Name: Celebrating Strength in Mid-Grade and YA Stories
Start: 2026-10-22T09:00:00-0600
End: 2026-10-22T09:45:00-0600

Celebrating Strength in Mid-Grade and YA Stories

Thursday October 22, 2026 9:00am - 9:45am MDT

Glen 206

Growing up is confusing. It helps having friends and allies, who when they aren’t driving you crazy, help you find yourself.

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Kristie McMechan

Kristie is a STEM nerd, ultimate frisbee champion, former marathon runner, parent, world traveller, volunteer dog walker and now writer, thankfully not all at the same time. She is currently working on her first novel, a middle-grade sci-fi/fantasy about children and vegetable vi... Read More →

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Gary R. Bush

YA or adult, if it’s historical, Gary R. Bush writes it. His award-winning YA Jamie Sharpe novels, Jamie Sharpe and the Seas of Treachery, Jamie Sharpe and the Pirates of Barbary, and The Voyage To Hell’s Island, are “A simply riveting read:” Midwest Book Review. Bush is co-editor... Read More →

Lorna Schultz Nicholson

Lorna Schultz Nicholson is an award-winning author and has published children’s picture books, middle grade fiction and non-fiction, YA fiction, and adult non-fiction. She has a middle grade mystery series featuring Rhapsody Smith Ice Angel. AND she is currently writing an adult... Read More →

Nancy G. West

Nancy West writes suspense/thrillers about ordinary people in danger who struggle to save themselves or loved ones. Risky Pursuit, an inter-generational thriller and Anthony Nominee, is her ninth book. A UT-Austin business grad who switched to English lit, Nancy found writing fiction... Read More →

Thursday October 22, 2026 9:00am - 9:45am MDT
Glen 206

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Kristie McMechan

Gary R. Bush

Lorna Schultz Nicholson

Nancy G. West

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Bouchercon2026: Calgary

Kristie McMechan

Gary R. Bush

Lorna Schultz Nicholson

Nancy G. West

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