In Retrospect by Ellen Larson
What would you do if you had to investigate a murder
you would gladly have committed yourself?
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About the Author
Ellen Larson
When Ellen is not writing about herself in the third person, she is either editing for her many fiction and non-fiction clients (wearing her Freelance Substantive Editor hat), working on her own writing (wearing her Novelist hat), or reading MSS in her role as editor of the Poisoned Pencil, the YA mystery imprint of Poisoned Pen Press (wearing her Acquisitions Editor hat).
Like many, Ellen's love of mysteries began in childhood when she discovered Sherlock Holmes. Spellbound by Basil Rathbone, she pulled the family Complete Works Of from the bookshelf, and was hooked. Other early favorites were Nero Wolfe (read them all by the age of 18) and Josephine Tey. Then she discovered Dorothy L. Sayers and all bets were off.
She developed her interest in science fiction in her late teens, drawn immediately to the heavy hitters of the times: Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, Walter M. Miller, and above all Ursula K. LeGuin. Then came A.E. Van Vogt, Madeleine L'Engle, Frederik Pohl, and the wonderful Zenna Henderson. These are the authors that most inform her work, because in the end, it's who you read as a child that makes you who you are.
Ellen lives for eight months of the year in an off-grid cabin in Upstate New York. She migrates to Florida in the winter.
Bibliography
- In Retrospect Five Star (Cengage-Gale) (Nov 2013).
- “When the Apricots Bloom” Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. July/Aug. 2010. Finalist for a Barry Award for short mystery fiction.
- “Thursday’s Children” Blood Root. Winter, 2008.
- “Partners” Amazon Shorts, May 2007.
- “The Volunteer” Storyworld, March 2004.
- “Nabu and the Chancy Way” Dark Horizons, Dec. 2002.
- The Measure of the Universe SagaSF, Aug. 2002.
- Unfold the Evil Savvy Press. Aug. 2000. 2nd NJ Mystery.
- The Hatch and Brood of Time Savvy Press. June 1999. 1st NJ Mystery.
- “Bridges and Trees” Gowanus Books. Dec. 1999. Fifth place in Preditors and Editors Annual short story contest.
- “For Strider” i Yankee Magazine, Dublin, NH. 1973. Winner of the Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences Student Symposium Award for best short story.