Mysteries often have a strong connection with food – from foodie sleuths, to cozy mysteries that share recipes with readers. In this session, Amber Royer will discuss how to include mouth-watering temptations that wills engage your readers and add an extra tasteful layer of delight. We will consider how adding descriptions of food will give a sensory appeal to your work and ground it in a specific place and time. We will also explore how to use the sense of taste to access characters' memories and spark epiphanies, using a worksheet to brainstorm different aspects of said characters’ involuntary autobiographical memory.

Amber Royer writes the Chocoverse comic telenovela-style foodie-inspired space opera series, and the Bean to Bar Mysteries. She also teaches creative writing and is an author coach. Amber and her husband live in the DFW Area, where you can often find them hiking or taking landscape/ architecture/ wildlife photographs. If you are very nice to Amber, she might make you cupcakes. Chocolate cupcakes, of course! Amber blogs about creative writing technique and all things chocolate at www.amberroyer.com.