2025 Trope Con and April News

It's gonna be a Trope Love In, Storybuilding Fest!

Dear #TeamTrope,

Happy April 1st! I'm back from Future of Publishing Con in New Orleans, where I met many new interesting peeps and caught up with long-time author friends. Now I'm back in the trenches of prep because---

2025 Trope Con starts this Saturday! I'm so thrilled and excited. Tickets are $79 until midnight on April 2 (tomorrow), then it pops up to $99.

Trope Con is a 2-day virtual event, with 15 prerecorded interviews, daily live Q&A sessions, a private Facebook group, and a live session on 4/6 about Trends and Tropes with Nat Connors of Kindletrends and Quinn Ward. Everything live will be recorded. All material is available to view for one year until April 6, 2026.

2025 Trope Con Registration is open now with early bird pricing! Check out these speakers:

Sarra Cannon, Nat Connors, Tara Cremin, Cindy Dees, Steff Green/Steffanie Holmes, Jennifer Hilt, Ines Johnson, Maggie Marr, Sue Brown-Moore, Russell Nohelty, Dana Pittman, Jennifer Probst, Sara Rosett, Lee Savino, Theodora Taylor, Jasmine Walt, and Quinn Ward.

I'm super excited to share these entertaining and informative sessions on how tropes work with character and plot development, genres, and marketing.

April News:

Sara Rosett and Jami Albright had me over to Wish I'd Known Then for their podcast where I shared my first foray into virtual event planning. Sara and Jami are always great to visit with! I wasn't terribly articulate but I hope it encourages you to try something new if you are feeling hesitant. BTW, Sara shares some of her insights on working with the mystery genre in Trope Con!

Ready to write that Christmas novel/novella this summer? My Write Your Christmas Romance in July course runs in June this year so you can be busily writing away in July. The course begins May 26, 2025 and registration is open now!

What I Read This Past Week:

1). Mathematica: A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity by David Bessis. I loved the challenge of this book. It really made me appreciate the way we think and see inside our brains.

2). The Book of Boy by Catherine Gilbert Murdock is a delightful middle grades middle ages quest. It was accessible, elegant and absorbing. It made me want to get back to writing fiction. This book won a Newberry award too.

Check out my fiction and non-fiction:

Check out my first book, Trope Thesaurus for my thoughts on what tropes are, what they aren't and how to use them in our writing if you are trope curious.

Also The Undead Detective my three book urban fantasy series with my reluctant vampire detective Silverthorne is back in KU. She's revisting her past, tracking a serial killer, and trying to avoid her former lover, Fang. Hint: None of these things are going well for her.

Take Care and Keep Writing,

Jen