Mark Fisher | Start Well to End Well

This session will give you the tools to start your novel well, allowing you to carry it successfully to the end, focusing on: finding inspiration; creating a premise; finding a theme; planning with a story goal, high stakes, the right point of view, with a guide for plotting; developing compelling characters; hooking your readers; and persevering to the end.

Presenter Bio: Mark wrote his first twelve pages at the age of ten, complete with drawings of a prairie fire, Indians, and a stampede. More recently, after writing an epic fantasy trilogy, three novels of Christian historical fiction, and two books of historical fiction for the general market, he published Days of the Apocalypse, five books of a bestselling series of Christian end-times thrillers based on the books of Revelation, Matthew, Daniel, Joel, Ezekiel, and others. The first book of another Christian end-times series, Apocalypse Mission, will be released in October 2024. At various times, Mark has welded rails for the railroad, inspected glass in a glass factory, given aid checks to welfare clients, and programmed micro-code for IBM. He has a bachelor’s degree in anthropology, and Masters degrees in both computer science and ministry. He once helped plant a church. He often plays guitar in a church band. He’s the treasurer of New Gospel Frontiers, a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to funding missions opportunities in Central Asia and Africa. If not traveling, he’s at his desk writing, eating out, or walking his miniature Australian shepherd around the neighborhood. He and his wife enjoy traveling with recent visits to Japan, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Ireland, France, Italy, Portugal, and Switzerland.