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Lori Rader-Day

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LORI RADER-DAY is the Edgar Award-nominated, Agatha, Anthony, and Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author of The Death of Us, Death at Greenway, The Lucky One, Under a Dark Sky, The Day I Died, Little Pretty Things, and The Black Hour. Lori’s short fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Time Out Chicago, Good Housekeeping, and others. She lives in Chicago, where she is the co-chair of the mystery reader event Midwest Mystery Conference and teaches creative writing for Northwestern University. She is a former national president of Sisters in Crime. Visit her at LoriRaderDay.com.

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Lori Rader-Day The best thing about being a writer is writing. It's also the worst thing about being a writer.

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Lori Rader-Day I've decided to re-read Agatha Christie this summer—what could be better? I did read many AC books to be able to write my new book, Death at Greenway,…moreI've decided to re-read Agatha Christie this summer—what could be better? I did read many AC books to be able to write my new book, Death at Greenway, which takes place at Christie's holiday home during World War II. But there are some gaps in my reading history of her works, and I'd like to fix that. Also, who wouldn't want to spend the summer reading delish mysteries?(less)
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Little Pretty Things

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Black Hour

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Death at Greenway

3.32 avg rating — 2,715 ratings — published 2021 — 10 editions
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The Day I Died

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The Death of Us

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The Lucky One

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Under a Dark Sky

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Hello, pretty blue baby!

The Death of Us is a “most anticipated mystery/thriller for fall” on Goodreads, and I can’t help thinking some of you have made this happen. Thanks for clicking “Want to Read” on the Goodreads page, for signing up for the Goodreads Giveaway—oh hey. Are you signed up for the new one? Do that now.

Anyway, thanks for anticipating The Death of Us! Dates for the book tour to

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“I was still thinking about what he’d said about belief. We are more than the magic we believe in. We are more. It had never occurred to me to be more. My life had been chiseled down to the smallest portion. My own doing. I had only ever made plans to be less, to be nothing more than alive.”
Lori Rader-Day, The Day I Died

“Did he not know that there was a lower point, yet, when you had accepted your own fate but found yourself too weak to go through with it? The point at which you understood you had made not a single ripple in the pond, and neither would your loss.”
Lori Rader-Day, Little Pretty Things

“I was afraid that I could have changed everything, and hadn’t. I was afraid that everything could yet change, or not, and I was the one who had to decide. I was afraid of choices I had let go, of decisions I might never make. I was afraid I had turned down every opportunity to be someone other than who I was now. I was afraid I would never get back to someplace real, someplace on the map that would feel like a place to start. I was afraid of the future. I didn’t think I’d ever thought about the future before, beyond fantasies. Fantasies didn’t require anything from me, but real life, the real future, did. I held the lifejackets against the slight swell of my belly. I had never had a future before.”
Lori Rader-Day, The Day I Died

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Richard Dominguez thank you for the friend


BeckyT Thanks! Not a textbook, just personal exploration. I LOVE Bird by Bird. Lamott is fantastic. What course are you teaching at RU??


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Lori Rader-Day Lori wrote: "IMO, the best instructional book on writing is John Dufresne's The Lie that Tells a Truth. The best inspirational one might be Annie Lamott's Bird by Bird. Looking for a textbook? I think I'll be u..."


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Lori Rader-Day IMO, the best instructional book on writing is John Dufresne's The Lie that Tells a Truth. The best inspirational one might be Annie Lamott's Bird by Bird. Looking for a textbook? I think I'll be using the Dufresne book for the class I'm teaching this fall. At RU!


BeckyT What is the best book on fiction writing you have read?


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