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Sunday, September 29
 

8:00am MDT

Playing God for Fun and Profit - Building Worlds your Readers will Love
Sunday September 29, 2024 8:00am - 8:50am MDT
Conference Room VII
Worlds are big, and building them can be daunting. Learn how to build a fantastic setting, whether modifying our world to include magic and dragons, building a new secondary world, or constructing an entire galaxy to explore. What pitfalls do many authors fall into, and how can one avoid them?
Speakers
avatar for Calvin Studzinski

Calvin Studzinski

Author
Calvin Studzinski is an award-winning aerospace engineer, amateur historian, role-playing game designer, and aspiring author. As a child, Calvin was an avid reader, consuming the works of Jules Verne and J.R.R. Tolkien with equal voracity, before reading everything he could get his... Read More →
Sunday September 29, 2024 8:00am - 8:50am MDT
Conference Room VII
  Conference Room VII

8:00am MDT

Horror Writing 666 (aka 101)
Sunday September 29, 2024 8:00am - 8:50am MDT
Conference Room VIII
Horror is part of our real world, make it part of your fiction. Readers love to experience dread, gore, and terror, and you can be the one to deliver it. Learn why and how to write stories that terrify!
Speakers
avatar for Angela Sylvaine

Angela Sylvaine

Author
Angela Sylvaine is a self-proclaimed cheerful goth who writes speculative fiction and poetry. Her debut novel, Frost Bite, a ‘90s sci-fi horror comedy, and her debut short story collection, The Dead Spot: Stories of Lost Girls are out now. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared... Read More →
Horror Writing 666 (aka 101) Handout pdf
Sunday September 29, 2024 8:00am - 8:50am MDT
Conference Room VIII
  Conference Room VIII

9:00am MDT

Comedy (Seriously.)
Sunday September 29, 2024 9:00am - 9:50am MDT
Conference Room IV
No matter your audience, genre, or format, applying the principles that make comedy writing work can take any project from predictable to un-put-downable! This presentation is geared toward writers of any level of experience, with writing from laugh out loud to deathly dramatic.
Speakers
avatar for Christina Allen

Christina Allen

Award-Winning Author
Christina Allen (publishing as C.W. Allen) is a Midwestern transplant to rural Utah where she serves as the President-Elect of the League of Utah Writers. She writes long stories for children and short stories for former children. She is also a frequent guest presenter at writing... Read More →
Comedy (seriously.) pdf
Sunday September 29, 2024 9:00am - 9:50am MDT
Conference Room IV
  Conference Room IV

9:00am MDT

True Crime to Novel: Turn Headline News into Page-Turning Fiction
Sunday September 29, 2024 9:00am - 9:50am MDT
Conference Room VIII
Ever wonder how to turn an astonishing, newsworthy story into juicy crime fiction? In this workshop, we will talk about how authors turn true crime stories into fiction. Together, we will review examples of contemporary novels and the techniques authors use to make readers turn the page.
Speakers
avatar for Nanette Gamily

Nanette Gamily

Author
Nanette Gamily’s debut Native American crime fiction novel, CRY FOR THE CHILD, is represented by Josh Getlzer at HG Literary. She’s an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation, a Tin House Finalist, a Regis University MFA graduate, and a guest blogger for Rocky Mountain Fiction... Read More →
Sunday September 29, 2024 9:00am - 9:50am MDT
Conference Room VIII
  Conference Room VIII

10:00am MDT

Is That Scary? Writing Horror in 2024
Sunday September 29, 2024 10:00am - 10:50am MDT
Conference Room III
What scared people in the late 20th century was totally different than what scares most people today. Participants can expect to learn the current popular tropes of the genre, as well as how to build tension in stories meant to terrorize the reader and leave them shaken.
Speakers
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Stephanie Reisner

Award-Winning Author
Stephanie Reisner makes her living as a full-time writer/publisher and is published both traditionally and independently, but with focus on her successful indie career. With four pen names, she has over 40 published novels in various genres to her credit and even more novellas and... Read More →
Sunday September 29, 2024 10:00am - 10:50am MDT
Conference Room III
  Conference Room III

10:00am MDT

Exoplanetary Exploration - Realistic Methods for Visiting Alien Worlds
Sunday September 29, 2024 10:00am - 10:50am MDT
Conference Room VII
Science fiction often resorts to fantastical technologies to reach other stars, but could we do it in real life? Explore the real science we would use to explore exoplanets, the dangers involved, and how the restrictions of sub-luminal space travel should inspire gripping sci-fi narratives.
Speakers
avatar for Calvin Studzinski

Calvin Studzinski

Author
Calvin Studzinski is an award-winning aerospace engineer, amateur historian, role-playing game designer, and aspiring author. As a child, Calvin was an avid reader, consuming the works of Jules Verne and J.R.R. Tolkien with equal voracity, before reading everything he could get his... Read More →
Exoplanet Exploration pdf
Sunday September 29, 2024 10:00am - 10:50am MDT
Conference Room VII
  Conference Room VII

10:00am MDT

Unlocking Tween Book Marketing: Unique Tactics for Middle Grade Success
Sunday September 29, 2024 10:00am - 10:50am MDT
Conference Room VIII
Is marketing Middle Grade Books the same as for Adult Books? While many strategies overlap, there are exciting opportunities exclusive to MG Books to boost sales—and have more fun! Join me as we explore the distinctive approaches that differentiate Tween Book Marketing from its adult counterpart.
Speakers
avatar for Mariko Tatsumoto

Mariko Tatsumoto

Author
Mariko Tatsumoto emigrated from Japan at the age of eight and was detoured from her love of books by becoming the first Asian woman attorney in Colorado. But she found her way back to writing historical novels. AYUMI'S VIOLIN, her Middle Grade novel, and her YA novel, SWEPT AWAY... Read More →
Sunday September 29, 2024 10:00am - 10:50am MDT
Conference Room VIII
  Conference Room VIII
 
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