May 10 – Rebecca Inch-Partridge – Sci-Fi (YA) – Escaping the Dashia
Rebecca Inch-Partridge is a speculative fiction author with two published novels. She first wrote her young adult science fiction novel, Escaping the Dashia: Book One of the Paraxous Star Cluster Trilogy, when she was fifteen. Then she set aside her dream to pursue careers that were more accepting of women. After working as an EMT, social worker, and activities director for seniors, she returned to her first love, writing. She has worked as a freelance editor, writing coach, and author manager for several years and loves it. She also enjoys teaching the “Write that Book” series for the OLLI Program. She will discuss how things have changed in STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) industries and how this has affected speculative fiction. She will also explain the wide variety of genres that speculative fiction encompasses and why it is going main stream.