AN AFTERNOON MOST MYSTERIOUS!

AN AFTERNOON MOST MYSTERIOUS!

March 28, 2020

1:00 to 5:00 PM

Hughes Main Library

25 Heritage Green Place, Greenville, SC 29601

If you love mysteries, please join us as the Upstate Chapter of Sisters in Crime presents Emmy-award winning journalist and mystery writer Hank Phillippi Ryan.

FEATURED PRESENTATION:
An Inside Look at Fiction, Journalism, and the Mysteries of Both!

How does an Emmy winning reporter become a best-selling author of fast-paced murder mysteries? And how does a just-the-facts journalist add mystery fiction to her resume and juggle being a reporter, an author, a wife and a grandmother? Ms. Ryan has managed to mix the worlds of fact and fiction in an amazing career from radio reporter, to Rolling Stone Magazine, to undercover investigations at Boston's WHDH-TV. She’ll discuss the obstacles and challenges of a newbie in 1971, as well as the risks and rewards of an experienced senior reporter—the craziness, the fun, the stress, and how she ended up where she is at age 69.  

Winner of five Agathas, three Anthonys, two Macavitys, the Daphne, and Mary Higgins Clark Award, Ms. Ryan will also reveal how she made a major career move at mid-life. Now an author of 11 novels, national reviews have called her “a superb and gifted storyteller.” Ms. Ryan’s novels have been named Library Journal Best Thrillers of 2014, 2015 and 2016. Her current book is the acclaimed standalone psychological suspense thriller THE MURDER LIST. She’ll give a behind-the-scenes look at how she develops her twisty and controversial plots.  

How can you follow your dreams? A highly sought-after inspirational speaker, Ms. Ryan will have the scoop on mysteries, journalism, the mystery of television, and the mysteries of both. And who knows? It may change the plot of your life! 

PANEL DISCUSSION:  What I Wish Someone Had Told Me—How to Follow Your Writing Dreams and Conquer Your Writing Life Realities. 

Geared to writers, but open to everyone, this panel will include Hank Phillippi Ryan and local mystery authors Cindy Blackburn, Polly Iyer, Linda Lovely and Ellis Vidler as they discuss their writing journeys. Howard Lewis, past president of Sisters in Crime, will moderate.