Plantation Shudders, Body on the Bayou, A Cajun Christmas Killing, Mardi Gras Murder, Fatal Cajun Festival, Murder in the Bayou Boneyard, Cajun Kiss of Death, Here Comes the Body, Long Island Iced Tina, It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder, Four Parties and a Funeral, Bayou Book Thief, Wined and Died in New Orleans, The Witless Protection Program, A Very Woodsy Murder, French Quarter Fright Night
Cajun Country Mysteries, Catering Hall Mysteries, Vintage Cookbook Mysteries, Golden Motel Mysteries
Amateur Sleuth, Cozy
Craft, Subject Expertise, The Business of Writing
I would love to share what I've learned from my twenty-five year career as a television sitcom writer and how I apply it to my craft as a mystery author.
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. Ellen is an award-winning playwright, and non-award-winning TV writer of comedies like Wings, Just Shoot Me, and Fairly Odd Parents. She has written over two hundred articles for national magazines but considers her most impressive credit working as a cater-waiter for Martha Stewart. An alum of New Orleans’ Tulane University, she blogs with Chicks on the Case, is a lifetime member of the Writers Guild of America, and serves on the national board for Mystery Writers of America.