Join us for a panel discussion featuring Cate Holahan, Richie Narvaez, Laura Joh Rowland, and Catherine Maiorisi. We’ll be discussing questions related to diversity and writing outside of the box of traditional crime fiction. This promises to be a thought-provoking panel with extraordinary writers.

Cate Holahan is the USA Today Bestselling author of The Widower’s Wife, as well as the acclaimed psychological suspense novels Lies She Told and One Little Secret. Before turning to fiction, she was an award-winning journalist. She lives in NJ with her two young daughters, husband, and food-obsessed dog. Catherine Maiorisi is the author of the NYPD Detective Chiara Corelli mystery series featuring Corelli and her reluctant partner, Detective P.J. Parker, two tough women who fight each other and the blue wall, while solving high profile murders. The first in the series, A Matter of Blood, was a 2019 Lambda Literary Award Finalist. The second is The Blood Runs Cold and the third, A Message in Blood will be released in early 2020. Catherine has also published two romances, Matters of the Heart and No One But You. Her third romance, Ready for Love, will be published in the fall of 2019. Her three mysteries can be found in the Murder New York Anthologies. She also has published four romance short stories. Richie Narvaez is the award-winning author of Roachkiller and Other Stories. His work has appeared in Long Island Noir, Plots with Guns, Thrilling Detective, and Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder, among others. His debut novel, Hipster Death Rattle, was published in March 2019. Laura Joh Rowland is the author of The Hangman’s Secret, the third book in her mystery series set in Victorian England, starring photographer Sarah Bain. Her other series features 17^th-century Japanese samurai detective Sano Ichiro. It has been optioned by Universal Studios. Her work has been published in 21 countries, won RT Magazine’s Reader’s Choice Award, and made The Wall Street Journal‘s list of the five best historical mystery novels. Laura lives in Queens.  

Wednesday, March 20th, 2019

Book & Author Promotion on a Shoestring Budget 

Our own Dawn Barclay will discuss her steps to success, including:

*Creating A Web & Social Media Presence
*Guest Blogging & Podcast Appearances
*Hosting A Launch Party
* and more strategies that can get you the sales you want.

Plus, you’ll take home an 8-page handout filled with useful tips.

Join us Wednesday, March 20th at
The Jefferson Market Library
10th Street and Sixth Avenue
Meet and greet: 6:00 pm
Program: 6:30 to 8:00 pm
Optional dinner follows

Saturday, April 13th, 2019

Hallie Ephron one day Writing Workshop covering

– A Crime-Fiction Writer’s Toolbox
– Structuring scenes; structuring the novel
– Building memorable characters
– Writing suspense, action, and reflection
– Writing dialogue
– Harnessing viewpoint

$25 for members
9 am – 3 pm with a break for lunch

To reserve send a check to C. Maiorisi, 215 West 90th Street, NY, NY 10024. Details will be emailed.

NOTE: This replaces our regular April monthly meeting

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Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019

Beth (Jaden) Terrell, SinC national speaker

As Jaden Terrell, Beth Terrell is the internationally published author of the Nashville-based Jared McKean mysteries. She’s a contributor to the Killer Nashville Noir: Coldblooded anthology, the collaborative anthology Eight Mystery Writers You Should be Reading Now, and to Now Write! Mysteries, a collection of writing exercises published by Tarcher/Penguin for writers of crime fiction. Her first book, Racing the Devil, was shortlisted for a Shamus award. Her workbook for beginning crime writers, Question Me a Novel, was published in December.

POLISHING SILVER AND PLANNING FOR  GOLD: REVISION AND EDITING FOR AUTHORS

Join us at The Mysterious Bookshop
58 Warren Street
NYC
Meet and greet: 6:00 pm
Program: 6:30 to 8:00 pm
Optional dinner follows

NOTE: We are meeting at The Mysterious Bookshop, not The Jefferson Market Library

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Tuesday, June 18th, 2019

Annual Year-End Party at Cowgirls Restaurant

Details will follow

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Get the holidays started! Join your Sisters in Crime sibs for our annual Holiday Party & Dinner at Salam Restaurant, 104 W. 13th Street, from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. $45 per person includes appetizers, choice of entrée (fish, meat, vegetarian or vegan), coffee or tea, soft drinks, wine and mixed drinks. The chapter is picking up the tax and gratuity.

Please RSVP by Friday, December 1st to Stephanie Wilson-Flaherty at wilson136@aol.com. Send your advance check for dinner, made out to the NY-Tri State Chapter of Sisters in Crime to:

Stephanie Wilson-Flaherty
537 84th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11209

 

Taking the Mystery out of Your Mystery. A presentation by SJ Rozan.

LIBRARY READING – Thursday, October 26 5:30 PM The New York Public Library, 67th Street Branch, 328 East 67th Street,     New York, NY 

Join mystery authors Rona Bell, Lindsay A Curcio, Kathleen Snow, Triss Stein, and Elizabeth Zelvin for a discussion and readings from Where Crime Never Sleeps: Murder New York Style
4, the anthology of stories by seventeen members of the New York chapter of Sisters in Crime.

 

The October meeting of Sisters in Crime will not be held at the Jefferson Market Library. Instead, members and friends will gather at The Mysterious Bookshop, 58 Warren Street, NYC, to celebrate the publication of Where Crime Never Sleeps, the fourth Murder New York Style anthology. Join us for short readings from the stories, conversation,  beverages and snacks. Books will be available for purchase.

Edited by Elizabeth Zelvin, Where Crime Never Sleeps contains stories by: Fran Bannigan Cox, Lindsay A. Curcio, Joseph R.G. DeMarco, Ronnie Sue Ebenstein, Rhonda Gold, Catherine Maiorisi, Nina Mansfield, Mary Moreno, Anita Page, Ellen Quint, Roslyn Siegel, Kathleen Snow, Triss Stein, Cathi Stoler, Mimi Weisbond, Stephanie Wilson-Flaherty, Elizabeth Zelvin

Join CHRIS GRABENSTEIN #1 New York Times Best-Selling author of the LEMONCELLO LIBRARY series for a discussion on how to plot your mystery by borrowing techniques used by screenwriters.

In addition to the  LEMONCELLO LIBRARY series, the WELCOME TO WONDERLAND series, and THE ISLAND OF DR. LIBRIS, Mr. Grabenstein has coauthored several fun and funny page-turners with James Patterson including the bestsellers I FUNNY, TREASURE HUNTERS, HOUSE OF ROBOTS, JACKY HA HA, and WORD OF MOUSE.  A past president of the New York Chapter of MWA, he has also written award winning books for adults.

Stop by the Sisters in Crime table at the Brooklyn Book Festival any time between 10 am and 6 pm. Members will be signing and selling their books as well as Where Crime Never Sleeps the chapter’s fourth Murder New York Style Anthology.

We will be at table #303 which is in the area near the main stage events.

Whether you’re signing with an agent, a publisher, or going the self-publishing route, Bob Stein’s legal expertise will help you decode the facts about contracts, copyright, and liability, as well as if and when you need a lawyer.