Name: Build a Better Monster
Brand: Author Tim Waggoner
SKU: 4282
Availability: InStock

Build a Better Monster

May 17, 2025, 10AM-4PM Eastern Time

In this workshop, Award-winning Author Tim Waggoner will teach you techniques for creating original and terrifying monsters in your fiction, and will provide you with feedback on your own writing!

Participants can submit up 10 pages (standard manuscript format) in advance for Tim to review – all submissions must be received before May 3rd, 2025.

This session will be delivered online, using Google Meet, and will be recorded.

Schedule:

10:00AM-12:00PM: Part 1
12:00PM-12:30PM: Break
12:30PM-02:00PM: Part 2
02:00PM-04:00PM: Feedback Session

Tim Waggoner

Award-Winning Author

Tim Waggoner’s first novel came out in 2001, and since then he’s published over sixty novels and eight collections of short stories.

He writes original dark fantasy and horror, as well as media tie-ins. He’s written tie-in fiction based on Supernatural, The X-Files, Alien, Doctor Who, Conan the Barbarian, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Grimm, and Transformers, among others, and he’s written novelizations for films such as Ti West’s X-Trilogy, Halloween Kills, Terrifier 2 and 3, and Resident Evil: The Final Chapter.

He’s a four-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award, a one-time winner of the Scribe award, and he’s been a two-time finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award and a one-time finalist for the Splatterpunk Award. He’s also a full-time tenured professor who teaches creative writing and composition at Sinclair College in Dayton, Ohio.

His articles on writing have appeared in Writer’s Digest, The Writer, The Writer’s Chronicle.

He’s the author of the acclaimed horror-writing guide Writing in the Dark, which won the Bram Stoker Award in 2021. He won another Bram Stoker Award in 2021 in the category of short nonfiction for his article “Speaking of Horror,” and in 2017 he received the Bram Stoker Award in Long Fiction for his novella The Winter Box. In addition, he’s been a multiple finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award and the Scribe Award, and a one-time finalist for the Splatterpunk Award.

His fiction has received numerous Honorable Mentions in volumes of Best Horror of the Year, and he’s had several stories selected for inclusion in volumes of Year’s Best Hardcore Horror. His work has been translated into Russian, Portuguese, Japanese, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Hungarian, and Turkish. In addition to writing, he’s also a full-time tenured professor who teaches creative writing and composition at Sinclair College in Dayton, Ohio.