CLASS 60: Unreliable Narrators and Twisted Truths: Creating Characters Readers Love to Hate

What if I told you the most compelling characters are the ones you shouldn’t trust? In this course, you’ll learn the anatomy of an unreliable narrator - there’s a spectrum of these characters - and how to find the perfect setting for them to thrive. We’ll also cover dark humor as a weapon, and how to make awful people compelling. And, as a pantser, we’ll touch on the fun of setting your characters free as you write. 

USA Today bestselling and award-winning author Kaira Rouda has written more than twenty novels beloved by readers and acclaimed by critics, who’ve called her books “chilling, satisfying suspense” (Good Housekeeping) and “delightfully wicked fun” (Kirkus Reviews) that are “destined to fly off the shelves” (Library Journal). She’s distinguished herself in the popular genre of psychological suspense by constructing seemingly perfect lives and then tearing down facades to reveal the inner, often grim truths of her characters. At the same time, Kaira’s razor-sharp wit and wicked sense of humor shine

through to counterbalance the darkness. Simply put, Kaira Rouda has great fun skewering the badly behaved in her fiction.