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Does your protagonist have multiple personalities when you only meant for them to have one? Is your novel full of cardboard cutouts being yanked around by a plot? Perhaps your villain is merely neurotic but you were trying for a sociopath. No matter your genre, your understanding of the human psyche is crucial to writing compelling fiction. Learn the art of writing authentic, complex characters that come alive for your reader with authors Jon Sealy and Cleve Lamison and psychoanalyst Ted Petrocci.

Recap by Kellie Larsen Murphy

June 26, 2014 6:30-8:30 p.m., with complimentary hors d’oeuvres The Broadberry, 2729 W. Broad St., Richmond Ample parking available in the Children’s Museum parking lot across the street, on street, and in the lot adjacent to the Broadberry $10 in advance, $12 at the door, $5 students

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Gigi Amateau
Gigi Amateau

Our moderator, Gigi Amateau’s first book for young adults, Claiming Georgia Tate, was published by Candlewick Press in 2005. The Wall Street Journal called the book “an ambitious push into the young adult market.” She is also the author of A Certain Strain of Peculiar, a Bank Street College Best Children’s Book of the Year, and Chancey of the Maury River, A William Allen White Masters list title for grades 3-5. In 2012, Gigi received a Theresa Pollak Prize for Excellence in the Arts from Richmond magazine. Come August, Come Freedom, her first work of historical fiction, is a 2013 Bank Street College Best Children’s Book of the Year, was selected as a 2013 Jefferson Cup honor book, and received the Library of Virginia’s 2013 People’s Choice Fiction Award.

Ted Petrocci
Ted Petrocci

Ted Petrocci is a licensed mental health professional, with over 30 years as a psychotherapist, trainer and educator. He provides counseling and treatment for life issues, with a specialty in anxiety and mood disorders. Ted works with patients using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). CBT evaluates strengths and weaknesses, and provides goal-oriented plans to positively alter thinking, emotions and behaviors. He’s worked with professionals–including writers and creatives–adults, children, couples and families. Since 2009, Ted has had a private practice in Richmond near Carytown.

Cleve Lamison
Cleve Lamison

Cleve Lamison’s writing honors inlcude the Mary Roberts Reinhart National Drama Award and the Pilgrim Project New Play Award. He’s had two plays performed Off-Broadway. His screenplay, Geek Mafia, was an official selection of the 2004 IFP Festival and a finalist in the 2004 Screenplay Festival Contest. His screenplay, Following Bliss (winner of Screenwriting Magazine’s New Vision’s Fellowship) has been made into an award-winning feature film. Full-Blood Half-Breed is his debut novel.

Jon Sealy
Jon Sealy

Jon Sealy’s stories have been published in numerous literary journals and magazines, including The South Carolina Review, The Normal School, PANK, and The Sun. His story “Issaqueena” won the 2012 fiction contest at Still. A native of upstate South Carolina, he has a bachelor’s degree in English from the College of Charleston and an MFA in fiction writing from Purdue University. He currently lives in Richmond, Virginia. The Whiskey Baron is his first novel.