2007 Speakers List > Detail about Presenter

2007 Presenters (Authors, Agents, Editors & Producers)

Hallie Ephron, Author

Hallie Ephron is the author of Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel: How to Knock "Em Dead with Style (Writers Digest Books, 2005), the book about mystery writing that cracks the code. The book was nominated for a 2006 Edgar award for Best Critical/Biographical and for a 2006 Anthony Award for Best Critical/Nonfiction.

Hallie is the crime fiction book reviewer for the Boston Globe and winner of the Ellen Nehr Award for Excellence in Mystery Reviewing. She is also co-author of five Dr. Peter Zak mystery/psychological thrillers by G. H. Ephron, including GUILT.

Workshop(s)

Writing a Killer Mystery (master class) 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.
A Mystery in Six (+) Parts (workshop) A panel of best-selling mystery novelists talk about their favourite sub-genres – to write and to read. A look at detective stories, police procedurals, legal thriller, cozy, historical, and more!
Basics: Point of view: What's the Big Deal? (workshop) The questions start with your first words on the page. Whose story is this? First person or third? Can I use omniscient? What about multiple points of view? How does POV relate to narrative voice? This basic level workshop explores answers to all these questions and more.