Adding Heart and Humor to Your Writing

GUEST SPEAKER: Ellen Byron

Award-winning mystery author and television writer Ellen Byron shares easy-to-implement tips on how to find the funny in any manuscript and balance the humor with heart… because sometimes the right choice is not to be funny. 

Ellen is a USA Today bestselling author, Anthony nominee, and recipient of multiple Agatha and Lefty awards for her Cajun Country Mysteries, Vintage Cookbook Mysteries, and Catering Hall Mysteries (as Maria DiRico). Her new series, The Golden Motel Mysteries, recently debuted. She is also an award-winning playwright and non-award-winning writer of TV hits like Wings, Just Shoot Me, and The Fairly Odd Parents, but considers her most impressive achievement working as a cater-waiter for Martha Stewart.