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Compelling Characters…The Heartbeat of a Good Story

Name: Compelling Characters…The Heartbeat of a Good Story
Start: 2025-06-12T17:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-06-12T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Davidson Chalmers Stewart Storytelling Tent

Four award-winning local authors explore how they build characters readers care about—from page-turning thrillers to children’s tales.

Friday, 13 June 2025

6:45pm ‐ 7:45pm

Davidson Chalmers Stewart Storytelling Tent
Harmony Garden and Orchard, St Mary's Road, Melrose, TD6 9LJ

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Characters make a story. But where do they come from? How real are they? Four local Society of Authors writers of adult, young adult and children’s fiction, Iona Carroll, Margaret Skea, Peter Bromley and Oliver Eade, who share a number of national and international awards for their writing, will talk about how they find their characters and make them real.