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Lifetime Achievement Award Spotlight: Creating and Developing Compelling Characters and Worlds with Jonathan Maberry
Friday June 5, 2026 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
Westmoreland
Join LAA recipient Jonathan Maberry, Justina Ireland, Alma Katsu, and moderator Dennis Crosby for a discussion of what makes characters fascinating and memorable, especially over time in a series. Explore ideas and techniques for building worlds that readers want to visit again and again, and characters they love to spend time with. How can authors grow characters and keep them interesting over multiple books and years?
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Jonathan Maberry

Author, Jonathan Maberry Productions
JONATHAN MABERRY is a NYTimes bestselling author, 5-time Bram Stoker Award-winner, 4-time Scribe Award winner, Inkpot Award winner, poet, and comic book writer. He writes in multiple genres including suspense, thriller, horror, science fiction, fantasy, and action, for adults, teens... Read More →
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Justina Ireland

Author and Literary Agent, Handspun Literary Agency
Justina Ireland is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous short stories and books including Vengeance Bound, Promise of Shadows, Dread Nation and its sequel Deathless Divide, Rust in the Root, and the middle-grade novel Ophie's Ghosts, which won the Scott O'Dell award... Read More →
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Alma Katsu

Alma Katsu is the author of historical horror novels such asThe Hunger and The Fervor, as well as the Red Widow spy series. Her books have received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal, been featured in the NY Times and Washington Post, been nominated for multiple prestigious awards (and won a few), and appeared on numerous Best Books lists including NPR, the Observer, Barnes and Noble, Apple Books, Goodreads, and Amazon... Read More →
Friday June 5, 2026 12:00pm - 12:50pm EDT
Westmoreland
  Guest of Honor/Lifetime Achievement Winner Spotlight

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