Writer Mentoring and Novel Development With Only the Best
April 22 - 27, 2024
Hank Phillipi Ryan
USA Today bestselling author of 14 psychological thrillers, winning the most prestigious awards in the genre: five Agathas, five Anthonys, and the coveted Mary Higgins Clark Award. She is also on-air investigative reporter for Boston's WHDH-TV, with 37 EMMYs and dozens more journalism honors. National book critics call her "a superb and gifted storyteller"; she's the only author to win the Agatha in four categories: Best First, Best Novel, Best Short Story and Best Non-Fiction. Her newest is the page-turning standalone thriller THE HOUSE GUEST -- a story of psychological manipulation that explores the dark heart of marriage and friendship -- it's Gaslight meets Thelma & Louise.
Watch for her newest thriller ONE WRONG WORD, coming February 2024.
Hank is a founder of MWA University, host of CRIME TIME on A Mighty Blaze, and co-host of First Chapter Fun and The Back Room. Visit Hank online at HankPhillippiRyan.com.
Hallie Ephron
New York Times bestselling author Hallie Ephron, Edgar Award finalist and five-time finalist for the Mary Higgins Clark Award, writes books readers can't put down. Her latest suspense novel, CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR, with its echoes of Marie Kondo life-changing decluttering tips, explores the relationships built by professional organizers and their clients, thus showing just how easily the lines between professional and personal can be blurred. In it, Emily Harlow is a professional organizer who helps people declutter their lives; she's married to man who can't drive past a yard sale without stopping.
Hallie is also the author of nine other novels including NEVER TELL A LIE, THERE WAS AN OLD WOMAN, and COME AND FIND ME, as well as an Edgar Award finalist and four-time finalist for the Mary Higgins Clark Award. Hallie grew up in a family of writers, her parents Phoebe and Henry writing screenplays for famous films such as There's No Business Like Show Business. Hallie's how-to book, WRITING AND SELLING YOUR MYSTERY NOVEL: How to Knock 'Em Dead with Style," was nominated for an Edgar Award, and her novel NEVER TELL A LIE was made into a Lifetime television movie. She is also an award-winning crime fiction book reviewer for the Boston Globe and teaches fiction writing at events across the U.S. Visit Hallie online at Hallieephron.Com.
Paula Munier
The legendary and ever-popular Paula Munier is the Senior Literary Agent & Content Strategist at Talcott Notch Literary. She has created and marketed exceptional content in all formats across all markets for such media giants as WGBH, Fidelity, and Disney. Currently, she has her own three-book deal with St. Martins for the MERCY CARR mystery series, and now on the way to a fourth and fifth book. Her last nonfiction book on craft, WRITING WITH QUIET HANDS, reviewed on Amazon - "Paula Munier knows writing and publishing from all the angles and covers them in such a way as to teach, inspire, and encourage at the same time." - Reed Farrel Coleman, New York Times best-selling author. To date, Paula has clocked over 180 official deals with major publishers as an agent for Talcott-Notch Literary Agency. Paula has signed ten authors from Algonkian events, and all have contracts with major publishers. She is always looking for good crime fiction, women's fiction, mainstream fiction, high-concept YA and SF/Fantasy fiction, as well as nonfiction.
Michael Neff
Michael Neff is an award winning author, Pushcart nominated poet, widely published short fiction writer, literary agent, writer conference organizer, as well as an accomplished developmental editor. His first published book, a literary historical novel about Washington D.C. during the Reagan years entitled ALL THE DARK WE WILL NOT SEE, was published by the distinguished academic press, Serving House Books. A few years later, an urban fantasy, MAGICIANS IMPOSSIBLE, was created and co-edited by him, and later published by Macmillan Books. His science-fantasy novels, AMERICAN OZ MAKER (pseudonym Warwick Gleeson), and the prequel, WORLD MAKER, have both received multiple awards. The former was chosen by an editorial panel at Kirkus Reviews to be a "Top 150 Best Book" choice in 2019, and in 2020, it achieved Amazon Best Seller status. The prequel in 2018 won four national book awards for SFF. He is also an independent film/tv content scout for Atchity Productions in Los Angeles. More about Michael Neff found here.
USA Today bestselling author of 14 psychological thrillers, winning the most prestigious awards in the genre: five Agathas, five Anthonys, and the coveted Mary Higgins Clark Award. She is also on-air investigative reporter for Boston's WHDH-TV, with 37 EMMYs and dozens more journalism honors. National book critics call her "a superb and gifted storyteller"; she's the only author to win the Agatha in four categories: Best First, Best Novel, Best Short Story and Best Non-Fiction. Her newest is the page-turning standalone thriller THE HOUSE GUEST -- a story of psychological manipulation that explores the dark heart of marriage and friendship -- it's Gaslight meets Thelma & Louise.
New York Times bestselling author Hallie Ephron, Edgar Award finalist and five-time finalist for the Mary Higgins Clark Award, writes books readers can't put down. Her latest suspense novel, CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR, with its echoes of Marie Kondo life-changing decluttering tips, explores the relationships built by professional organizers and their clients, thus showing just how easily the lines between professional and personal can be blurred. In it, Emily Harlow is a professional organizer who helps people declutter their lives; she's married to man who can't drive past a yard sale without stopping.
The legendary and ever-popular Paula Munier is the Senior Literary Agent & Content Strategist at Talcott Notch Literary. She has created and marketed exceptional content in all formats across all markets for such media giants as WGBH, Fidelity, and Disney. Currently, she has her own three-book deal with St. Martins for the MERCY CARR mystery series, and now on the way to a fourth and fifth book. Her last nonfiction book on craft, WRITING WITH QUIET HANDS, reviewed on Amazon - "Paula Munier knows writing and publishing from all the angles and covers them in such a way as to teach, inspire, and encourage at the same time." - Reed Farrel Coleman, New York Times best-selling author. To date, Paula has clocked over 180 official deals with major publishers as an agent for Talcott-Notch Literary Agency. Paula has signed ten authors from Algonkian events, and all have contracts with major publishers. She is always looking for good crime fiction, women's fiction, mainstream fiction, high-concept YA and SF/Fantasy fiction, as well as nonfiction.
Michael Neff is an award winning author, Pushcart nominated poet, widely published short fiction writer, literary agent, writer conference organizer, as well as an accomplished developmental editor. His first published book, a literary historical novel about Washington D.C. during the Reagan years entitled ALL THE DARK WE WILL NOT SEE, was published by the distinguished academic press, Serving House Books. A few years later, an urban fantasy, MAGICIANS IMPOSSIBLE, was created and co-edited by him, and later published by Macmillan Books. His science-fantasy novels, AMERICAN OZ MAKER (pseudonym Warwick Gleeson), and the prequel, WORLD MAKER, have both received multiple awards. The former was chosen by an editorial panel at Kirkus Reviews to be a "Top 150 Best Book" choice in 2019, and in 2020, it achieved Amazon Best Seller status. The prequel in 2018 won four national book awards for SFF. He is also an independent film/tv content scout for Atchity Productions in Los Angeles. More about Michael Neff found here.
