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 …

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Member News: Remembering Winifred Seery

With sadness, we report that chapter member Winifred Seery of Glastonbury, Connecticut passed away on January 29th at the age of 75.   Her obituary with online guestbook is posted …

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Member News: High-Fiving Ken Wishnia

THE FIFTH SERVANT, published by William Morrow, is a Jewish-themed historical mystery that takes place in Prague, 1592.  On the eve of Passover, in the fragile safety of the Jewish …

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Member News: Maggie Barbieri’s Latest

Blame the holidays (okay, I will,) but we’re precisely a month behind in announcing the 4th installment in Maggie Barbieri’s Murder 101 series published by St. Martin’s. St. Thomas University …

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November 7th is National Bookstore Day!

Publishers Weekly is spearheading the first of this annual event as an opportunity to celebrate bookselling and the vibrant culture of bookstores. No matter your favorite independent nook or chain, stop …

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Member News: Peggy Ehrhart’s Encore!

Peggy Ehrhart has sold the second book in her blues mystery series to Five Star/Gale/Cengage.  Titled GOT NO FRIEND ANYHOW, it features Ehrhart’s blues-singer sleuth Elizabeth “Maxx” Maxwell in a second mystery …

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Member News: Jenna Weart’s on the stand!

In the October 26th issue of the popular Woman’s World magazine, member Jenna Weart’s mystery short “Fast Worker” appears.  As many of you know, this is a terrific (and tricky) market …

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Member News: Cynthia Baxter’s 8th Reign

Tomorrow, Bantam is releasing the 8th title in Cynthia Baxter’s, paperback series Reigning Cats and Dogs!  You can pick it up at your most beloved bookstore. Veterinarian and amateur sleuth …

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Member News: Hilary Davidson’s 2-Book Deal

Another exciting crime fiction debut from our chapter! Per Publishers’ Marketplace:  “Journalist Hilary Davidson’s debut THE DAMAGE DONE, about a travel writer who is called back to New York when her estranged …

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Member News: The Gift of Murder

Two of our local sisters, Elizabeth Zelvin and Anita Page, have short stories appearing in Wolfmont’s latest anthology to benefit Toys for Tots.  Congratulations to them both for being selected …

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