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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.

Posted by nysinc | April 26, 2010 | Categories: Markets, Member News | Comments Off

Events: Register NOW for Chris Roerden

Chris Roerden, award-winning author and manuscript editor, is giving us a workshop on Tuesday, May 25th, from 6:00pm to 8:00pm, here in NYC! The Writer’s Voice will be a 2-hour, interactive seminar designed for new writers and veterans alike, examining what that “fresh, new voice” is that agents and editors keep demanding, and providing hands-on practice in finding, or refining, your own. This workshop requires advance registration and payment, as seating is limited. The cost is $20 for chapter members, and $25 for non-members. Please see more details about the speaker, venue, and how to register at our Chapter Meetings page from the sidebar.

You may have one or more of Chris’s writing books on your shelves already, so don’t miss this chance to benefit from up-close and in-depth instruction right from the horse’s mouth- er- publishing professional’s voice!

Posted by nysinc | April 23, 2010 | Categories: Announcements, Events | Comments Off

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!

Posted by nysinc | April 23, 2010 | Categories: Member News | 2 Comments »

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!

Posted by nysinc | April 20, 2010 | Categories: Member News | Comments Off

Chapter Meeting: Joan Q. Public-ity on Tax Day

While adorable (from a distance), this is no longer considered the cutting edge of book promotion.

Joan Schulhafer has worked as an in-house publicist for Avon, Bantam, Pocket Books, Silhouette, and Kensington. Since opening her own agency, she’s worked with Nora Roberts, Jayne Ann Krentz, Heather Graham, Ray Bradbury, Elizabeth George, J.A. Jance, Neil Gaiman, Laura Lippman, and Tami Hoag among other notables. We’re delighted for the opportunity to pick her brain about how publishers’ campaigns are planned, what the goals and methods are, and how to think about promoting our own work with the innovation a pro publicist does.

On April 15th, we’ll gather at 6pm at the Muhlenberg Library with the program beginning at 6:30pm. More details as always, at our Chapter Meetings page.

Posted by nysinc | April 13, 2010 | Categories: Events | Comments Off

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.

Posted by nysinc | March 31, 2010 | Categories: Events, Member News | Comments Off

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.

Many congratulations and good luck to Hilary!

Posted by nysinc | March 28, 2010 | Categories: Member News | Comments Off

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!

Posted by nysinc | March 25, 2010 | Categories: Events, Member News | 2 Comments »

Member News: Lina Zeldovich Wins with Love

Lina Zeldovich’s short story “Love Is a Strange Thing” just won an honorable mention in the Writer’s Digest Popular Fiction Award. It was submitted in the Romance category, though she swears there’s a juicy death in it, too.

Congratulations, Lina, and we look forward to hearing more good news about these characters!

Posted by nysinc | March 19, 2010 | Categories: Announcements | Comments Off

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!

Posted by nysinc | March 19, 2010 | Categories: Announcements, Member News | Comments Off