Join us for our annual open mic night!
Authors who will be sharing their work include:
Kathleen KalbMichelle MarykSarah BurrRhonda BarnatMally BeckerDawn BarclayMariah FredericksKate HohlCatherine SiemanRuth WeissbergerNina Mansfield
Registration for this event is below:
https://sistersincrime-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApd-msqjMoHdBWTzVfXn8rWdJQwwCWFw5R
Our guest of honor this year will be Alex Segura!
Alex Segura is the bestselling and award-winning author of Secret Identity, which The New York Times called “wittily original” and named an Editor’s Choice. NPR described the novel as “masterful,” and it received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Booklist. Secret Identity was also listed as one of the Best Mysteries of the Year by NPR, Kirkus, Booklist, the South Florida Sun Sentinel and more, and was nominated for the Anthony Award for Best Hardcover, the Lefty and Barry Awards for Best Novel, the Macavity Award for Best Mystery Novel, and won the LA Times Book Prize in the Mystery/Thriller category. His next novel, the YA Spider-Verse adventure Araña/Spider-Man 2099: Dark Tomorrow is out now from Disney Books/Marvel Press.
Chapter members, check your emails for the invitation!
Emilya Naymark is the author of the novels Hide in Place and Behind the Lie.
Her short stories appear in Killin’ Time in San Diego, A Stranger Comes to Town, edited by Michael Koryta, Secrets in the Water, After Midnight: Tales from the Graveyard Shift, River River Journal, Snowbound: Best New England Crime Stories 2017, and 1+30: THE BEST OF MYSTORY.
When not writing, Emilya works as a visual artist and reads massive quantities of psychological thrillers, suspense, and crime fiction. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her family.
Join us at the Jefferson Market Library for this in-person event.
After plotting or pantsing a lot of us struggle with the middle of our stories- we get to page 50 and then seem to run out of steam. Author Susan Breen will address ways to keep the writing going when you already have a strong opening and a general idea of how you want the book to end.
Susan Breen is the award-winning author of The Fiction Class and the Maggie Dove mystery series. Her short stories have been published in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and, most recently, the Anthony-award nominated anthology. Crime Hits Home. She teaches novel-writing at Gotham Writers and is on the staff of the New York Write to Pitch Workshop. She is a member of Sisters in Crime.
Find us at Booth #231.
Swing by to buy some books! Our anthology will be on sale, and authors will be selling and signing their books.
Here’s the schedule:
10am-11am: Mariah Fredericks & Triss Stein
11am-12pm: Lori Robbins & Dawn Barclay
12pm-1pm: Elizabeth Crowens & Jode Millman
1pm-2pm: Cathi Stoler & Izolda Trakhtenberg
2pm-3pm: Izolda Trakhtenberg & Elizabeth Mahon
3pm-4pm: Catherine Siemann & Jill Brock
4pm-5pm: Nina Mansfield
Our MC:
Jacquetta Szathmari, writing at Dorothy Welles, is the author of the upcoming Grave Trilogy featuring bomb scene investigator Danni Hawk. She is a member of Sisters in Crime, a SinC NY board member, and the VP of the Art Students League of New York. She can be found at www.dorothywelles.com and @dorothywelles
Our Readers:
Award-winning writer Dawn M. Barclay writes fiction as D.M. Barr and has written five novels and three short stories of psychological, domestic, and romantic suspense, including her best known work, Saving Grace: A Psychological Thriller. She also co-edited the SinC anthology, Justice for All: Justice New York Style 5, which contains her short story, A Trial for the Books. Under her own name, Dawn penned the acclaimed autism travel guide, Traveling Different: Vacation Strategies for Parents of the Anxious, the Inflexible, and the Neurodiverse. She offers freelance editing and ghostwriting through SuggestedDevelopment.com. Follow Dawn at www.dmbarr.com.
Elizabeth Crowens has worn many hats in the entertainment industry and has a popular Caption Contest on Facebook. She has three award-winning alternate history novels. Awards include 2020 Leo B. Burstein Scholarship from the MWA-NY Chapter, New York Foundation of the Arts grant, an Eric Hoffer Award, Honorable Mention in the Glimmer Train Awards, and two grand prize and three first prize Chanticleer Awards, including Hounds of the Hollywood Baskervilles, the first in her Babs Norman Hollywood series, which is also a Killer Nashville Claymore Awards finalist and part of her three-book publishing deal with Level Best Books.
Lori Robbins is the author of the On Pointe and Master Class mystery series and a contributor to The Secret Ingredient: A Mystery Writers Cookbook. She won the Indie Award for Best Mystery, two Silver Falchions for Best Cozy Mystery, and was a finalist for a Mystery & Mayhem Book Award. Short stories include “Leading Ladies” which was cited in the 2022 Best American Mystery and Suspense anthology. After ten lean years as a professional dancer Lori became an English teacher and now writes full time. She is Co-President of the New York/ Tristate Sisters in Crime. You can find her at https://www.lorirobbins.com/ or linktr.ee/lorirobbinsmysteries
Triss Stein is from rural New York but has spent most of her adult life in Brooklyn. She has written five mysteries about unique Brooklyn neighborhoods. In Brooklyn Legacies, (Dec, 2019) murder gets in the way of Erica Donato’s efforts to understand historic Brooklyn Heights’ clashing cultures and seismic current changes. She is now working on something completely different – crime in a high powered consulting firm – and will read some pages from the opening chapter. http://trissstein.com/
Cathi Stoler is an Amazon Best Selling author and Derringer winner. She has written Nick Of Time and Out Of Time, in the Nick Donahue Adventures; Bar None, Last Call, The Silver Falchion finalist Best Suspense Novel 2020, Straight Up, a Chanticleer Clue Book Awards Finalist 2022, and With A Twist, in the Murder On the Rocks Series, as well The Laurel and Helen NY Mysteries, plus multiple short stories. She is a board member of SinC, and a member of MWA, and ITW. You can find her at www.cathistoler.com, or email her at cathi@cathistoler.com.
Izolda Trakhtenberg Born in Moldova, Izolda lived in a war zone during her family’s year-long immigration journey. She learned to read regular playing cards from her great-grandmother and started reading tarot cards professionally 30 years ago. Izolda got her English degree from the University of Michigan. She also traveled the world as a NASA Master Trainer. Now, Izolda hosts The Creative Solutions Podcast where she interviews peak-performing innovators. She has released ten books including Die By The Sword, the first Cassie Belmont Tarot Reader mystery. Izolda, her husband, and their two cats live in Brooklyn, NY.
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This event will be in-person.
Our annual year-end dinner where we will welcome the 2023-2025 Board of Directors!
Our exciting QueryFest 3, where top editors and publishers will review your query letters and give you tips on how to bulletproof them for the best chance at receiving a contract.
More details coming soon
Need book exposure? Don’t miss our April program, when a publicity expert from Minotaur will explain “Everything Your Publicist Needs You to Know.
Marketing Assistant Dulce Botello graduated with a BA in Arts, Media and Entertainment from the University of Arizona, and with an MS in Publishing from NYU. During her undergraduate studies, Dulce interned at Kore Press, a nonprofit feminist press. She also interned with Macmillan Publishers in the subrights department where upon graduation she joined the special sales division. Dulce loves to read everything and anything that lands on her lap but has a special affinity for dystopian stories, thrillers and the occasional fantasy.