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Member News: Lina Zeldovich’s Busy Summer!

nysinc — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:35:58 +0000

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

nysinc — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:09:40 +0000

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 Congratulations, Susan, on discovering neglected historical content that’s making new waves in Sherlockiana!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!

nysinc — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:01:03 +0000

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

nysinc — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:21:59 +0000

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?

nysinc — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:56:26 +0000

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

nysinc — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:55:08 +0000

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

nysinc — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:56:35 +0000

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!

nysinc — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 09:39:27 +0000

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.

Many congratulations and good luck to Hilary!

Events: March 31st Kettle of Fish

nysinc — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:50:57 +0000

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!

nysinc — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:41:38 +0000

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!