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Bree Despain

Bree Despain is the author of the Dark Divine trilogy and the upcoming Into The Dark trilogy. She has always loved writing because she has always loved telling stories. As a kid, she'd staple folded papers to make her own "novels." As a teen, she wrote stories in notebooks while her friends waited for the next page to be finished. Her teachers told her she should be a writer. But Bree thought only special people could be writers, so as the years past, she settled into the idea of becoming a lawyer instead.

Bree rediscovered her childhood love for creating stories when she took a semester off college to write and direct plays for at-risk, inner city teens from Philadelphia and New York. With a renewed passion for story, and the young adult audience, she returned to Brigham Young University, filled her schedule with creative writing and literature classes, and started writing stories again. But regular life kicked in, and she soon found herself married with a new baby, working full-time, and with very little writing done.

That’s when the universe threw a pick-up truck in her path. The car accident left Bree with an understanding that life was too short to not do what you absolutely love. A few days later, her husband brought home a used laptop computer, placed it by her bedside, and said, “You’d better start writing.” Her life has never been the same since.

In a moment of karmic perfection, Bree received the offer to purchase her debut novel, The Dark Divine, on the 6th anniversary of the car accident that put her back on the path to becoming an author.

11:00 am

The First Word: Getting Started as a Writer :: Room 6
Bree Despain, M Todd Gallowglas, Jonathan Maberry, Andrew Mayne, Brian McClellan
Saturday March 19, 2016 :: 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
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1:00 pm

Awesome Female Characters: Fierce Femmes in Live Action, and the Literary World :: Room 6
Bree Despain, LJ Hachmeister, Christy Marx, Steven Sears, Winner Twins
Saturday March 19, 2016 :: 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
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2:00 pm

Writing for the Young Adult Audience :: Room 6
Bree Despain, Barbara Randall Kesel, Trina Robbins, Winner Twins, Robison Wells
Sunday March 20, 2016 :: 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
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