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Besides being the co-chair of the romance committee, I will be speaking on a panel just like Kelli. Her’s is about cover art and promises to be quite amusing. I’ve seen some of the slides from her presentation and they’re great.

My talk is on Sunday at 11:30 at the Integrated Learning Center room 137. My co-panelists are NY Times best-selling authors Rachel Gibson and Karen Hawkins. Come to my talk,  have some lunch, then pop back over to Kelli’s at 1pm. It’s like I planned this for your convenience.

I’ve been really scared about the panel for a number of reasons.

1) I don’t like public speaking. My problem isn’t that I can’t speak in public, rather I can’t shut up. As soon as I’m nervous, bad things happen. Granted, it’s funny for the spectators, awful for me.

2) I don’t feel like I can really speak about writing with NY Times best sellers. I haven’t sold anything like what they have.

However – all those things being said, the name of my panel is You Had Me at Funny: Using Humor to Advance Plot is definitely something I can write about. But still, I had reservations. What was I going to say? What?

Karen sent some questions for us to think about that might move us in the right direction. One of them was, why do you write humor?

Then today happened. Today is such a ridiculous example of my life that I can’t wait to tell you about it. Just not today. I gave my schtick to Kelli over the phone and she was laughing away then said, “To bad you can’t use that at your talk.”

Seriously. I’m using the whole thing – nearly word for word – because it’s nonsense like this that makes me write comedy.

If not comedy, then Greek tragedy. It’s all in the perspective. Fortunately, my glass is generally half full of carbonated water.

Come to the talk on Sunday and hear the story live – with visual aids. Otherwise, you’ll have to wait till next week.

Trust me, it’s a doozy.

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