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Lectures & WorkshopsAge Group:
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Come prepared to listen, learn and write in this workshop for aspiring writers led by authors Ann Leary, Wendy Walker and Greg Wands, who will share tricks and tips on writing fiction and nonfiction.
Book sale and signing by Elm Street Books.
Registration required.
Ann Leary is the The New York Times bestselling author of the novels, The Foundling, The Children, The Good House, Outtakes from a Marriage and the memoir, An Innocent, a Broad. She has written for numerous publications including Ploughshares, NPR, Real Simple and The New York Times. The Good House was adapted into a motion picture starring Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Kline. Her collection of autobiographical essays, I've Tried Being Nice, will be released in June.
Wendy Walker is the author of the psychological suspense novels What Remains, All Is Not Forgotten, Emma In the Night, The Night Before, Don’t Look For Me and American Girl. Her novels have been translated into 23 languages, topped bestseller lists nationally and abroad, and have been optioned for television and film. As a former family law attorney with training in child advocacy, Walker draws from her knowledge of trauma and psychology to write compelling and complex characters and stories.
Greg Wands writes for the page and screen. An avid lifelong reader, he grew up in Sag Harbor, NY, and now calls Manhattan home. He currently has a TV series and feature film projects in the works. He has written three books with Elizabeth Keenan under the pen name of E.G. Scott: The Woman Inside, In Case of Emergency and The Rule of Three. Most recently Greg co-wrote the novella, The Gimlet Slip, with his partner Fiona Davis. It was released as an audiobook in March.