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Jeff Schmoyer
Pikes Peak Writers Conference
Mobile App Coordinator
Colorado Springs, CO
https://jmarsink.com
About me
Jeff Schmoyer sequences words to create short stories, novellas, plays, and computer programs. A recovering tech entrepreneur, he tries to find humor in the everyday world around him. Find his new
Snack-Sized Mystery
series and more at
JmarsInk.com
.
Friday
, April 17
8:30am
MDT
Book Cover Design...You're Not the Audience
Douglas
Casey Cowan
Emotional Resonance: Or How I Made My Dad Not Talk to Me for a Week
Pikes Peak/Royal Gorge
Kevin Ikenberry
Make It Make Sense: Logic, Logical Fallacies and Character Motivations
Academy
Taryn Skipper
9:45am
MDT
Lending a Voice to Your Voice: Mastering the Author-Narrator Relationship
Palmer
Chris Mandeville • Aaron Fors
11:00am
MDT
The Joy of Revision: Essential Self-Editing Strategies for Prose that Pops
Academy
Anita Mumm
2:00pm
MDT
Becoming Your Characters: Narrating Your Own Audiobook
Academy
Aaron Fors
3:15pm
MDT
Short Stories: Good for the Novelist, Good for the Career, Good for the Soul
Douglas
Sam Knight
Words, Words, Words
Palmer
Carol Berg
4:45pm
MDT
Middles and Try-Fail Cycles
Douglas
Mary Robinette Kowal
Saturday
, April 18
8:30am
MDT
Decision Making for Authors
Palmer
Kevin Ikenberry
Don't Break the Spell:Protecting Reader Trust
El Paso
Callie Stoker
♪ ♫ Do You Want to Kill a Snowman? ♪ ♫
Douglas
Sam Knight
11:00am
MDT
Lost in Translation: Writing distinct cultures, languages, accents, and soundscapes in your worldbuilding (Or: I Guess the Elves are British)
Douglas
Aaron Fors
2:00pm
MDT
Back Cover Copy That Sells
El Paso
Jessica Snyder
3:15pm
MDT
Book Fair Business
Pikes Peak/Royal Gorge
Laurie Marr Wasmund
From Cardboard Cutouts to Compelling Characters: Using Authentic Action to Bring Life to Your Story
Douglas
Dawn Alexander
Protagonists: The Center of Your Story
Academy
Kevin Ikenberry
Sunday
, April 19
9:00am
MDT
The Ins and Outs of Writing Series
El Paso
Carol Berg
11:30am
MDT
Tough Talk: Writing Effective Dialogue
Academy
Laurie Marr Wasmund
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