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.
