New England Crime Bake
6th Annual Mystery Conference for Writers and Readers
Dedham, MA
Elizabeth Benedict will teach a Master Class in Writing about Sex in Fiction
Friday November 9, 2007

http://www.crimebake.org

Free MP3 Online
A new MP3 is available: Elizabeth Benedict talking with Sigrid Nunez about editors, writers, and studying at Barnard with Elizabeth Hardwick. Click here to listen: part 1, part 2, part 3. This audio file is free to download but please contact info@elizabethbenedict.com for commercial use permission. This file is licensed to listeners by agreement of Creative Commons and is copyright © 2006 by Elizabeth Benedict and Sigrid Nunez. All rights reserved.

Elizabeth Benedict Guest Blogs for MJ Rose
Elizabeth Benedict gets down about writing, publishing, marriage, and divorce in the article Forget The Big Lie, Consider The Big Fantasy on MJ Rose's blog.

Now available in paperback, The Practice of Deceit is a razor-sharp, psychological thriller about role reversals and domestic treachery in the suburbs. A nice guy — a loving dad and Scarsdale psychotherapist — runs afoul of a ruthless divorce lawyer — who happens to be his wife. Alan Cheuse, NPR's "All Things Considered": "It's the first-person story of the marriage between a Scarsdale, New York, therapist and his South-Boston-born divorce lawyer wife, a marriage coming apart at the seams. Benedict tells it from the man's point of view, and the story practically spills into your lap as you turn the pages.... A lot of wicked fun." Says Ira Levin, author of Rosemary's Baby and The Stepford Wives: "A terrific non-stop read."

The Practice of Deceit is a Mariner Paperback, a Book Sense Pick, a Book of the Month Selection, a book on tape and CD, and an "All Things Considered" (NPR) summer book recommendation.