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Subtext and How To Elevate Your Writing With It
Sunday August 18, 2024 9:00am - 9:50am MDT
Kananaskis 1
What the heck is subtext, and why should anyone care? Subtext can make any plotting device believable; it can make an ending seem surprising and satisfying all at once; it can add layers to your writing that few other techniques will achieve. Subtext answers the question of why word choice is so important, and why editors everywhere will hound the author for 'better word choice here' in their manuscripts. This panel will give the audience professional editors' ideas about subtext and how to use it in your manuscripts.
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Alex McGilvery

Alex has been a freelance content editor for years, helping client s produce best selling books and others to sign contract with publishers. I'm the author of 35 or so published books in every genre but romance. I'm a freelance content editor with more than a hundred book edited over... Read More →
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Cat Girczyc

Cat Girczyc currently works as a technical communications manager while pursuing creative writing at night. She writes female-led stories, poems, and scripts, usually in science fiction or fantasy. Born in Alberta, she's lived in Stettler, Edmonton, Ottawa, and Vancouver. She moved... Read More →
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Adria Laycraft

Freelance editor, published author, and wood artisan, Adria Laycraft earned honours in Journalism Arts in '92 and has worked with words and visual art ever since. She co-edited the Urban Green Man anthology in 2013, which was nominated for an Aurora Award, and has two novels, Jumpship... Read More →
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Rhonda Parrish

Rhonda is the editor of many anthologies including, most recently, Earth: Giants, Golems and Gargoyles, Grimm, Grit and Gasoline: An anthology of Dieselpunk and Decopunk Fairy Tales and F is for Fairy. In addition, Rhonda is a writer whose work has been in publications such as Tesseracts... Read More →
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Robert Runte, PhD

Senior Editor, EssentialEdits.ca
Robert Runté is Senior Editor at EssentialEdits.ca and SFeditor.ca. He has been the developmental editor on over 50 books, 35 of which were traditionally published, primarily SF&F. He has published 100+ short fiction pieces in 50+ venues, including Tesseracts, Pulp Literature, On... Read More →
Sunday August 18, 2024 9:00am - 9:50am MDT
Kananaskis 1
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