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Ellen Meister

Biography

Ellen Meister

Ellen Meister is the author of THE ROOFTOP PARTY. Previous novels include DOROTHY PARKER DRANK HERE; FAREWELL, DOROTHY PARKER; THE OTHER LIFE; LOVE SOLD SEPARATELY; and more. Ellen is also an editor, book coach, ghostwriter and frequent contributor to Long Island Woman Magazine. She teaches creative writing at LIU Post Hutton House and previously at Hofstra University. She lives on Long Island with her husband and three children.

Ellen Meister

Books by Ellen Meister

by Ellen Meister - Fiction, Humor, Mystery, Women's Fiction

Dana Barry, the Shopping Channel’s star host, stops by the company’s rooftop party to pitch the new CEO her brilliant idea that just might save the flagging business, her job and possibly her love life. As she chats with the smarmy executive, he backs her into a dark corner. She escapes his lecherous grasp and blacks out on the dance floor. When she comes to, the CEO is dead, fallen from the roof. Or was he pushed? And if so, by whom? It’s hard to know, but one thing is certain: Dana was close enough to be a suspect, yet she can’t remember much about those minutes. Now she has to use all her skills to prove her innocence to everyone, including her police detective boyfriend --- and herself.

by Ellen Meister - Fiction, Humor, Mystery, Romance

Dana Barry has nothing against rules. She just knows they’re meant to be bent. So it’s no wonder the single, twentysomething, aspiring actress loses her day job. Now her life is a mess…until she hears the Shopping Channel is auditioning. Relying on her knack for knowing what makes people tick, she lands a gig on air. But before she can say office politics, Dana is caught in the biggest drama of her life. The star host --- a diva who terrorized the entire staff --- is found dead. Dana knows the prime suspect is innocent. The heat is on, and Dana thinks she’s ready for it…until she tangles with the tall, dark and smoldering detective in charge.

by Ellen Meister - Fiction

Heavenly peace? No, thank you. Dorothy Parker would rather wander the famous halls of the Algonquin Hotel, searching for someone, anyone, who will keep her company on this side of eternity. After 40 years, she thinks she’s found the perfect candidate in Ted Shriver, a brilliant literary voice of the 1970s, who is slowly dying of cancer, which he refuses to treat. But when she and ambitious TV producer Norah Wolfe manage to uncover startling secrets about Ted’s past, the future changes for all of them.

by Ellen Meister - Fiction

Movie critic Violet Epps has learned to channel her literary hero, Dorothy Parker. If only she could summon that kind of courage in her personal life. Determined to defeat her social anxiety, Violet visits the Algonquin Hotel, where Parker and other famous writers of the 1920s traded barbs. But she gets more than she bargained for when Parker's feisty spirit rematerializes from an ancient guestbook and hitches a ride onto her life.

by Ellen Meister - Fiction

Happily married and pregnant, Quinn Braverman has an ominous secret: every time she makes a major life decision, she knows an alternate reality exists in which she made the opposite choice --- not only that, she knows how to cross over.