Our Chapter’s on Target with 3 Derringer Nominations!
The Short Mystery Fiction Society‘s prestigious annual awards are called the Derringers, and we’re thrilled to announce that local Sisters in Crime have earned 3 nominations!!!
Stories are categorized by length, and you can view all the talented finalists here, but we especially want to congratulate our chapter members below:
Best Flash Fiction Story (less than 1,000 words)
Kathleen Ryan, “Heat of Passion,” A Twist of Noir, February 2011
Best Short Story (1,001 to 4,000 words)
Cathi Stoler, “Fatal Flaw.” Beat to a Pulp , April 2011
Elizabeth Zelvin, “Death will Tank Your Fish,” Murder New York Style: Fresh Slices, September 2011**
**The anthology is our own chapter’s short fiction anthology.
We’re so delighted for our members, and don’t envy the Society members their tough choices, to be announced by the end of March. Best of Luck to all and Congratulations!
Chapter Signing and Party at Partners & Crime (Th-12/15) 7pm!
We’re so proud of our chapter’s recently published anthology, Murder New York Style: Fresh Slices. And we’re having a great signing party and brief reading at Partners & Crime Mystery Booksellers on Thursday, December 15th at 7pm. (More info at anthology link or invitation below.) Stop by for festivities and cheer, and as a bonus, you’ll get all your shopping done for the crime fans on your list!
Member News: Cathi Stoler’s Springing Up Everywhere!
Cathi Stoler‘s debut novel, Telling Lies, is released today! This thriller jet sets from Florence, Italy to NYC, and includes murder, a presumed missing person, and stolen Nazi art. If that weren’t enough good news, her latest short story, “Fatal Flaw,” based on international intrigue among the casinos and canals of Venice, can now be read online at Beat to a Pulp magazine.
Congratulations, Cathi, on what looks to be a blooming great spring!
Member News: Peggy Ehrhart’s Blues Sequel
This month sees the publication of member Peggy Ehrhart’s sequel in her blues mystery series. In the new release, GOT NO FRIEND ANYHOW, Maxx Maxwell, the hardest-working and unluckiest singer on Manhattan’s blues scene encounters more deadly complications when she tries to get her band’s demo CD recorded at Prowling Rooster Records.
Congratulations, Peggy, on adding to Maxx’s troubles for our entertainment!
Member News: 2 Agatha Nominations
The Agatha Award nominations have been announced for the upcoming Malice Domestic convention, to be held from April 29th to May 1st of this year, and two of our local Sisters are on the rolls!
Avery Aames has been nominated in the Best First Novel category for THE LONG QUICHE GOODBYE, and Elizabeth Zelvin was nominated in the Best Short Story category for “The Green Cross” which appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine.
As always, there’s terrific company and competition among the wonderful nominees, but we’re delighted and proud to have two local Sisters recognized in this special way, and very good luck to you both!
Member News: Christmas Crimes
Our chapter members have been so busy writing and publishing short stories this year, perhaps in unprecedented numbers. In this season, there are two, particularly thematic offerings for which we wish to raise a cup of cheer. Lina Zeldovich’s Russian-holiday-themed short story “Believe” is now online at Beat to a Pulp. And, Elizabeth Zelvin’s historical “Natividad” appears in the current holiday/year-end issue of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine.
Congratulations to them both!
And let us wish all of our Sisters and their dear ones an equally bright (and occasionally criminal) New Year!
Member News: Murder to Mil-Spec Giveaway
This charitable anthology of military-themed crime stories is now available for sale, and boasts stories from 3 of our local members: Terrie Farley Moran, Lina Zeldovich, and Elizabeth Zelvin. The Women of Mystery blog, also hosted by several local members, is having a giveaway of this collection that supports a great cause. Follow the link to enter and learn more about this worthy literary project supporting disabled vets.
Member News: Hilary Davidson’s Launch Party
Congratulations to Hilary Davidson, because the day is almost here! Tomorrow night, Tuesday, September 28th, she’ll be celebrating her debut in crime fiction by carousing with the crowds and signing copies of THE DAMAGE DONE at indie fave bookstore Partners & Crime. The corks pop at 7pm. See you Sisters at the party!
Members Talk Murder in Kips Bay
On Tuesday, September 14th, at 6:30pm, chapter members will participate in a panel discussion of Murder in Manhattan at the Kips Bay Library. The event’s open to everyone who wants to find out what makes this small island such a perennial favorite for murder.
Member News: 3 Sisters Meet Spec!
Members Elizabeth Zelvin, Lina Zeldovich, and Terrie Farley Moran have all had short stories accepted into the newest charitable anthology from Tony Burton’s Wolfmont Press. The themed collection becomes available near the holidays, and all the profits will go the charity Homes for Our Troops.
Congratulations to all on your acceptance, and on your contributions to such a worthy cause!
Member News: Lina Zeldovich’s Busy Summer!
This month, member Lina Zeldovich has had two stories appear online at two different sites.
Her short story Perfect Takedown is now up at Thrillers, Killers ‘N’ Chillers. Also, a reprint of her story Nailed is now appearing at A Twist of Noir. Congrats, Lina! We’ll check out both stories and markets!
Member News: Susan Dahlinger’s Fresh Sherlockiana
Member S.E. Dahlinger, with co-editor Leslie Klinger, has combed through the archives from notable illustrated journal The Bookman, published from 1895 to 1933. The witticisms, reviews, letters, and commentary relating to the world’s greatest sleuth have been organized and annotated, and are now made available by an imprint of Wessex Books. For many fans and scholars, this is a rich pool of fresh content, and the title’s receiving praise from no less than Otto Penzler and Jon Breen. See Gasogene Books for more about SHERLOCK HOLMES, CONAN DOYLE, AND THE BOOKMAN. Congratulations, Susan, on discovering neglected historical content that’s making new waves in Sherlockiana!
Member News: Avery Aames’ Delicious Debut!
The debut mystery from our longest-distance chapter member Avery Aames (aka Daryl Wood Gerber) is now available everywhere! THE LONG QUICHE GOODBYE is her first Cheese Shop Mystery with Berkley Prime Crime. It’s in paper and e-book formats at your favorite bookseller. Charlotte Bessette’s adventures begin when this small-town Ohio cheese seller finds a body outside her shop. Worse yet, the victim’s been stabbed with one of her own prized knives. Congratulations Avery on a great launch that proves murder and Manchego do go together!
Member News: Surfing Stories
Members Hilary Davidson and Kathleen Ryan have been busy online! Hilary just set up her brand new website, and Kathy’s featured in a Misfit Magazine interview, and both of them have short fiction appearing in Christopher Grant’s online crime blog A Twist of Noir. Kathy’s number 425, “Victims of the Night” , also appeared at her Women of Mystery blog, and Hilary’s number 291, “Beast” , also appeared online at The Drowning Machine, where it won First Place in the Watery Grave Invitational. Whew!
Keep informing us of your virtual e-hijinks, too! We love hearing about new markets for chapter members’ work, working our pintails goofy-footed to dominate the glass of online crime.
Member News: Anita Page is Gun-Shopping?
Well, she’s at least wishing for a Derringer, of that we’re sure. The Short Mystery Fiction Society’s annual award is called the Derringer, and Anita’s short story “Twas the Night” from Sister-studded holiday anthology THE GIFT OF MURDER has been nominated as a 2010 finalist in the category of Best Short Story from 1,000 to 4,000 words. Society members will be voting through April 30th, with the winner announced on May 1st. Stock up on liniment, because our chapter will have its fingers and toes collectively crossed for the next week, Anita!
Member News: Rosemary Harris’s Third is Dead
The third installment of member Rosemary Harris’s Dirty Business gardening mysteries has just been released by Minotaur Books. When amateur sleuth and professional landscaper Paula Holliday discovers, along with the rest of her small New England town, that one of her very favorite clients is the Fugitive Mom, a prison escapee with a 25 year-old drug-dealing conviction, the woman’s husband asks Paula to find out who turned her in to authorities and why now. Visit Rosemary’s website for a fun book trailer and free goody offers if you or anyone you know is purchasing by April 30th. DEAD HEAD is available at all your favorite booksellers. Congratulations, Rosemary!
Events: April 13th Crime Scene Panel at NYPL
New York’s wonderful Mid-Manhattan Library (at 40th St. and 5th Ave.) will be hosting a panel discussion with various members of Mystery Writers of America and our own chapter of Sisters in Crime.
Crime Scenes: From Cities to the Back of Beyond: Why & How Mystery Writers Choose their Settings will be held on April 13th at 6:30pm on the 6th Floor. Joining moderator Peggy Ehrhart will be panelists Lorenzo Carcaterra, Henry Chang, Julia Pomeroy, Laura Joh Rowland, and Wallace Stroby. Under discussion will be Evil *cue organ music* and everywhere it lurks, from seemingly harmless small towns to the glamourous metropolis, and even more exotic locales both in place and time.
Member News: Hilary Davidson’s tingling!
Member Hilary Davidson has been nominated by Spinetingler Magazine in their category Best Short Story on the Web!
“Insatiable,” was originally published by e-zine Beat to a Pulp. Learn about the award, read all the nominated stories, and vote here.
Events: March 31st Kettle of Fish
5 of our local Sisters will be reading selections with international appeal at the legendary Kettle of Fish in Greenwich Village at 59 Christopher St. Lina Zeldovich, Pat King, Liz Zelvin, Peggy Ehrhart, and Cathi Stoler, who was nice enough to share her flyer, will be reading short selections from their works from 6:45 to 8pm. This is our first public reading- Hope to see you there!
Member News: Three Agatha Nominations!
Malice Domestic is having its 22nd annual conference to discuss and celebrate mysteries from April 30th to May 2nd, 2010. We’re thrilled that 3 of our local/recently-local Sisters have been nominated for Agatha Awards, which will be announced and presented at the event’s banquet.
Elizabeth Zelvin’s “Death Will Trim Your Tree” (Wolfmont Press) has been nominated for best Short Story and can be read at her site. Meredith Cole’s novel POSED FOR DEATH (St. Martin’s Minotaur) and Stefanie Pintoff’s novel IN THE SHADOW OF GOTHAM (Minotaur Books) have both been nominated for Best First Novel.
All conference attendees are eligible to vote, and a complete list of Agatha nominees is here.
Many congratulations and best of luck to all!
Events: Peggy Ehrhart at NJ’s Town Book Store
This Saturday, March 6th, member Peggy Ehrhart will be signing her books at the Town Book Store in Westfield, New Jersey, at 270 Broad Street where it intersects with Elmer. This gem’s been in business for over 75 years, so if you’re in the area, come say hello to Peggy, and do some browsing!
Member News: Laura Joh Rowland in WSJ
In yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, David B. Rivkin, Jr. offered his selections for the 5 best historical mystery novels, and THE FIRE KIMONO, by chapter member Laura Joh Rowland, is in this esteemed group! Read the article for the rest of his choices and the accolades for this title in her long-running series about Sano Ichiro, a samurai detective in early 18th century Japan.
We congratulate her on earning such wonderful recognition!
Member News: Kenneth Wishnia in AHMM
Showing wonderful coordination with his recent historical release, member Kenneth Wishnia has written a short story about two rabbis and a wise woman exiled from Prague in the 16th century. Entitled Between Minkhe and Mayrev, it stars some of the same characters as his novel, and appears in the current April issue of Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. On newsstands now!
Member News: Peggy Ehrhart’s Blue Murder
Member Peggy Ehrhart’s debut mystery about a blues singer, titled in print as SWEET MAN IS GONE, has been released as an audiobook. Andrea Bates is the reader/performer, and Books in Motion has retitled protagonist’s Maxx Maxwell’s first adventure in crime as BLUE MURDER. Congratulations, Peggy! This audiobook news must sound especially sweet to a musician’s ears.
