Robert McCammon

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A native of Birmingham, Alabama, New York Times bestselling author Robert McCammon has written seventeen books, among them the novels SWAN SONG, BOY’S LIFE and SPEAKS THE NIGHTBIRD.

McCammon has received many awards during his career, including the French Grand Prize Of The Imagination Award for Best Foreign Novel for THE WOLF’S HOUR, and in 2008 won the Grand Master Award from the World Horror Convention. His novel THE QUEEN OF BEDLAM was nominated for the 2008 Thriller Award from the International Thriller Writers, and he is pleased to be published in dozens of languages around the world.

McCammon is currently writing a series of ten books involving a young detective in colonial New York in the early 1700s. The third in that series, titled MISTER SLAUGHTER, was released earlier this year.

Workshops & Panels:

Page One

Speaker: Robert McCammon
Time: Friday 1:30pm

How to (really) get started. What do you need? How far along do you need to be on an outline or plot? Time to stop wasting time and get started on your writing project...but exactly how? And how important is Page One, anyway? That's what we'll be covering. (Come prepared to write in class).

An Eye and an Ear For Dialogue

Speaker: Robert McCammon
Time: Sunday 9:30am

Dialogue can make or break any writing project. How do you know it's any good? Learn to see good dialogue on the page as well as hear it in your head. Come prepared to write in class.

A Sense of History

Moderator: Jeffery McGraw
Panel: Anne Perry, Jack Whyte, Robert McCammon, Diana Gabaldon
Time: Friday 3:30pm

Writing historical fiction poses unique challenges and offers unique rewards. Our panel gives some insight into the process of crafting stories set in the past that appeal to modern readers.
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