We just had the Las Vegas Book Festival, and I enjoyed it so much! It’s the largest book festival in Vegas, but is still a small, intimate environment where you can chat with your favorite authors.

The Las Vegas Chapter of the Horror Writer Association set up a book. Co-chairs Amber Hassler and Jeff DePew killed it!

The beautiful Amber Hassler. She is AMAZING.

I was a panelist discussing genre fiction with Shwa LayTart, Staci Lynn Wilson, Jarret Keene, and Tod Goldberg. We discussed EVERYTHING. Horror, romance, sci-fi, stigma in genre publishing, AI, marketing…you name it. It was a great conversation, and these authors are all hilarious! Afterward we signed books and chatted. It was so enjoyable!

The genre panel!

J Jarett Keene, Tod Goldberg, Mercedes M. Yardley, Staci Lynn Wilson, and Shwa LayTart

Tod Goldberg had some of the best stories! And a surprise cameo by Jonathan Maberry in back.

I also ran into Jonathan Maberry, who is just so kind and fascinating and has lived about 100 lives. What a lovely man.

Jonathan Maberry’s shirts fill me with joy.

This special pink and blue badge proves that I belong here.