Tim Hall is the author of the Bert Shambles Mysteries, a New Adult series featuring an economically disadvantaged young man solving crime in the Long Island suburbs. The first installment, Dead Stock, was recently published by Cozy Cat Press. The second book, Tie Died, is expected in 2015. He lives in New York City with his wife and son.
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
This article is the fourth and final in a series designed to help you stage more effective readings. Thank you to author Clare Toohey for sharing her wisdom, originally posted on Women of Mystery. DELIVERY You’re on! So you’ve practiced reading aloud–and you have, right? And your copy’s well-prepared–and it is, right? Once you’re in front of an audience, it’s
This article is the third in a series designed to help you stage more effective readings. Thank you to author Clare Toohey for sharing her wisdom, originally posted on Women of Mystery. PREPARING COPY I love e-books, and if you have a lot of capacity in your reading app for markup, a digital copy may be fine, but for public
This article is the second in a series designed to help you stage more effective readings. Thank you to author Clare Toohey for sharing her wisdom, originally posted on Women of Mystery. LENGTH Now everyone is a little different, of course, and I’ve often heard (and even told people before now!) to plan on reading about one MS page per
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.
This article is the first in a four-part series designed to help you stage more effective readings. Thank you to author Clare Toohey for sharing her wisdom, originally posted on Women of Mystery. The idea of authors reading their work is supposed to amount to entertainment for the audience and a good promotional opportunity for the author. However, too often
Margaret Mendel is an expat from the West Coast. She has MFA from Sarah Lawrence and has many published short stories. Fish Kicker, Mendel’s first published novel, came out in March 2014, and she anticipates the publication of her next novel, Pushing Water, in the summer of 2015. She is a killer baker and frequently makes a show-stopping summer fruit pie with a luscious crumb topping. An avid photographer, she not only drags her laptop, but also a Nikon D700 camera wherever she goes.
