By Amber Cowie, award-winning author of The Off Season
Every story needs a setting. Amber Cowie—Squamish-based novelist and non-fiction writer recognized for West Coast atmospheric thrillers—will present tools that help successfully integrate place and plot to drive suspense and tension in crime writing. The one-hour on-line class will include writing prompts to assist in creating a strong and compelling sense of place. Bring a work in progress or a fresh notebook.
About the Presenter
Amber Cowie is a novelist living in a small town on the west coast of British Columbia. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Salon, The Globe and Mail, Crime Reads, and Scary Mommy and has been endorsed by numerous bestsellers including Samantha M. Bailey, Shannon Kirk, Kerry Lonsdale, Catherine McKenzie, Robyn Harding, and Blake Crouch. Her first novel, Rapid Falls, was a Whistler Book Awards nominee, hit number one overall on Amazon, and was a top-100 bestselling Kindle book of 2018. She was awarded Squamish’s Best Writer twice in the Squamish Chief’s Reader’s Choice Awards.
Visit Amber at: https://www.ambercowie.com/