October Orange Salon
An invitation to attend our very first online salon with special guest CSE Cooney
We’re thrilled to invite you to attend our very first Orange Salon, with special guest CSE Cooney. The salon will take place online (via Zoom), and will include a reading, a conversation/interview, and an interactive writing workshop, ideal for writers at any stage of their development.
The salon is available to all paid subscribers, who can either attend live, or view the recording at a later time.
When?
Wednesday, 2 October, 7:00pm to 8:30pm EST (New York time)
Thursday, 3 October, 9:00am to 10:30am AEST (Brisbane time)
You can use this online meeting planner to work out what time that is wherever you are!
Where?
Online via zoom: the link will go out to all paid subscribers two hours prior to the session.
What?
The salon will include:
A reading from our special guest;
A short interview/conversation; and …
An infernal salon.
What is an ‘infernal salon’? We’re so glad you asked. Claire describes it as:
A fun, low-stakes writing workshop, high on community, ix-nay on the essure-pray. Each participant is given a prompt of one or more cards from the very spooky deck that CSE Cooney, Carlos Hernandez, and artist Rebecca Huston invented for the TTRPG ‘Negocios Infernales’. Once every writer has their prompt, we set a timer for 25 minutes. Everyone makes something: poetry, story, bit of novel, short play, art, whatever! When the timer dings, those who want to will share their infernally-inspired works with all of us. We have run Infernal Salons at cons, charity events, and libraries, and without fail, much revelry and fun is had by all! If you’re looking for your next story idea or a way to shatter writer’s block, have we got a salon for you!
You can learn more about the game Negocios Infernales here, via a very goofy short home video we made for our Kickstarter, and look at some of the pretty cards and nice things people have said. If you’re just dying to have your own deck, pre-orders for the game are available on Outland Entertainment’s website here.
Who?
Our very first salon guest is the truly spectacular, CSE Cooney.
CSE Cooney (she/her) is a two-time World Fantasy Award-winning author: for her novel Saint Death’s daughter, and for her collection Bone swans, stories. Other work includes The twice-drowned saint, Dark breakers, and Desdemona and the deep. As a voice actor, Cooney has narrated over 120 audiobooks, as well as short fiction for podcasts such as Uncanny magazine, Beneath ceaseless skies, Tales to terrify, and Podcastle. In March 2023, she produced her collaborative sci-fi musical, Ballads from a distant star, at New York City’s Arts on Site. (Find her other music at Bandcamp under Brimstone Rhine.) Forthcoming from Outland Entertainment in 2024 is the GM-less TTRPG Negocios infernales (“the Spanish Inquisition … INTERRUPTED by aliens!”), which she co-designed with her husband, writer and game-designer Carlos Hernandez. Find her website blog and where to buy her books via her Linktree or try ‘csecooney’ on various social media platforms.
I am so looking forward for this! What a pleasure and a delight, to spend an evening/morning with you denizens of Faerie.