What If: Adding Tension To Any Story with Michele Drier
Sisters in Crime Orange County – The Blood Orange and Book Carnival
Sunday, August 25, 2024
3:00 p.m. @ Book Carnival in Orange, CA
What if? Adding Tension to Any Story with Michele Drier
Whether you write (or read) fast-paced thrillers or calmer cozies, it’s always a challenge to keep readers engrossed and anticipating. One way to do this is to play the “What If’ game with your readers.
What if that noise she heard from the closet wasn’t the cat?
What if she’d married the guy she turned down?
What if she hadn’t eaten that second slice of cheesecake?
Learn how to engage readers and encourage them to find their own “what ifs.” We’ll look at some possible what-ifs and maybe even create our own.
The Details
What: What If: Adding Tension To Any Story with Michele Drier
When: Sunday, August 25, 2024
Time: 3 p.m.
Where: Book Carnival – 348 S. Tustin St., Orange, CA 92866
Michele Drier
Michele Drier is a fifth-generation Californian. During her career in journalism at daily newspapers in California, including the San Jose Mercury-News, she won awards for investigative series. She is the past president of Capitol Crimes, a Sisters in Crime chapter; the Guppies chapter of Sisters in Crime; current president of NorCal Sisters in Crime, and co-chaired Bouchercon 2020, the world’s oldest and largest convention for mystery fans and authors.
Her Amy Hobbes Newspaper Mysteries are Edited for Death, (called “Riveting and much recommended” by the Midwest Book Review), Labeled for Death and Delta for Death. A stand-alone, Ashes of Memories was published May 2017.
Her paranormal romance series, SNAP: The Kandesky Vampire Chronicles, named the best paranormal vampire series of 2014 by PRG are: SNAP: The World Unfolds, SNAP: New Talent, PLAGUE: A Love Story, DANUBE: A Tale of Murder, SNAP: Love for Blood, (Best paranormal book 2013, PRG reviewers); SNAP: Happily Ever After?, SNAP: White Nights, SNAP; All That Jazz ( best paranormal vampire book of 2014), SNAP: I, Vampire, SNAP: Red Bear Rising and SNAP: Pandemic Games.
Her new series is the Stained Glass Mysteries, Stain on the Soul and Tapestry of Tears, and she’s working on the third, Resurrection of the Roses.
She lives in Sacramento.
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