Upcoming Appearances:
Frolicon 2026 – May 14 – 17, 2026
Past Appearances:
Attending Author: Writing Track, Con-Nooga February 2026
Panels:
- Plot vs. Character: Which Drives the Story?
- Voice and Style: Finding Your Unique Narrative Signature
- Writing Realistic Dialogue: Letting Characters Speak for Themselves
- After Years of Writing: What We’d Tell Our Younger Selves
YouTube Live: A Conversation & A Cocktail w/Venessa Giunta welcoming Beth DeWeese
Streamed live on Jan 12, 2026 A Conversation & A Cocktail w/ Venessa Giunta
Join host Venessa Giunta for A Conversation and A Cocktail as she welcomes Romance Author Beth
DeWeese. Dive into the passionate world of Beth DeWeese, where steamy paranormal romance comes to life and ignites the page. Beth writes irresistible love stories that help readers escape from reality with love and adventure. Beth’s novels are a blend of smoldering chemistry, pulse-pounding action, and heartfelt tenderness. Her stories feature irresistibly sexy heroes and fierce, independent heroines who discover not just love, but their own inner strength as they navigate the tumultuous waters of romance. When she’s not crafting delightful love stories, Beth is living out her own happily-ever-after in Franklin, Tennessee (USA). She shares a home filled with laughter, love, and a pack of adorable canine companions with her real-life hero – her husband. Join Beth in her paranormal worlds, where love conquers all and happily-ever-afters are guaranteed. Your next literary escape awaits! https://www.bethdeweese.com/
Venessa Giunta is a writer of weird things, an editrix extraordinaire, and a little bit of a nerd. She is a published author, with non-fiction essays, short stories, and the urban Fantasy Soul Cavern series. She is a dedicated viewer of the show Supernatural and was devastated when Sense8 was cancelled (Damn you, Netflix!). She lives in Atlanta, GA, with her husband — also known as her muse — and three cats who basically rule the house, but won’t pay the mortgage. She’s been called the kind of evil that inspires hugs. Venessa is the Programming Director and Director of the WRITE track at Multiverse.
Venessa Giunta: https://sleekbio.com/venessag
YouTube Live: This Week In Indies for Oct 26th, 2025 – Writing in a Voice Other Than Yours
Streamed live on Oct 26, 2025
Welcome back to This Week In Indies for October 26th, 2025 as your host SM Hillman leads a discussion on Writing in a Voice Other Than Your Own.
We live in a diverse world. We have many genders, races, orientations but what if we aren’t a part of that community? What if we want to explore those worlds? So how do we represent that diversity and not make it a caricature or offend anyone who we might be trying to represent? Should we even be trying to utilize a different voice?
Discussing this with SM Hillman are:
–Ben Schenkman – https://benschenkman.com/
–AJ Mullican – https://www.ajmullican.com/
–Tricia Copeland – https://triciacopeland.com/
–Josh Nealis – https://www.cutthroatcomics.com/index…
–Beth DeWeese – www.bethdeweese.com