Jun: The Trail of Breadcrumbs: Foreshadowing Your Story
17 Topics • 13 Lessons
This four-week workshop will teach you how to carefully drop hints into your stories to make your readers say, “Of course! Why didn’t I notice that coming?”
Instructor: Cynthia Owens
Start Date: Monday, June 1, 2026
End Date: Friday, June 26, 2026
Do you want to keep your reader guessing, wondering what will happen next, and keep them turning the pages? You can do it, with a little help from the trail of breadcrumbs known as foreshadowing.
About the Workshop:
The Trail of Breadcrumbs: Foreshadowing Your Story, is a four-week workshop that helps authors carefully drop hints into their stories that will make your readers say, “Of course! Why didn’t I notice that coming?”
The workshop will cover:
· Lesson One – What is Foreshadowing?
· Lesson Two – Foreshadowing Tools
· Lesson Three –Direct Foreshadowing
· Lesson Four – Indirect Foreshadowing
· Lesson Five – Event Foreshadowing
· Lesson Six – Purposeful Foreshadowing
· Lesson Seven – Prologues
· Lesson Eight – Chekhov’s Gun.
From the Instructor
I believe I was destined to be interested in history. One of my distant ancestors, Thomas Aubert, reportedly sailed up the St. Lawrence River to discover Canada some 26 years before Jacques Cartier’s 1534 voyage. Another relative was a 17th-century “King’s Girl,” one of a group of young unmarried girls sent to New France (now the province of Quebec) as brides for the habitants (settlers) there.
My passion for reading made me long to write books like the ones I enjoyed, and I tried penning sequels to my favorite Nancy Drew mysteries. Later, fancying myself a female version of Andrew Lloyd Weber, I drafted a musical set in Paris during WWII. A former journalist and lifelong Celtophile, I enjoyed a previous career as a reporter/editor for a small chain of community newspapers before returning to my first love, romantic fiction. My stories usually include an Irish setting, hero or heroine, and sometimes all three.
I’m the author of The Claddagh Series, The Wild Geese Series, the Irish Hearts Series, and the Children of the Swan Series.
A lifelong resident of Montreal, Canada, I still live there with my own Celtic hero. I have two adult children.
The Trail of Breadcrumbs: Foreshadowing Your Story
Writing Craft Workshop - June 2026
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$20.00 – $30.00
Instructor: Cynthia Owens
Start Date: Monday, June 1, 2026
End Date: Friday, June 26, 2026
Type: 4weeks online
USD Fee: $20 HHRW Members/$30 Non-Members
Do you want to keep your reader guessing, wondering what will happen next, and keep them turning the pages? You can do it, with a little help from the trail of breadcrumbs known as foreshadowing.
About the Workshop
The Trail of Breadcrumbs: Foreshadowing Your Story, is a four-week workshop that helps authors carefully drop hints into their stories that will make your readers say, “Of course! Why didn’t I notice that coming?”
The workshop will cover:
- Lesson One – What is Foreshadowing?
- Lesson Two – Foreshadowing Tools
- Lesson Three –Direct Foreshadowing
- Lesson Four – Indirect Foreshadowing
- Lesson Five – Event Foreshadowing
- Lesson Six – Purposeful Foreshadowing
- Lesson Seven – Prologues
- Lesson Eight – Chekhov’s Gun.
From the Instructor
I believe I was destined to be interested in history. One of my distant ancestors, Thomas Aubert, reportedly sailed up the St. Lawrence River to discover Canada some 26 years before Jacques Cartier’s 1534 voyage. Another relative was a 17th-century “King’s Girl,” one of a group of young unmarried girls sent to New France (now the province of Quebec) as brides for the habitants (settlers) there.
My passion for reading made me long to write books like the ones I enjoyed, and I tried penning sequels to my favorite Nancy Drew mysteries. Later, fancying myself a female version of Andrew Lloyd Weber, I drafted a musical set in Paris during WWII. A former journalist and lifelong Celtophile, I enjoyed a previous career as a reporter/editor for a small chain of community newspapers before returning to my first love, romantic fiction. My stories usually include an Irish setting, hero or heroine, and sometimes all three.
I’m the author of The Claddagh Series, The Wild Geese Series, the Irish Hearts Series, and the Children of the Swan Series.
A lifelong resident of Montreal, Canada, I still live there with my own Celtic hero. I have two adult children.