Adrian Magson, Daniel Palmer, J.T. Ellison, Laura Benedict, Meg Gardiner, and Simon Toyne dive into the pressures and pleasures of writing page-turning thrillers. They discuss building high-stakes plots, sustaining tension, and maintaining momentum under deadline pressure. Writers will gain insight into how urgency fuels a story and how mishandling it can bring everything to a halt.
From Page to Screen: When Characters Take on a New Life
What happens when a novel becomes a film or television story? In this session, authors and screenwriters discuss the adaptation process, exploring how characters and narratives evolve for the screen and the challenges of translating a book into a visual medium.
