How to Craft a Compelling Voice and Backstory in PB, MG & YA

Hook readers by giving your characters distinct voices! In this hands-on workshop, Foyinsi will show you the differences between narrative voice and character voice without relying on clichés or dialogue tags. Plus, you’ll learn how a character's history informs their actions, so that their backstory drives your plot rather than cause your story’s pacing to stall. By the end of this 90-minute webinar, you’ll have the tools you need to create unforgettable characters. 

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Editor Foyinsi Adegbonmire

Foyinsi Adegbonmire is an Editor at Feiwel & Friends/Macmillan Children's Publishing Group. She acquires Middle Grade and Young Adult fiction, and is open to coming-of-age, mystery, romance, and fantasy, while enjoying lighthearted stories with conversational narrative voices. She was named a PW Star Watch Honoree and her acquisitions include Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Dear Wendy by Ann Zhao, and The Beanstalk Murder by P.G. Bell. When not reading or thinking about her very large TBR, she can be found watching people react to her favorite media, or on TikTok (@Foyinsi_Pub).