After our Revels holiday party in December, we found ourselves with some extra holiday gift bags. These snazzy bags were stuffed with new crime fiction paperbacks, a hardcover or two, the latest issues of several crime magazines, and a lovely MWA-NY mug. President Emerita Patricia King came up with the excellent idea of sending these extra gift bags to members […]
New York Writers Workshop is generously offering MWA-NY members a 25% discount for its Spring 2015 Pitch Conference. Polish your pitches then present them to three different editors from major publishing houses. This three-day conference is an amazing opportunity to help you get your crime fiction writing out into the world. Editors provide feedback and may request proposals and manuscripts after the
This piece originally appeared in slightly different form on Criminal Element. Funny how age changes your view of a book. I’m thinking specifically of Trent’s Last Case, the famous detective novel published in 1913 by E.C. Bentley, and how my view of it has flipped between two readings 35 years apart. As a teenager, when I first read it, I
With the arrival of The Chessmen in bookstores this February, Peter May’s dark and violent trilogy about Fin Macleod, an ex-detective from Edinburgh who returns home to the Isle of Lewis in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides, comes to a close. But May’s American beachhead is just beginning. The Glasgow-born writer, who now lives in France, builds a following here, led perhaps
Are you looking to learn how to finally write that private eye novel? Or do you want to figure out what’s wrong with the one you’ve already written? If yes, then it may be time to get schooled. And there’s never been a better time. The Crime Fiction Academy, part of The Center for Fiction, is offering a 10% tuition
Stuck on a blank page? Wondering how to build suspense in your story? Willing to travel to Boston? MWA University, the daylong writing seminar run by MWA national, will be held at the Hyatt Regency in Beantown this February 14. Scheduled instructors and classes include: ▪ Jess Lourey on “The Blessing and Curse of Genre Writing” ▪ Louis Bayard on
Welcome to your new hub for all things MWA-NY. We loved our old website, but it was overdue for an upgrade. With this new site we hope to improve your online experience; to give you access to resources for writing and publishing; to introduce you to new writers and to bring news in the mystery-writing community; and to help you
Author and historian Barry T. Zeman remembers MWA Grand Master Dorothy Salisbury Davis, who died in 2014. As we start the new year, it is fitting to remember that we lost, among other beloved members, one of the most important mystery writers and MWA icons of the last 60 years. MWA Grand Master Dorothy Salisbury Davis passed away in August.
