themed Reading: Chicks!
Writing Workshops
Creatures from the Deep
Tiki Panel

2003

Conjecture (San Diego)

Program Participant:
Editing Your Own Work
Fantasy that Breaks the Mold

BayCon (San Jose)

Program Participant:
Is the Classroom Obsolete?
Fantasy that Breaks the Mold
Writer’s Workshops: What to Expect
Reading
ConTiki: The joys of Polynesian arts, culture, and cocktails.

2002

Conjecture (San Diego)

Program Participant:
SF in Fantasy Clothing
One Porcupine Per Story, Please. (How weird can a story get and still make sense?)
Morning Writing Exercises
KaffeeKlatch
The Evolution of Female Characters in Fantasy and SF
The Clarion Experience
The Ethics of Creativity
“Comfort” Reading

ConJosé (Worldcon, San Jose)

Program Participant:
Nightingale to Lark: Tips to Transition from Night Folk to Morning People
Spam in a Sardine Can? (Underwater science fiction)
Writing Boot Camps
Learning from the Pros
Early Morning Writing Exercises

2001

MacWorld Expo (New York City)

Speaker:
Stupid Unix Tricks

1999

O’Reilly Open Source Conference (Monterey, California)

Panelist:
Panel: Python Success Stories

LinuxWorld Expo (San Jose, California)

Conference Speaker
Linux Stereo Components

UUASC (Costa Mesa, California)

Speaker:
Linux Database Madness