It’s a jungle out there for creators, but in Kansas City from June 5-8, we’re coming prepared for any eventuality! Join your fellow creators this year at SFWA’s 60th Anniversary Nebula Awards Conference, and take part in Career Survival Planning: two workshops and one special presentation geared around challenges thrown at SFF creators by life and industry.

From 10 AM to noon on Friday, June 6, join former marketing executive and full-time author Laura Greenwood as she presents a variety of proven strategies to market your books without Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising.

Whether through content marketing, newsletters, or social media, there are many ways to get your book in front of the right readers and sell, sell, sell without relying on Facebook or Amazon ads. Impossible, you say? Laura will show you it’s not!

Then, from 1-2:30 PM local time, join 41st Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Nicola Griffith, in conversation with the one who knows her best, wife and fellow writer Kelley Eskridge, for a 90-minute love letter to SFF and the wild ride of a career that’s still evolving.

Come listen, laugh, and AMA—in person or online—about the importance of figuring out who you are and what you want, how to get there, and the joy of finding your people.

Get an active pause in, then join us from 3-5 PM to hash out the big picture with Becca Syme. When you look into the future of your author career, what do you see? Do you see glistening highways paved with NYT#1 tags and dollar signs? Or do you see fans clamoring for the next book? Or do you see nothing, or worse than nothing?

Plot twist. Each author has an individual pathway to a sustainable author career, and in this workshop, Becca Syme, author success coach and alignment expert, will illustrate different pathways to an author career for life, and the action steps to keep yourself in the game. No matter what’s coming next.

Career Survival Planning at the Nebulas Friday, June 6

10 AM – 12 PM: Laura Greenwood “Successful Strategies for Marketing without Ads (and Other Impossibilities)”

1-2 PM: Grand Master Nicola Griffith “A Long, Strange Trip (So Far)”

3-5 PM: Becca Syme “The Longevity Blueprint: Building a Career That Lasts”

SFWA’s annual Nebula Awards Conference is an excellent opportunity to meet with SFF writers who know what it’s like to wrestle with the highs and lows of this career choice and creative passion. This year, we hope you’ll join us in Kansas City, Missouri—or online!—to celebrate our finalists and craft plans for the professional year ahead.

It’s a wild time for creators everywhere! Thank you for staying in the fray.