Study Crime Fiction with a master! Lori Rader-Day is a three-time Mary Higgins Clark Award nominee, winning the award in 2016.
Instructor: Lori Rader-Day
What makes a reader turn the page? Author Steven James wrote, “Suspense happens in the stillness of your story, in the gaps between the action sequences, in the moments between the promise of something dreadful and its arrival….” But how do you create and use those gaps to their greatest effect? In this class we’ll talk about the expectations readers bring to crime fiction, and how playing with those expectations—frustrating them and satisfying them—creates narrative drive that will keep your readers up late into the night.
Lori Rader-Day, author of Under a Dark Sky, The Day I Died, Little Pretty Things, and The Black Hour, is a three-time Mary Higgins Clark Award nominee, winning the award in 2016. Lori’s short fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Time Out Chicago, and Good Housekeeping. Lori lives in Chicago, where she co-chairs the mystery conference Murder and Mayhem in Chicago.
Cost: $75 nonmembers, $48 members, $42 student members/teacher members/senior members/military members/librarian members
Phone: 317-255-0710
Email: mail@indianawriters.org
2018/05/05 - 2018/05/05
Indiana Writers Center
1125 Brookside Avenue, Suite B25, Indianapolis, IN 46202
Parking is located behind the Indiana Art Center in Broad Ripple. The Indiana Writers Center is in the smaller building behind the IAC, not the main building.