Join the Mystery Writers of America, New York Chapter, for another thrilling night of chilling crime fiction read by our talented members. The August 11 KGB reading will be held online. NO REGISTRATION IS NECESSARY.
The reading will be streaming live at 6 PM on Tuesday, 8/11/2020:
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MWA-New York is committed to the well-being of our members and attendees, and encourage our community to follow CDC guidance on novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
Erik Arneson
Erik Arneson writes crime fiction. His stories have appeared in Otto Penzler’s Kwik Krimes, Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine, Needle, Grift, Shotgun Honey, Out of the Gutter Online, Beat to a Pulp, Near to the Knuckle, and more. “The Murder of Ernest Trapnell,” published by Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine (Fall 1998), won the Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine Short Story Contest and was nominated for a Derringer Award by the Short Mystery Fiction Society. His most recent title for Simon and Schuster, How to Host a Game Night, calls on his expertise as a lifelong tabletop game enthusiast who has written hundreds of articles about games for such publications as The Spruce, Knucklebones, Counter, and The Opinionated Gamers.
Nancy Bilyeau
Nancy Bilyeau is a magazine editor and novelist. Her staff jobs have included “Rolling Stone,” “Entertainment Weekly,” and “InStyle.” Her fifth novel, Dreamland, is set in Coney Island in 1911. The protagonist is an heiress who strays from her luxury hotel on the ocean to the amusement parks nearby while a series of young women are murdered are found on the beach.
Suzanne Chazin
Suzanne Chazin is the award-winning author of two suspense series. Her first (The Fourth Angel, Flashover, Fireplay) stars Georgia Skeehan, a scrappy female fire-investigator for the New York City Fire Department. Suzanne’s second mystery series stars Jimmy Vega, a flawed but deeply humane cop navigating the veiled world of the undocumented in upstate NY.
Jane Kelly
Jane Kelly is the author of the Meg Daniels mysteries set in New Jersey Shore towns. Jane is also the author of the Widow Lady Mysteries and the Writing in Time Mysteries. She is the past-president of the Delaware Valley chapter of Sisters in Crime and currently serves on the board of the New York Chapter of Mystery Writers of America. She holds an MS in Information Studies from Drexel University and an MPhil in Popular Literature from Trinity College, University of Dublin. Her fifth Meg Daniels mystery, Greetings from Ventnor City, was released in January 2020.
Jeff Markowitz
Jeff Markowitz is the author of four mysteries, including the award-winning dark comedy, Death and White Diamonds. His next book, Hit or Miss, is due out in the spring of 2021. Jeff is past President of the New York Chapter of Mystery Writers of America.
Erica Obey
Erica Obey is the author of Dazzlepaint, as well as four other historical and paranormal novels set in the Hudson Valley, including the award-winning The Curse of the Braddock Brides, which Publishers Weekly called a “smooth unfolding, satisfyingly twisty tale of lurid legends, deadly blackmail, hidden identities, international spycraft, and practical romance.” She is also working on a contemporary cozy series featuring a Hudson Valley librarian and her AI sidekick, which could best be described as Knives Out meets Ready Player One. Erica has served on the MWA-NY Board as the Chair of the Mentor Program Committee and is the 2020 Chapter President. She has also served as the Chair of the 2018 Edgars Best Novel Committee. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and taught college-level classes on fairy tale and fantasy, mystery fiction, and Arthurian romance, before she decided she’d rather be writing the stories herself. But once an academic, always an academic, and she remains a dedicated research junkie both in the depths of dusty archives and out on the hiking trails of the Catskill Mountains. She enjoys posting her explorations on her “Of Research and Rabbit Holes” blog, as well as on social media
Camilla Trinchieri
Camilla Trinchieri worked for many years dubbing films in Rome with directors, such as Federico Fellini, Pietro Germi, Franco Rosi, Lina Wertmüller and Luchino Visconti. She immigrated to this country in 1980 and received an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University. Under the pseudonym Camilla Crespi, she has published seven mysteries in “The Trouble With” mystery series. The Breakfast Club Murder was published in 2014 by Five Star. As Camilla Trinchieri she has published The Price of Silence (Soho Press, 2007) and Seeking Alice (SUNY Press, 2016) a fictionalized account of her mother’s life in Europe during WWII, which won an Italian American Studies Association Award. Both have been translated and published in Italy along with What Really Happened to Billy, a novel she has not yet tried to sell in the States. Murder in Chianti (Soho Press 2020) is the first in a series of Tuscan mysteries.
Readings take place on the second Tuesday of every other month. Slots are open for October and December. Members who are interested in reading, or have questions about the program, should contact MWA New York at readings@mwany.org.