Breadcrumbing to Build Suspense

Name: Breadcrumbing to Build Suspense
Start: 2025-10-04T11:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-10-04T12:30:00-05:00
Location: Hurst Convention Center

Schedule

Sat Oct 04 2025 at 11:30 am to 12:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Hurst Convention Center | Hurst, TX

DFWCon Writers Conference - https://dfwcon.org/
Hurst Conference Center
Hurst, TX / Oct 4 @ 11:30am
For those who register for the DFWCon Writers Conference, author & editor Jalyn Renae Fiske is teaching two classes over the course of the weekend. Exact times are:

Saturday, Oct 4 @ 11:30am - Breadcrumbing to Build Suspense
Sunday, Oct 5 @ 1:40pm - Get Published: A Practical Guide

BREADCRUMBING TO BUILD SUSPENSE
Long exposition can K*ll the pace and tension in a story or novel. Ditch info dumping and embrace breadcrumbing to build suspense. Join author and editor Jalyn Renae Fiske and learn how to steadily feed your readers the clues they need to follow the plot and turn the page but not so much that it gives it all away.

BIO:
Jalyn Renae Fiske is an author of speculative fiction and fiction editor at James Gunn's Ad Astra magazine. She writes blends of science fiction, fantasy, and horror that are at times unsettling, strange, or whimsical. Her short stories, poems, and essays have appeared in The Science Fiction Tarot anthology, Allegory, Wyldblood, Mythaxis, and Fabled Planet, among others. Her debut short story collection, Side Quest: Stories, was the 2024 Reader Views Literary Award winner for the Southern Region and the gold medal winner in Short Story Collections. Find out more at www.jrenaewriter.com.