"Writing
a Killer Mystery"
a writing workshop with Hallie Ephron
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 at 7 p.m.
You
know you’re reading a great mystery novel when you’re up at
three in the morning, unable to put it down. When you finally get to sleep,
the characters go romping around in your dreams. You get to the final
page and smack yourself in the head because the solution is a complete
surprise, and yet so obvious in retrospect. So how do you write a great
mystery? This workshop demystifies the art and artifice, and gets down
to the nuts and bolts of writing a killer mystery novel.
Hallie Ephron is a writer, book reviewer, and writing teacher. Her gripping
psychological suspense novel "Never Tell a Lie" (William Morrow)
earned a starred PW review. Just out in a paperback edition, critics call
it "stunning" and a "deliciously creepy tale of obsession."
The novel has been optioned for film and translated into 7 languages.
She is hard at work on another stand-alone psychological suspense novel
for early 2011.
Hallie
combined writing talent with a love of teaching in her Edgar-nominated
"Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel: How to Knock 'Em Dead with
Style." Hallie teaches writing workshops at conferences across the
country. Hallie is also the crime fiction book reviewer for the Boston
Globe, and author of several books for readers including "The Bibliophile's
Devotional: 365 Days of Literary Classics." Hallie is a member of
the New England chapter of "Sisters
in Crime."
You
know you’re reading a great mystery novel when you’re up at
three in the morning, unable to put it down. When you finally get to sleep,
the characters go romping around in your dreams. You get to the final
page and smack yourself in the head because the solution is a complete
surprise, and yet so obvious in retrospect. So how do you write a great
mystery? This workshop demystifies the art and artifice, and gets down
to the nuts and bolts of writing a killer mystery novel.
Hallie
combined writing talent with a love of teaching in her Edgar-nominated
"Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel: How to Knock 'Em Dead with
Style." Hallie teaches writing workshops at conferences across the
country. Hallie is also the crime fiction book reviewer for the Boston
Globe, and author of several books for readers including "The Bibliophile's
Devotional: 365 Days of Literary Classics." Hallie is a member of
the New England chapter of "
This
is a One Book Chelmsford program