Stories and Secrets: March 2008
by Sibylle Barrasso
Hank Phillippi Ryan has wired herself with hidden cameras, chased down criminals, and confronted corrupt
politicians. She's won 24 Emmys for investigative reporting. "But," she says, "I've never faced a challenge like getting my first novel published."
She writes the Charlotte McNally Mysteries, about a 46-year-old investigative TV reporter in Boston. She insists it's not about herself, "I'm older than that." Charlie McNally is married to her job and wonders what will happen when the camera doesn't love her anymore. The premise for her debut novel PRIME TIME: Charlie finds secret messages in computer spam.
For months and months, Hank thought she and her husband would be the only ones ever to read PRIME TIME. "I would crane my neck to see the mailbox as we would head up the driveway, home from work," she says. "And every day, every day, there would be that self-addressed brown envelope announcing that yet another agent had said no. Finally, I thought it was just not going to happen. One day, in tears, I said to my husband, 'Is Charlie McNally going to die? Is no one ever going to meet her?"
politicians. She's won 24 Emmys for investigative reporting. "But," she says, "I've never faced a challenge like getting my first novel published." She writes the Charlotte McNally Mysteries, about a 46-year-old investigative TV reporter in Boston. She insists it's not about herself, "I'm older than that." Charlie McNally is married to her job and wonders what will happen when the camera doesn't love her anymore. The premise for her debut novel PRIME TIME: Charlie finds secret messages in computer spam.
For months and months, Hank thought she and her husband would be the only ones ever to read PRIME TIME. "I would crane my neck to see the mailbox as we would head up the driveway, home from work," she says. "And every day, every day, there would be that self-addressed brown envelope announcing that yet another agent had said no. Finally, I thought it was just not going to happen. One day, in tears, I said to my husband, 'Is Charlie McNally going to die? Is no one ever going to meet her?"
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by Sibylle Barrasso
Hank Phillippi Ryan has wired herself with hidden cameras, chased down criminals, and confronted corrupt politicians. She's won 24 Emmys for investigative reporting. "But," she says, "I've never faced a challenge like getting my first novel published."
She writes the Charlotte McNally Mysteries, about a 46-year-old investigative TV reporter in Boston. She insists it's not about herself, "I'm older than that." Charlie McNally is married to her job and wonders what will happen when the camera doesn't love her anymore. The premise for her debut novel PRIME TIME: Charlie finds secret messages in computer spam.
For months and months, Hank thought she and her husband would be the only ones ever to read PRIME TIME. "I would crane my neck to see the mailbox as we would head up the driveway, home from work," she says. "And every day, every day, there would be that self-addressed brown envelope announcing that yet another agent had said no. Finally, I thought it was just not going to happen. One day, in tears, I said to my husband, 'Is Charlie McNally going to die? Is no one ever going to meet her?"
politicians. She's won 24 Emmys for investigative reporting. "But," she says, "I've never faced a challenge like getting my first novel published." She writes the Charlotte McNally Mysteries, about a 46-year-old investigative TV reporter in Boston. She insists it's not about herself, "I'm older than that." Charlie McNally is married to her job and wonders what will happen when the camera doesn't love her anymore. The premise for her debut novel PRIME TIME: Charlie finds secret messages in computer spam.
For months and months, Hank thought she and her husband would be the only ones ever to read PRIME TIME. "I would crane my neck to see the mailbox as we would head up the driveway, home from work," she says. "And every day, every day, there would be that self-addressed brown envelope announcing that yet another agent had said no. Finally, I thought it was just not going to happen. One day, in tears, I said to my husband, 'Is Charlie McNally going to die? Is no one ever going to meet her?"
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