Dan Barden engages with different crime authors to explore the similarities among the characters in their novels, with each author providing detailed descriptions of their protagonists.
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This panel discusses using the five senses to describe their characters, creating character "cheat sheets" or files, and basing characters on real people.
Moderator John Billheimer asks a panel of female crime authors questions about their stories, writing process, and research. Each panelist has a background in law or crime, which influences the topics they write about.
Authors who frequently write crime novels surrounding social justice speak on representing different ends of the political spectrum, the subversion of the theme, and how the audience and authors respond to it.