Fall Workshop
Scaring Your Readers
featuring Ed Bryant, Melanie Tem, Steve Rasnic Tem, and Carrie Vaughn
Saturday, November 3
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Location: Candlewood Suites, 6450 N Academy Blvd.
Cost: $65 for PPW members, $85 for nonmembers (includes breakfast, lunch, and beverages)
Deadline for registration and payment: REGISTRATION CLOSED
Are you missing that page-turning quality in your thriller manuscript? Worried that the only suspense in your horror novel is the reader wondering if they'll bother to continue? Join our panel of experts who will use examples from their own work and the work of other authors to teach us how to:
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Recognize the different ways in which horror, suspense, and crime fiction utilize suspense (The Rules of Writing Suspense in Different Genres)
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Take the components of a suspenseful, page-turning story and put them all together. (Pacing and Structure, or Don’t Go Into the Basement Alone!)
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Use language and imagery to create suspense in your reader (Language, Image, and the Atmosphere of Suspense)
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Look at creating suspense from the perspective of character (Who’s Scaring Whom? The Importance of Character)
The workshops will be interactive and include hands-on exercises.
Ed Bryant: Edward Bryant, multiple winner of the Nebula Award and the American Mystery Award, has published more than a dozen books, including Cinnabar, Wyoming Sun, and (written in collaboration with Harlan Ellison) Phoenix Without Ashes. He has written hundreds of short stories and articles, as well as reviewing extensively for Locus Magazine and Talebones. His stories have been adapted for CBS's The Twilight Zone and Lifetime's The Empty Room. The Baku, a story collection, was recently published by Subterranean Press. Later this year, Cemetery Dance will publish Flirting With Death, a major collection of dark suspense and horror fiction. Edward Bryant is the author of Wormhole chapbooks A Sad Last Love at the Diner of the Damned and While She Was Out. The feature film While She Was Out starring Kim Bassinger and based on Ed's story of the same name is in post-production.
Melanie Tem:Melanie Tem's solo novels are Prodigal (recipient of the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement, First Novel), Blood Moon, Wilding, Revenant, Desmodus, The Tides, Black River, Pioneer, Slain in the Spirit, and The Deceiver.. Collaborative novels are Making Love and Witch-Light with Nancy Holder, Daughters with Steve Rasnic Tem, and (also with Steve Rasnic Tem) The Man on the Ceiling, which will be published March 2008. The chapbook The Man on the Ceiling won the 2001 Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, and World Fantasy Awards. The award-winning multi-media CD-ROM Imagination Box was also a collaborative project with Steve Rasnic Tem. Melanie Tem’s short stories have appeared in the collection The Ice Downstream and in numerous anthologies and magazines. She has also published non-fiction articles and poetry. Recipient of a 2001-2002 associateship from the Rocky Mountain Women's Institute, Tem is also a playwright. Her one-act play “The Society for Lost Positives” has been produced in Denver, Salida, and Chicago. Recently she has discovered oral storytelling. Also a social worker, Tem lives in Denver with her husband, writer and editor Steve Rasnic Tem. They have four children and four granddaughters.
Steve Rasnic Tem: Author of over 300 published short stories and 4 novels, Steve Rasnic Tem is a Denver-based writer whose fiction has been honored with the Bram Stoker Award, British Fantasy Award, International Horror Guild Award, and World Fantasy Award. His stories can be found in such publications as Year's Best Fantasy and Horror , Best New Horror, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and in two collections, City Fishing and The Far Side of the Lake. The Man on the Ceiling, a novel written in collaboration with wife Melanie Tem expanding their award-winning novella, will appear in March. You can find the Tem home on the web.
Carrie Vaughn:Carrie Vaughn is the author of a series of novels about a werewolf named Kitty who hosts a talk radio show. The fourth book, Kitty and the Silver Bullet, will be out in January 2008. Carrie's had about thirty short stories appear in such magazines as Realms of Fantasy, Weird Tales, and Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. She has a Masters degree in English literature, and lives in Boulder.
