When Words Collide 2026

Juanita Rose Violini has been creating interactive murder mystery entertainment for 35+ years with over 50 scripts to her credit. Her live interactive entertainment plays - performed everywhere from luxury hotels in Canada to schools in Australia, wineries in Texas, and pubs in Great Britain - sell worldwide through MysteryFactory.com. She is the creator of the Mystery Bones Method, a step-by-step plotting system that helps writers untangle complex stories or create new ones, using clear diagrams and a one-step-at-a-time approach. Juanita shares her plotting knowledge in CLUETRAIL, The Mystery Bones Method DIAGRAMS and other books, through online classes, and at writers’ festivals. She works as a plot consultant to writers, event planners, screenwriters, game designers, and YouTubers across North America, Europe, Australia, and Arabia. Ms Violini wrote Almanac of the Infamous published by Weiser Red Wheel and also co-writes adventure sci-fi with her husband, Tony Berryman, under the pseudonym Trigger Jones. Juanita is a member of Crime Writers of Canada and Sisters in Crime (Canada West and International). She served as a judge for the 2025 Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence and sits on the Bouchercon Calgary 2026 Anthology Committee.