Name: Young Sprouts and Mature Trees: Writing Dialogue for Younger and Older Characters
Start: 2026-10-22T11:30:00-0600
End: 2026-10-22T12:15:00-0600

Young Sprouts and Mature Trees: Writing Dialogue for Younger and Older Characters

Thursday October 22, 2026 11:30am - 12:15pm MDT

Glen 201

Books are no longer uni-generational, and a 12 year old doesn’t talk like an 80 year old. Writing intergenerational dialogue.

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Anna St. John

Anna St. John writes the Josie Posey Mystery Series, featuring a mature yet feisty former crime reporter as the amateur sleuth. Cashed Out Cold (2026) is book four of the series. Others include Doomed by Blooms (2023), Clocked Out (2024), and Dolled Up for Murder (2025). A member... Read More →

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Marcy Lane

Marcy Lane is a late-blooming novelist whose fiction explores resilience, found family and the power of second chances. She’s currently writing the Eh! Team Mysteries, a cozy-ish series set in fictional Erie Bluff, Ontario. An army brat turned Lake Erie local, Marcy shares her cottage... Read More →

Tom Ryan

David A. Poulsen

David A. Poulsen’s writing career began in earnest when The Welcomin’ won the 1984 Alberta Culture Short Story Competition. His inaugural foray into the world of adult crime fiction was Serpents Rising, the first of the Cullen and Cobb mysteries, a four-book series including Dead... Read More →

Thursday October 22, 2026 11:30am - 12:15pm MDT
Glen 201

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Anna St. John

Marcy Lane

Tom Ryan

David A. Poulsen

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Bouchercon2026: Calgary

Anna St. John

Marcy Lane

Tom Ryan

David A. Poulsen

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