HALLIE EPHRON – Careful What You Wish For
She’s a New York Times Best-Selling author who thrives on suspense. Her suburban-based thrillers draw readers in, and keep them up late, turning the pages. She grew up in a Hollywood family of writers and in a household filled with books. Her parents wrote screenplays for classic movies like The Desk Set, There’s No Business Like Show Business, and Captain Newman, MD.
She was the last of four daughters to start writing or, as she calls it, to succumb to her genes.
She’s been an Edgar Award finalist and a four-time finalist for the Mary Higgins Clark Award. She’s the author of Night, Night, Sleep Tight and You’ll Never Know, Dear, as well as, Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel. She’s also an active blogging member of The Jungle Red Writers.
The uber-talented Hallie Ephron, takes us on today’s adventure as we crack open the pages of her new bestseller, Careful What You Wish For…
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“Thrilling and suspenseful… a modern-day, grown-up Nancy Drew.” – Jamie Lee Curtis, Time Magazine
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.
When a few simple snapshots of Emily’s newly organized sock drawer goes viral,
a new career is launched and clients come calling. Some bring more than Emily
bargained for, causing her to take a deeper look at her own life at home.
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A page-turning thriller that was a finalist for the 2018 Mary Higgins Clark Award.
Three generations of women share the haunting memory of a little girl gone missing.
One day, Janey’s missing porcelain doll comes home and seeds that may finally
unravel the age old mystery of what happened to Janey begin to take root.
Who’s been hiding the truth? Will the full story finally be told?
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Dripping with Hollywood glamour and folklore, Night Night, Sleep Tight takes readers on a journey they won’t soon forget!
Deirdre Unger is summoned to Beverly Hills to help her bitter, disappointed
father pack up his things and sell his dilapidated house. When she arrives, she discovers
her father floating face down in the swimming pool. Initially, she assumes the death
to be a tragic accident, but the longer she stays in town, the more she suspects that it
is merely the third act in a story that has long been in the making…
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Explore issues of personal identity in an age when we can pretend to be anything we want to be… online.
A woman helplessly watches as the man she loves falls to his death in the Swiss
mountains. Now a grief-stricken recluse, who hasn’t left the comforts of home in
more than a year, the reformed hacker runs a thriving Internet security company,
meeting with clients in OtherWorld, an online virtual reality platform where she
lives as her avatar, Nadia. The only two people Diana has seen live in the past
twelve months are her sister, Ashley, and her UPS delivery guy. How will life change
now that Ashley has disappeared?
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Discover the secrets to crafting and unforgettable mystery… and selling it!
To piece together the puzzle of your mystery novel, you need patience, resilience,
a solid understanding of the craft, and a clear blueprint for combining the plot,
characters, setting, and more. The essentials of the craft and the plan to execute
them are at your fingertips in this completely revised and expanded edition that
no aspiring mystery / thriller writer should be without…
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What is a goal? It’s been defined in many ways, most of them so complex that things get fuzzy and complicated. Put simply, a goal is something you want to do. PUSH is designed to help readers think about things more simply. Identify your goals and put forth the simple, dedicated effort to achieve them. Having acheived one goal, it becomes easier to pursue others. We tend to make it complex. PUSH seeks to make it simple.
PUSH is designed to help each reader find their own personal pathway of identity and, having found it, pursue their dreams in a simple, attainable fashion that leads to achievement. Broken into a handful of easy-to-read essays, PUSH mixes humor, common sense, and thought-provoking insight in an effort to give each reader the opportunity to see for themselves why they have absolutely no shot at ever being ordinary.
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You’re being watched… You may not realize it, and the person watching you may never clue you in, but you’re being watched. It happens each day in the most undetectable way. Somewhere, someone is watching.
You touch more lives and topple more dominoes than you could ever imagine. For someone, you are the light in their darkness or the example to which they aspire. Completely disconnecting from the society in which we live is impossible. Even in death, our lives continue to touch others, both in the moment and as time slowly passes.
Don’t Forget Your Cape doesn’t dance off into the fancy world of who each person can be. I’ve always left that “think your way to wonderful” philosophy to other writers. It just doesn’t suit me and I’d bet that it doesn’t really suit you either. I’d rather be a part of a face-to-face journey that cuts through the fog and connects me with who I am. That’s where my value can be found and that’s where this journey takes each reader.
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“Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like it’s heaven on earth.” There’s a brilliant irony in that quote; no one claims authorship and no one seems to be able to identify its true origin. Although the world is very familiar with this song and dance, no one knows the singer or the dancer.
Why do you do what you do? It’s a useful question to ponder. If you knew that no one would hear your song, would you still sing? Knowing that the chairs in the auditorium will be empty, will you still take the stage and dance just as enthusiastically?
HELLO… Is This On? explores why we do what we do and speaks to our ability to develop self-trust and quiet confidence, even in the face of daunting circumstances or, in some cases, no measurable response at all.
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What is a goal? It’s been defined in many ways, most of them so complex that things get fuzzy and complicated. Put simply, a goal is something you want to do. PUSH is designed to help readers think about things more simply. Identify your goals and put forth the simple, dedicated effort to achieve them.
You may not realize it, but you’re being watched. It happens each day in the most undetectable way. Somewhere, someone is watching. You touch more lives and topple more dominoes than you could ever imagine. For someone, you are the light in their darkness or the example to which they aspire.
Why do you do what you do? It’s a useful question to ponder. If you knew that no one would hear your song, would you still sing? Knowing that the chairs in the auditorium will be empty, will you still take the stage and dance just as enthusiastically? Explore why you do what you do and develop self-trust and quiet confidence.