Schedule
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This conference put on by Boston's premier creative writing center grub street just keeps getting better! Hallie will be teaching a Sunday morning workshop on how to write SUSPENSE, and by the way hanging around to listen to talented authors like Ann Hood, Liza Ketchum, Joseph Finder, and and and....
May 10, 2010, 7:30 PM - Bedfordshire Book Group
Hallie will be discussing NEVER TELL A LIE with the Bedfordshire Book Group
Hallie will be on a panel talking about crime fiction with Vincent O'Neill, Stephen Rogers, and Ruth McCarty
A great mystery conference in Parsippany, New Jersey - "Never Tell a Lie" is THE WINNER of the David Award for best novel of 2009!
Join Hallie for a presentation in the library's Meet the Author series
Hallie will be a featured speaker and presenter at this fantastic writing conference in Portland, Oregon.
August 14, 2010 - MWA University at THE WRITERS CENTER in Bethesda, MD
Hallie will be teaching a class on "Dramatic Structure and Plot" - Other terrific authors teaching at this outstanding one day series of workshops include Jess Lourey ("After the Idea", Daniel Stashower ("Setting & Desription"), Donna Andrews ("Character and Dialogue"), Reed Farrell Coleman ("Writing as Re-Writing"), and Hank Phillippi Ryan ("The Writing Life")
September 10-12, 2010 - 3rd Annual Seascape Escape to Write retreat by the sea
Spend a weekend on the seashore in Madison, CT. Reinvigorate your creativity and revise your manuscript. Join Hallie and authors Roberta Isleib and S. W. Hubbard at the beautiful Seascape Retreat Center, right on the ocean." Last year this filled up early.
More information.
September 20 (Monday), 7-10 PM - Suspense workshop at Grub Street
In this 3-hour workshop we’ll talk about what makes suspense work. We’ll dissect the arc of suspense within a scene and within a novel. We’ll go through the variety of tools a writer can use to create suspense and to modulate it. Finally, we’ll discuss how to manage suspense in a book-length work.
Optional: Bring a scene from a work in progress in which you are trying to create a feeling of suspense - Registration required
October 2 (Saturday), 2010, HIGH NOON! Book signing at NEIBA at Providence

Hallie will be at the New England Booksellers trade show at the Rhode Island Convention Center in Providence, RI, signing books. Hope to give away lots!
Hallie will be at this wonderful event speaking on a panel with other mystery writers.
October 20 (Wednesday), 7:30 PM, Plymouth Public Library Annual Public Meeting
Hallie will be talking about books (including "The Bibliophile's Devotional") at this exciting event to kick off Plymouth's second
One Book One Community program. Join us!
Hallie will be teaching classes and giving "blue pencil sessions" and generally hanging about at what's probably the largest and grooviest writing conference in North America. This time she WILL get into Vancouver.
October 27 (Wednesday), 7 PM - Scranton Library Book Club, Madison CT
Join Hallie, Roberta Isleib, Sandi Shelton, Katharine Weber, Kristan Higgins, and Ann Hood for a lively discussion about our books and readers.
November 9 (Tuesday), 7:30 PM - Milton Women's Club
Lots of fun at the Milton Women's Club on Reedsdale Rd. Halie will be there along with Hank Phillippi Ryan to talk to the Milton PM Club.
This year's 'Bake' headlines Charlaine Harris (True Blood) and Dennis Lehane (Shutter Island) and a great roster of New England Crime Fiction authors.
2011
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April, 2011
COME AND FIND ME
by Hallie Ephron
Published by Willam Morrow |
Join Hallie in Hamilton, Ohio, for one of the most informative and personable writing conferences anywhere.

Hallie will be talking about her new novel, COME AND FIND ME, at this fantastic literary festival in one of the loveliest New England historic seaside towns with its very own Jabberwocky Bookshop.
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