Name: Playing Make-Believe - World Building
Start: 2025-07-13T10:00:00-0400
End: 2025-07-13T11:00:00-0400

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Sunday July 13, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am EDT

One of the most magical aspects of reading is being immersed in a completely unique world. Authors talk all about worldbuilding: what they think about and how they create the realities in their stories, some common pitfalls when writing, and what other authors' worlds have inspired them the most.

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Darin Kennedy

Literary Guest

Darin Kennedy, born and raised in Winston-Salem, NC, is a graduate of Wake Forest University and Bowman Gray School of Medicine. After completing family medicine residency in the mountains of Virginia, he served eight years as a United States Army physician and wrote his first novel... Read More →

Stuart Jaffe

Literary Guest

Stuart Jaffe is the madman behind The Max Porter Paranormal Mysteries, the Nathan K thrillers, The Ridnight Mysteries, the Parallel Society novels, The Malja Chronicles, The Pathway Ring series, Founders, Real Magic, and much more. He trained in martial arts for over a decade until... Read More →

Timothy Zahn

Guest of Honor

Timothy Zahn was born in Chicago in 1951 and grew up in the western suburb of Lombard. He attended Michigan State University, earning a B.S. degree in physics in 1973, and moved on to the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. He earned a M.S. degree there, also in physics, in... Read More →

Sunday July 13, 2025 10:00am - 11:00am EDT
Hearn A (Marriott)

Literary/Writing

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Darin Kennedy

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