Multi-award-winning Catriona McPherson shares with us some fun she had teaching a class on character, where she asked her students to dream up the worst cliched characters they could. She took six of the worst and wrote a piece of flash fiction in which they were featured.
Ali Karim, assistant editor of Shots eZine, stops in from across the pond to remember Edward Wright, award-winning author of the John Ray historical thrillers.
Who would have guessed that Edgar Allan Poe influenced the development of the game of Scrabble? Read how Poe’s analysis of the frequency of English letters in his short story “The Gold-Bug” served as a basis for Scrabble’s scoring system almost 100 years later.
Meet Colin Campbell, Yorkshireman, 30-year veteran of the West Yorkshire Police force, and the author of The Resurrection Man series of novels. Campbell shares his thoughts on developing a New York state of mind.
Matt Cook is the author of Sabotage, which he wrote at 19 while an undergraduate at Stanford. There he also published two nonfiction books and cofounded a nonprofit dedicated to government transparency. A professional close-up magician trained at the Hollywood Magic Castle, he has performed in over 80 countries, and enjoys weaving exotic locales into his stories. Cook is now a doctoral student in Economics at Penn. He enjoys travel, scuba, and Latin dancing for fun.
One of the many benefits MWA-NY offers its members is access to the experts who pursue the perpetrators and solve the crimes we write about. We asked a few of those experts to tell us about their work in law enforcement and forensics. (And don’t forget to check the MWA-NY Event Calendar for upcoming programs.) Today, we’re featuring Robert Leonard, the director
On our monthly dinner meeting in April, the MWA-NY chapter was treated to a lecture by forensic linguistics expert Robert Leonard at the Salmagundi Club in Manhattan. With a PhD in language studies from Columbia University, Leonard helped to pioneer the profession of analyzing language patterns in letters and notes in order to profile and identify criminals. In some cases,
One of the many benefits MWA-NY offers its members is access to the experts who pursue the perpetrators and solve the crimes we write about. We asked a few of those experts to tell us about their work in law enforcement and forensics. Don’t forget to check the MWA-NY calendar for upcoming programs. Today we’re featuring Barbara Butcher, the former chief
Writing is a solitary business — but you don’t have to do it alone. Learn about our new #MWANYWriteIn series. The next session is this Sunday, May 17!
One of the many benefits MWA-NY offers its members is access to the experts who pursue the perpetrators and solve the crimes we write about. We asked a few of those experts to tell us about their work in law enforcement and forensics. Don’t forget to check the MWA-NY calendar for upcoming programs. Today we’re featuring long-serving NYPD lieutenant (and MWA-NY member) Bernard Whalen, who spoke
Tracey Landau began her writing career at the age of three, dictating stories to her mother. Twenty-one years later, her first novel, The Queen of Diamonds, has been published by Wildside Press. Landau started writing this book—her third novel and the first to be published—when she was 17, writing on receipt paper during her job at Friendly’s. She is working on
Arrgh, me buckos! Authors are having to deal with their books being pirated on the Internetz! Who is stealing our books? Is there any way to stop them and how? Is it any use?
Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford shares his recipe for a cream-topped caramel apple crostada (not a Frenchified “gallette”). As recorded by Gary Cahill, in his winning entry for our Mystery Writers of America Cookbook giveaway contest.
MWA-NY President Emerita and Chair of the Festivals and Conferences Committee Patricia King rounds up information and anecdotes about some of the most popular events for writers out there.
Henry Chang is a native son of New York City’s Chinatown, where he sets his stories, from the underbelly of the immigrant demimonde. He’s been a lighting consultant, and a freelance journalist. He has been a Security Director for the Trump Organization, and for corporate and retail Loss Prevention. A local product, he attended Pratt Institute, and graduated from CCNY. He resides in the Chinatown area of Lower Manhattan—“in the old ‘hood,” as he calls it. He is currently working on his fifth book in the NYPD Detective Jack Yu series.
