Young Writers' Criminally Good 2025 Conference

Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025

Our fabulous in-person workshop will feature keynote speaker Catriona McPherson, along with:

• YOUNG WRITERS' TRACK: Bryan Patrick Avery, on how to get started on your mystery; Dale Berry, comic book artist and graphic novelist; and 916Ink instructor Dorothy Rice.

• Speakers in the adult sessions will include best-selling authors Simon Wood and Michelle Chouinard. 

• Developmental editor and award-winning, multi-genre author Eileen Rendahl.
• Literary agent and former marketing agency CEO Laurie McLean of Fuse Literary Agency.
• A U.S. Army veteran and firearms expert, a former sheriff deputy/missing persons investigator and an emergency medicine physician—all discussing how to write realistic scenes.
  
• More adult and youth speakers to come!

Face in a Book, an El Dorado Hills independent bookstore, will host an on-site bookstore at City Hall.

Register now for the early bird price of:

Capitol Crimes Members $65
Non-members $80

Young Writers (ages 12-20) $20