The Sisters in Crime Writers' Podcast: Recent Episodes
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The Sisters in Crime Writers' podcast features conversations with our members about the writing journey: their process, what they've learned, what they wish they'd know sooner.
Lynda Allen is the author of the Liv Wilde Mysteries in which menopause is a superpower! Since she had to put up with hot flashes every day, she figured she might as well make them useful. Lynda proudly infuses her writing with her Jersey Girl sensibilities and aims to create stories imbued with heart and humor. She lives in Fredericksburg, VA, where her mysteries are set, with her husband, their cat, and the many incredible eagle friends who pay them frequent visits. When she’s not writing about hot flash-induced psychic visions, she also writes poetry and is an artist.
Website: https://www.lyndaallenwrites.com
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About SinCSisters in Crime (SinC) was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
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The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Curtis Ippolito is an Anthony Award-winning, and Macavity Award and Derringer Award-nominated writer. He is the author of the crime novel Burying the Newspaper Man. His short stories have appeared in numerous prominent publications, including Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Dark Yonder, Tough, Vautrin Magazine, and more, as well as being featured in several anthologies including The One Percent: Tales of the Super Wealthy and Depraved; and The Amber Waves of Autumn. Curtis is the guest editor of On Fire and Under Water: A Climate Change Crime Fiction Anthology from Rock and a Hard Place Press. He is a member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, and serves as vice-president for the San Diego chapter of Sisters in Crime.
Website: curtisippolito.com
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/curtis.ippolito
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Mentioned in the PodcastRock and a Hard Place Press: https://www.rockandahardplacemag.com/
Save the Cat Writes a Novel: https://savethecat.com/products/books/save-the-cat-writes-a-novel
About SinCSisters in Crime (SinC) was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
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The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Marcie R. Rendon, citizen of the White Earth Nation, is the best-selling author of Where They Last Saw Her, and acclaimed author of the Cash Blackbear crime series, the most recent is Broken Fields.
Rendon's poetry, Anishinaabe Songs for the New Millennium, was released in 2024; and Stitches of Tradition, a picture book, Oct 2024.
Mni Giizhik Theater is producing Rendon’s scripts Say Their Names and Sweet Revenge in 2025 and 2026. Out of Hand Theater, Atlanta, GA is producing Say Their Names in November 2025.
Rendon was the 2020 MN McKnight Artist of the Year, she was named a 50 over 50 Change-maker by MN AARP and POLLEN in 2018, and was listed in Oprah’s 2020 list of 31 Native American Authors to read.
Website: https://www.marcierendon.com/
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/MarcieRendonMN/
About SinCSisters in Crime (SinC) was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
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The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Nina Wachsman studied book illustration under Maurice Sendak at Parsons School of Design and lives in New York City. Her mystery novels and stories are mostly historical, and many feature artists or artwork. She is a founding member of Curators of Crime, a website/blog of four authors who focus on art and crime.
Website: ninawachsmanauthor.com, curatorsofcrime.com, venicebeauties.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nina.wachsman, https://www.facebook.com/curatorsofcrime
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nina-wachsman-4937514
Mentioned in the Podcast:Save the Cat: https://savethecat.com/
Save the Cat Writes a Novel: https://www.jessicabrody.com/books/non-fiction/save-cat-writes-novel/about/
Emma Darwin This Itch of Writing: https://www.emmadarwin.com/this-itch-of-writing
About SinCSisters in Crime (SinC) was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
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The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Ellen Butler is the international bestselling author of the Karina Cardinal mystery series, praised by Publishers Weekly as “intelligent escapism.” Drawing on her real-life experience working on Capitol Hill and with a medical association in Washington, D.C., Butler infuses her fast-paced mystery-action novels with authenticity and intrigue.
In addition to her contemporary thrillers, Butler writes the Ariadne Winter historical mysteries and award-winning historical spy fiction. Her novel The Brass Compass has earned numerous accolades, including the Speak Up Talk Radio Firebird Book Award, the IndieReader Discovery Award, and a Readers’ Favorite Silver Medal for Historical Fiction.
The sequel, Operation Blackbird: A Cold War Spy Novel, was inspired by true events and went on to win the prestigious Next Generation Indie Book Award gold medal for historical fiction.
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Website: https:///www.ellenbutler.net
About SinCSisters in Crime (SinC) was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
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The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Libby Klein writes ridiculously funny murder mysteries from her Northern Virginia office with a very naughty calico Persian named Miss Eliza Doolittle, and a sweet black Lab named Vader. She can name that tune for 70s and 80s rock in the first few notes, and she's translated her love of classic rock into her Layla Virtue Mysteries. Libby was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that prevents her from eating gluten without exploding. Because bread is one of her love languages, she includes the recipes for gluten free goodies in her Cape May based Poppy McAllister series. Most of her hobbies revolve around travel, and eating, and eating while traveling. She insists she can find her way to any coffee shop anywhere in the world, even while blindfolded. Follow all of her nonsense on her website libbykleinbooks.com
Website: https://libbykleinbooks.com/
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Manuscript Wish List: https://www.manuscriptwishlist.com/
About SinCSisters in Crime (SinC) was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
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The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Sandra Jackson-Opoku is the author of three award-winning novels. The River Where Blood is Born won the American Library Association Black Caucus Award. Hot Johnny and the Women Who Loved Him was an Essence Magazine Bestseller in Hardcover Fiction. Debut mystery novel, Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes won the Malice Minotaur Award for First Mystery. Her fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and dramatic works are widely published and produced, appearing in Midnight & Indigo, Aunt Chloe, Another Chicago Magazine, New Daughters of Africa, Adi Magazine, Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, About Place Journal, the Chicago Humanities Festival, Lifeline Theatre, and others. She also coedited the anthology Revise the Psalm: Work Celebrating the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks.
Jackson-Opoku has scripted original and adapted works for stage and screen. Stage plays include the co-authored Indignant Women: A Conversation with Lorraine Hansberry and Gwendolyn Brooks, and the novel adaptation, Hungry Ghost Festival, a play with music. Her television screenplays have won the Circle of Confusion Writers Discovery Fellowship, and ranked in the quarterfinals of the Stage 32 Diversity Springboard, ScreenCraft Cinematic Prose, We Screenplay Diverse Voices, and M Lab Summer Shorts.
Other professional recognition includes a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, an American Library Association Black Caucus Award, the Chicago Esteemed Artist Award, a Lifeline Theatre BIPOC Adaptation Showcase, the Globe Soup Story Award, a Plentitudes Journal Fiction Prize, a Circle of Confusion Writers Discovery Fellowship, the Iceland Writers Retreat Alumni Award, the Hearst Foundation James Baldwin Fellowship at MacDowell Arts, a Pushcart Prize nomination, the Casa África Purorrelato Prize, and the Chicago Sun-Times “Finding Chicago's Next Voices” Award, and the Travis Bogard Fellowship at the Eugene O’Neill Center at Tao.
Sandra Jackson-Opoku taught literature and writing at the University of Miami, Columbia College Chicago, and Chicago State University. She presents workshops, readings, and literary events worldwide.
Website: https://flowauthors.com/sandra-jackson-opoku
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250351906/savvysummersandthesweetpotatocrimes/
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandra-jackson-opoku-81625617/
Mentioned in the PodcastResearch on Cozies: https://www.sistersincrime.org/page/ARG2021Report#Sandra%20Jackson-Opoku
Frank London Brown, Trumbull Park
Jewell Parker Rhodes, Free Within Ourselves: Fiction Lessons for Black Authors
Storyknife Writers Retreat: https://storyknife.org/
William F. Deeck Malice Domestic Grant: https://www.malicedomestic.net/grant
Crime Writers of Color: https://www.crimewritersofcolor.com/
Queer Crime Writers: https://www.queercrimewriters.com/
Every Fifth Reading Challenge: https://www.sistersincrime.org/page/everyfifth
About SinCSisters in Crime (SinC) was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
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The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Raquel V. Reyes writes Latina protagonists. Her Cuban-American heritage, Miami, and Spanglish feature prominently in her work. Mango, Mambo, and Murder, the first in the Caribbean Kitchen Mystery series, won a LEFTY for Best Humorous Mystery. It is in production to become the TV series "Miami Spice." Her work has been nominated for Agatha and Anthony Awards and has won an International Latino Book Award Gold Medal. Raquel's short stories appear in various anthologies, including The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2022.
Her leadership experience is varied and extensive. She has been a Volunteer Coordinator at an AIDS service organization and a Worship Coordinator at her Unitarian Universalist Congregation. She has served on the Mystery Writers of America National Board, done two terms on the MWA-Florida chapter board, been on the Guppies Steering Committee, and was a co-chair of the writing craft conference, SleuthFest, for five years. Raquel values inclusion, equity, and education.
Find her across social media platforms as @LatinaSleuths and on her website LatinaSleuths.com
Mentioned in the Podcast:Frankie’s List: https://www.sistersincrime.org/page/frankieslist
Crime Writers of Color: https://www.crimewritersofcolor.com/
About SinCSisters in Crime (SinC) was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
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The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Tracee de Hahn is a writer, lecturer, and educator. Born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, she grew up in Kentucky. She currently lives in Virginia.
A member of Mystery Writers of America and International Thriller Writers, she served as president on the Worldwide Board of Sisters in Crime from 2024-2025.
Prior to writing fiction she began her career in the practice of architecture, using the need to see great buildings as an excuse to travel. After several years in Switzerland, and receiving an advanced degree in European history, she turned her hand to the non-profit world, eventually running alumni relations for a west coast university. These experiences have served as inspiration for her talks on career change and achieving impossible goals! Her mysteries set in Switzerland were inspired by her years living in Lausanne. Currently she is at work on a historical novel set during the world wars.
She frequently teaches webinars and workshops on various aspects of writing and publishing. She also serves as a writing mentor for the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning in Lexington, Kentucky, working one-on-one with authors to identify and achieve their goals.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tracee.dehahn
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Website: https://traceedehahn.com
About SinCSisters in Crime (SinC) was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
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The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Through the years, Heather Weidner has been a cop’s kid, technical writer, editor, college professor, software tester, and IT manager. She writes the Pearly Girls Mysteries, the Delanie Fitzgerald Mysteries, The Jules Keene Glamping Mysteries, and The Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe Mysteries.
Her short stories appear in the Virginia is for Mysteries series, 50 Shades of Cabernet, Deadly Southern Charm, Murder by the Glass, First Comes Love, Then Comes Murder, and Crime in the Old Dominion, and she has non-fiction pieces in Promophobia and The Secret Ingredient: A Mystery Writers’ Cookbook.
She is a member of Sisters in Crime: National, Central Virginia, Chessie, Guppies, and Grand Canyon Writers, International Thriller Writers, and James River Writers, and she blogs regularly with the Writers Who Kill.
Originally from Virginia Beach, Heather has been a mystery fan since Scooby-Doo and Nancy Drew. She lives in Central Virginia with her husband and two crazy dogs (Disney the Jack Russell and Cooper the Mini Aussie Shepherd).
Website: http://heatherweidner.com
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/HeatherWeidnerAuthor
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Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8121854.Heather_Weidner
Amazon Authors: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00HOYR0MQ
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/HeatherBWeidner/
About SinCSisters in Crime (SinC) was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
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The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Kaye George is an award-winning novelist and short-story writer. She writes cozy and traditional mysteries, a prehistory series, and one suspense novel, which is her seventeenth book. Over fifty short stories have been published, mostly in anthologies and magazines. A horror story will come out in 2026. With family scattered all over the globe, she makes her home in Knoxville TN. You can find out more here: http://kayegeorge.com/
Website: https://kayegeorge.com
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/kaye.george
Other Social Media: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4037415.Kaye_George
Mentioned in the Podcast:Kris Neri: https://krisneriauthor.wordpress.com/
Mary Buckham: https://www.marybuckhamonwriting.com/
Guppies: https://www.sinc-guppies.org/
About SinCSisters in Crime (SinC) was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
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The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Matty Dalrymple is the author of the Ann Kinnear Suspense Novels and the Lizzy Ballard Thrillers. She podcast, writes, speaks, and consults on the writing craft and the publishing voyage as The Indy Author, and she serves as the Campaigns Manager for the Alliance of Independent Authors.
Website: https://www.mattydalrymple.com/ and https://www.theindyauthor.com/
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheIndyAuthorPodcast
Mentioned in the Podcast: Alliance of Independent Authors https://www.allianceindependentauthors.org/
Writer Beware: https://writerbeware.blog/
Writing Services: selfpublishingadvice.org/ratings
About SinCSisters in Crime (SinC) was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
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The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Mariah Fredericks was born, raised, and still lives in New York City. She graduated from Vassar College with a degree in history. She is the author of the Jane Prescott mystery series, which has twice been nominated for the Mary Higgins Clark Award. The Lindbergh Nanny, her first standalone novel, was nominated for the Agatha and Anthony Awards. The Wharton Plot was named one of Library Journal's Best Crime Novels of the Year. Her new novel, The Girl in the Green Dress, featuring New Yorker writer Morris Markey and Zelda Fitzgerald, was published September 2.
Website: www.mariahfredericksbooks.com
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/janeprescottmysteries
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mariahfredericks/
About SinCSisters in Crime (SinC) was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
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The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Mary Lee Ashford is a lifelong bibliophile, an avid reader, and supporter of public libraries. In addition to writing the Sugar & Spice mystery series, she also writes as half of the writing team of Sparkle Abbey. She is the founding president of Sisters in Crime-Iowa and a former board member of Mystery Writers of America Midwest. She teaches a university level class on creativity and loves encouraging other writers as well as connecting with readers.
Website: https://maryleeashford.com/
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/maryleeashford1
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marylee-woods-138952a/
Other Social Media: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/mary-lee-ashford
About SinCSisters in Crime (SinC) was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
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The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Agatha award nominee Jessica Estevao loves fountain pens, red convertibles and throwing parties. She lives in northern New England with her dark and mysterious husband, exuberant children and a precocious poodle named Sam. When away from her desk, she obsessively knits wool socks and enthusiastically speaks Portuguese with a shocking disregard for the rules of grammar. As Jessica Ellicott she indulges her passion for historical fiction and all things British by writing the Beryl and Edwina Mysteries and the WPC Billie Harkness Mysteries. Jessica’s books have twice received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly as well as one from Library Journal. Her first novel won the Daphne du Maurier award for mystery. As Jessica Estevao she wrote the Change of Fortune Mysteries. When inspiration strikes she writes contemporary mysteries as Jessie Crockett. Her first stand-alone novel, written as Jessica Everett, Last Summer at Maine Chance will release in May 2026.
Website: www.jessicaellicott.com
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/jessicaellicott
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jessicaellicottauthor/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessie-crockett-31554218/
About SinCSisters in Crime (SinC) was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
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Mark Bergin spent four years as a newspaper reporter before joining the Alexandria, Virginia, Police Department in 1986. Twice named Police Officer of the Year for narcotics and robbery investigations, he served in most of the posts described in APPREHENSION, his debut novel. which will be republished in 2026 as part of a four-book contract with Level Best Books. Kirkus Reviews calls APPREHENSION “compelling,” and says Bergin is a “gritty and authentic new voice in police fiction.” APPREHENSION was a finalist for the 2020 Silver Falchion Award from Killer Nashville. He has short stories published in several crime anthologies including the 2023 Anthony-nominated PARANOIA BLUES and LAND OF TEN THOUSAND THRILLS. He is a member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, Virginia Writers Club and International Thriller Writers. He and his wife live in Alexandria, Virginia and Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Write him at mbergin01@aol.com.
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With her Nut Cracker Investigations series, Katherine Ramsland injects her expertise in forensic psychology into her fiction. She consults for coroners, trains homicide investigators, and has appeared as an expert on more than 250 crime documentaries. She was an executive producer on Murder House Flip, A&E’s Confession of a Serial Killer: BTK, and ID’s The Serial Killer’s Apprentice. The author of more than 2,000 articles and 74 books, including I Scream Man and How to Catch a Killer, she also has a Substack and pens a blog for Psychology Today.
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Clay Stafford is an American bestselling and award-winning author, poet, screenwriter, and playwright; film and television producer, director, showrunner, actor; book, film, and stage reviewer as well as public speaker. He has sold nearly four million copies of his books overall and has had his work distributed in sixteen languages. He is founder and CEO of the annual Killer Nashville International Writers’ Conference and a contributor to Writer’s Digest magazine with his monthly online column, “Killer Writer”. In addition, Clay is the founder of TheBalancedWriter.com, a creative online learning platform for writers. For more information visit, www.claystafford.com.
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New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Joshilyn Jackson writes page-turning suspense novels that revolve around timely women’s issues, raising questions about justice, motherhood, career, class, and the thorny mechanics of redemption. She previously penned eight works of Southern fiction, all of which have a murder mystery or thriller lurking inside the family drama. Her critically acclaimed work has been translated into more than a dozen languages, and Jackson is also an award-winning audiobook narrator. She lives in 150 year old Victorian Rowhouse in Albany, New York with her family.
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KORINA MOSS is the author of the Cheese Shop Mystery series set in the Sonoma Valley, which includes the winner of the Agatha Award for Best First Novel, Cheddar Off Dead, and two novels short-listed for Best Contemporary Novel. Listed as one of USA Today’s “Best Cozy Mystery Series,” her books have also been featured in PARADE Magazine, Woman’s World, and Writer’s Digest. Korina is also a freelance developmental editor specializing in cozy and traditional mysteries. To learn more or subscribe to her free monthly newsletter, visit her website korinamossauthor.com.
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Stephanie Bearce is an award-winning author of over 40 traditionally published books, including The Secret of Moonrise Manor (2025) and its sequel, The Curse of the Lost Cave (2026). She is the author of several nonfiction series, including The Top-Secret Files of History, Twisted True Tales from Science, and Awesome Disgusting History. Her books have been awarded the SCBWI Crystal Kite Award and recognized by the National Science Teachers Association’s Notable Book List. Stephanie is a certified life and author coach and co-hosts the Way-Word Writers podcast, where she and her co-hosts provide practical advice and inspiration for writers navigating storytelling and publishing. She is a member of the Nonfiction Ninjas and the founder of NF Fest, an annual online event that educates and celebrates writers of nonfiction.
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Anna Lee Huber is the USA Today bestselling and Daphne award-winning author of more than twenty novels, including the Lady Darby Mysteries, the Verity Kent Mysteries, and the Gothic Myths series, as well as Sisters of Fortune: A Novel of the Titanic and the anthology The Deadly Hours. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she majored in music and minored in psychology. Her novels have been translated into multiple languages, and she is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and International Thriller Writers. She currently resides in Fort Wayne, Indiana with her family and enjoys reading, singing, crafts, and travel when she’s not hard at work on her next novel. Her novel, A Perilous Perspective, was included on the 2024 Indiana Author Awards shortlist.
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A former Spanish teacher, Marilyn Levinson writes mysteries, novels of suspense, and books for kids. Her books have received many accolades. As Allison Brook she writes the Haunted Library series. Death Overdue, the first in the series, was an Agatha nominee for Best Contemporary Novel in 2018. Other mysteries include the Golden Age of Mystery Book Club series, the Twin Lakes series, and Giving Up the Ghost. Her suspense, Come Home to Death, was released in April, 2024, and her suspense, Dangerous Relations, was republished earlier this year. Death on Dickens Island, the first book in her Books on the Beach series, will debut on October 21, 2025.
Marilyn's juvenile novel, Rufus and Magic Run Amok, was an International Reading Association-Children's Book Council Children's Choice and has recently come out in a new edition. Rufus and the Witch's Drudge, the second book in the series, has been released and the third, Rufus and the Dark Side of Magic, will be released in May 2025. And Don't Bring Jeremy was a nominee for six state awards. Her YA horror, The Devil's Pawn, came out in a new edition in January, 2024.
Marilyn lives on Long Island, where many of her books take place. She loves traveling, reading, doing crossword puzzles and Sudoku, chatting on FaceTime with her grandkids and playing with her cats, Romeo and Juliet.
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Julia Buckley is a Chicago area mystery writer. She has authored several series for Penguin Random House and has also published several standalone mysteries, including suspense novels and a YA paranormal mystery. Several of her books were Barnes & Noble best sellers, and her novel A DARK AND STORMY MURDER was recently optioned for film.
She taught English for 35 years, and continues to tutor young people around the world. She lives with her husband, a black Labrador, and four cats in a quiet suburb. She has two grown sons and two lovely daughters in law.
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After twenty years in Hollywood as a screenwriter working for the major studios, Jule Selbo moved to Portland Maine to focus on writing novels. First came three historical fiction books, then she moved into her favorite genre: crime-mystery. 7 DAYS, A Dee Rommel Mystery, is the fourth book in the crime/mystery series that has made Kirkus’ Top 5 mysteries from Indie Publishers List, has been awarded a Silver Falchion and award nominations from Foreword Review, the Clue Award, Maine Literary Award and more. The series begins with 10 DAYS, is followed by 9 DAYS, 8 DAYS, and now 7 DAYS (you can see the pattern). The Dee Rommel Series is a finalist in the CIBA Book Series Awards. Quoting from reviews: “Dee Rommel is one of today’s most compelling detectives”;“A hero unlike any other in crime fiction”; “Fans of Lisa Jewell and Lisa Gardner will enjoy these suspenseful thrillers”. She’s now working on 6 DAYS, A Dee Rommel Mystery.
Some of her screenwriting credits include: Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Hercules, Hunchback of Notre Dame II (Disney), Ariel, The Mermaid’s Beginning (Disney), Space Above and Beyond, Melrose Place, Hard Promises (Columbia), Women In Prison (HBO) and more. She was also a professor of film for 15 years, and wrote books on Story Structure and Film Genre that are used in universities.
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Susan Elia MacNeal is the New York Times bestselling author of the Maggie Hope mysteries and Mother Daughter Traitor Spy. MacNeal won the Barry Award and an AudioFile Earphones award and has been nominated for the Edgar, Macavity, Agatha, Left Coast Crime, Dilys, ITW Thriller, and Nero awards. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and son.
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Grace Burrowes is a life-long voracious reader who one day about twenty years ago thought it might be fun to write a novel. After penning a lot of romance, she realized that her reading had shifted to focus almost exclusively on mystery and thriller, and thought it might be fun to write one of those. She’s still having fun, and still writing!
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Clara McKenna is a USA TODAY bestselling author of historical cozy mysteries. The Stella & Lyndy Mystery series is about an unlikely couple who mix love, murder, and horse racing in Edwardian England. MURDER AT MORRINGTON HALL kicks off the series. MURDER AT KEYHAVEN CASTLE, the third book in the series, was selected as a Historical Novel Society's Editor's Choice and voted one of the BEST cozy mysteries of 2021 by SUSPENSE MAGAZINE. Her latest release, MURDER ON GLENLOCH HILL, a USA TODAY Bestseller, follows the couple to Scotland to attend The Open golf championship.
The Hattie Davish Mystery series follows a Victorian traveling secretary who solves crimes in every American town she visits. From Newport, RI to Eureka Springs, AR to the nation's capital, Hattie outwits temperance leaders, senators, outlaws, civil war veterans, and more! A LACK OF TEMPERANCE begins it all.
Clara is a member of Sisters in Crime and the founding member of Sleuths in Time, a cooperative group of historical mystery writers who encourage and promote each other's work.
An avid teacup collector and self-proclaimed anglophile with an incurable case of wanderlust, Clara enjoys afternoon tea from her prized collection and travels every chance she gets, the UK being a favorite destination. When she can't get to the UK, she's happy to write about it from her home in Iowa.
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New York Times Bestselling author Robin Burcell moonlighted as a cop for nearly three decades, while working as a mom full-time. She wrote police procedurals and international thrillers, until Clive Cussler asked her to co-write with him in the Fargo series (where the good guys sometimes skirted the law, but always saved the day).
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Stephen G. Eoannou grew up in Buffalo, New York reading Hardy Boy Books and watching old Humphrey Bogart movies on The Late Show. His love of history and writing led him to SUNY Buffalo (BA), Miami University (MA), and The Queens University of Charlotte (MFA). He is the author of the short story collection Muscle Cars and the historical novels After Pearl, Yesteryear, and Rook. Yesteryear was awarded the 2021 International Eyelands Award for Best Historical Novel, The Firebird Book Award for Biographical Fiction, and Shelf Unbound’s Notable Indy Books of 2023. After Pearl is the first in The Nicholas Bishop Mystery Series. Eoannou lives in Buffalo, New York with his two children and one-eyed dog. When not writing, Eoannou can be found restoring his 1865 Second Empire Victorian home and hunting for antiques to furnish it. He still stays up late watching Bogart flicks.
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Write Screenplays That Sell - The Ackerman Way by Hal Ackerman
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Donna Marie Miller is the author of two nonfiction books, Texas Secessionists Standoff; the 1997 Republic of Texas "War,” (2023) and The Broken Spoke; Austin's Legendary Honky-Tonk, ( 2017,) both published by Texas A&M University Press. Her freelance articles have appeared in local, state, and national magazines. Early in her professional writing career she worked nine years as a newspaper reporter at three Texas daily newspapers. Miller also taught secondary level journalism courses for 24 years before retiring from teaching in 2013. Currently she is collaborating with Cynthia Uhrich to write a television series adaptation of her 2023 nonfiction true crime book.
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Edgar Award nominee and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Isabella Maldonado wore a gun and badge in real life before turning to crime writing. A graduate of the FBI National Academy in Quantico and the first Latina to attain the rank of captain in her police department, she retired as the Commander of Special Investigations and Forensics. During more than two decades on the force, her assignments included hostage negotiator, department spokesperson, and precinct commander. She uses her law enforcement background to bring a realistic edge to her writing, which includes the Agent Nina Guerrera series, Agent Daniela Vega series, Detective Veranda Cruz series, and Sanchez & Heron series (co-authored with Jeffery Deaver). Her books are published in 24 languages and sold in 52 countries.
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Valerie Wilson Wesley writes mysteries, novels and children’s books. Her latest mystery is A Shimmer of Red (2023), which is the third book in her Odessa Jones Mystery Series. She is the author of nine Tamara Hayle Mysteries, including When Death Comes Stealing, named by Times magazine as one of the best mystery and thriller books of the last 100 years. Most of her mysteries and several of her novels have been published in Germany, France and Great Britain. Wesley has also written paranormal romances under the pen name Savanna Welles. They include When the Night Whispers and The Moon Tells Secrets. Her novels include Playing My Mother’s Blues, Always True to You in My Fashion and Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do for which she received the 2000 award for excellence in adult fiction from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA).
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Richard Cass is the author of the Elder Darrow jazz mystery series. The first book in the series won the 2018 Maine Literary Award for Crime Fiction. The fifth, Sweetie Bogan’s Sorrow, won the Nancy Pearl Librarians’ Prize for Genre Fiction. The seventh book in the series Closing Time, was published in October, 2024. Dick has also published a thriller called The Last Altruist and a book of short stories entitled Gleam of Bone.
He holds a graduate degree in writing from the University of New Hampshire, where he studied with Thomas Williams, Jr. and Joseph Monninger. He's also studied with Ernest Hebert, Ursula K. LeGuin, and Molly Gloss. His short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Playboy, Gray’s Sporting Journal, ZZYZVA, Tough, Shotgun Honey and Best Short Stories of the American West. He lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine with his wife Anne.
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Suja Sukumar writes YA suspense novels featuring South Asian main characters battling villains while also dealing with their own inner demons. Apart from being an author, she is also a senior staff physician in a major health system in suburban Detroit, where she lives with her family and an elderly cat. When Mimi Went Missing is her debut novel.
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About SinCSisters in Crime (SinC) was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
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JOSH PACHTER was the 2020 recipient of the Short Mystery Fiction Society’s Golden Derringer for Lifetime Achievement. His stories appear in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Black Cat Mystery Magazine, and elsewhere, and he is the author of the traditional whodunit Dutch Threat and the mystery for younger readers First Week Free at the Roomy Toilet. He edits anthologies (including Anthony finalists The Beat of Black Wings: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Joni Mitchell, Paranoia Blues: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Paul Simon, and Happiness Is a Warm Gun: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of the Beatles) and the brand-new Every Day a Little Death: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Stephen Sondheim and translates fiction and nonfiction from Dutch to English.
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Lisa Black is the New York Times bestselling author of 19 suspense novels, including the Gardiner & Renner series and the Locard Institute series. Her works have been translated into six languages, optioned for film, and shortlisted for both the inaugural Sue Grafton Memorial Award and the Nero. She is also a full-time Certified Latent Print Examiner and a Certified Crime Scene Analyst, beginning her forensics career at the Coroner’s office in Cleveland Ohio and then the police department in Cape Coral, Florida. She has spoken to readers and writers at numerous conferences, been a consultant for CourtTV, and was a Guest of Honor at 2021 Killer Nashville.
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New York Times Bestselling author Krista Davis writes the Domestic Diva Mysteries, the Paws & Claws Mysteries, and The Pen & Ink Mysteries. Krista lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia with a black Labrador mix, an English cream golden retriever, and two very inquisitive cats, all rescues. Her friends and family complain about being guinea pigs for her recipes, but she notices they keep coming back for more.
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Stella Oni is a British-Nigerian writer and author of the crime fiction debut, Deadly Sacrifice, a compelling police procedural that delves into Nigerian and British cultures, exploring themes of identity and tradition. It was shortlisted for the SI Leeds Literary Prize and selected as an Audible Crime and Fiction Pick. Stella has also contributed short stories to anthologies, including Midnight Hour, which was nominated for an Anthony Award.
Stella leads workshops, speaks at events, and shares insights on crime writing, character development, and building suspenseful narratives. She also teaches creative writing and regularly lectures on short fiction, literary fiction, and crime. She hosts the Talking Tech with Creatives podcast which examines the intersection of creativity and technology in different industries.
Stella is a lifelong food explorer who dreams about eating her way around the world!
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Former newspaper reporter Jennifer K. Morita writes stories for Sacramento State by day and plots murder mysteries by night.
Her debut mystery, GHOSTS OF WAIKĪKĪ, has been nominated for a Left Coast Crime Lefty Award for Best Debut Mystery and an Agatha Award for Best First Novel. It’s about an out-of-work journalist who reluctantly becomes the ghost writer for a controversial developer. When she stumbles into murder - and her ex - she discovers coming home to paradise can be murder.
Jennifer was a runner up for the Sisters in Crime Eleanor Taylor Bland Award in 2022.
She is a member of SinC, Crime Writers of Color, Mystery Writers of America and International Thriller Writers. Jennifer is also active with her local SinC chapter, Capitol Crimes, where she served as vice president and president.
When she isn’t chauffeuring her daughters around town or pushing Girl Scout cookies, she enjoys reading, experimenting with recipes, leisurely hikes, Zumba and Hot Hula.
Mentioned in the Podcast:Plot Perfect by Paula Munier
Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for Emerging Crime Writers of Color: https://www.sistersincrime.org/page/EleanorTaylorBland
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Walter Mosley is the author of 60 critically-acclaimed books, translated into 25 languages. He has had several of his books adapted for film and tv including Devil in a Blue Dress, Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned, and The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey starring Samuel Jackson. He was a writer and an executive producer on the John Singleton FX show, “Snowfall” and filming has just completed on his “Man in My Basement,” starring Willem Dafoe and Corey Hawkins.
He is the winner of an O. Henry Award, The Mystery Writers of America’s Grand Master Award, a Grammy®, several NAACP Image awards, PEN America’s Lifetime Achievement Award. the Robert Kirsch Award from the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books and the Distinguished Contribution to American Letters Award from the National Book Foundation.
In 1998, Mosley and the City University of New York created The Publishing Certificate Program. Created to address the critical issue of diversity in the book publishing industry, the program brings together the rich variety of racial, ethnic and cultural experiences of the students of CCNY with professionals in the industry who provide courses in core principles and skills needed to begin careers in the book industry.
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City College of New York Publishing Certificate Program: https://english.ccny.cuny.edu/publishing-certificate-program/
Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for Emerging Crime Writers of Color: https://www.sistersincrime.org/page/EleanorTaylorBland
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Richie Narvaez (nar-VYE-ehz) is the author of two novels, HIPSTER DEATH RATTLE and HOLLY HERNANDEZ AND THE DEATH OF DISCO, which won the Agatha Award and the Anthony Award. He's also had two short story collections published, ROACHKILLER & OTHER STORIES and NOIRYORICAN (nwah-YOUR-eekan). His work has been featured in ELLERY QUEEN, LATINX RISING, TINY CRIMES, and BLACK CAT WEEKLY, among many others. He recently received a Letras Boricuas Fellowship and teaches writing at Sarah Lawrence College.
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Hannah Martian (she/they) is a writer of queer crime fiction, including her debut novel, LONG TIME GONE. She is a two-time graduate of Washington State University (MA ’24, BA ’20). Hannah currently lives in eastern Washington and is hard at work plotting her next (very gay) mystery.
Michelle Richter podcast episode: https://www.sistersincrime.org/page/Michelle_Richter
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Over the years, Matt Cost aka Matthew Langdon Cost has owned a video store, a mystery bookstore, and a gym. He has also taught history and coached just about every sport imaginable.
During those years, since age eight actually, the true passion has been writing. I Am Cuba: Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution (Encircle Publications, March, 2020) was his first traditionally published novel.
Cost has now written six books in the Mainely Mystery series starting with Mainely Power, five books in the Clay Wolfe Trap series starting with Wolfe Trap, and two books in the Brooklyn 8 Ballo series starting with Velma Gone Awry. A few historical fiction pieces fill out the shelves.
Cost now lives in Brunswick, Maine, with his wife, Harper. There are four grown children: Brittany, Pearson, Miranda, and Ryan. The house is now filled with four dogs. Cost now spends his days at the computer, writing.
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Daryl Wood Gerber is the Agatha Award-winning and nationally bestselling author of the Literary Dining Mysteries, the Fairy Garden Mysteries and the Cookbook Nook Mysteries. As Avery Aames, she penned the popular Cheese Shop Mysteries. In addition, Daryl writes suspense including the well-received The Son’s Secret, Girl on the Run, and the popular Aspen Adams suspense novels. Daryl has also published a standlone Christmas romance, Hope for the Holidays. Fun Tidbit: as an actress, Daryl appeared in “Murder, She Wrote.” She loves to cook, garden, read, and walk her frisky Goldendoodle. Also she has been known to jump out of a perfectly good airplane. You can learn more on her website: https://darylwoodgerber.com
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Dianne Freeman is the USA Today bestselling author of the Agatha and Lefty award-winning Countess of Harleigh Mystery series. She is also a finalist for the Mary Higgins Clark and the Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award. After thirty years of corporate accounting, she now writes full-time. Born and raised in Michigan, she and her husband split their time between Michigan and Arizona. Visit her at www.difreeman.com
Mentioned in the podcast:Haunted Highway: https://a.co/d/fDqZL59
To Marry an English Lord: Tales of Wealth and Marriage, Sex and Snobbery in the Gilded Age by Gail MacColl
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Marjorie (M.M.) DeLuca was born in England, studied at the University of London, then moved to Canada, where she studied Advanced Creative Writing with Pulitzer Prizewinner Dr. Carol Shields. She's the author of five self-published novels and four traditionally published historical and contemporary suspense novels: Amazon bestseller, THE PERFECT FAMILY MAN (Canelo 2021), Bookscan Top 100 bestseller, and Apple Books Top 100 bestseller, THE SECRET SISTER (Canelo 2021), critically acclaimed literary historical suspense, THE SAVAGE INSTINCT (Inkshares 2021). This book received starred reviews from Publishers’ Weekly and Booklist as well as being one of Kate Quinn’s monthly picks on Instagram. Her newest novel, THE NIGHT SIDE (psychological thriller), was published on December 5th 2023 by Severn House, a division of Canongate Books.
She's appeared on author panels at Thrillerfest 2024, and Bouchercon 2024. She's also been featured on the following podcasts: The Thriller Zone, The Poisoned Pen Bookstore, Crime Writers Canada and Killing the Tea. When she's not writing, she's either traveling to get away from the snow in winter or golfing in the summer.
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Jodé Millman is the award-winning author of HOOKER AVENUE and THE MIDNIGHT CALL as well as an attorney for more than 40 years with practical experience in Intellectual Property Law. A law professor at the University of Detroit Mercy Law School, she is the creator of The Writer’s Law School and has presented “The Writer’s Law School” to national and international literary and visual arts organizations and public libraries. She is also a reviewer for Booktrib.com, the host/producer of The Backstage with the Bardavon podcast. Her new thriller, THE EMPTY KAYAK, is available now.
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PAULA MUNIER is the Senior Agent and Director of Storytelling for Talcott Notch Literary and the USA TODAY bestselling author of the Mercy Carr mysteries. A Borrowing of Bones, the first in the series, was nominated for the Mary Higgins Clark Award and named the Dogwise Book of the Year. Blind Search also won a Dogwise Award. The Hiding Place and The Wedding Plot both appeared on several “Best Of” lists. Home at Night was named Library Journal’s Mystery Pick of the Month. The Night Woods, the sixth book in the series, was released in October 2024 and received a starred review in Library Journal.
Along with her love of nature, Paula credits the hero dogs of Mission K9 Rescue, her own rescue dogs, and a deep affection for New England as her series’ major influences. She’s also written three popular books on writing: Plot Perfect, The Writer’s Guide to Beginnings, and Writing with Quiet Hands, as well as Happier Every Day and the memoir Fixing Freddie: The True Story of a Boy, a Mom, and a Very, Very Bad Beagle.
She lives in New England with her family and four dogs and Ursula The Cat, a rescue torbie tabby who does not think much of the dogs. For more, check out www.paulamunier.com.
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Carolyn Marie Wilkins is the author of three mystery novels: Death at a Séance, Melody for Murder and Mojo for Murder, all available from Pen-L Publications. She is also the author of Tips for Singing (Hal Leonard Press) and two memoirs: Damn Near White: An African American Family’s Journey from Slavery to Bittersweet Success, and They Raised Me Up: A Black Single Mother and the Women Who Inspired Her, available from the University of Missouri Press.
Murder At The Wham Bam Club, the first in Carolyn's new Psychics and Soul Food mystery series, is being released by Kensington Publishing in 2025.
Carolyn is a Reiki master, a psychic medium and a Professor at Berklee College of Music Online. A graduate of Oberlin Conservatory and the Eastman School of Music, Carolyn has performed with the Pittsburgh Symphony and represented her country as a Jazz Ambassador for the U.S. State Department. An initiated priestess of Yemaya, the African goddess of motherhood, compassion and the ocean, Carolyn holds certificates of completion in mediumship from the JVP School of Mystical Arts, the British mediums Tony Stockwell and Mavis Pittilla. To find out more about Carolyn, visit her website: www.carolynwilkins.com
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Cate Conte writes the Cat Cafe Mysteries and the Full Moon Mysteries. As Liz Mugavero, she writes the Pawsitively Organic Mysteries, the first of which was an Agatha Award nominee for Best First Novel. She is a creativity coach who works with aspiring and established writers and is the founder of The Creativity Lab, a membership site for writers. She also hosts the Get Writing podcast. She lives in the Boston area with her rescue pals.
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K.T. Nguyen’s 2024 debut psychological thriller YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID has received praise from People Magazine, CrimeReads, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Book Riot, Parade, Elle Magazine, The Seattle Times, and The Telegraph. A former Glamour magazine editor, she’s lived in New York City, San Francisco, and Taipei and has now settled just outside Washington, D.C. with her family where she enjoys native plant gardening, playing with her rescue terrier Alice, and rooting for the Mets. K.T. is a proud member of Crime Writers of Color, Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, and International Thriller Writers.
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Eighteen years in the legal field, and an over-active imagination, led Mary Keliikoa to plot murder—novels that is. She is the author of the domestic thriller Don’t Ask, Don’t Follow, the “Misty Pines” mystery series which is an IPPY Silver and Bronze Award winner, Silver Falchion finalist, and a Foreword Indies award finalist. She’s also the author of the Shamus and CLUE Finalist, and Lefty, Agatha and Anthony nominated “PI Kelly Pruett” mystery series. Her short stories have appeared in Woman's World and the anthology Peace, Love and Crime. www.marykeliikoa.com
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Jen Collins Moore transports readers to Italy in the Roman Holiday Mysteries, and her short fiction has appeared in Mystery Weekly and Masthead: The Best New England Crime Stories. She serves on the national board of Sisters in Crime and is the immediate past president of Sisters in Crime Chicagoland, as well as a founding member of the Sleuths and Sidekicks blog. A transplanted New Englander, she lives in Chicago.
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Sleuths and Sidekicks: https://www.sleuthsandsidekicks.com/
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Sheri Lewis Wohl lives in NE Washington where she writes her stories of murder, mayhem, and all things paranormal. While she has yet to actually encounter a vampire, werewolf, or ghost, she never stops looking for them when darkness falls. A retired fed and former Humans Remains Detection K9 Handler, these days Sheri writes her stories of dark, dangerous, and delectable characters, runs half-marathons all over the U.S., and hangs out with her trusty German shepherds. Follow Sheri on Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok, and at https://sherilewiswohl.com
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International bestselling author Brad Parks is the only writer to have won the Shamus, Nero, and Lefty Awards, three of crime fiction’s most prestigious prizes. His eleven novels have been published in sixteen languages and won critical acclaim across the globe, including stars from every major pre-publication review outlet. A former journalist, he is now a full-time novelist who is thankful to share his home with his wife and two school-aged children.
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Internationally bestselling author Hannah Mary McKinnon was born in the UK, grew up in Switzerland and moved to Canada in 2010. While her debut, TIME AFTER TIME, was a rom com, she transitioned to the dark side thereafter. Her seven suspense novels include NEVER COMING HOME, THE REVENGE LIST, and ONLY ONE SURVIVES, and her work has been optioned for the screen. It’s rumored Hannah Mary still has a softer side because she also writes holiday romantic comedies as Holly Cassidy, the second of which is THE CHRISTMAS COUNTDOWN. Hannah Mary lives in Oakville, Ontario, Canada with her husband and three sons. You’ll find her on social media as @hannahmarymckinnon, and please visit www.hannahmarymckinnon.com for more.
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Mindy Quigley is the author of two lighthearted mystery series. Her latest, the Deep Dish Mysteries (Minotaur-St. Martin's Press) was a Woman’s World book club pick and has been featured in Parade magazine. Mindy's non-writing career is stranger than fiction, having taken her from the US to the UK, where she worked as the personal assistant to the scientist who cloned Dolly the sheep and as project manager for a research clinic founded by the author J.K. Rowling. She lives in small-town Virginia with her Civil War history professor husband and their children.
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Promophobia: https://www.sistersincrime.org/page/Promophobia
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Save the Cat Writes a Novel by Jessica Brody
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J.M. Redmann has published eleven novels featuring New Orleans PI Micky Knight. Her first book was published in 1990, one of the early hard-boiled lesbian detectives. Her books have won three Lambda Literary awards, a Publishing Triangle Joseph Hansen award, two Goldie awards, as well as others. THE INTERSECTION OF LAW & DESIRE was an Editor’s Choice of the San Francisco Chronicle and a recommended book of NPR’s Fresh Air. Two books were selected for the American Library Association GLBT Roundtable’s Over the Rainbow list and WATER MARK won a ForeWord Gold First Place mystery award. She is the co-editor with Greg Herren of three anthologies, one of which, NIGHT SHADOWS: QUEER HORROR, was shortlisted for the Shirley Jackson award.
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Mary Anna Evans is an award-winning author, she's a writing professor, and she holds degrees in physics and engineering, a background that, as it turns out, is ideal for writing her new series, the Justine Byrne historical mysteries, which began with THE PHYSICISTS' DAUGHTER. The current title, THE TRAITOR BESIDE HER, takes Justine undercover in a Washington, DC code-breaking operation during World War II. Mary Anna describes Justine as “a little bit Rosie-the-Riveter and a little bit Bletchley Park code breaker.”
Mary Anna's crime fiction has earned recognition that includes the Oklahoma Book Award, the Will Rogers Medallion Awards Gold Medal, the Mississippi Author Award, the Benjamin Franklin Award, and spots ON "Best Of" lists as varied as Voice of Young America’s (VOYA), TRUE WEST, and THE STRAND. In addition to writing crime fiction, she writes about crime fiction, as evidenced by the Edgar, Agatha, Macavity, and HRF Keating Award nominated BLOOMSBURY HANDBOOK TO AGATHA CHRISTIE, which she coedited with J.C. Bernthal.
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Mentioned in the Podcast:Super Structure by James Scott Bell
The New Orleans WWII Museum: https://www.nationalww2museum.org/
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
They All Fall Down by Rachel Howzell Hall
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Nancy Cole Silverman spent nearly twenty-five in Los Angeles Talk Radio, beginning her career on the talent side as one of the first female voices on the air. Later, on the business side, she rose through the ranks and became one of two female general managers in the nation’s second-largest radio market. After a successful career in the radio industry, Silverman retired to write fiction. Her crime-focused novels and short stories have attracted readers throughout America. Her Carol Childs Mysteries series features a single mom whose day job as a reporter at a busy Los Angeles radio station often leads to long nights as a crime-solver. While her Misty Dawn Series is centered on an aging Hollywood Psychic to the Stars, who supplements her day-to-day activities as a consultant to LAPD and the FBI. Silverman’s newest series, The Kat Lawson Mysteries, is centered on a disgraced investigative reporter who finds herself working for an international travel publication as an undercover operative for the FBI. Silverman lives in Los Angeles with her husband and thoroughly pampered standard poodle.
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About SinCSisters in Crime (SinC) was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
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Jane K. Cleland’s books on the craft of writing, Mastering Suspense, Structure & Plot and Mastering Plot Twists [Writer’s Digest Books, now Penguin Putnam Random House] both won the Agatha Award. Her newest book on the craft of writing, Beat the Bots: An Author’s Guide to Surviving and Thriving in the Age of AI, will be published in June 2025. Jane has also written fourteen novels in the multiple award-winning Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery series [St. Martin’s Minotaur, with short fiction published by Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine]. In addition, Jane is a contributing editor for Writer’s Digest Magazine and the chair of the Black Orchid Novella Award, presented by the Wolfe Pack in partnership with Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. Jane is a frequent in-person and online presenter at writing conferences, association meetings, and MFA Residencies. She also offers small-group Mystery Mastermind virtual workshops, free monthly webinars, and weekly YouTube Shorties—one- to three-minutes answers to FAQ. More information is available at http://janecleland.com.
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James L’Etoile uses his twenty-nine years behind bars as an influence in his award-winning novels, short stories, and screenplays. He is a former associate warden in a maximum-security prison, a hostage negotiator, and director of California’s state parole system. His novels have been shortlisted or awarded the Lefty, Anthony, Silver Falchion, and the Public Safety Writers Award. Face of Greed is his most recent novel. Look for Served Cold and River of Lies, coming soon. You can find out more at www.jamesletoile.com
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Anjili Babbar is an Agatha Award-winning, Anthony Award-nominated author of nonfiction and short fiction and a member of Sisters in Crime, Crime Writers of Color, Mystery Writers of America, and International Thriller Writers. She is a scholar of Irish and British literature, with a particular focus on crime fiction and criminality, and Lecturer of Humanities at Boston University. Her recent book, Finders: Justice, Faith, and Identity in Irish Crime Fiction, is an extensive survey of Irish crime writers and the ways in which they subvert literary traditions and genre conventions.
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About SinCSisters in Crime (SinC) was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
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Carl Vonderau grew up in Cleveland. After majoring in economics and dabbling in classical guitar in college, he ended up with a career in banking. Carl has lived and worked internationally and put his foot in his mouth in several languages. He brought his banking expertise to his debut thriller, MURDERABILIA, as well as to his just-published novel, SAVING MYLES. MURDERABILIA won the Left Coast Crime award for Best Debut. SAVING MYLES has won the Best Book award for mystery/suspense. Carl is president of the San Diego chapter of Sisters in Crime, a member of Blackbird Writers, and helps nonprofits through San Diego Social Venture Partners.
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Maria Kelson's debut thriller, Not the Killing Kind, won the inaugural Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for Crime Fiction Writers of Color in 2014. It will be published in September 2024 by Crooked Lane Books. Maria's upcoming appearances include the Creatures, Crimes, and Creativity Conference in Maryland in mid-September. She also writes speculative short stories, has given workshops at campuses and literary festivals around the country, was named an Arts Envoy to Colombia through the American Voices program, and has published two books of poetry as Maria Melendez.
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Mentioned in the podcast:Crime Writers of Color: https://www.crimewritersofcolor.com/
With a Book in Their Hands: https://www.unmpress.com/9780826358295/with-a-book-in-their-hands/
About SinCSisters in Crime (SinC) was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
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DEBORAH J LEDFORD is the award-winning author of the Eva “Lightning Dance” Duran suspense thriller series, including Redemption and Havoc, set in Taos, New Mexico. Part Eastern Band Cherokee, she is an Agatha Award winner, The Hillerman Sky Award Finalist, 3-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize, and two-time Anthony Award Finalist for Best Audiobooks Crescendo and Causing Chaos from her Smoky Mountain Inquest Series set in the great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina.
She is a member of SinC National, International Thriller Writers, MWA SoCal, and is a past-president of the SinC Desert Sleuths Phoenix chapter.
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Mentioned in the podcast:Rod Sterling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Serling
Isabella Maldonado https://isabellamaldonado.com/
Save the Cat https://savethecat.com
Save the Cat Writes a Novel https://savethecat.com/products/books/save-the-cat-writes-a-novel
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Rob Hart is the author of ASSASSINS ANONYMOUS, as well as THE WAREHOUSE, which was translated into more than 20 languages, as well as THE PARADOX HOTEL, which was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. He also wrote the Ash McKenna crime series, the short story collection TAKE-OUT, the novella SCOTT FREE with James Patterson, and the comic book BLOOD OATH with Alex Segura.
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About SinCSisters in Crime (SinC) was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
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Nicolette Lemmon, the innovative founder of LemmonTree Marketing Group, guided the marketing efforts of dozens of major corporations and financial institutions, designing award-winning campaigns to build name awareness and bottom lines. Many of her marketing solutions won coveted awards for her consulting firm and clients. She also developed and presented cutting-edge seminars, training workshops, and key-note speeches to thousands of people in audiences from Puerto Rico to California, from Hawaii to New York, and points in between with topics such as “Branding Concepts & Storytelling,” “Jump Start Your Creative Batteries” and “Marketing Yourself for Future Success.”
In addition, Nicolette wrote more than fifty articles for national and regional publications, as well as five non-fiction books, addressing strategies for business growth, target marketing, and other subjects to aid professionals in building business and profitability. Her popular book, Almost Famous: How to Market Yourself for Success, helped people to achieve success in their careers and small businesses. Her weekly blog to inspire friends, Simply Stated Sundays, (www.nicolettelemmon.com), has found fans and followers across the United States.
In writing her first fiction novel, Mind’s Eye Murder, part of the “Reluctant Psychic Mystery” series, she was led to join the national organization, Sisters in Crime, where she produced SINC-UP! video tips from authors, editors, and agents as part of the education committee. She helped found a local chapter, Grand Canyon Writers. Nicolette has served on the Board of Directors, currently as President, and developed a program entitled, "The Mysteries & More Marketing Network." It was designed for both traditionally and independently published members for guidance in marketing themselves and selling books. From this program, participants asked her for a handbook which led to creating this book as an easy-to-follow guide geared for writers who want to successfully sell their books in today’s crowded marketplace.
Nicolette’s additional qualifications include having earned a master’s in business administration (MBA) from Arizona State University and she served on the faculty of five separate universities and institutes including the University of Phoenix where she taught classes in marketing management. In addition to many prestigious marketing awards, she was nominated for Inc. Magazine’s and Ernst and Young’s, “Entrepreneur of the Year Award” in Arizona, received the “Top 100 Small Businesses-Arizona” award and “Top 50 Woman-Owned Businesses-Arizona” honors from DiversityBusiness.com for ten years.
Throughout her career, she volunteered for national and local charities in promoting their organizations to increase volunteer recruitment and donations. She has also served on the Board of Directors of Arizona Central Credit Union, a $750 million financial institution, since 2020.
For more information on Nicolette and her newest projects go to www.LemmonTree.com or www.nicolettelemmon.com
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Notes from the podcast:SinC-Up Tips: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDf2fizOruEix2JEHLaDcSF7hO1W5YsQJ
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James M. (Jim) Jackson authors the Seamus McCree series, which explores financial crimes, family relationships, and what happens when they mix. The series includes 8 novels, 2 novellas, and several short stories. He’s currently working on a new series featuring Niki, an undercover FBI agent.
Jim is a life member of Sisters in Crime and a past president of the Guppy Chapter. He enjoys teaching and helping other authors as much as he does writing. His two most popular classes are “Revision and Self-Editing” and “Independently Publishing Your Novel – Choices, Choices, Choices.”
He calls home the deep woods of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. These days he is a snowbird with clipped wings, retreating south only as far as Madison, Wisconsin when weather and road conditions make access to his U.P. home problematic.
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Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier’s stories have appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Black Cat Weekly, Stone’s Throw, Smoking Pen Press, The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023, and The Caribbean Writer. Originally from St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Ashley-Ruth is a writer of contemporary Caribbean mysteries. Ashley-Ruth currently lives in Apex, NC with her husband and 4 children, where she teaches first grade…and finds few things more valuable than uninterrupted writing time and the perfect cup of tea.
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Vicki Berger Erwin worked in a number of jobs in the “book biz,” including writing over 30 books ranging from middle grade to adult nonfiction, but mystery is her favorite.
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From the podcast:
Neal Shusterman COURAGE TO DREAM, Tales of Hope in the Holocaust
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Margot Douaihy, PhD, is the author of three books of poetry and the queer hardboiled mysteries Blessed Water (2024) and Scorched Grace (2023), both published with Gillian Flynn Books/Zando. Scorched Grace was a USA Today National Bestseller, an Indie Next pick, named a Best Book of 2023 by The New York Times, The Guardian, and CrimeReads, and the winner of the Pinckley Prize in Crime Fiction for best debut mystery. Margot is an assistant professor with Emerson College, and she serves as a co-editor of the Cambridge University Press Elements in Crime Narratives Series. Her recent academic research includes "Beat the Clock: Queer Temporality and Disrupting Chrononormativity in Crime Fiction," a NeMLA 2024 paper. The next mystery in her Sister Holiday series, Divine Ruin, will be published in 2025 with Gillian Flynn Books.
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Nikki Dolson is the author of the novel All Things Violent and the story collection Love and Other Criminal Behavior. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Southwest Review, Best American Mystery and Suspense, Vautrin, TriQuarterly, Tough, and other publications.
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Rock and a Hard Place Magazine: https://www.rockandahardplacemag.com/publications
“In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson Is Buried” by Amy Hempel
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Julia Dahl is the author of The Missing Hours, Conviction, Run You Down, and Invisible City, which was a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, one of the Boston Globe’s Best Books of 2014, and has been translated into eight languages. A former reporter for CBS News and the New York Post, she now teaches journalism at NYU.
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Jessie Chandler is the author of nine novels, including the slapstick Shay O’Hanlon Caper Series. Her crime fiction has garnered an Independent Publisher Book Award, three Golden Crown Literary Awards, three USA Book Awards, and an American Book Award. The fifth book in her Shay O’Hanlon Series was a Lambda Literary finalist.
Jessie is a past board member of the Midwest Chapter of Mystery Writers of America, a past vice president of the Twin Cities chapter of Sisters in Crime and is currently serving on the national board of MWA. She’s given workshops on how to moderate panels and how to be a team-playing panelist. For the last several years, she’s critiqued manuscripts for the MWA’s Manuscript Critique Program and MWA Midwest’s Mentor Program. She’s also mentored emerging writers through the Golden Crown Literary Society, of which she’s been a part of for the last seventeen years, as well as a charter member of the burgeoning OPUS Literary Alliance.
Fall and winter finds Jessie feverishly writing, and she spends springtime knee deep in edits and revisions. Summers are spent traveling to crazy, weird, awesome places.
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Ellen Hart previous podcast guest: https://www.sistersincrime.org/page/Ellen_Hart
Lori Lake: https://www.lorillake.com/
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Amy C. Condra serves as Member at Large on the national board of Sisters in Crime. She is an aspiring mystery writer who currently serves as a public affairs lead for the Department of Justice. Prior to joining government service, Amy worked as a journalist. She won several Virginia Press Association awards and is the author of Countries of the World: Vietnam (Gareth Stevens Publishing).
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Authors mentioned in the podcast:
- Ira Levine
- Daphne DuMaurier
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Susan Hammerman, a former rare book librarian, writes crime and neo-noir short stories. Her stories have appeared in Mystery Magazine, Dark City Mystery Magazine, Blood and Bourbon, Suspense Magazine, Retreats From Oblivion, Mondays are Murder, and the Stories (Within) anthology. She has served on the national board since 2021 and has been a member of Sisters in Crime since 2015.
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Libby Fischer Hellmann left a career in broadcast news in Washington, DC and moved to Chicago a long time ago, where she, naturally, began to write gritty crime fiction. She soon began writing historical fiction as well. Eighteen novels and twenty-five short stories later, she claims they’ll take her out of the Windy City feet first. She has been nominated for many awards in the mystery and crime writing community and has even won a few.
She has been a finalist twice for the Anthony and the Shamus; and four times for Foreword Magazine’s Book of the Year. She has also been nominated for the Agatha, the Daphne, and she won the Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year in 2021. She has won the IPPY, Foreword Magazine’s Indie Awards, and the Readers Choice Award multiple times.
Her latest novel, Max’s War: The Story of a Ritchie Boy, is the little known story of German Jewish immigrants to the US who escaped Hitler and joined the Army to fight Nazis.
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Vicki Delany is one of Canada’s most prolific and varied crime writers and a national bestseller in the U.S. She has written more than fifty books: clever cozies to Gothic thrillers to gritty police procedurals, to historical fiction and novellas for adult literacy. She is currently writing the Tea by the Sea mysteries, the Sherlock Holmes Bookshop series, the Year-Round Christmas mysteries, and the Lighthouse Library series (as Eva Gates).
Vicki is a past chair of the Crime Writers of Canada and co-founder and organizer of the Women Killing It Crime Writing Festival. Her work has been nominated for the Derringer, the Bony Blithe, the Ontario Library Association Golden Oak, and the Arthur Ellis Awards. Vicki is the recipient of the 2019 Derrick Murdoch Award for contributions to Canadian crime writing. She lives in Prince Edward County, Ontario.
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From the Conversation:Crime Writers of Canada: https://crimewriterscanada.com/
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JD Allen writes the Shamus Award-nominated Sin City investigation series. She is president of the Florida chapter of MWA, the current Sleuthfest Chair, a former chapter president of Sisters in Crime in North Carolina and Former Chair of the Bouchercon National Board. In the romance world, JD also published 11 books and novellas. She’s an Ohio State Univ. Alum with a degree in forensic anthropology and a creative writing minor. She’s a dyslexic cat lady who loves crime fiction and ocean views. JD moved to a lovely, downsized home in St Augustine, FL, just in time to quarantine with her mom, six cats, and a grumpy Brit.
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Alan Orloff has published eleven novels and fifty short stories. His work has won an Anthony, an Agatha, a Derringer, and two Thriller Awards. He’s also been a finalist for the Shamus Award and has had a story selected for THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES anthology. Alan’s latest suspense novel is SANCTUARY MOTEL, from Level Best Books. He lives and writes in South Florida, where the examples of hijinks are endless.
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Cathy Ace’s Cait Morgan Mysteries feature a criminal psychologist sleuth encountering traditional whodunits around the world (optioned for TV by Free@LastTV - Agatha Raisin); her WISE Enquiries Agency Mysteries feature a quartet of soft poached female PIs solving cozy cases from a Welsh stately home. Her Welsh suspense novel, The Wrong Boy, has also been optioned for TV. Shortlisted for Canada’s Bony Blithe Award three times, winning once, she’s also won IPPY and IBA Awards; her work’s been twice shortlisted for Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence, and the CrimeFictionLover Best Indie Novel. She migrated from Wales aged 40, and now lives in Canada. She's a Past Chair of Crime Writers of Canada.
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A writer of faith by day and mystery by night, Patricia Raybon is a Christy Award-winning author and essayist whose novels and books explore the daring intersection of faith and race. Her Annalee Spain Mysteries feature a young Black theologian—a fan of Sherlock Holmes—who solves crimes during Colorado’s dangerous 1920s Klan years. Her essays have been published in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Newsweek, USA Today, USA Weekend, Chicago Tribune, Denver Post, and aired on NPR’s Weekend Edition. Formerly a Sunday magazine editor at The Denver Post and a journalism faculty member at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Patricia lives near Denver with her husband Dan, a retired educator. With two grown daughters and five grandchildren, they enjoy movies, popcorn, college hoops, and any Masterpiece historical mystery or drama. Join her on the journey at patriciaraybon.com
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Bruce Robert Coffin is an award-winning novelist and short story writer. A retired detective sergeant, Bruce is the author of the Detective Byron Mysteries, co-author of the Turner and Mosley Files with LynDee Walker, and author of the forthcoming Detective Justice Mysteries.
Winner of Killer Nashville’s Silver Falchion Awards for Best Procedural, and Best Investigator, and the Maine Literary Award for Best Crime Fiction, Bruce was also a finalist for the Agatha Award for Best Contemporary Novel. His Anthony Award nominated short fiction has been published in a dozen anthologies, including Best American Mystery Stories, 2016.
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Mentioned in the Podcast:Finding Amy by Joseph K. Loughlin and Kate Clark Flora
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Bestselling author Carol J. Perry, Salem Massachusetts born, and now happily living in Florida with husband Dan, uses the scariest parts of each home state in her two cozy mystery series--the Witch City Mysteries and the Haunted Haven Mysteries--both published by Kensington.
www.caroljperry.com
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Connie Berry is the author of the Amazon and USA Today best-selling Kate Hamilton Mysteries, set in the UK and featuring an American antiques dealer with a gift for solving crimes. Like her protagonist, Connie was raised by antiques dealers who instilled in her a passion for history, fine art, and travel. In 2019 Connie won the IPPY Gold Medal for Mystery and was a finalist for the Agatha Award’s Best Debut. Her latest novel, The Shadow of Memory, was a finalist for the Edgar Award’s Lilian Jackson Braun award. She’s a member of Mystery Writers of America, the Crime Writers Association. She is currently president of the Guppies, an online chapter of Sisters in Crime. Besides reading and writing mysteries, Connie loves history, foreign travel, cute animals, and all things British. She lives in Delaware, Ohio, and northern Wisconsin with her husband and adorable Shih Tzu, Emmie.
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Sarah M. Chen is a children’s author and award-winning short story writer based in Los Angeles. Her noir novella, Cleaning Up Finn, was an Anthony finalist and IPPY Award winner. She's the co-editor for several anthologies, including Avenging Angelenos from Sisters in Crime / Los Angeles, and her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books and Hapa Mag/Mixed Asian Media, among others.
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Notes:Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts by Matt Bell
Save the Cat Writes a Young Adult Novel by Jessica Brody
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Katherine Hall Page was born and grew up in New Jersey, graduating from Livingston High School. Her father was the Executive Director of The Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation and her mother was an artist. Page has an older brother and a younger sister. Early on the family developed a love of the Maine coast, spending summer vacations on Deer Isle. She received her BA from Wellesley College, majoring in English and went on to a Masters in Secondary Education from Tufts and a Doctorate in Administration, Public Planning, and Social Policy from Harvard. College had brought her to Massachusetts and she continues to reside there. Before her career as a full-time writer, Ms. Page taught at the high school level for many years. She developed a program for adolescents with special emotional needs, a school within a school model, that dealt with issues of truancy, substance abuse, and family relationships. Those five years in particular were rich ones for her. This interest in individuals and human behavior later informed her writing.
Married for forty-eight years to Professor Alan Hein, an experimental psychologist at MIT, the couple have a forty-year-old son. It was during her husband's sabbatical year in France after the birth of their son that Ms. Page wrote her first mystery, The Body in the Belfry, 1991 Agatha Award winner for Best First Mystery Novel. The fifteenth in the series, The Body in the Snowdrift, won the 2006 Agatha Award for Best Mystery Novel. Ms. Page was also awarded the 2001 Agatha for Best Short Story for "The Would-Be Widower" in the Malice Domestic X collection (Avon Books). She was an Edgar nominee for her juvenile mystery, Christie & Company Down East. The Body in the Bonfire was an Agatha nominee in 2003. Page's short story, "The Two Mary's" was an Agatha nominee in 2004. The Body in the Lighthouse (2003) was one of three nominees for The Mary Higgins Clark Award. The Body in the Boudoir was a finalist in the 2013 Maine Literary Awards. Her series cookbook, Have Faith in Your Kitchen, was nominated for an Agatha in the non-fiction category, making her the first author to be nominated or win in all four Agatha categories. Katherine Hall Page received the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award from Malice Domestic and Crime Master for her work from the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance. The Body in the Web is out now from William Morrow in hardcover, paperback, large print, E-book, and audio editions. Ms. Page was named a 2024 Grand Master by MWA.
Descended from Norwegian-Americans on her mother's side and New Englanders on her father's, Ms. Page grew up listening to all sorts of stories. She remains an unabashed eavesdropper and will even watch your slides or home movies to hear your narration. Her books are the product of all the strands of her life and she plans to keep weaving.
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Michelle Falkoff is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia Law School, and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is the author of HOW TO PACK FOR THE END OF THE WORLD (2020), as well as PLAYLIST FOR THE DEAD (an NPR Great Read of 2015), PUSHING PERFECT (2016), and QUESTIONS I WANT TO ASK YOU (2018). She lives in Chicago.
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Mentioned in the Podcast:We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
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Mallika Narayanan is a writer, singer, and digital artist based in Pennsylvania. Her short fiction is featured in Ellipsis Zine, Bath Flash Fiction, Noctivagant Press, and elsewhere. She was a runner-up in the Retreat West 2022 Flash Fiction Prize and has been longlisted and shortlisted for various other prizes, including the Bath Flash Fiction Prize 2022 and the Fractured Lit Micro Fiction Prize 2021. Her critically acclaimed thriller IN THE DARK I SEE YOU debuted in October of 2023
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The Miami Music Mystery series’ main backdrop, the amazing city of Miami, Florida, is beloved and well-known to Zaida Alfaro. She was born and raised in Miami, and like the novel’s main character Vy, she is a singer/songwriter, Grammy considered, independent artist. All things relating to music or literature are her passion.
Many years ago, she became an avid reader of cozy mysteries. The story lines were intriguing, engaging, and funny at the same time. She was so inspired by the authors, that she decided to take her musical experiences, and put it on paper. She published her first novel, The Last Note, a Miami Music Mystery. Now, she has brought her characters back to life, in the sequel, In the Key of Dead, a Miami Music Mystery. The phobia's, the dream sequences, and the quirkiness of the main characters, are all based on facts. She hopes that she is able to, once again, show the readers of her novels, the love she has for Miami, the Cuban culture, her family, and music.
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Harini Nagendra is a professor of ecology at Azim Premji University, who features in the Stanford University list of 2% top-cited world scientists. She has written multiple award-winning non-fiction books on ecology, but mystery is closest to her heart. She also writes The Bangalore Detectives Club series, historical cozy crime books set in 1920s colonial India, featuring young feminist detective Kaveri Murthy.
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George Cramer, an enrolled descendant of the Karuk Tribe of California, enjoyed a forty-year investigative career in law enforcement and private and corporate investigations. He attended the Institute of American Indian Arts, earning his MFA in creative writing.
As a corporate and private Investigator, George conducted thousands of investigations throughout the Americas and Asia. He kept his investigative skills honed by volunteering as a Missing Person investigator at a California Police Department.
George’s short stories and poems have been published in numerous online and printed anthologies. The first book in his Hector Miguel Navarro series was published in May 2023.
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For decades Sarah Bewley worked as a playwright and freelance writer. She won several awards, including being the first woman to win the McLaren Comedy Prize, a comedy playwriting award. Her first book, EDEN BURNING, was released in April 2023. Frozen Eden, book 2 of the Eden County Mysteries, will be released in the spring of 2024.
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Elise Hart Kipness is a television sports reporter turned crime fiction writer. LIGHTS OUT is based on Elise’s experience in the high-pressure, adrenaline-pumping world of live TV. Like her protagonist, she chased marquee athletes through the tunnels of Madison Square Garden and stood before glaring lights reporting to national audiences. (At five feet, she often stood on a milk crate to interview NBA players). In addition to reporting for Fox Sports Network, Elise was a reporter at New York’s WNBC-TV, News 12 Long Island, and the Associated Press, covering events including the Olympics, NBA and NCAA Championships, and the US Open. She is currently Co-President of Sisters in Crime Connecticut. When not writing, Elise loves reading, binge-watching thrillers, and she will fight you for the last scoop of coffee ice cream. A graduate of Brown University, Elise has two college-age sons. Elise, her husband and their three labradoodles split their time between Key West, Florida and Stamford, Connecticut.
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Barbara Howard is the author of two cozy mystery series; Finding Home and The Clover City Files. Her stories feature a female amateur sleuth, diverse characters, and a dash of romance. She is a first generation tech geek turned master gardener. She returned to her Midwestern hometown after an extensive career as a Department of Defense Project Manager at the Pentagon and spends most of her time treasure hunting, spoiling her fur-babies, growing veggies, and plotting whodunits.
Memberships/Affiliations: Mystery Writers of America (MWA), Sisters in Crime (SinC), Great Lakes Fiction Writers (GLFW), Crime Writers of Color (CWoC), Gamma Xi Phi (GXP)
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Mentioned in the Podcast:Malice, Matrimony, and Murder: A Limited-Edition Collection of 25 Wedding Cozy Mystery and Crime Fiction Stories
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Victoria Thompson is the USA Today Bestselling author of the Edgar ® and Agatha Award nominated Gaslight Mystery series set in turn-of-the-century New York City and featuring midwife Sarah Brandt and police detective Frank Malloy. She also writes the Sue Grafton Memorial Award nominated Counterfeit Lady Series, featuring a female con artist and an honest attorney. In her spare time, she is an instructor in Seton Hill University’s Master’s degree program in writing popular fiction.
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Robin Henry is an Author Accelerator Certified Book Coach with an MLS (Library Science) and MA in Humanities. She has previously served on book award committees and as a writing contest judge for the Women’s Fiction Writers Association. She is a fan of the Oxford comma, hot beverages, and historical fiction—she can’t wait to read your story!
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Refuse to be Done by Matthew Bell
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Stephanie Argy (she/her) is an editor, writer, designer, and all-around storytelling professional. She is currently on staff at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), where she oversees books that help educators use edtech to transform learning. She also freelances for other publishers and organizations, and she currently serves on the Board of Governors of the Editorial Freelancers Association. Stephanie has made award-winning movies and written extensively about the art, craft, and technology of filmmaking. She is now developing her craft as a writer of historical mystery novels, and Sisters in Crime has been an invaluable source of inspiration, information, and camaraderie. She has a BA in History from UCLA, an MS in Journalism from Columbia University, and an MS in Writing with a Specialization in Book Publishing from Portland State University. She lives in Paris, France.
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Notes:Walter Mosley’s book This Year You Write Your Novel
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Michelle is a senior agent at Fuse Literary representing leaders in the crime fiction community, award-winners, and debut authors. She joined the agency after eight years in editorial at St. Martin’s Press, where she worked on fiction and nonfiction with high-profile personalities, New York Times bestsellers, and debuts. She has built her career finding underserved clients with major talent and helping them jump their careers to the next level.
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Linda Landrigan has had a longtime love affair with mystery. Earning her undergraduate degree from New College in Florida and her Master’s degree from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, Linda held a variety of jobs before landing a position as associate editor of Hitchcock under the magazine’s previous editor, Cathleen Jordan, with whom she had the privilege of working for five years. Assuming the mantle of editor-in-chief in 2002, Linda has also edited the commemorative anthology Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Presents Fifty Years of Crime and Suspense (2006) and the digital anthology Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Presents Thirteen Tales of New American Gothic (2012), and has found time to be active on the board of the New York City Chapter of the Women’s National Book Association. In 2008, Linda and her “partner in crime,” Janet Hutchings – editor of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine – were presented with the Poirot Award from Malice Domestic for their contributions to the mystery genre.
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Martin Edwards The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators
The Mystery Place: Home of the World’s Longest-Running Short Story Mystery Magazines https://www.themysteryplace.com/
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Barb Goffman is the author of the short story “Beauty and the Beyotch,” which won this year’s Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Awards. She’s been a finalist for national crime short story awards forty times and has won three Agatha Awards, two Macavitys, and one Anthony, Silver Falchion, and Ellery Queen Readers Award. Her next story will be “Real Courage,” coming soon in issue 14 of Black Cat Mystery Magazine. Barb works as a freelance editor, offering developmental, line, and copy editing services. She edits across the crime genre but especially enjoys working on traditional and cozy mysteries. She’s been the editor or coeditor of twelve anthologies, with three more forthcoming. She’s also an associate editor of Black Cat Weekly.
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G.M. Malliet’s first DCI St. Just mystery won the Agatha Award for Best First Novel. The series was later nominated for Anthony, Macavity, and Left Coast Crime awards. Her award-nominated Max Tudor series will continue in 2023 from Little, Brown. Three of her short stories recently placed in EQMM’s Readers Choice Award and her novella, "A Murder at Morehead Mews," was nominated for a Derringer.
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Nancy J. Cohen writes the Bad Hair Day Mysteries featuring South Florida hairstylist Marla Vail. Her books have been named Best Cozy Mystery by Suspense Magazine, won the Readers’ Favorite and FAPA President’s Book Awards, the RONE Award, the Royal Palm Literary Award, and IAN Book of the Year. She’s placed first in the Chanticleer International Book Awards and third in the Arizona Literary Awards. Active in the writing community, Nancy is a past president of the Florida Chapter of Mystery Writers of America. When not busy writing, she enjoys reading, fine dining, cruising, and visiting Disney World.
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Notes from the PodcastWriting the Cozy Mystery by Nancy J. Cohen
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Ellen Hart is the author of thirty five crime novels. She has won numerous awards, including the Lambda Literary award for Best Lesbian Mystery and the GCLS Trailblazer Award for lifetime achievement in the field of lesbian literature. She taught writing for 17 years through the Loft Literary Center, the largest independent writing community in the nation. In 2017, Ellen was named a Grand Master by Mystery Writers of America. This award was established to acknowledge important contributions to the genre, as well as for a body of work that is both significant and of consistent high quality.
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Notes from conversation: 2010 Publishing Summit Report https://www.sistersincrime.org/page/SummitReports
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma by Mustafa Suleyman
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Glen Erik Hamilton writes crime thrillers. His novels have been called “outstanding” (Publishers Weekly), “perfect mix of serious crime and caper movie” (Criminal Element), and “a must-read series” (Mystery Scene Magazine).
Hamilton’s debut novel Past Crimes won the Anthony, Macavity, and Strand Magazine Critics Awards, and was also nominated for the Edgar®, Barry, and Nero Awards. Kirkus called Past Crimes “an exciting heir to the classic detective novel.” Each of his subsequent books in the Van Shaw series have earned starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and more, and been published in North America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, Turkey, the Czech Republic, and Japan.
Glen grew up aboard a sailboat in Seattle, Washington, playing and occasionally finding trouble around the islands, marinas, and commercial docks of the Pacific Northwest. Whenever the boat drifted on calm seas, Glen would raid his parents’ bookshelves, passing the idle hours with Travis McGee, Spenser, and the labyrinthine plots of Patricia Highsmith and Fredrick Forsyth. Years later, Glen met his wife while both were performing in an Agatha Christie play. Prior to his fiction writing career he worked in wireless telecom, the gaming industry, and non-profit healthcare.
Glen served as President of the Southern California chapter of Mystery Writers of America from 2018-2019 and is also a member of International Thriller Writers and Sisters in Crime. He publicly acknowledges his addiction to the television show Columbo. After living for many years in Southern California, Glen and his family have recently returned to the Emerald City and its beautiful overcast skies.
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Marco Carocari originally hails from Switzerland and now lives in the Californian desert with his exceptionally sweet and supportive -aka patient- husband.
His debut novel, Blackout, was nominated for a Lefty and won TheNYCBigBookAward and Independent Press Award for Best LGBTQ Novel.
His short stories appeared in Malice Domestic 16: Mystery Most Diabolical (All In The Planning) and the Saints & Sinners 2023 Short Fiction Anthology (Grace).
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Website https://www.marcocarocari.com
Books mentioned in the podcast:New Yorked (Rob Hart)
Money Shot (Christa Faust)
The Song is You (Megan Abbott)
She Rides Shotgun/ The Last King of California (Jordan Harper)
About SinCSisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Like her Ground Rules Mystery series, Emmeline Duncan is based in Portland, Oregon. Her series includes 2021's Fresh Brewed Murder, Double Shot Death, and Flat White Fatality, plus more to come. Emmeline also writes for teens as Kelly Garrett. Her debut YA novel, The Last To Die, was an Oregon Book Awards finalist. She was also a 2020 Oregon Literary Fellow. When not writing, she spends her time seeking out new coffee shops and hiking trails to explore, frequently accompanied by her Great Pyrenees sidekick. You can track her online at emmelineduncan.com.
Notes from episodeSelf Editing for Fiction Writers bu Renni Brown and Dave King
Nora Ephron Ball Analogy: “Nora Ephron was speaking about how we’re all keeping a bunch of balls in the air at one time. We’re going to drop a few things but we should make sure that it’s a plastic ball (one that will bounce and recover) and save the glass ones (ones that would shatter or be irreparably harmed if dropped).” https://gwengavinbooks.wordpress.com/2020/02/07/juggling-all-the-things/
Shut Up and Write: https://shutupwrite.com/
Friends of Mystery series: https://www.friendsofmystery.org/
Social Links:Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/WriterEmmelineDuncan
Twitter https://twitter.com/DuncanEmmeline
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/writeremmelineduncan/
Website emmelineduncan.com
About SinCSisters in Crime (SinC) was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Rob Osler writes mysteries featuring LGBTQ+ main characters. Book one of his “Hayden & Friends” series, Devil’s Chew Toy, was a best first novel finalist for the 2023 Anthony, Macavity, Agatha, and Lefty Awards. Book two, Cirque du Slay, arrives early next year. Rob’s first-ever publication, Analogue (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine), won the 2022 Robert L Fish Award at the MWA Edgar Awards. Other shorts include Miss Direction (EQMM Sept/Oct 2023) and (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes, (Brutal & Strange: Stories Inspired by Elvis Costello Songs from Down & Out Books, Dec 2023). On the horizon is book one of a new historical series, Harriet Morrow Investigates, set in Chicago and featuring a queer female detective during America’s Progressive Era (Kensington Books, January 2025).
From Podcast:Queer Crime Writers http://queercrimewriters.com/
Ellery Queen https://www.elleryqueenmysterymagazine.com/
Rob's Social Media:Facebook Page www.facebook.com/roboslerwriter
Twitter www.twitter.com/robosler
Instagram www.instagram.com/roboslerwriter
Website https://robosler.com/
About SinC:Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Judge Debra H. Goldstein writes Kensington’s Sarah Blair mystery series. She is also the author of two standalones: Maze in Blue and Should Have Played Poker: a Carrie Martin and the Mah Jongg Players Mystery. Her novels and short stories have been named Agatha, Anthony, Derringer, Claymore (The Night for Sinners) and Silver Falchion finalists and received Silver Falchion, IPPY, AWC, and BWR awards. Debra’s short pieces have appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies including Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and Black Cat Mystery Magazine. She served on the national boards of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America, and was president of the Guppy and SEMWA chapters, and is returning to the national SinC board in October. A civic volunteer and mother of four, Debra is married to a man whose blood runs Crimson.
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/DebraHGoldsteinAuthor
Twitter @DebraHGoldstein
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/debrahgoldstein/
Website https://www.DebraHGoldstein.com
Notes:Anne George, Southern Sisters Mysteries
Chris Roerden, https://writersinfo.info/
Guppies, https://www.sinc-guppies.org/
Promophobia, https://www.sistersincrime.org/promophobia
Pitfalls in Publishing, https://www.sistersincrime.org/PitfallsinPublishing
About Sisters in Crime:Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Despite completing a Fine Arts degree, all Betty Hechtman ever wanted to be was a writer. She wrote a weekly column in her college newspaper and later wrote magazine and newspaper pieces along with short stories and a prize-winning screenplay before turning to novels. She has had over twenty-five books published across three mystery series, all of which include yarn craft. She lives with her family in Southern California.
Links:
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/BettyHechtmanauthor
Website www.BettyHechtman.com
About Sisters in CrimeSisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Andrea J. Johnson is the author of the Victoria Justice Mysteries about a trial stenographer turned amateur sleuth (think Murder, She Wrote meets The Pelican Brief). She holds an M.F.A. in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University and a copyediting certification from UC San Diego. She currently teaches creative writing and African American literature at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, and her craft essays have appeared on several websites such as CrimeReads and LitReactor. Andrea has also contributed to the women’s lifestyle websites Popsugar and The List Daily. In addition, she has written a series of nonfiction books that include How to Craft a Killer Cozy Mystery, Mastering the Art of Suspense, and How to Craft Killer Dialogue.
Website: https://ajthenovelist.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajthenovelist
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ajthenovelist/
About SinCSisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Bonnar Spring writes eclectic international thrillers. A nomad at heart, she hitchhiked across Europe at sixteen and joined the Peace Corps after college. After living and teaching overseas, Bonnar returned to the US where she earned an Ed.M. from Harvard and taught ESL for many years.
Bonnar recently trekked to Macchu Picchu for a significant birthday. Her award-winning debut, TOWARD THE LIGHT, is set in Guatemala, and the newly-released DISAPPEARED takes place in Morocco.
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/bonnar.spring.7
Twitter https://twitter.com/gretagarbo42
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bonnarspring/
Website https://bonnarspring.com/
Mentioned in the podcast:
Phyllis A. Whitney Quote: “A map is not a journey.”
Guppies–the Great Unpublished, an online chapter of Sisters in Crime https://www.sinc-guppies.org/
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Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Peggy Ehrhart is a former English professor with a doctorate in Medieval Literature. Her Maxx Maxwell mysteries, Sweet Man Is Gone (2008) and Got No Friend Anyhow (2011), were published by Five Star/Gale/Cengage and feature a blues-singer sleuth.
Peggy is currently writing the Knit & Nibble mysteries for Kensington. Her amateur sleuth, Pamela Paterson, is the founder and mainstay of the Arborville, New Jersey, knitting club, nicknamed Knit and Nibble. Knit & Nibble #9, Irish Knit Murder, was a March 2023 release. Knit & Nibble #10, Knitmare on Beech Street, will appear in December 2023, and Murder Most Irish will appear next spring in Kensington’s 2024 St. Patrick’s Day novella anthology, Irish Milkshake Murder.
Website www.PeggyEhrhart.com
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Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Leigh Perry/Toni L.P. Kelner is two authors in one. As Leigh, she writes the Family Skeleton mysteries, featuring adjunct English professor Georgia Thackery and her skeletal pal Sid. The sixth, The Skeleton Stuffs a Stocking, was published in 2019. As Toni, she’s written eleven mystery novels and co-edited urban fantasy anthologies with Charlaine Harris. And under both names, she writes short fiction. She's been nominated for the Anthony, the Macavity, and the Derringer, and has won the Agatha Award and an RT BookClub Lifetime Achievement Award. Her most recent publication was a short story in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and forthcoming is a contribution to an anthology inspired by Father Knox's Ten Rules for Writing Mystery Fiction. These days, she's working on a seventh Family Skeleton novel.
Connect with Toni/Leigh:Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/LeighPerryAuthor
Instagram @leighperryauthor
Website leighperryauthor.com
Mentioned in the podcast:Lawrence Block writing books: https://lawrenceblock.com/series/books-for-writers/
The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man by David Maurer
About Sisters in CrimeSisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Carola Dunn was born and grew up in England. Almost all of her books are set there (with forays to Russia, Istanbul, Costa Rica et al), though she has lived in the US for most of her life. The author of 27 mysteries, the Daisy Dalrymple series set in the 1920s, and the Cornish mysteries set around 1960, she has also written over 32 Regencies. She lives in Oregon with her Border heeler Callie (with forays to Southern California to see the grandkids).
Social Media Links:Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/CarolaDunnMysteryAuthor
Website https://caroladunn.weebly.com/
About Sisters in CrimeSisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
During her career in television news, Myra created Emmy Award winning special reports and investigations and told stories of true crime. But her love of traditional and cozy mysteries motivated her to write the Sarah Doucette Jean-Louis Mystery series. The stories are based in the San Francisco Bay Area and give a nod to Myra’s childhood, growing up in the progressive Berkeley, California with conventional Louisiana Creole parents.
The U.C. Berkeley Bancroft library has included Myra’s mysteries in their local authors collection. Myra has appeared on Geraldo Rivera’s true crime show, “Murder in the Family,” which tells the stories of celebrities who have been victimized by crime. She has also appeared in segments of the TV One crime series, “For My Man,” a reality show about women who commit crimes for the men in their lives.
Myra credits Sisters in Crime and its chapters with providing the tools and environment for women to hone their writing skills, and to enter a supportive crime writing community.
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/MyrasCreoleMysteries/
Instagram www.instagram.com/myra_jolivet
Website https://myrajolivet.com/
Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Before he became a mystery writer and reviewer, Brookins was a freelance photographer, a Public Television program director, a Cable TV administrator, and a counselor and faculty member at Metropolitan State University in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He has reviewed mystery fiction for the Saint Paul Pioneer Press and for Mystery Scene Magazine. His reviews appear at Barnes & Noble and Amazon Internet sites, on his own web site, Books n' Bytes, and on the popular news group, DorothyL. Several authors with blogs carry his reviews as well. Brookins is an avid recreational sailor. With his wife and friends he has sailed in many locations across the world. He is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and Private Eye Writers of America.
Brookins writes the sailing adventure series featuring Michael Tanner and Mary Whitney, the Sean Sean private investigator detective series, and the Jack Marston academic series.
Mentioned in the podcast:
The Silence of the Loons
Website: http://www.carlbrookins.com/
Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Tina Kashian writes the best-selling Kebab Kitchen Mediterranean mystery series, and her first book, "Hummus and Homicide," spent six weeks on the B&N bestseller list. Tina is an attorney and a mechanical engineer whose love of reading for pleasure helped her get through years of academia. Tina spent her childhood summers at the Jersey shore building sandcastles, boogie boarding, and riding the boardwalk Ferris wheel. She also grew up in the restaurant business, as her Armenian parents owned a restaurant for thirty years. Tina also writes historical romance as Tina Gabrielle. Please visit her website at www.tinakashian.com to join her newsletter, receive delicious recipes, enter contests, and more.
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/TinaKashianAuthor/
Twitter https://twitter.com/TinaKashian1
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tinakashian/
Website www.tinakashian.com
Destination Murders Anthologies: https://destinationmurders.com/
Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
ABOUT THE PRIDE AWARD
The Pride Award is an annual grant of $2,000 for an emerging writer in the LGBTQIA+ community. Here's what is required for submission:
- An unpublished work of crime fiction, aimed at readers from children’s chapter books through adults. This may be a short story or first chapter(s) of a manuscript in-progress of 2,500 to 5,000 words.
- A resume or biographical statement.
- A cover letter that gives a sense of the applicant as an emerging writer in the genre and briefly states how the award money would be used. (How the money might be used is not a deciding factor in the judges’ decision.)
An unpublished writer is preferred, however publication of not more than ten pieces of short fiction and/or up to two self-published or traditionally published books will not disqualify an applicant. While no prior writing or publishing experience is required, the applicant should include any relevant studies or experience in their materials.
For more info: https://www.sistersincrime.org/page/Pride
Elle Marr is a #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author of thrillers. Her latest book THE FAMILY BONES earned a starred review from Publishers Weekly, which called it a "mesmerizing psychological thriller." Originally from Sacramento, Elle graduated from UC San Diego before moving to France, where she earned a master’s degree from the Sorbonne University in Paris. She now lives and writes in Oregon with her family.
Mentioned in the episode:
- Stephen King ON WRITING
- Jessica Brody SAVE THE CAT WRITES A NOVEL
- Richard Bachman THE REGULATORS
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/ellemarrauthor
Twitter https://twitter.com/ellemarr_
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ellemarrauthor/
Website https://ellemarr.com/
Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
ABOUT THE PRIDE AWARDThe Pride Award is an annual grant of $2,000 for an emerging writer in the LGBTQIA+ community. Here's what is required for submission:
- An unpublished work of crime fiction, aimed at readers from children’s chapter books through adults. This may be a short story or first chapter(s) of a manuscript in-progress of 2,500 to 5,000 words.
- A resume or biographical statement.
- A cover letter that gives a sense of the applicant as an emerging writer in the genre and briefly states how the award money would be used. (How the money might be used is not a deciding factor in the judges’ decision.)
An unpublished writer is preferred, however publication of not more than ten pieces of short fiction and/or up to two self-published or traditionally published books will not disqualify an applicant. While no prior writing or publishing experience is required, the applicant should include any relevant studies or experience in their materials.
For more info: https://www.sistersincrime.org/page/Pride
SJ Rozan's eighteen novels and eighty-plus short stories have won multiple awards, including the Edgar, Shamus, Anthony, Nero, and Macavity, and also the Japanese Maltese Falcon. She's been honored with Life Achievement Awards from both the Private Eye Writers of America and the Short Mystery Fiction Society. Many of her stories have appeared in various "Best Of" collections, and she's edited three anthologies.
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/AuthorSJRozan
Twitter https://twitter.com/SJRozan
Instagram https://twitter.com/SJRozan
Website www,sjrozan.net
Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
ABOUT THE PRIDE AWARD
The Pride Award is an annual grant of $2,000 for an emerging writer in the LGBTQIA+ community. Here's what is required for submission:
- An unpublished work of crime fiction, aimed at readers from children’s chapter books through adults. This may be a short story or first chapter(s) of a manuscript in-progress of 2,500 to 5,000 words.
- A resume or biographical statement.
- A cover letter that gives a sense of the applicant as an emerging writer in the genre and briefly states how the award money would be used. (How the money might be used is not a deciding factor in the judges’ decision.)
An unpublished writer is preferred, however publication of not more than ten pieces of short fiction and/or up to two self-published or traditionally published books will not disqualify an applicant. While no prior writing or publishing experience is required, the applicant should include any relevant studies or experience in their materials.
For more info: https://www.sistersincrime.org/page/Pride
Winnie M Li is an author and activist. Her latest novel Complicit draws from her earlier career in the film industry. It was a New York Times’ Editors’ Choice, and listed among the Best Crime Novels of 2022 by CrimeReads and The Irish Times. A Harvard graduate, she previously wrote for travel guide books, produced independent feature films, and programmed for film festivals. Her debut Dark Chapter won The Guardian’s Not The Booker Prize, was nominated for an Edgar Award, and translated into ten languages. She is currently adapting it for the screen. Driven by her own experience of rape, Winnie advocates publicly around sexual violence and consent, and holds an honorary doctorate of law from the National University of Ireland in recognition of her writing and activism. A New Jersey native, Winnie has lived and worked abroad for over 20 years, primarily in England.
Twitter Handle @winniemli
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/winniemli/
Instagram Handle winniemli
Website URL http://winniemli.com
Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
ABOUT THE PRIDE AWARDThe Pride Award is an annual grant of $2,000 for an emerging writer in the LGBTQIA+ community. Here's what is required for submission:
- An unpublished work of crime fiction, aimed at readers from children’s chapter books through adults. This may be a short story or first chapter(s) of a manuscript in-progress of 2,500 to 5,000 words.
- A resume or biographical statement.
- A cover letter that gives a sense of the applicant as an emerging writer in the genre and briefly states how the award money would be used. (How the money might be used is not a deciding factor in the judges’ decision.)
An unpublished writer is preferred, however publication of not more than ten pieces of short fiction and/or up to two self-published or traditionally published books will not disqualify an applicant. While no prior writing or publishing experience is required, the applicant should include any relevant studies or experience in their materials.
For more info: https://www.sistersincrime.org/page/Pride
Kim Keeline, when not running a 1907 Steam Locomotive or lecturing on Shakespeare, is active in the mystery community, including organizing Bouchercon 2023: San Diego. Her first published story was a 2021 Derringer finalist. Check www.kimkeeline.com for her short stories, novel in progress and freelance work for authors in marketing & web designing.
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/kimkeelineauthor
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kimkeeline
Website https://www.kimkeeline.com
Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
ABOUT THE PRIDE AWARD
The Pride Award is an annual grant of $2,000 for an emerging writer in the LGBTQIA+ community. Here's what is required for submission:
An unpublished work of crime fiction, aimed at readers from children’s chapter books through adults. This may be a short story or first chapter(s) of a manuscript in-progress of 2,500 to 5,000 words.
A resume or biographical statement.
A cover letter that gives a sense of the applicant as an emerging writer in the genre and briefly states how the award money would be used. (How the money might be used is not a deciding factor in the judges’ decision.)
An unpublished writer is preferred, however publication of not more than ten pieces of short fiction and/or up to two self-published or traditionally published books will not disqualify an applicant. While no prior writing or publishing experience is required, the applicant should include any relevant studies or experience in their materials.
For more info: https://www.sistersincrime.org/page/Pride
Crime, mystery, fantasy, and sci-fi author Claire A Murray has more than a dozen short stories published. One story earned Honorable Mention and two took third place in competitions, and she’s compiling a collection for a fall 2023 release.
She is finishing a suspense-fantasy novel, has a trilogy in progress, and needs to edit a completed amateur sleuth novel. A former educator, manager, and advocate, she hosts weekly Zoom write-ins for aspiring and published authors and is active with critique groups.
Claire is President of Sisters in Crime Desert Sleuths Chapter. In 2022, she developed and cohosted Anthology Jam, a 6-session write-in/discussion program for the chapter focused on short story writing skills, tips, and resources.
She belongs to four SinC chapters, the Short Mystery Fiction Society, and Mystery Writers of America.
Links:
https://cam-writes.com, Where Character, Crime, and Mystery Collide
Facebook Page https://facebook.com/Clairemurraywrites/
Twitter https://twitter.com/Clamo88/
Instagram https://instagram.com/clairemurraywrites/
Website https://cam-writes.com/
About Sisters in Crime
Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
ABOUT THE PRIDE AWARDThe Pride Award is an annual grant of $2,000 for an emerging writer in the LGBTQIA+ community. Here's what is required for submission:
- An unpublished work of crime fiction, aimed at readers from children’s chapter books through adults. This may be a short story or first chapter(s) of a manuscript in-progress of 2,500 to 5,000 words.
- A resume or biographical statement.
- A cover letter that gives a sense of the applicant as an emerging writer in the genre and briefly states how the award money would be used. (How the money might be used is not a deciding factor in the judges’ decision.)
An unpublished writer is preferred, however publication of not more than ten pieces of short fiction and/or up to two self-published or traditionally published books will not disqualify an applicant. While no prior writing or publishing experience is required, the applicant should include any relevant studies or experience in their materials.
For more info: https://www.sistersincrime.org/page/Pride
Cheryl A. Head writes the Anthony, and Lambda Literary Award nominated; and Goldie and IPPY Award winning, Charlie Mack Motown Mysteries. The most recent book in the series, Warn Me When It’s Time, was dubbed “chilling and prescient” by The New York Times.
Cheryl’s latest book, Time’s Undoing, a crime novel based on her family’s personal tragedy, was an Indie Next pick, an Amazon Best Book of March, and is an Amazon Editors Pick for Best Mystery, Thriller, and Suspense.
Formerly of Detroit, Head’s books are included in the Special Collections of the Library of Michigan, and the Detroit Public Library’s African-American Books list. She is the Vice Chair of the Bouchercon Board of Directors.
Cheryl lives in Washington, DC with her partner, and canine supervisors: Abby and Frisby.
Cheryl's Social Links:www.cherylhead.com
https://www.twitter/cheaddc
https://www.instagram/cheadwrites
https://www.facebook.com/cheryl.head.104/
Discussed on the podcast:Long Way Home: A World War II Novel by Cheryl A Head
Dru Ann Love’s blog: https://drusbookmusing.com/
This episode was released in June of 2022.
About Sisters in CrimeSisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
ABOUT THE PRIDE AWARDThe Pride Award is an annual grant of $2,000 for an emerging writer in the LGBTQIA+ community. Here's what is required for submission:
- An unpublished work of crime fiction, aimed at readers from children’s chapter books through adults. This may be a short story or first chapter(s) of a manuscript in-progress of 2,500 to 5,000 words.
- A resume or biographical statement.
- A cover letter that gives a sense of the applicant as an emerging writer in the genre and briefly states how the award money would be used. (How the money might be used is not a deciding factor in the judges’ decision.)
An unpublished writer is preferred, however publication of not more than ten pieces of short fiction or up to two self-published or traditionally published books will not disqualify an applicant. While no prior writing or publishing experience is required, the applicant should include any relevant studies or experience in their materials.
For more info: https://www.sistersincrime.org/page/Pride
John Copenhaver’s historical crime novel, Dodging and Burning (Pegasus), won the 2019 Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel and garnered Anthony, Strand Critics, Barry, and Lambda Literary Award nominations. His second novel, The Savage Kind (Pegasus), won the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBTQ Mystery and was a finalist for Left Coast Crime’s Best Historical Mystery. He cohosts on the House of Mystery Radio Show, and for many years, wrote a crime fiction review column for Lambda Literary called “Blacklight.” He’s a faculty mentor in University of Nebraska’s Low-Residency MFA program, and he teaches at VCU in Richmond, VA. His forthcoming third novel, Hall of Mirrors, is the sequel to The Savage Kind.
Facebook Page www.facebook.com/johncopenhaverauthor
Twitter www.twitter.com/johncopenhaver
Instagram www.instagram.com/johncope74
Website www.johncopenhaver.com
This episode was first aired in September 2021.
Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
ABOUT THE PRIDE AWARD
The Pride Award is an annual grant of $2,000 for an emerging writer in the LGBTQIA+ community. Here's what is required for submission:
An unpublished work of crime fiction, aimed at readers from children’s chapter books through adults. This may be a short story or first chapter(s) of a manuscript in-progress of 2,500 to 5,000 words.
A resume or biographical statement.
A cover letter that gives a sense of the applicant as an emerging writer in the genre and briefly states how the award money would be used. (How the money might be used is not a deciding factor in the judges’ decision.)
An unpublished writer is preferred, however publication of not more than ten pieces of short fiction and/or up to two self-published or traditionally published books will not disqualify an applicant. While no prior writing or publishing experience is required, the applicant should include any relevant studies or experience in their materials.
For more info: https://www.sistersincrime.org/page/Pride
Catherine Maiorisi is the author of the NYPD Detective Chiara Corelli mystery series featuring Corelli and her reluctant partner, Detective P.J. Parker. Two tough women fighting each other while standing against the blue wall and solving high profile crimes.
The four books in the series are: A Matter of Blood, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, The Blood Runs Cold, a GCLS Goldie finalist and a Lambda Literary Award finalist, A Message in Blood, a GCLS Goldie finalist, and Legacy in the Blood.
Catherine has also published four mystery short stories in the Murder New York Style Anthologies, four full-length romances, and four romance short stories.
Her first general fiction, The Disappearance of Lindy James, won the 2022 GCLS Goldie for General Fiction.
Catherine is an active member of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America. She is also a member of the Golden Crown Literary Society.
Facebook Page Catherine Maiorisi
Website www.catherinemaiorisi.com
Mentioned in the podcast:
Elizabeth George From Idea to Novel: http://www.elizabethgeorgeonline.com/books/mastering_the_process.htm
Sol Stein books: https://www.thriftbooks.com/a/sol-stein/241201/
Carolyn Wheat Write Killer Fiction
Golden Crown Literary Society: https://www.goldencrownliterarysociety.org/
Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
ABOUT THE PRIDE AWARD
The Pride Award is an annual grant of $2,000 for an emerging writer in the LGBTQIA+ community. Here's what is required for submission:
An unpublished work of crime fiction, aimed at readers from children’s chapter books through adults. This may be a short story or first chapter(s) of a manuscript in-progress of 2,500 to 5,000 words.
A resume or biographical statement.
A cover letter that gives a sense of the applicant as an emerging writer in the genre and briefly states how the award money would be used. (How the money might be used is not a deciding factor in the judges’ decision.)
An unpublished writer is preferred, however publication of not more than ten pieces of short fiction and/or up to two self-published or traditionally published books will not disqualify an applicant. While no prior writing or publishing experience is required, the applicant should include any relevant studies or experience in their materials.
For more info: https://www.sistersincrime.org/page/Pride
Martha M. Geaney is the author of the amateur sleuth Star O'Brien mystery series which begins with "Death on Clare Island." The series is set County Mayo, Ireland. Martha currently serves as the President of Citrus Crime Writers in Central Florida. She has been a member of SinC since 2017. Martha earned her Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies, and before turning to the mystery life, served as dean of a business college in the Pennsylvania State University system. Martha and her agility puppy, Turlough reside in Florida.
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/mgeaneyauthor
Twitter https://twitter.com/mgeaneyauthor
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mgeaneyauthor
Website https://martha-geaney.com
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Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Rhys is the NYT bestselling author of the Royal Spyness novels as well as the Molly Murphy mysteries she now writes with her daughter Clare Broyles. In addition Rhys writes internationally bestselling stand alone historical novels, mostly set in WWII. She has received three Edgar nominations and won twenty awards to date, as well as being published in over thirty languages. Rhys was born and educated in Britain, worked in BBC drama but now divides her time between California and Arizona
Facebook Page www.Facebook.com/rhysbowenauthor
Twitter www.twitter.com/rhysbowen
Instagram www.instagram.com/Authorrhysbowen
Website Www.rhysbowen.com
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Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
With over 21 million copies of her books in print over a career spanning four decades, New York Times bestselling author J.A. JANCE is the author of the Ali Reynolds series (with COLLATERAL DAMAGE being the most recent), the J.P. Beaumont series, the Joanna Brady series, a series of Southwestern thrillers featuring the Walker family, a volume of poetry, and more. Born in South Dakota and brought up in Bisbee, Arizona, she lives with her husband in Seattle.
Blog post: Sometimes No Is the Right Answer: http://jajance.com/Blog/2023/03/03/sometimes-no-is-the-right-answer/
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/JAJance
Twitter https://twitter.com/JAJance
Website https://www.jajance.com/
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Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
SinC Auction! May 18-21
Susanna Calkins writes award-winning historical fiction, including the Lucy Campion mysteries set in 17th century London and the Speakeasy Murders set in 1920s Chicago. Her books have been nominated for the Agatha, Mary Higgins Clark, Anthony, Macavity, and Lefty (best historical). She holds a PhD in early modern English history and is currently a university administrator. She grew up in Philadelphia and lives in the Chicago area, with her husband and two sons.
Facebook Page www.facebook.com/authorSusannaCalkins
Twitter @scalkins3
Website www.susannacalkins.edu
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Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
We celebrated our 100th episode with two of the people responsible for this project, former SinC presidents Lori Rader-Day and Sandra SG Wong. Join us as we celebrate 100 episodes and catch up with these fabulous people.
Sandra SG Wong (she/her) writes fiction across genres, including the cross-genre Lola Starke novels, Crescent City short stories, and the bestselling standalone suspense novel, IN THE DARK WE FORGET. A hybrid author, she has been a Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence finalist and a Whistler Independent Book Awards nominee. Wong has been involved with genre and literary organizations, conferences, festivals, and workshops across Canada and the United States. She served on the Sisters in Crime national board as its first president of Asian heritage, and currently chairs its DEIJB Advisory Committee. She is also an active member of Crime Writers of Color.
Website: https://sgwong.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/S\_G\_Wong
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sgwong8/
Lori Rader-Day is the Edgar® Award-nominated and Agatha, Anthony, and Mary Higgins Clark award-winning author of Death at Greenway, The Lucky One, Under a Dark Sky, The Day I Died, Little Pretty Things, and The Black Hour. Her next contemporary suspense novel, THE DEATH OF US, will be released in the fall of 2023. She lives in Chicago, where she is co-chair of the mystery readers’ festival Midwest Mystery Conference (fka Murder and Mayhem in Chicago) and served as 2019-2020 national president of Sisters in Crime. She teaches creative writing for Northwestern University’s School of Professional Studies.
Website: https://loriraderday.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LoriRaderDay
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/loriraderdaybooks
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/loriraderday/
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About Sisters in Crime
Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Cara Black is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 20 books in the Private Investigator Aimée Leduc series, and two World War II-set novels featuring American markswoman Kate Rees. Cara has received multiple nominations for the Anthony and Macavity Awards, a Washington Post Book World Book of the Year citation, the Médaille de la Ville de Paris—the Paris City Medal, which is awarded in recognition of contribution to international culture.
Cara's Social Media:
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/CaraBlackAuthor/
Twitter https://twitter.com/carablack
Instagram https://instagram.com/carablackauthor/
Website https://www.carablack.com
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About Sisters in Crime
Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Son of a mechanic and a librarian with roots in the Texas Hill Country and the Mississippi Delta, Gary Phillips must keep writing to forestall his appointment at the crossroads. He is the editor of South Central Noir and the Anthony winning The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir. The Washington Post and Booklist selected his most recent novel One-Shot Harry as one of the best mysteries of 2022. He was also a writer and co-producer on FX's Snowfall which streams on Hulu about crack and the CIA in 1980s South Central where he grew up.
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/gary.phillips.357284
Website https://gdphillips.com
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Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Linda L. Richards is the award-winning author of 16 books. The founder and publisher of January Magazine and a contributing editor to the crime fiction blog The Rap Sheet, she is best known for her strong female protagonists in the thriller genre. Richards is from Vancouver, Canada and currently makes her home in Phoenix, Arizona. Linda will have two books published in 2023: The noir thriller DEAD WEST (Oceanview Publishing), third in the Endings series, comes out in September. A work on non-fiction for 9 to 13 year olds, WILD HORSES: RUNNING FREE (Orca Publishing), is out in October. Linda’s 2021 novel, ENDINGS, was recently optioned by a major studio for series production. Richards is an accomplished horsewoman and an avid tennis player. She enjoys yoga, hiking, cooking and playing guitar, though not at the same time.
Mentioned in the podcast:
January Magazine https://januarymagazine.com/wp/author/lindalrichards/
Walter Mosley This Year You Write Your Novel
James A, Michener Writer’s Handbook: Exploration on Writing and Publishing
Stephen King On Writing
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/lindalrichardsauthor
Twitter https://twitter.com/lindalrichards
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lindalrichards/
Website https://lindalrichards.com/
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Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
LynDee Walker is the Amazon Charts bestselling author of two crime fiction series featuring strong heroines. Her first Nichelle Clarke crime thriller, FRONT PAGE FATALITY, was a finalist for the Agatha Award, and her Texas Ranger Faith McClellan novel LEAVE NO STONE was named a Thriller Award finalist. Reviews have praised her work as "well-crafted, compelling, and fast-paced," and "an edge-of-your-seat ride" with "a spider web of twists and turns that will keep you reading until the end." Before she started writing fiction, LynDee was an award-winning journalist who covered everything from ribbon cuttings to high level police corruption. Her work has appeared in newspapers and magazines across the U.S. LynDee’s favorite things are porches, beaches, books, and coffee. She lives in Richmond, Virginia, where she is working on her next novel when she's not juggling laundry and children's sports schedules.
Mentioned in podcast:
Bruce Robert Coffin’s John Byron series http://www.brucerobertcoffin.com/books.html
The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection Pile by Noah Lukeman
Facebook Page www.facebook.com/lyndeewalkerbooks
Twitter www.twitter.com/LynDeeWalker
Instagram www.lyndeewalkerbooks
Website www.lyndeewalker.com
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Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Misty Simon always wanted to be a storyteller…preferably behind a Muppet. Animal was number one, followed closely by Sherlock Hemlock… Since that dream didn’t come true, she began writing stories to share her world with readers, one laugh at a time.
Touching people’s hearts and funny bones are two of her favorite things, and she hopes everyone at least snickers in the right places when reading her books. She lives with her husband in Central Pennsylvania where she is hard at work on her next novel or three.
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/MistySimonAuthor
Twitter https://twitter.com/mistysimon
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/gabbyallanspeaks
Website www.mistysimon.com
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Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Anne Laughlin is the author of seven novels published by Bold Strokes Books. Her work has won four Goldie Awards and been short listed three times for a Lammy Award. In addition to writing novels, Anne reviews books for The Gay & Lesbian Review and the Lambda Literary Review. She is a board member of Mystery Writers of America/Midwest and a member of MWA's Queer Advisory Board. She has attended many writing residencies, including those at Ragdale and Vermont Studio Center. She is currently working on a historical fiction novel set in Berlin before and during WWII.
Facebook Page www.facebook.com/annelaughlin
Website www.annelaughlinwriter.com
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Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Wendy H. Jones is the award-winning, best-selling Scottish author of the Detective Inspector Shona McKenzie Mysteries, Cass Claymore Investigates Mysteries, Fergus and Flora Mysteries, Bertie the Buffalo Picture Book Series, and the Writing Matters Series of non-fiction books for writers. She is also the President of the Scottish Association of Writers, an international public speaker. When not writing she loves to read, travel, attend theatre productions and eat out. Sometimes she combines them all.
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/wendyhjonesauthor/
Twitter https://twitter.com/WendyHJones
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/wendyhjones/
Website https://www.wendyhjones.com
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Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Kellye Garrett is the author of the upcoming suspense novel Like A Sister (Mulholland Books) and the acclaimed Detective by Day lightweight mysteries. The first, Hollywood Homicide, won the Anthony, Agatha, Lefty, and IPPY for best first novel. It’s also one of BookBub’s “Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time.” The second, Hollywood Ending, was featured on the TODAY show’s Best Summer Reads of 2019 and was nominated for both Anthony and Lefty awards. She serves on Sisters in Crime’s national board and is a co-founder of Crime Writers of Color. Learn more at KellyeGarrett.com.
Website: www.KellyeGarrett.com
Twitter: www.twitter.com/kellyekell
The Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award is an annual grant of $2,000 for an emerging writer of color. Submissions are open through March 31. For more information, go to this website. https://www.sistersincrime.org/page/eleanortaylorbland
You don’t have to be a member of Sisters in Crime to submit your materials for consideration.
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Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Sujata Massey is the author of fifteen novels, most of them mysteries. Starting with The Widows of Malabar Hill, the three books in this historical feminist series set in 1920s India have won the Agatha, Macavity, Lefty, and Mary Higgins Clark awards, and been finalists for the Shamus and Harper Lee Legal Fiction awards. Her earlier mystery series featuring amateur sleuth Rei Shimura is set in modern Japan. Sujata is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and is a former reporter for the Baltimore Evening Sun newspaper. She lives in Baltimore with her family and travels to Asia to research her books.
Books mentioned in the podcast:
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Artists Way by Julia Cameron
Seven Steps on the Writer's Path: The Journey from Frustration to Fulfillment by Nancy Pickard and Lynn Lott
Facebook Page http://facebook.com/sujatamasseyauthor
Twitter @sujatamasseyauthor
Instagram sujatamasseyauthor
Website http://sujatamassey.com
This episode was recorded in February 2022.
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The Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award is an annual grant of $2,000 for an emerging writer of color. Submissions are open through March 31. For more information, go to this website. https://www.sistersincrime.org/page/eleanortaylorbland
You don’t have to be a member of Sisters in Crime to submit your materials for consideration.
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Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Tracy Clark, a native Chicagoan, is the author of the Cass Raines Chicago Mystery series, featuring ex-cop turned PI Cassandra Raines. A multi-nominated Anthony, Lefty, Edgar, Macavity, and Shamus Award finalist, Tracy is also the 2020 and 2022 winner of the G.P. Putnam’s Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award and the 2022 Sara Paretsky Award, which honors crime writers from the Midwest. Tracy was also nominated for the 2022 Edgar for Best Short Story for “Lucky Thirteen,” which was included in the crime fiction anthology “Midnight Hour.” She is a proud member of Crime Writers of Color, Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime and serves on the boards of Bouchercon National and the Midwest Mystery Conference. HIDE, her new, police procedural, featuring Det. Harriet Foster of the Chicago Police Department, released in January 2023. The second entry in the series, FALL, releases in Dec. 2023. Tracy loves old black-and-white movies, a good nap, and a really spicy ginger snap served with ice-cold milk. When she’s not writing, she’s thinking about writing and admits to finding characters in the most unusual places.
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/tclarkbooks
Twitter @tracypc6161
Instagram tpclark2000
Website www.tracyclarkbooks.com
This podcast episode was recorded in June 2021.
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The Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award is an annual grant of $2,000 for an emerging writer of color. Submissions are open through March 31. For more information, go to this website. https://www.sistersincrime.org/page/eleanortaylorbland
You don’t have to be a member of Sisters in Crime to submit your materials for consideration.
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Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Mia P. Manasala
Mia P. Manansala (MAH-nahn-sah-lah) (she/her) is a writer and book coach from Chicago who loves books, baking, and bad-ass women. She uses humor (and murder) to explore aspects of the Filipino diaspora, queerness, and her millennial love for pop culture.
Her debut novel, ARSENIC AND ADOBO, came out May 4, 2021 with Berkley/Penguin Random House and is the first in the Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery series. She is the winner of the 2022 Anthony Award for Best First Novel, 2022 Macavity Award for Best First Novel, 2022 RUSA Reading List for Mystery, 2021 Agatha Award for Best First Novel, 2018 Hugh Holton Award, the 2018 Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award, the 2017 William F. Deeck - Malice Domestic Grant for Unpublished Writers, and the 2016 Mystery Writers of America/Helen McCloy Scholarship. She was shortlisted for the 2021 Goodreads Choice Award for Mystery/Thriller and the 2021 CHIRBy Award for Fiction by the Chicago Review of Books. She's also a 2017 Pitch Wars alum and 2018-2020 mentor.
A lover of all things geeky, Mia spends her days procrastibaking, playing JRPGs and dating sims, reading cozy mysteries and diverse romance, and cuddling her dogs Gumiho and Max Power.
Mia won the Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color award in 2018.
Website:https://www.miapmanansala.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MPMtheWriter
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/MPMtheWriter/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mpmthewriter/
This podcast was recorded in May 2021.
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The Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award is an annual grant of $2,000 for an emerging writer of color. Submissions are open through March 31. For more information, go to this website. https://www.sistersincrime.org/page/eleanortaylorbland
You don’t have to be a member of Sisters in Crime to submit your materials for consideration.
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Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
www.SistersinCrime.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
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The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Submissions for the Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award are being accepted through March 31. Named for the late, pioneering African American crime fiction author Eleanor Taylor Bland, the $2000 award is intended to support the recipient in crime fiction writing and career development activities. The winner may choose to use the grant for activities that include workshops, seminars, conferences, retreats, online courses, and research activities required for completion of their work. You do not have to be a member of Sisters in Crime to submit your materials for consideration.
This month we’re going to revisit some conversations with previous winners of the award as well as people who have served as judges.
Yasmin Angoe is the Anthony-nominated author of the critically acclaimed thrillers Her Name Is Knight and They Come At Knight of the Nena Knight series. She is a first-generation Ghanaian American and, in 2020, was the recipient of the Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for Emerging Writers of Color from Sisters in Crime.
Yasmin’s books were an Amazon Best Book of the Month for Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, and an Editor’s Pick. Her work has received numerous recognitions, was on a billboard in Times Square, Best Of lists, and a Library Journal Starred Review. Her Name Is Knight has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, OprahDaily.com, POPSUGAR, Nerd Daily, the Washington Independent Review of Books, The Guardian, and other platforms.
The Nena Knight series has been optioned for TV series and is currently in development.
Yasmin is a proud member of several prestigious organizations, such as Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, Crime Writers of Color, International Thriller Writers, and the Women’s National Book Association.
Yasmin is an educator, and she and her blended family of six live in South Carolina.
Kimberly Giarratano is an author of mysteries for teens and adults. Her debut novel, Grunge Gods and Graveyards, won the 2015 Silver Falchion Award for Best YA at Killer Nashville. A former librarian, she is currently an instructor at a SUNY Orange County Community College and a reviewer for BookPage. She is also the chapter liaison for Sisters in Crime. Born in New York and raised in New Jersey, Kim and her husband moved to the Poconos to raise their three kids amid black bears and wild turkeys. While she doesn’t miss the Jersey traffic, she does miss a good bagel and lox.
Discussed on the podcast:
Holly Lisle How To Revise A Novel: https://hollylisle.com/how-to-revise-a-novel/
Blog post by Kimberly on 4 Act Structure: http://atbwriters.blogspot.com/2019/12/plotting-perfect-crime-4-act-structure.html
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Website https://www.kimberlyggiarratano.com/
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Tessa Wegert is the author of the Shana Merchant novels, which include Death in the Family, The Dead Season, Dead Wind, and The Kind to Kill. A former freelance journalist and digital media strategist, Tessa’s work has appeared in Forbes, The Huffington Post, Adweek, and The Economist. She grew up in Quebec and now lives with her husband and children in Connecticut, where she studies martial arts and is co-president of Sisters in Crime CT.
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Website https://www.tessawegert.com
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Melissa Bourbon is the national bestselling author of more than thirty novels, including the Ivy Culpepper Book Magic mysteries, the Harlow Cassidy Magical Dressmaking Mystery series, and the Bread Shop Mysteries, written as Winnie Archer. A former secondary English/Language Arts teacher and Creative Writing teacher with Southern Methodist University’s CAPE program, among others, she has applied her love of teaching to the creation of WriterSpark Academy, an online school for aspiring and new writers seeking to hone their craft. Learn more about Melissa at her website, www.melissabourbon.com, on Facebook @MelissaBourbon/Winnie ArcherBooks, and on Instagram @bookishly\_cozy, and learn about WriterSpark at www.writersparkacademy.com.
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/MelissaBourbonWinnieArcherBooks
Twitter https://twitter.com/TheWriterSpark
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bookishly\_cozy/
Website http://melissabourbon.com
Writer Spark podcast: https://writersparkacademy.com/tips-tricks-and-the-craft-of-writing-podcast/
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Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
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Annette Dashofy is the USA Today best-selling author of twelve novels including the Agatha-nominated Zoe Chambers mystery series about a paramedic/deputy coroner in rural Pennsylvania’s tight-knit Vance Township. Her standalone, Death By Equine, set in the world of Thoroughbred horseracing, won the 2021 Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award for excellence in thoroughbred racing literature. Her first in a new series, Where the Guilty Hide, comes out in January 2023 and is available for pre-order now. Annette serves on the board of Pennwriters and is the president of the Pittsburgh chapter of Sisters in Crime. She and her husband live on ten acres of what was her grandfather’s dairy farm in Washington County, PA, with their very spoiled cat, Kensi.
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Website https://www.annettedashofy.com/
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Lynne Reeves Griffin is an internationally recognized family counselor, public speaker, teacher and writer of fiction and non-fiction. Her work has appeared in Parents, Cognoscenti, Psychology Today, Solstice Literary Magazine, Chautauqua Journal, Craft Literary, Fiction Writers Review, and more.
Lynne regularly appears as a media guest expert to discuss contemporary family life and preventive mental health.
Writing as Lynne Griffin, she is the author of the family-focused novels, Life Without Summer (St. Martin’s Press), Sea Escape (Simon & Schuster), and Girl Sent Away (SixOneSeven Books).
She writes novels of domestic suspense as Lynne Reeves, with The Dangers of an Ordinary Night and Dark Rivers to Cross published by Crooked Lane Books.
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/LynneGriffin
Twitter https://twitter.com/Lynne\_Griffin
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lynnereevesgriffin/
Website https://www.lynnegriffin.com/
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Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
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Dana Cameron writes across many genres, but especially crime and speculative fiction (including the Fangborn urban fantasy series). Her work, inspired by her career in archaeology, has won multiple Anthony, Agatha, and Macavity Awards, and has been nominated for the Edgar Award. Several of Dana's Emma Fielding archaeology mysteries appear on the Hallmark Movie & Mystery Channel. When she isn’t traveling, she's weaving, spinning, or yelling at the TV about historical inaccuracies. Her forthcoming book is Exit Interview, a thriller.
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/dana.cameron/
Twitter https://twitter.com/danacmrn
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/danacameron65/
Website www.danacameron.com
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Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
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RAQUEL V. REYES writes Latina protagonists. Her work has won a LEFTY award, and International Latino Book Award, been nominated for an Agatha Award and optioned for film. Raquel’s short stories appear in various anthologies, including The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2022.
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/LatinaSleuths
TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@latinasleuths
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/latinasleuths/
Website http://rvreyes.com/ (www.LatinaSleuths.com)
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Silver Falchion and CIBA Murder & Mayhem award-winning author Lori Roberts Herbst writes the Callie Cassidy Mystery series. A former journalism teacher and counselor, Lori serves as Board Secretary for Sisters in Crime. She is a member of Mystery Writers of America, as well as the SinC North Dallas chapter and the Guppy chapter, where she moderates the Cozy Gup group. Lori lives in Dallas, Texas, and is a wife, mother of two, and (gasp!) grandmother of four.
Discussed:
Mark Dawson Indie Publishing Courses: https://selfpublishingformula.com/courses/
Scrivener
Eight Weeks to a Complete Novel: Write Faster, Write Better, Be More Organized by Becky Clark
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Website https://www.lorirobertsherbst.com
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R. Franklin James grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. A UC Berkeley grad, she cultivated a different type of writing—legislation and public policy. After a career of political advocacy she returned to her love of writing. Her debut novel, The Fallen Angels Book Club, was the first of six books in her Hollis Morgan Mysteries. The series has been made into Lifetime movies. Her latest series: The Johanna Hudson Mysteries opens with book one – The Inheritance, which received a publisher’s weekly “must read” review. Book two, Look Twice, was released this past August. James resides in Northern California.
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Twitter https://twitter.com/RFJBooks
Website www.rfranklinjames.com
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Liz Milliron is the author of The Laurel Highlands Mysteries series, set in the scenic Laurel Highlands of Southwestern Pennsylvania, and The Home Front Mysteries, set in Buffalo, NY during the early years of World War II. She is a member of Sisters in Crime, Pennwriters, International Thriller Writers and The Historical Novel Society. Liz splits her time between Pittsburgh and the Laurel Highlands where she lives with her husband and a ridiculously spoiled retired-racer greyhound.
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Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
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Jeffrey Marks is a long-time mystery fan and freelancer . After numerous mystery author profiles for The Armchair Detective, Mystery Scene, and other genre publications, he chose to chronicle the short but full life of mystery writer Craig Rice. That biography (Who Was That Lady?) encouraged him to write mystery fiction. His works include Atomic Renaissance: Women Mystery Writers of the 1940s/1950s, a group biography of women, including lesbian authors, who had written in the years following WWII and their impact on the genre. Marks had corresponded to many of them during his time working on the Rice biography. He also published a biography of mystery author and critic Anthony Boucher entitled Anthony Boucher. He received a grant while working on that book. It was nominated for an Agatha and fittingly, won an Anthony.
Marks is currently working on a biography of Erle Stanley Gardner, a book on Gardner’s work with his Pre-Innocence Project, Court of Last Resort, and a dual biography of the two men who wrote as Ellery Queen.
Marks has also written mystery fiction. His earliest works were short fiction, and he has won some regional awards for those works. He published four short story anthologies on various themes, including Canine Crimes and Canine Christmas from Random House, which included Marks’ stories about a queer detective. He’s currently working on a series of semi-autobiographical mystery short stories that will appear in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. These tackle issues surrounding gay men in the 1970s.
His work has won a number of regional awards including the Barnes and Noble Prize and he was nominated for a Maxwell award (DWAA), an Edgar (MWA), three Agathas (Malice Domestic), two Macavity awards, and three Anthony awards (Bouchercon). Marks retired from teaching in 2020, and today, he writes from his home in Cincinnati, which he shares with his husband and three dogs.
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Website http://www.jeffreymarks.com
Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
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Dharma Kelleher writes action-driven thrillers that explore the complexities of social and criminal justice in a world that favors the privileged. She is one of the only openly transgender authors in the crime fiction genre. Dharma lives in Arizona with her wife and a black cat named Mouse.
Learn more about Dharma and her work at https://queerwomenkickass.com.
Facebook Page https://facebook.com/dharmakelleherbooks
Twitter https://twitter.com/zenpunkdharma
Website https://queerwomenkickass.com
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Kelly Oliver is the award-winning and bestselling author of three mystery series: the seven-book suspense series, The Jessica James Mysteries; the three-book middle grade series, Pet Detective Mysteries; and the four-book historical cozy series, The Fiona Figg Mysteries.
Chaos at Carnegie Hall is the latest Fiona Figg mystery, and the first to feature sidekick, Kitty Lane.
When she’s not writing novels, Kelly is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. To learn more about Kelly and her books, go to www.kellyoliverbooks.com.
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Website www.kellyoliverbooks.com
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Amanda Flower is a USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning author of over forty-five mystery novels. Her novels have received starred reviews from Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, and Romantic Times, and she had been featured in USA Today, First for Women, and Woman’s World. She currently writes for Penguin-Random House (Berkley), Kensington, and Sourcebooks. In addition to being a writer, she was a librarian for fifteen years. Today, Flower and her husband own a farm and recording studio, and they live in Northeast Ohio with their five adorable cats.
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Website http://www.amandaflower.com/
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Lorie Lewis Ham lives in Reedley, California and has been writing ever since she was a child. Her first song and poem were published when she was 13, and she has gone on to publish many articles, short stories, and poems throughout the years, as well as write for a local newspaper, and publish 6 mystery novels. For the past 12 years, Lorie has been the editor-in-chief and publisher of Kings River Life Magazine, and she produces Mysteryrat’s Maze Podcast where you can now hear an excerpt of her new book One of Us. You can learn more about Lorie and her latest book on her website mysteryrat.com and find her on Twitter @mysteryrat and Facebook. Another way to keep up with Lorie’s writing is to subscribe to her newsletter, which you can do on her website.
Lorie has been married to Larry for 30 years and they have 2 grown children—Jayce and Joseph Ham. She currently has 5 cats (Merlin, Sam, Dean, Sidney, and Willow), 4 dogs (Lestat, Huey, Xander, and Phoebe), a pet dwarf rabbit (Sherlock), and pet rat named Yuki. For many years, she worked in pet rat rescue, and has had many pet rats of her own over the years.
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/groups/krlmysterygroup
Twitter @mysteryrat
Instagram @krlmagazine
Website https://www.mysteryrat.com/
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Greg Herren is the award winning author of over forty novels, editor of over twenty anthologies, and has publisher over fifty short stories. A sexual health counselor, he lives in New Orleans with his partner of twenty-seven years.
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/gregherren
Twitter @scottynola
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Website gregwritesblog.com
Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
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Tara Laskowski’s debut suspense novel One Night Gone won the Agatha Award, Macavity Award, and the Anthony Award. Her second novel, The Mother Next Door, was called a “polished and entertaining read” by The New York Times Book Review. She also wrote two short story collections, Modern Manners for Your Inner Demons and Bystanders. She has won the Agatha Award and Thriller Award for her short fiction and was the longtime editor of the online flash fiction journal SmokeLong Quarterly. A graduate of Susquehanna University and George Mason University, Tara grew up in Pennsylvania and lives in Virginia.
Twitter www.twitter.com/TaraLWrites
Instagram www.instagram.com/TaraLWrites
Website www.taralaskowski.com
Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
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Shawn Reilly Simmons is the author of seven novels in the Red Carpet Catering mystery series featuring Penelope Sutherland, chef-owner of a movie set catering company. She’s also written several short stories which have been published in various anthologies, including “The Last Word" and "Bay of Reckoning," both Agatha Award Winners for Best Short Story. Shawn is also an Anthony Award Winning Editor. She serves on the Board of Malice Domestic, and is a member of SinC, MWA, CWA and ITW.
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Twitter https://twitter.com/ShawnRSimmons
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/shawnrsimmons/
Website https://www.shawnreillysimmons.com/
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Dru Ann Love reportedly spends her working hours at the mysterious daytime situation. Her non-working hours are spent less reclusively on dru’s book musings, her award-winning blog where the “day in the life,” “get to know you,” and “word with the author” segments are prominently featured. She is an avid reader who is happy to be in “her element” within the mystery community. Dru Ann is a 2017 MWA Raven Award winner and was nominated twice for an Anthony Award. Dru Ann will be Fan Guest of Honor at Left Coast Crime (2023) and Bouchercon (2023). Website: https://drusbookmusing.com/
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/druann.love
Twitter https://twitter.com/drusbookmusing
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/drusbookmusings/
Website https://drusbookmusing.com/
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José H. Bográn is the internationally published author of novels, short stories, and scripts for film, plays, and television. José's genre of choice is thrillers, but he likes to throw in a twist of romance into the mix. Although he’s the son of a journalist, he ironically prefers to write fiction rather than fact.
His latest novel, DARKSOUL, co-authored with Steven Savile, is about Sophie Keane, an assassin devoted to the criminal organization called The Hidden, but her loyalty is tested with an impossible mission: supply children to be used as test subjects for a new bio weapon.
He serves as the Assistant Editor for The Big Thrill, and writes the occasional book review for The Washington Independent Review of Books.
In his native Spanish, he’s collaborated in three 20-episode TV serials for domestic broadcasting, and has penned several screenplays; the latest one for the movie 11 Cipotes, which was an early contender for the 2016 Oscars in the Foreign Film category.
He’s a member of the Crime Writers of Color, Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, International Thriller Writers, and Short Mystery Fiction Society where he served as the Vice President.
He signs his emails with the motto: “I never tell lies; I only write them.”
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Twitter https://twitter.com/JHBogran
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Website www.jhbogran.com
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Kristopher Zgorski is the founder and sole reviewer at the crime fiction book blog, BOLO Books. In 2018, he was awarded the Mystery Writers of America Raven Award for “outstanding achievement in the mystery field outside the realm of creative writing.” Kristopher writes a column on digital crime fiction resources for every issue of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and his blog reviews are syndicated to his column in Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine. He has previously served on the board of directors for Malice Domestic, a crime fiction convention celebrating the traditional mystery. Kristopher has been a member of Sisters in Crime since 2017 and was most recently the Fan Guest of Honor at Left Coast Crime in Albuquerque, New Mexico in early 2022.
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/kristopher.zgorski
Twitter @BOLOBooks
Instagram @bolobooks
Website https://bolobooks.com/
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Laurie R. King is the NYT bestselling author of eighteen Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes novels, five Kate Martinellis, two Stuyvesant-Greys, five standalones, novellas, and anthologies, and in 2022 is launching a new series with BACK TO THE GARDEN, featuring SFPD Inspector Raquel Laing. She has won the Edgar, Agatha, Anthony, Lambda, Wolfe, Macavity, Creasey dagger, and Romantic Times Career Achievement awards, has an honorary doctorate, is a Baker Street Irregular and a member of SinC, MWA, CWA, TWI, and IAHW. In 2022 she was named MWA Grand Master.
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Website https://laurierking.com
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Gabriel Valjan lives in Boston's South End. He is the author of the Roma Series and Company Files (Winter Goose Publishing) and the Shane Cleary series (Level Best Books). He has been nominated for the Agatha, the Anthony, the Silver Falchion for Best PI, and received the Macavity Award for Best Short Story. He is a member of Mystery Writers of America and a lifetime member of Sisters in Crime.
Book mentioned: Self-Editing for Fiction Writers, Second Edition: How to Edit Yourself Into Print by Renni Brown and Dave King
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Naomi Hirahara is an Edgar Award-winning author of multiple traditional mystery series and noir short stories. Her Mas Arai mysteries feature a Los Angeles gardener and Hiroshima survivor who solves crimes. The Japanese translation of her seventh and final Mas Arai mystery, Hiroshima Boy, is nominated for two awards in Japan. Her first historical mystery is Clark and Division, which follows a Japanese American family’s move to Chicago in 1944 after being released from a California wartime detention center. The book recently won a Mary Higgins Clark mystery award and a Lefty historical mystery award. A former journalist with The Rafu Shimpo newspaper, Naomi has also written numerous non-fiction history books and curated exhibitions. She has also written a middle-grade novel, 1001 Cranes.
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Ellen’s Cajun Country Mysteries have won two Agatha Awards for Best Contemporary Novel and multiple Lefty Awards for Best Humorous Mystery. Bayou Book Thief will be the first book in her new Vintage Cookbook Mysteries. She also writes the Catering Hall Mystery series under the name Maria DiRico.
Ellen is an award-winning playwright, and non-award-winning TV writer of comedies like Wings, Just Shoot Me, and Fairly Odd Parents. She has written over two hundred articles for national magazines but considers her most impressive credit working as a cater-waiter for Martha Stewart.
An alum of New Orleans’ Tulane University, she blogs with Chicks on the Case, is a lifetime member of the Writers Guild of America, serves on the national board for Mystery Writers of America, and will be the 2023 Left Coast Crime Toastmaster.
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Leslie Karst is the author of the Lefty Award-nominated Sally Solari culinary mystery series. The daughter of a law professor and a potter, she waited tables and sang in a new wave rock band before deciding she was ready for a “real” job and ending up at Stanford Law School. It was during her career as a research and appellate attorney in Santa Cruz, California, that Leslie rediscovered her youthful passion for food and cooking and once more returned to school—this time to earn a degree in culinary arts. Now retired from the law, Leslie spends her time cooking, cycling, gardening, singing alto in her local community chorus, and of course writing. She and her wife and their Jack Russell mix split their time between Santa Cruz and Hilo, Hawai‘i.
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Dean James is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the "Cat in the Stacks" mysteries under the name Miranda James. By day he is a mild-mannered medical librarian; by night and on weekends, he's a serial killer who gleefully dispatches obnoxious characters so his sleuths, Charlie Harris and Diesel, can have fun solving murders.
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Hilary Davidson is the bestselling author of seven crime novels, including the standalones Her Last Breath and Blood Always Tells, the Lily Moore series (The Damage Done, The Next One to Fall, and Evil in All Its Disguises), and the Shadows of New York series (One Small Sacrifice and Don’t Look Down). Her fiction has won two Anthony Awards and a Derringer Award, and her short stories have appeared in Thuglit, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Mystery Tribune, Beat to a Pulp, and in many anthologies. She served for four years on the national board of the Mystery Writers of America. In her prior life as a journalist, Hilary authored 18 nonfiction books. Originally from Toronto, she has called New York City home since October 2001.
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Kate Moretti is the New York Times Bestselling author of seven novels and a novella, including her latest, The Spires (T&M, 2021). Her first novel THOUGHT I KNEW YOU, was a New York Times bestseller. THE VANISHING YEAR was a nominee in the Goodreads Choice Awards Mystery/Thriller category for 2016 and was called "chillingly satisfying." (Publisher's Weekly) with "superb" closing twists (New York Times Book Review).
Kate has worked in the pharmaceutical industry for twenty years as a scientist and enjoys traveling and cooking, but not baking. She lives in Pennsylvania in an old farmhouse with her husband, two children and no known ghosts. Her lifelong dream is to find a secret passageway.
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Anthony Award-nominated E.A. Aymar’s most recent thriller, THEY’RE GONE, was published in 2020 to rave reviews in Publishers Weekly, Kirkus (starred), and was named one of the best books of 2020 by the South Florida Sun Sentinel. His next novel, NO HOME FOR KILLERS, is coming out in 2023 by Thomas and Mercer.
His column, “Decisions and Revisions,” appears monthly in the Washington Independent Review of Books. He is a former member of the national board of the International Thriller Writers and, for years, was the managing editor of The Thrill Begins, an online resource for debut and aspiring writers. He is also an active member of Crime Writers of Color, the Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime. He also runs the Noir at the Bar series for Washington, D.C., and has hosted and spoken at a variety of crime fiction, writing, and publishing events nationwide.
He was born in Panama and now lives and writes in, and generally about, the D.C./MD/VA triangle.
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National bestselling author Diane Vallere writes smart, funny, and fashionable character-based mysteries. After two decades working for a top luxury retailer, she traded fashion accessories for accessories to murder. A past president of Sisters in Crime, Diane started her own detective agency at age ten and has maintained a passion for shoes, clues, and clothes ever since.
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Robyn Gigl (pronounced guy gull) is the author of SURVIVOR'S GUILT (January 2022) and BY WAY OF SORROW (March 2021), published by Kensington Books. Both books feature transgender, criminal defense attorney, Erin McCabe, and her law partner, Duane Swisher. Robyn is a member of Sisters in Crime, national and the NJ Chapter.
In addition to her writing, Robyn is an attorney and activist who has been honored by the ACLU-NJ and the NJ Pride Network for her work on behalf of the LGBTQ+ community. Robyn is a frequent speaker on LGBTQ+ issues. She is a partner at the law firm of Gluck Walrath, LLP in Freehold, NJ, where she handles complex commercial and employment litigation. Since 2010, Robyn has been selected as a New Jersey Super Lawyer and has also been named as one of the Top 50 Women Lawyers in New Jersey. In 2019, she was appointed by the Governor and Legislature to the New Jersey Transgender Equality Taskforce. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Garden State Equality, NJ’s largest LGBTQ+ Civil Rights Organization. She is a graduate of Stonehill College and Villanova University School of Law. Robyn lives in New Jersey, where she continues to practice law by day, and work on her third novel by night. Fortunately, she has a very boring social life.
Here’s an article about the Governor of Utah’s veto: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/03/23/utah-cox-transgender-athlete-veto/
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Cheryl Head (she/her) writes the award-winning, Charlie Mack Motown Mysteries whose female PI protagonist is queer and black. Head is a two-time Lambda Literary Award finalist, and winner of the Golden Crown Literary Society’s Ann Bannon Popular Choice award. Her books have been shortlisted for the Next Generation Indie Book Award, and are listed in the Detroit Public Library’s African American Book List.
In 2019, Head was named to the Hall of Fame of the New Orleans Saints and Sinners Literary Festival, and this year she was awarded the Alice B Reader Award. Cheryl is a current member of the national Bouchercon Board of Directors. She lives in Washington, DC with her partner and Abby & Frisby who provide canine supervision.
Discussed on the podcast:
Long Way Home: A World War II Novel by Cheryl A Head
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Brenda Buchanan brings experience as a lawyer and journalist to her crime fiction.
The three books in her Joe Gale series—Quick Pivot, Cover Story and Truth Beat—feature a newspaper reporter who covers the Maine crime and courts beat. Her short story, “Means, Motive, and Opportunity” is included in Bloodroot: Best New England Crime Stories 2021. She's just finished a new novel featuring the protagonist of that story, lesbian criminal defense lawyer Neva Pierce.
An active member of Sisters in Crime, Brenda also serves on the organizing committees of both the New England Crime Bake and the Maine Crime Wave, She's also a longtime member of the Maine Crime Writers blog, https://mainecrimewriters.com/
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Brad Shreve is the author of the Mitch O’Reilly Mystery series. When younger he focused on visual arts. Inspired by Gary Trudeau’s Doonesbury, he developed a comic strip certain a syndicate would distribute it globally. In the process he found he enjoyed writing over sketching and changed his goal. Authors such as Lawrence Block, and Gregory McDonald fueled his passion for mysteries, but it took his discovery of LGBTQ crime fiction to nudge him to go beyond dabbling the keys. To introduce others to the subgenre he created and hosts the Queer Writers of Crime podcast.
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Queer Writers of Crime Podcast: https://www.queerwritersofcrime.com/
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Chantelle Aimée Osman (she/her) is the editor of Agora Books, an award-winning imprint focusing on socially and culturally unique crime fiction and horror from publisher Polis Books. Since its founding in 2019, Agora titles have won three International Latino Book Award medals, been nominated for Edgar, Stoker, Dagger, Anthony, Strand Critics, Macavity and Lefty awards, and been featured in NPR, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Post, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Chicago Tribune and Entertainment Weekly. She was named a Publishers Weekly Rising Star honoree in 2020, she is also a professor at the LIU Brooklyn Polk School of Communication MFA in Writing and Publishing, an instructor at the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, Authors at Large and LitReactor. The former editor-in-chief of RT Book Reviews Magazine and a freelance editor for over 10 years, and has been a judge for the Phoenix Film Festival, International Thriller Awards and the National Association of Hispanic Publication’s José Martí Awards. Chantelle is the author of the non-fiction series on writing The Quick and Dirty Guides To…, has published numerous works of short fiction, and served as the editor of multiple anthologies, including the upcoming Jewish Noir, Vol-ume 2 from PM Press. She hosts the Words of Prey podcast through the Pipeline Artists Network. Find her online at chantelleaimee.com and on Twitter @SuspenseSiren.
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Jess Lourey writes about secrets. She's the Amazon Charts bestselling Edgar, Agatha, ITW Thriller, and Lefty-nominated, Anthony-winning author of crime fiction, nonfiction, children's books, YA adventure, and magical realism. She is a retired professor of creative writing and sociology, a recipient of The Loft's Excellence in Teaching fellowship, a Psychology Today blogger, and a TEDx presenter (check out her TEDx Talk for the surprising inspiration behind her first published novel). When not leading women's writing retreats, reading, or fostering kittens, you can find her drafting her next story.
Link to her TEDx Talk: https://youtu.be/a5vSLh3oPXI
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Art Taylor is the author of the story collection The Boy Detective & The Summer of ’74 and Other Tales of Suspense and of the novel in stories On the Road with Del & Louise, winner of the Agatha Award for Best First Novel. He won the 2019 Edgar Award for Best Short Story for "English 398: Fiction Workshop," originally published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, and he has won three additional Agatha Awards, an Anthony Award, four Macavity Awards, and four Derringer Awards for his short fiction. He is an associate professor of English at George Mason University.
Books mentioned:
Anne Lamott Bird by Bird
Madison Smartt Bell Narrative Design: Working with Imagination, Craft, and Form
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Tori Eldridge is the national bestselling author of the Lily Wong series, THE NINJA DAUGHTER, THE NINJA'S BLADE, and THE NINJA BETRAYED—winner of the 2021 Crimson Scribe Award for Best Book of the Year, 2019 Authors on the Air Award for Best Thriller Book of the Year, and Anthony, Lefty, and Macavity Awards finalist for Best First Novel. Her shorter works have been published in horror, dystopian, and other literary anthologies, including the inaugural reboot of WEIRD TALES and her upcoming “Missing on Kaua‘i” short story in MWA’s 2022 anthology CRIME HITS HOME. Her screenplay THE GIFT earned a semi-finalist spot for the Academy Nicholl Fellowship. Tori introduces another empowered female protagonist May 24th in her dark Brazilian novel, DANCE AMONG THE FLAMES. Tori is a proud member of Sisters in Crime, Crime Writers of Color, MWA, HWA, and serves as the ITW Debut Authors Program coordinator.
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Jennifer Hillier is author of seven psychological thrillers, including the bestselling Little Secrets, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Anthony Award, and Jar of Hearts, which won the ITW Thriller Award and was shortlisted for the Anthony and Macavity Awards. She was born in Toronto, but spent eight years in the Seattle area, which is where she first got published. Her newest novel, Things We Do in the Dark, is coming July 19, 2022 from Minotaur Books.
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Kimberly MacLean (she/her) has been at the forefront of thought leadership about how to combine the best practices of teaching with the benefits of interactive inquiry-based learning, agile thinking, diversity equity inclusion, belonging, and communication for over 20 years. Using her M.Ed. she has impacted the culture at some of the world's most innovative companies around the world & supported dedicated leaders to step into their power. She specializes in creating safe spaces that encourage a growth mindset, good risk-taking, and listening with curiosity.
Kimberly will be working with Sisters in Crime on The Equity Project, a year long series of workshops, webinars, and roundtables that will help us build a library of resources and trainings for our members and community. The work will center around equity and inclusion, and will include writing workshops and prompts for our members to learn how to build a better understanding of issues in their lives, and in their writing.
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Read Kimberly’s articles on Medium. https://medium.com/@kimberly.a.maclean
Learn more about The Equity Project: https://www.sistersincrime.org/page/The_Equity_Project
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K.D. Richards was born and raised in the Maryland suburbs just outside of Washington, D.C. A writer since a young age, after college Kia earned a law degree and worked as an attorney and legal instructor for fifteen years but never stopped writing fiction. She currently splits her time between Toronto and Maryland with her husband and two sons.
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Charlaine Harris just celebrated her fortieth year as a published writer. Her career has been full of ups and downs, but she's in a happy place. An avid reader, Charlaine lives in Texas and has a husband, three adult children, two grandchildren, and two rescue dogs.
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Sujata Massey is the author of fifteen novels, most of them mysteries. Starting with The Widows of Malabar Hill, the three books in this historical feminist series set in 1920s India have won the Agatha, Macavity, Lefty, and Mary Higgins Clark awards, and been finalists for the Shamus and Harper Lee Legal Fiction awards. Her earlier mystery series featuring amateur sleuth Rei Shimura is set in modern Japan. Sujata is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and is a former reporter for the Baltimore Evening Sun newspaper. She lives in Baltimore with her family and travels to Asia to research her books.
Books mentioned in the podcast:
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Artists Way by Julia Cameron
Seven Steps on the Writer's Path: The Journey from Frustration to Fulfillment by Nancy Pickard and Lynn Lott
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Agatha Award-winning author Edith Maxwell writes the Quaker Midwife Mysteries, the Local Foods Mysteries, and short crime fiction. As Maddie Day she pens the Country Store Mysteries and Cozy Capers Book Group Mysteries. A past president of Sisters in Crime New England, she’s a member of Mystery Writers of America and a lifetime member of Sisters in Crime.
A fourth-generation Californian, Maxwell lives with her beau north of Boston, where she writes, gardens, cooks, and wastes time on Facebook. Find her (and Maddie) at EdithMaxwell.com, wickedauthors.com, Mystery Lovers’ Kitchen, and on social media.
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Amina Akhtar is a former fashion writer and editor. Her satirical first novel, #FashionVictim, drew rave reviews and acclaim and was covered in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Martha Stewart Living, Entertainment Weekly, Fashionista, Book Riot, CrimeReads, and more. Akhtar’s new book Kismet takes on the world of wellness and all the crystals that go with it. This #OwnVoices novel is set in Sedona, Arizona, where nature is just as much a character as anyone else.
Akhtar has worked at Vogue, Elle, the New York Times, and New York Magazine, where she was the founding editor of the women’s blog The Cut. She’s written for numerous publications, including Yahoo Style, Fashionista, xoJane, Refinery29, Billboard, and more. She currently lives not too far from the Sedona vortexes. Kismet is her second novel.
Amina recommended Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert in this podcast.
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USA Today bestselling novelist Karen Odden earned her PhD in English at NYU, writing her dissertation on the discursive origins of trauma and PTSD in Victorian railway disasters in novels, medical treatises, and legal texts. She taught English literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, has written introductions for novels for the Barnes and Noble Classics Series, and edited for the academic journal Victorian Literature and Culture (published by Cambridge University Press). All of her novels are set in 1870s London, with seedy Whitechapel, the rowdy music halls, dangerous railway accidents, and the smelly Thames River.
Her first three novels, A LADY IN THE SMOKE, A DANGEROUS DUET, AND A TRACE OF DECEIT each feature a different young woman protagonist who is drawn into a mystery when someone she loves is injured or murdered. They have all won awards for historical mystery and historical fiction. Her newest book, DOWN A DARK RIVER, is about a former thief and bare knuckles boxer named Michael Corravan, who becomes an inspector at Scotland Yard. Her next book is the sequel, UNDER A VEILED MOON.
Karen is a recipient of a grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and a member of both Arizona chapters of Sisters in Crime, Grand Canyon Writers and Desert Sleuths, where she serves as the programming chair for 2022. She also assists with the social media group at Sisters in Crime National. Her e-newsletter publishes every 6 weeks, featuring exclusive content and essays and giveaways by guest authors. You can connect with Karen at www.karenodden.com.
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Gigi Pandian is a USA Today bestselling and award-winning mystery author, breast cancer survivor, and accidental almost-vegan. The child of cultural anthropologists from New Mexico and the southern tip of India, she spent her childhood being dragged around the world on their research trips and now lives outside San Francisco. She writes the Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt mysteries, Accidental Alchemist mysteries, and forthcoming Secret Staircase mysteries. She’s been awarded Agatha, Anthony, Lefty, and Derringer awards, and is a co-founder of Crime Writers of Color.
Mentioned in podcast: Alexandra Sokoloff’s Writing Workshops: https://alexandrasokoloff.com/writing-workshops/
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Olivia Matthews is the cozy mystery pseudonym of award-winning, national best-selling author Patricia Sargeant. Patricia has been inspired by writers such as Walter Mosley, Dick Francis and Tami Hoag, who put ordinary people in extraordinary situations and have them find the Hero Inside. To learn more about her upcoming releases and events, visit PatriciaSargeant.com.
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Books mentioned:
Black Hearts in Battersea by Joan Aiken
Goal, Motivation and Conflict by Debra Dixon
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Rachel Howzell Hall is the critically acclaimed author of the Amazon Charts bestseller These Toxic Things and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize-nominated And Now She’s Gone, which was also nominated for the Lefty-, Barry-, Shamus- and Anthony Awards. Also author of the Audible Originals bestseller How It Ends, Rachel is a New York Times bestselling author of The Good Sister with James Patterson, She’s received nominations and acclaim for They All Fall Down, an homage to Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, and for Land of Shadows, Skies of Ash, Trail of Echoes and City of Saviors in the Detective Elouise Norton series.
Rachel is a former member of the board of directors for Mystery Writers of America and has been a featured writer on NPR’s acclaimed Crime in the City series and the National Endowment for the Arts weekly podcast; she has also served as a mentor in Pitch Wars and the Association of Writers Programs. Rachel lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter. For more information, visit www.rachelhowzell.com
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Wanda M. Morris is an alumna of the Yale Writers’ Workshop and Robert McKee’s Story Seminar. She is a member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America and Crime Writers of Color. As a corporate attorney, she has worked in the legal departments of several Fortune 100 companies. An accomplished presenter and leader, Morris has previously served as president of the Georgia chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel and is the founder of its Women’s Initiative, an empowerment program for female in-house lawyers. Morris is married, the mother of three and lives in Atlanta, Georgia. All Her Little Secrets is her debut novel.
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Alexia Gordon is the award-winning author of the Gethsemane Brown mysteries, paranormal cozies set in Ireland. She is also a physician, a blogger with the Missdemeanors —and since June 2019, host of The Cozy Corner with Alexia Gordon, a biweekly podcast that features interviews with authors of traditional and cozy mysteries. Her short story, "Love's Labor," in the most recent Bouchercon anthology, This Time for Sure, is all about a podcast episode that takes an unexpected turn . . .
Alexia's most recent novel is Execution in E, available wherever books are sold.
Podcasts mentioned:
Cozy Corner with Alexia Gordon: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cozy-corner-with-alexia-gordon/id1460677756
Small Town Murder: https://www.stitcher.com/show/small-town-murder
Dateline: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dateline-nbc/id1464919521
True Crime Obsessed: https://www.truecrimeobsessed.com/
Dr. Death: https://wondery.com/shows/dr-death/
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Robert Justice is a Denver native. They Can't Take Your Name is his debut novel and was named a runner up for the 2020 Sister's in Crime Eleanor Taylor Bland Award. He's also the host of the Crime Writers of Color podcast.
Mentioned in the episode:
John Truby’s The Anatomy of a Story: https://truby.com/the-anatomy-of-story/
Crime Writers of Color podcast: https://www.crimewritersofcolor.com/podcast
Twitter @Robert4Justice
Website www.RobertJusticeBooks.com
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Hallie Ephron is a NY Times bestselling author of suspense novels reviewers have called “deliciously creepy.” Her latest, Careful What You Wish For, is about a professional organizer married to a man who can’t pass a yard sale without stopping. It’s a mash-up of Antiques Roadshow and Strangers on a Train. A five-time finalist for the Mary Higgins Clark Award, her Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel was an Edgar Award finalist. Lee Child calls it “the best how-to guide I have ever seen–I just wish I could have read it years ago.” Hallie is a popular presenter at events and writing conferences.
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P. J. Vernon was born in South Carolina. Called a "rising star thriller writer" by Library Journal, Vernon's debut, When You Find Me, was both an Audible Plus #1 Listen and an Associated Press Top Ten U.S. Audiobook. His latest novel, Bath Haus, pitched as "Gone Girl with gays and Grindr" has been praised as “a nightmarish white-knuckler” by O, The Oprah Magazine and called "[an] adrenaline-spiked pulse-pounder" by The New York Times. He lives in Calgary with his husband and two wily dogs.
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Frankie Y. Bailey is a professor in the School of Criminal Justice, University at Albany (SUNY). Her areas of research are crime history, and crime and mass media, popular culture, and material culture. Her books include Out of the Woodpile: Black Characters in Crime and Detective Fiction and African American Mystery Writers. She is a Macavity award-winner and Edgar, Agatha, Anthony nominee for non-fiction. She is also the recipient of a George N. Dove award for contributions to the study of crime fiction. Her own mysteries feature Southern criminal justice professor/crime historian Lizzie Stuart, Albany police detective Hannah McCabe, and former World War II Army nurse Jo Radcliffe. Her short stories have appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and in recent anthologies (Down to the River, Midnight Hour, and Monkey Business). She is working on a non-fiction book about dress, appearance, and perception bias in American crime and justice, a historical thriller set in 1939, and the 6th Lizzie Stuart mystery. Frankie is a past executive vice president of Mystery Writers of America and a past president of Sister of Crime National. Her housemates include Fergus, a rambunctious but lovable Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, and Penelope, a tolerant, trilling Maine Coon rescue.
Twitter @FrankieYBailey
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Sara Paretsky transformed the mystery world in 1982 with the introduction of private eye V I Warshawski in Indemnity Only. She and V I —tough, credible, street-smart and feminine—challenged the stereotypes of women in fiction as victims or vamps. They made it possible for a new generation of crime writers and fighters to thrive, a generation she continues to support as one of the founders of Sisters in Crime. Paretsky has been awarded both the Cartier Diamond Dagger and MWA’s Grand Master. In 2012, she received the Harold Washington Literary Award, whose previous winners include Saul Bellow and Margaret Atwood. Today Paretsky’s books are published in 30 countries.
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Maggie King is the author of the Hazel Rose Book Group mysteries, including Murder at the Book Group, Murder at the Moonshine Inn, and the recently-released Laughing Can Kill You. Her short stories appear in the Virginia is for Mysteries series, 50 Shades of Cabernet, Deadly Southern Charm, Murder by the Glass, and Death by Cupcake.
Maggie is a member of James River Writers, International Thriller Writers, Short Mystery Fiction Society, and is a founding member of Sisters in Crime Central Virginia, where she manages the chapter’s Instagram account. In addition, she serves on the Sisters in Crime Social Media team and maintains their Instagram account. She has worked as a software developer, retail sales manager, and customer service supervisor. Maggie graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology with a B.S. degree in Business Administration. She lives in Richmond, Virginia with her husband, Glen, and cats, Morris and Olive.
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Jess Montgomery is the author of the Kinship Historical Mysteries, set in 1920s Appalachian Ohio and inspired by Ohio’s true first female sheriff. Under her given name, she writes the “Level Up Your (Writing) Life” column for Writer’s Digest. She also hosts the “Tea with Jess: Chatting with Authors & Artists” podcast in which creatives share their journeys and insights. She was formerly a newspaper columnist, focusing on the literary life, authors and events of her native Dayton, Ohio for the Dayton Daily News. She is a three-time recipient of the Individual Excellence Award in Literary Arts from Ohio Arts Council, a two-time recipient of the Montgomery County (Ohio) Arts & Cultural District (MCAD) Artist Opportunity Grant, and has been a John E. Nance Writer in Residence at Thurber House (Columbus, Ohio).
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Kathleen Marple Kalb grew up in front of a microphone and a keyboard. Now a weekend morning anchor at 1010 WINS New York, she started as a teenage DJ in Brookville, Pennsylvania. She worked her way up through newsrooms in Pittsburgh, Vermont and Connecticut, developing her skills and a deep and abiding distaste for snow. While she wrote her first (thankfully unpublished) historical novel at age sixteen, fiction was firmly in the past until her son started kindergarten. After two years of querying, three failed projects and 200+ rejections, she's now the author of the Ella Shane historical mystery series for Kensington Books, and soon, as Nikki Knight, LIVE, LOCAL, AND DEAD, a Vermont Radio Mystery from Crooked Lane. Her story "Bad Apples" was an Honorable Mention in the 2021 Black Orchid Novella Award contest. She, her husband, and son live in a Connecticut house owned by their cat.
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A retired Air Force intelligence officer, Laura DiSilverio is the national bestselling and award-winning author of 21 mystery, suspense and young adult sci-fi novels. Her series include the Swift Investigations PI series (Minotaur), Ballroom Dance Mysteries (writing as Ella Barrick), Southern Beauty Shop Mysteries (writing as Lila Dare), Mall Cop Mysteries and Book Club Mysteries (Berkley Prime Crime). Library Journal named her book, Close Call, one of the Top Five mysteries of 2016, and The Reckoning Stones (2015) won the Colorado Book Award for Mystery. Incubation, the first book of her young adult dystopian trilogy is an Amazon bestseller. A Past President of Sisters in Crime, she speaks and teaches widely on writing craft, the publishing life, and intelligence analysis.
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Twitter @LauraDiSilverio
Website https://lauradisilverio.com/
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Molly Weston has reviewed mysteries for more than 30 years and lectured about the genre for most of that time.
For many years she organized and hosted mini tours of authors and moderated panels at conventions across the US. In 2015 the Mystery Writers of America awarded her the Raven Award outstanding achievement in the mystery field outside the realm of creative writing.
She holds a BA Degree in English from UNC-Chapel Hill. For 10 years she edited inSinC, the SinC quarterly A North Carolina Native, she now lives in Garner NC.
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Jennifer J. Chow is the Lefty Award-nominated author of the Sassy Cat Mysteries and the forthcoming L.A. Night Market Mysteries (Berkley/Penguin Random House). The first in the Sassy Cat series, Mimi Lee Gets A Clue, was selected as an Overdrive Recommended Read; a PopSugar Best Summer Beach Read; staff picks for Changing Hands Bookstore, Escondido Library, and Richland Library; and one of BuzzFeed’s Top 5 Books by AAPI authors. Jennifer has also published other Asian-American novels which feature secrets and mysteries. She currently serves as Vice President on the national board of Sisters in Crime and is an active member of Crime Writers of Color and Mystery Writers of America.
Notes:
The 228 Legacy is her first book. https://jenniferjchow.com/the-228-legacy/
Dragon Fly Dreams is her YA novel. https://jenniferjchow.com/dragonfly-dreams/
She’s been in two short story anthologies: Midnight Hour and Brave New Girls.
Jen mentioned Joanna Penn, who has a blog and podcast called The Creative Penn.
Crime Writers of Color is the writing organization she mentioned as well. https://www.crimewritersofcolor.com/
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Sherry Harris is the Agatha Award nominated author of the Sarah Winston Garage Sale mystery series and the Chloe Jackson Sea Glass Saloon mystery series set in the panhandle of Florida. She is a past president of Sisters in Crime and a member of Mystery Writers of America. Sherry loves books, beaches, bars, garage sales, and Westies — not necessarily in that order. Sherry is also a patent holding inventor.
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Judy is the author of the Anthony- and Agatha-nominated Stella Crown series and YA thriller Tag, You're Dead (as J.C. Lane). She also writes the Grim Reaper mysteries and published the stand-alone Lost Sons. Her most recent book (2020) is a non-fiction middle-grade book entitled, Making Waves: Fifty Stories about Sharing Love and Changing the World. Judy recently received her master's degree in popular culture, and is currently in the American culture studies PhD program at Bowling Green State University, where her research areas include television and gender studies. She is a past president of Sisters in Crime.
Judy referenced the publishing summits she participated in. Here are all of the SinC Publishing Summit reports: https://www.sistersincrime.org/page/SummitReports
Website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Clemens
Twitter: @judyclemens1
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Hank Phillippi Ryan is USA Today bestselling author of 13 thrillers, winning five Agathas and the coveted Mary Higgins Clark Award. As a television investigative reporter in Boston, she has also won 37 EMMY awards. Her legal thriller The Murder List won the 2019 Anthony Award for Best Novel of the Year. Her 2020 novel is the psychological standalone The First to Lie, which is now a nominee for the prestigious Anthony Award and Mary Higgins Clark Award. The Publishers Weekly starred review calls it "Stellar.” Her upcoming book is HER PERFECT LIFE. (Forge Books, September 14.) The PW starred review calls it "Superlative."
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Marcia Talley is the Agatha and Anthony award-winning author of DONE GONE and seventeen previous novels featuring Maryland sleuth, Hannah Ives. She is editor/author of two collaborative serial novels, NAKED CAME THE PHOENIX and I’D KILL FOR THAT. Her short stories appear in more than a dozen collections.
Marcia is past-president of Sisters in Crime, Inc. and currently serves as president of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of Mystery Writers of America.
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New Jersey born Lucy Burdette aka Roberta Isleib is the author of 19 mysteries, including A SCONE OF CONTENTION, the latest in the Key West series featuring food critic Hayley Snow (coming August 10, 2021 from Crooked Lane Books.) Bronze medal-winning THE KEY LIME CRIME is the tenth book in her Key West food critic mystery series. Her books and stories have been short-listed for Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity awards. She's a past president of Sisters in Crime, and currently serving as president of the Friends of the Key West Library.
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Leslie Budewitz blends her passion for food, great mysteries, and the Northwest in two cozy mystery series, the Spice Shop mysteries set in Seattle’s Pike Place Market, and the Food Lovers’ Village mysteries, set in NW Montana. As Alicia Beckman, she writes moody suspense, and made her debut with Bitterroot Lake in April 2021. A three-time Agatha-Award winner (2011, Best Nonfiction; 2013, Best First Novel; 2018, Best Short Story), she is a current board member of Mystery Writers of America and a past president of Sisters in Crime. She lives in northwest Montana.
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Cathy Pickens, author of the Southern Fried mysteries (St. Martins/Minotaur), served as Sisters in Crime president and on the boards of Mystery Writers of America and Mecklenburg Forensic Medicine Program. She taught law in a graduate business school, entrepreneurship in the jail, and offers workshops on developing creativity.
Her latest books are Charlotte True Crime Stories (History Press 2019), True Crime Stories of Eastern North Carolina (2020) and CREATE! Developing Your Creative Process (ICSC Press).
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Lori Rader-Day is the Edgar Award-nominated and Anthony Award- and Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author of The Lucky One, Under a Dark Sky, The Day I Died, Little Pretty Things, and The Black Hour. She co-chairs the mystery conference Murder and Mayhem in Chicago and is the immediate past national president of Sisters in Crime. Her next book, Death at Greenway, is based on a little-known moment in history, when a group of Londoners were evacuated from the Blitz during World War II to Agatha Christie’s holiday estate.
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Kristen Lepionka is the author of the Roxane Weary mystery series. Her debut, The Last Place You Look, won the Shamus Award for Best First P.I. novel and was also nominated for Anthony and Macavity Awards. The second book in the series, What You Want to See, won Shamus and Goldie Awards. She is a cofounder of the feminist podcast Unlikeable Female Characters and currently serves as Chapter President for the Midwest region of Mystery Writers of America. She lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her partner and two cats.
Mentioned in the podcast:
Sam the Cat Detective https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/327702.Sam_The_Cat_Detective
Kellye Garrett https://kellyegarrett.com/
Pitch Wars https://pitchwars.org/
My Sweet Girl by Amanda Jayatissa https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/670363/my-sweet-girl-by-amanda-jayatissa/
Facebook Page http://facebook.com/kristenlepionka
Twitter www.twitter.com/kmlwrites
Instagram www.instagram.com/kmlwrites
Website www.kristenlepionka.com
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John Copenhaver’s historical crime novel, Dodging and Burning, won the 2019 Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel and garnered Anthony, Strand Critics, Barry, and Lambda Literary Award nominations. His second novel, The Savage Kind, will be published in October 2021. Copenhaver writes a crime fiction review column for Lambda Literary called “Blacklight,” cohosts on the House of Mystery Radio Show, and is the six-time recipient of Artist Fellowships from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. He grew up in the mountains of southwestern Virginia and currently lives in Richmond, VA, with his husband, artist Jeffery Paul (Herrity). www.johncopenhaver.com
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Twitter www.twitter.com/johncopenhaver
Instagram www.instagram.com/johncope74
Website www.johncopenhaver.com
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Delia C. Pitts is the author of the Ross Agency Mysteries, a contemporary noir series including Lost and Found in Harlem and Pauper and Prince in Harlem. Murder My Past is the fifth novel in the series. Her short story, “The Killer,” was selected for inclusion in The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2021. Another story, “ Midnight Confidential,” will be published in the crime fiction anthology, Midnight Hour, out this year from Crooked Lane. Delia is a former university administrator and U.S. diplomat. After working as a journalist, she earned a Ph.D. From the University of Chicago. She is an active member of Sisters in Crime and Crime Writers of Color. She and her husband live in central New Jersey, too far from their twin sons in Texas.
Recommended reads by Delia:
- The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
- Vanishing Girls by Lisa Regan
- Seeds of Deception by Arlene L. Walker
- Murder on Bamboo Lane by Naomi Hirahara
Next up:
- While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams
- Bath Haus by P.J. Vernon
- Warn Me When It's Time by Cheryl A. Head
Note from Delia: And to leaven the mix, I'm fitting in short stories featuring Golden Age private eye Ellery Queen.
Website: https://www.deliapitts.com
Twitter: www.twitter.com/Blacktop1950
Instagram: www.instagram.com/deliapitts50
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Hailing from Northern Virginia, Yasmin Angoe is a first-generation Ghanaian American who grew up in two cultural worlds. She taught English in middle and high schools for years, served as an instructional coach for virtual teachers, and works as a freelance developmental and copy editor.
Yasmin received the 2020 Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for Emerging Writers of Color from Sisters in Crime, of which she’s a proud member. She is also a member of the Palmetto Chapter Sisters in Crime and Southeast Chapter of Mystery Writers of America to name a few. Currently, she lives in South Carolina with her entertaining blended family. When she’s not writing Yasmin works as a developmental editor and sensitivity reader, attempts new recipes, or is engrossed in an audiobook.
Yasmin is represented by Melissa Edwards at Stonesong Literary. Her debut novel, HER NAME IS KNIGHT, will come out this fall, and is available for pre-order.
HER NAME IS NIGHT is available for pre-order and will be released on November 1, 2021.
Twitter @yasawriter
Instagram author_yas
Website www.yasminangoe.com
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Jacki York is a life-long mystery reader and, as yet, unpublished mystery author. Her day job as an auditor finds her chasing down financial transactions and pleading with people to please not write their passwords of scraps of paper. She is a CPA, CIA, and CFE.
When she is not working, she is gardening, herding five cats, or cooking meals with lots of veggies and beans. She lives with her partner in crime, Steve, in southeastern PA.
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David Heska Wanbli Weiden, an enrolled citizen of the Sicangu Lakota Nation, is the author of Winter Counts (Ecco, 2020), nominated for the Edgar Award, Anthony Award, Barry Award, Thriller Award, Macavity Award, Shamus Award, Hammett Prize, and the winner of the Lefty and Spur Awards. The novel was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, main selection of the Book of the Month Club, an Indie Next pick, and named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and other magazines. He lives in Denver, Colorado, with his family.
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/dweiden
Twitter @WanbliWeiden
Instagram @wanbliweiden
Website https://davidweiden.com/
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Alex Segura is an acclaimed, award-winning writer of novels, comic books, short stories, and podcasts. He is the author of Star Wars Poe Dameron: Free Fall, the Pete Fernandez Mystery series (including the Anthony Award-nominated crime novels Dangerous Ends, Blackout. and Miami Midnight), and the upcoming Secret Identity (Flatiron Books). His short story “Red Zone” won the 2020 Anthony Award for Best Short Story, and his border noir short story, “90 Miles” will be included in THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE STORIES of 2020. He has also written a number of comic books, most notably the superhero noir The Black Ghost, the YA music series The Archies, and the “Archie Meets” collection of crossovers, featuring real-life cameos from the Ramones, B-52s, and more. He is also the co-creator/co-writer of the Lethal Lit crime/YA podcast from iHeart Radio, which was named one of the best podcasts of 2018 by The New York Times. By day he is the Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Oni Press, with previous stints at Archie Comics and DC Comics. A Miami native, he lives in New York with his wife and children.
Website: http://www.alexsegura.com/
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/alex_segura
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alexseguraofficial
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Tracy Clark, a native Chicagoan, is the author of the award-winning Cass Raines Chicago Mystery series, featuring ex-cop turned PI Cassandra Raines. A multi-nominated Anthony, Lefty and Shamus Award finalist, she is also the 2020 winner of the G.P. Putnam’s Sons Sue Grafton Memorial Award. Tracy is a member of Crime Writers of Color, Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime and currently serves on the boards of her local MWA and SinC chapters, as well as the Bouchercon national board. Her fourth Cass Raines novel, RUNNER, releases in June 2021.
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/tclarkbooks
Twitter @tracypc6161
Instagram tpclark2000
Website www.tracyclarkbooks.com
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Vanessa Lillie is the Amazon Bestselling author of Little Voices, which received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and Best Debuts 2019 by Bolo Books. She's a Board Member of Sisters in Crime and has a weekly column in The Providence Journal. Her recently released thriller, For the Best, was a “must read” in POPSUGAR and CrimeReads. In early 2022, she'll release a coauthored Audible Original project called Young, Rich, Widows.
Notes:
Website: www.facebook.com/vanessalillieauthor
Twitter: www.twitter.com/vanessalillie
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Books mentioned in the podcast:
Story Genius by Lisa Cron: http://wiredforstory.com/story-genius-1
Save the Cat Writes a Novel by Jessica Brody https://www.jessicabrody.com/books/non-fiction/save-cat-writes-novel/about/
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Stephanie Gayle is the Vice President of the national board of Sisters in Crime. She wrote the Thomas Lynch mystery series, which starts with Idyll Threats. She co-created the Boston reading series, Craft on Draft. A graduate of Smith College, Stephanie works at MIT doing finance stuff for "people too smart to do basic math."
Notes from the episode:
In the Drowning Deep by Mera Grant
Death in the Air by Kate Winkler Dawson
Grub Street--Muse and the Marketplace conference
Website: www.stephaniegayle.com
Twitter: www.twitter.com/stephoflegends
Instagram: www.instagram.com/stephoflegends
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After a long career as a healthcare Executive, Alec Peche wrote her first mystery in 2013. A lifelong fan of the mystery genre, a few dud stories convinced her to try her hand at writing. Now she has 16 books published in two series. Her next release will mark the start of a third series.
Website: www.AlecPeche.com
Twitter: www.twitter.com/AlecPeche
Facebook: www.facebook.com/AlecPeche
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Kellye Garrett is the author of the upcoming suspense novel Like A Sister (Mulholland Books) and the acclaimed Detective by Day lightweight mysteries. The first, Hollywood Homicide, won the Anthony, Agatha, Lefty, and IPPY for best first novel. It’s also one of BookBub’s “Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time.” The second, Hollywood Ending, was featured on the TODAY show’s Best Summer Reads of 2019 and was nominated for both Anthony and Lefty awards. She serves on Sisters in Crime’s national board and is a co-founder of Crime Writers of Color. Learn more at KellyeGarrett.com.
Website: www.KellyeGarrett.com
Twitter: www.twitter.com/kellyekell
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Tracee de Hahn started her professional life as an architect before transitioning to the non-profit world and eventually university fundraising. An avid reader, the desire to write felt like a natural evolution, while the transition to published author took a shove from a friend who threatened to submit her manuscript. Tracee’s first two books were inspired by several years living in Switzerland and were published by Minotaur Books. Currently she is working on a mystery set at a distillery in her home state of Kentucky.
A member of Mystery Writers of America and International Thriller Writers, she is national membership liaison for Sisters in Crime.
Website: https://traceedehahn.com
Twitter: @TraceedeHahn
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TraceedeHahnWriter
Instagram: TraceedeHahn
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Edwin Hill’s critically-acclaimed crime novels include WATCH HER, THE MISSING ONES, and LITTLE COMFORT. He has been nominated for Edgar and Agatha Awards, featured in Us Magazine, received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal, and was recognized as one of “Six Crime Writers to Watch” in Mystery Scene magazine. He lives in Roslindale, Massachusetts with his partner Michael and his favorite reviewer, their lab Edith Ann, who likes his first drafts enough to eat them.
Website: https://www.edwin-hill.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/edwinhillauthor
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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/edwinhillauthor/
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Marla Bradeen writes mysteries both as herself and as Paige Sleuth. A former software consultant and analyst, she gave up her day job in 2012 and now enjoys killing off imaginary people with lives more interesting than hers. When she’s not plotting murder, she spends her time catering to the demands of her two rescue cats.
Website: http://www.marlabradeen.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marlabradeenauthor
Twitter: https://twitter.com/marlabradeen
Here are some links to parts of our conversation:
Crime Writers of Color books page: https://www.crimewritersofcolor.com/books
The Marla Bradeen books (The Amicable Divorce is the book she wrote from 2004-2006): http://www.marlabradeen.com/books
The Paige Sleuth books: http://www.marlabradeen.com/ps/books
Festive Mayhem. The anthology is no longer available, but the page includes hyperlinks to the three stories that have been re-published individually: https://www.crimewritersofcolor.com/bookdetails?book=cwoc202010261
Midnight Hour: https://www.crimewritersofcolor.com/bookdetails?book=14
Festive Mayhem 2 isn't available yet, but it will be listed on the Crime Writers of Color books page once it's released in October 2021.
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Mia P. Manansala (she/her) is a certified book coach and the author of ARSENIC AND ADOBO (Berkley May 4, 2021), the first in the Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery series. She uses humor (and murder) to explore aspects of the Filipino diaspora, queerness, and her millennial love for pop culture.
She is the winner of the 2018 Hugh Holton Award, the 2018 Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award, the 2017 William F. Deeck - Malice Domestic Grant for Unpublished Writers, and the 2016 Mystery Writers of America/Helen McCloy Scholarship. She's also a 2017 Pitch Wars alum and 2018-2020 mentor.
Website: https://www.miapmanansala.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MPMtheWriter
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MPMtheWriter/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mpmthewriter/
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In this episode, Barbara Ross shares the best, and worst, writing advice she’s received. She also talks about writer’s block, and what it means to her. She mentions Annie Lamott's Bird by Bird and Stephen King’s On Writing. For Maine crime writers, she suggests joining the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance. For Boston area writers, she mentioned Grub Street as a resource.
Barbara Ross is the author of the Maine Clambake Mysteries and the Jane Darrowfield Mysteries. Her books have been nominated for multiple Agatha Awards for Best Contemporary Novel and have won the Maine Literary Award for Crime Fiction. Barbara’s Maine Clambake novellas are included along with stories by Leslie Meier and Lee Hollis in holiday anthologies from Kensington Publishing. Barbara and her husband live in Portland, Maine. Readers can visit her website at www.barbararossauthor.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/barbaraannross
Twitter: https://twitter.com/barbross
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maineclambake
Website: https://barbararossauthor.com/
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In this episode Catriona McPherson speaks about writing in different genres, definitions of success, and her writing habits.
National-bestselling author, Catriona (kuh-TREE-nuh) McPherson, was born in Scotland and lived there until immigrating in 2010. She writes historical detective stories set in the old country in the 1930s. THE TURNING TIDE (No.14) won a 2021 Lefty award and is nominated for an Agatha. She also writes a strand of contemporary psychological thrillers, including the Edgar-shortlisted THE DAY SHE DIED. After eight years in the new country, Catriona kicked off the comic Last Ditch Motel series, which takes a wry but affectionate look at California life and has won two Leftys for best humorous mystery. SCOT ON THE ROCKS (No 3.) is out now.
Catriona is a member of MWA, CWA, Society of Authors, a proud lifetime member and former national president of Sisters in Crime.
Website: www.catrionamcpherson.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063049789492
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CatrionaMcP
Mentioned in the episode: Anna Katherine Green Compilation of 25 of her books
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Faye Snowden is the author of noir mysteries, poems and short stories. Her novels include Spiral of Guilt, The Savior, Fatal Justice, and A Killing Fire, a dark, southern gothic tale featuring homicide detective Raven Burns. A Killing Fire is first in a four-part series. The sequel, A Killing Rain will be released in 2022.
Faye has a Master’s in English Literature. She has been awarded writing fellowships from Djerassi and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is a member of Mystery Writers of America, and Sisters in Crime (SinC) where she serves as Board Secretary for SinC National. She has participated in many writing panels, appeared as a guest lecture in several university writing classes, and taught information technology courses at the university level. Today, Faye works and writes from her home in Northern California.
Website: www.fayesnowden.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/faye.snowden.9/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/faye_snowden
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fayesnowden/
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In this episode Kate Flora discusses her career, her history with Sisters in Crime, and definitions of success and how important they are to discuss.
Kate Flora's fascination with people's criminal tendencies began in the Maine attorney general's office. Deadbeat dads, people hurting their kids, and employers' discrimination aroused her curiosity about human behavior. The author of twenty-one books and many short stories, Flora's been a finalist for the Edgar, Agatha, Anthony, and Derringer awards. She won the Public Safety Writers Association award for nonfiction and twice won the Maine Literary Award. Her most recent books are Death Comes Knocking and A World of Deceit and a story collection, Careful What You Wish For: Stories of revenge, retribution, and the world made right. 2020 saw a romantic suspense, Wedding Bell Ruse, and stories in The Faking of the President, and the Heartbreaks and Half-Truths anthology.
Flora's nonfiction, focusing on aspects of the public safety officers' experience, includes two true crimes, Finding Amy: A true story of murder in Maine (with Joseph K. Loughlin) and Death Dealer: How cops and cadaver dogs brought a killer to justice, the co-written memoir, A Good Man with a Dog: A Game Warden's 25 Years in the Maine Woods, and Shots Fired: The Misconceptions, Misunderstandings, and Myths about police shootings with Joseph K. Loughlin.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/katecflora
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kateflora
Website: www.kateclarkflora.com
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In this episode, V.M. (Valerie) Burns shares her insights on her writing journey, which started as a screenwriter. She discusses success, and what that looks like, and her publishing journey.
V.M. (Valerie) Burns is the author of the RJ Franklin Mystery Series, The Dog Club Mystery Series, and the Mystery Bookshop Mystery Series. Originally from Northwestern Indiana, Valerie now lives in Eastern Tennessee with her two poodles, Chloe and Kensington.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vmburnsbooks
Twitter: https://twitter.com/vmburns
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vmburnsbooks/
Website: www.vmburns.com
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Guest: Sandra SG Wong
Bio: Sandra SG Wong writes fiction across genres, speaks on writing and publishing topics, and volunteers for important community causes. She has been a finalist in the Arthur Ellis Awards for Excellence in Canadian Crime Writing (Best First Novel and Best Short Story) and longlisted for the Whistler Independent Book Awards (Best Crime Fiction). Her next book is a standalone suspense novel coming from HarperCollins Canada in 2022.
Website: https://sgwong.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/S_G_Wong
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sgwong8/
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