Coming on Oct. 30: Ellen Byron

Join us on Oct. 30, as we bring Agatha Award winning author Ellen Byron to BCW (virtually, of course!).

Ellen Byron

Before Ellen Byron became an award-winning mystery author, she spent years as a writer-producer on hit sitcoms. She’s channeled the lessons she learned working in the entertainment industry into both her writing and personal life, and shares them in this presentation, which includes a few tips on simple ways to add humor to your writing.

Ellen’s Cajun Country Mysteries have won the Agatha award for Best Contemporary Novel and multiple Lefty awards for Best Humorous Mystery. She writes the Catering Hall Mystery series, under the name Maria DiRico, and will debut the Vintage Cookbook Mysteries (as Ellen) in June 2022. Ellen is an award-winning playwright, and non-award-winning TV writer of comedies like Wings, Just Shoot Me, and Fairly OddParents. She has written over two hundred articles for national magazines but considers her most impressive credit working as a cater-waiter for Martha Stewart. She blogs with Chicks on the Case, is a lifetime member of the Writers Guild of America, and will be the 2023 Left Coast Crime Toastmaster.

Byron has written over 200 national magazine articles, and her published plays include the award-winning Graceland. A native New Yorker who attended Tulane University, Ellen lives in Los Angeles with her husband, daughter, and rescue chi mix, Pogo. She still misses her hometown – and still drives like a New York cabbie.

Newsletter: https://www.ellenbyron.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ellenbyronauthor/ and https://www.facebook.com/CateringHallMysteries/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ellenbyronmariadirico/

Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/profile/ellen-byron and https://www.bookbub.com/authors/maria-dirico

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/23234.Ellen_Byron?from_search=true&from_srp=true and https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19130966.Maria_DiRico?from_search=true&from_srp=true

Back by popular demand: Sandra Beckwith

Sandra Beckwith

UPDATE: If you missed this wonderful event, or just want to review it, the meeting can be viewed right here!

You’ve written a wonderful book and it’s about to be released into the world. Or it’s been released but isn’t getting the kind of traction you hoped. What should you do to improve the odds that your book is the one people talk about?

Back by popular demand, publicity expert Sandra Beckwith can help.

Join us via Zoom from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Sept. 18 as author and national award-winning former publicist Sandra Beckwith teaches us the ins and outs of Public Relations. You might have seen Sandra on “The Montel Williams Show,” or “CBS This Morning,” or read about her in The New York TimesThe Wall Street Journal, or USA Today. Feedspot has ranked her Build Book Buzz website as #7 among thousands of book marketing blogs globally. It has also been honored as a top website for authors and writers six times.

This is your opportunity to listen and ask questions. To get your link to the Zoom presentation, send an email to buckeyecrimewriters@gmail.com. We hope to see you (virtually) there!

Sandra Beckwith, Build Book Buzz

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