Meet Award-Winning News Reporter and Mystery Author Hank Phillippi Ryan at the North Shore Business Forum's Meeting on Friday

The North Shore Business Forum (NSBF) meets on Friday, October 16, 2015 at Acapulcos, 900 Cummings Center, Beverly, MA. Get the scoop from featured speaker Hank Phillippi Ryan on how she took on an additional career in mid-life when she became a best-selling crime fiction author in addition to an EMMY-winning reporter. She will also have books available for sale and signing after the event. Registration begins at 7:15 AM, the meeting runs from 7:30 to 8:30. Admission is $10 at the door, and includes a buffet breakfast. Visit www.nsbforum.org for more information.

How does a just-the-facts journalist add mystery fiction to her resume while juggling the roles of reporter, author, wife and grandmother? If you make a career change at mid-life, can it really work to follow your dreams? Hank Phillippi Ryan will discuss mixing the worlds of fact and fiction during a career that has included radio, Rolling Stone Magazine, and undercover investigations at Boston’s Channel 7, along with obstacles and rewards, mentoring, and taking risks.

About the Speaker: Hank Phillippi Ryan is the on-air investigative reporter for Boston’s NBC affiliate. She’s won 33 EMMYs, 13 Edward R. Murrow awards and dozens of other honors for her groundbreaking journalism. A bestselling author of eight mystery novels, Ryan has won multiple prestigious awards for her crime fiction: five Agathas, the Anthony, Daphne, Macavity, and for THE OTHER WOMAN, the coveted Mary Higgins Clark Award. National reviews have called her a “master at crafting suspenseful mysteries” and “a superb and gifted storyteller.” Her 2013 novel, THE WRONG GIRL, won both the Agatha Award for Best Contemporary Novel and the Daphne Award for Mainstream Mystery/Suspense, and is a seven-week Boston Globe bestseller. TRUTH BE TOLD is the Agatha Award winner for Best Contemporary Novel, an Anthony Award nominee and a Library Journal BEST BOOK OF 2014. Ryan also won a second Agatha Award in 2015 for Best Nonfiction, as editor of WRITES OF PASSAGE, an anthology of essays by mystery authors. Ryan’s newest novel, WHAT YOU SEE, is a RT Book Reviews Top Pick and received a starred review from Library Journal, which raves, “Mystery readers get ready: you will find yourself racing to the finish.” She’s a founding teacher at Mystery Writers of America University and 2013 president of national Sisters in Crime. Visit her online at HankPhillippiRyan.com, on Twitter @HankPRyan and Facebook at HankPhillippiRyanAuthorPage.

The North Shore Business Forum, Inc. (NSBF) is a group of small business owners from Boston’s North Shore who meet on the first and third Friday of each month for informal lectures given by business owners on a wide variety of topics. Members give a 30-second introduction of their business at each meeting. All business owners are welcome: future, past, profitable, experienced or beginning. Meetings are from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. (registration starts at 7:15) at Acapulcos, 900 Cummings Center, Beverly, MA. The $10.00 admission fee includes a breakfast buffet. No pre-registration necessary.

Contact: Brett Kirkpatrick, NSBF President, 978-239-6335, Email: events@nsbforum.org.