Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff - Professional Advancement

Professional Advancement

Bohnhoff has worked in a number of venues to contribute to the field of authorship and relevance of Science Fiction and Fantasy at SciFi/Fa Conventions. She has participated in and moderated panel discussions for over a decade. She participates in the Museitup online writers conference and the Catholic Writers' Conference, and is a founding member and regular blogger at the Book View Café, a fiction website created by a cooperative of over 20 professional genre writers as an alternative publishing venture.

• "Different Types of Writing"
• "Turning Mental Blocks into Building Blocks",
• "Is SF Relevant Any More? Was It Ever?",
• "Mythic roots of fantasy"
• "Coping with and/or embracing change"
• "The Rise and Fall of Civilization"
• "Historical Fiction: Call it fantasy, and they'll buy it. Will readers--and thus editors--only buy historical fiction when you add magic and fairies?"
• "Science and Religion: Harmony or Discord"
• "Cardinal Richelieu revisited - the good and evil priest in literature"
• "Research for alternate history. Sources to use so good history can make good fiction"
• "Is it now chic to be geek - Is this the age of the geek?"
• "Asian-themed fantasy, urban fantasy, maybe even Roman fantasy?"
• "Disenchantment - Fantasy novelists portrayals of Christian and Christian-like faiths..."
• "Evolution - Science vs. Religion why do they disagree? And if people can re-engineer themselves where does that leave God?"
• "The Art & Craft of Writing"
• "Plot, Settings, and Characters"
• "Tolkien vs Jackson"
• "Show me - Don't tell me"
• "How to Write the BEST First Line"
• "The Wiccan Culture: An Introduction"
• "The Short Story as an Art Form"
• "Getting Your Writing to Grow Up"

Bohnhoff has also contributed to professional writing magazines and online presentations.