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Learn how to craft compelling stories and bring captivating characters to life through hands-on lessons from acclaimed authors and industry experts. In this session with S.G. MacLean, author of two historical crime series, discover how to create a vivid and immersive settings in your writing. Participants will come out of this masterclass with a fresh approach to establishing time period, social dynamics, mood and other factors that help craft a world through words. This is a 90-minute masterclass. All writing levels are welcome.

This event is supported by Scottish Books International.

The Bookseller of Inverness

A GRIPPING HISTORICAL THRILLER SET IN INVERNESS IN THE WAKE OF THE 1746 BATTLE OF CULLODEN. 'This slice of historical fiction takes you on a wild ride' THE TIMES After Culloden, Iain MacGillivray was left for dead on Drummossie Moor. Wounded, his face brutally slashed, he survived only by pretending to be dead as the Redcoats patrolled the corpses of his Jacobite comrades.

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S.G. MacLean

S.G. (Shona) MacLean was born and brought up in the Scottish Highlands where her parents were hoteliers. She holds a PhD in History from the University of Aberdeen.

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