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Hallie Ephron is the author of Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel: How to Knock 'Em Dead with Style (Writers Digest Books), the book about mystery writing that cracks the code. The book received rave reviews and was nominated for Edgar and for Anthony awards.

Her latets book, 1001 Books for Every Mood, comes out in May, 2008, from Adams Media. It's the book lover's book, a guide to the best books of our time, organized to suit your every mood. 

Hallie is delighted that her new psychological suspense novel will be published by HarperCollins in the winter of 2009.

Hallie is also an award-winning book reviewer for the Boston Globe where her On Crime column appears the last Sunday of each month in the Ideas section.

She grew up in Los Angeles, the third of four writing Ephron sisters (Nora, Delia, and Amy) and her parents were screenwriters Henry and Phoebe Ephron who wrote classic movies like The Desk Set and Carousel. She credits genes with giving her the courage to finally get started writing fiction.

After careers as a teacher, educational consultant, and high tech marketing copywriter, Hallie tried her hand at writing fiction. She and Donald Davidoff, a neuropsychologist at Harvard’s McLean Hospital, teamed up to create fictional forensic neuropsychologist Dr. Peter Zak and investigator Annie Squires. Under the shared pseudonym G. H. Ephron, Hallie and Don have written five series mystery/suspense novels including Guilt (St. Martins Minotaur, 2004), and a story ("Malingering") for USA Today. The series has been praised for its "adrenaline-pumping prose" (Publisher's Weekly), "rapid-fire pacing" and "crisp writing" (Sun Sentinel), and "fascinating medical setting" (Washington Post).

Hallie combined writing talent with a love of teaching in Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel: How to Knock 'Em Dead with Style. She says, "Mystery novels are genre fiction, and though there’s no one way to write one, there are plenty insights that can make the process a whole lot less painful the first time out."

Hallie gives writing workshops across the country. When she's home, here's where she works.