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Atmospheric Antagonist: How Setting has Moved from Background to Character
Friday October 23, 2026 3:00pm - 3:45pm MDT
Glen 206
Is developing a place-character different from developing a person-character? What can a place do that a person can’t?
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Bruce Robert Coffin

Bruce Robert Coffin is an international bestselling author and retired detective sergeant. He is the author of the Detective Byron and Detective Justice mysteries, and the co-author (with LynDee Walker) of the Turner and Mosley Files. He has won Killer Nashville’s Silver Falchion... Read More →
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avatar for Karen Dionne

Karen Dionne

Karen Dionne is #1 internationally bestselling author of the award-winning psychological suspense novels The Marsh King’s Daughter andThe Wicked Sister. Named one of the best books of 2017 by iBooks and many other booksellers and reviewers, The Marsh King’s Daughter was released... Read More →
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Con Lehane

Con Lehane spent most of his adult life in the labor movement—union organizer, contract negotiator, local union president, labor educator, labor journalist—all of which informs his writing. He now writes about made-up crimes that take place in a New York City that exists only... Read More →
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Nicole Brooks

Nicole Brooks has a bachelor of environmental science and a lifelong love of reading, which has enabled her to blend two of her passions—nature and writing—into stories that put people into the thick of environmental disasters. She lives just outside Calgary with her family. No... Read More →
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Mandy Miller

Mandy is an attorney, university professor, and writer. She is the author of the novels States of Grace, Friday Night in The Glades, and Grace Period. Her novel, a work of historical suspense set in Miami and Cuba entitled They Say They Want a Revolution will be published in 2026... Read More →
Friday October 23, 2026 3:00pm - 3:45pm MDT
Glen 206

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