About The Talk: Mystery writers Gary Braver, Dale Phillips and Ellen Larson will discuss the process of writing a mystery novel. Lovers of mysteries and aspiring writers (including NaNoWriMo participants) are guaranteed to enjoy the event! Bring your questions as there will be time for a Q&A. Light refreshments will be served.
About The Speakers:
Gary Braver is the award-winning and bestselling author of eight critically acclaimed thrillers. His novels have been celebrated for their high-concepts, careful craftsmanship, well-rounded characters, and page-turning momentum. His novel Flashback is the only thriller to have won a Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction. His latest novel, Tunnel Vision (2012), centers on near-death experiences and the scientific search for evidence of the afterlife. Of that book, legendary author Ray Bradbury writes, "Gary Braver provides a wonderfully frightening and insightful tale that shatters my bones." Braver’s novels have been translated into seven languages, and three have been optioned for movies, including Elixir by director Ridley Scott. Under his own name, Gary Goshgarian, he is an award-winning professor of English at Northeastern University where he teaches courses in Modern Bestsellers, Science Fiction, Horror Fiction, and Fiction Writing. He has also taught fiction-writing workshops throughout the United States as well as in England and Europe for over twenty-five years. In addition to his novels, he is the author of five popular college writing textbooks. He lives with his family outside of Boston.
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Ellen Larson's first story appeared in Yankee Magazine in 1971. She has sold stories to Alfred Hitchock's Mystery Magazine (Barry Award finalist) and Big Pulp and is the author of NJ Mysteries, The Hatch and Brood of Time, featuring a sleuthing reporter. Her current book is In Retrospect, a dystopian mystery and a carefully crafted whodunnit which received a star review from Publishers Weekly. Larson lived for seventeen years in Egupt, where she developed a love of different cultures. She is editor of the Poisoned Pencil, a young adult mystery imprint. These days she lives in an off-grid cabin in upstate New York, enjoying the solitude.
Dale Phillips had Stephen King as a writing teacher in college, and has published three mystery novels, six story collections, over 25 short stories, poetry, and a non-fiction career book, How To Improve Your Interviewing Skills. He's also been on radio, stage, television and in an independent feature film, Throg. He competed on two nationally televised quiz shows - Jeopardy and Think Twice - losing spectacularly both times. He co-wrote and acted in The Nine, a short political satire film available at www.libertynewstv.com. He's traveled to all 50 states, Mexico, Canada and through Europe.
