Growing up is a mystery. So perhaps it’s not surprising that people have been reading and enjoying juvenile and young adult mysteries for more than a century. Our panelists all write, or write about, girl sleuths, in stories that span a hundred years of American history. While these young women solve crimes in their community, the authors tackle important social/political issues that characterize daily life in those communities. Join Melanie Rehak, Victoria Bond, T.R. Simon and Richie Narvaez for a discussion of the craft and the business of writing juvenile and young adult crime fiction. Moderated by Jeff Markowitz.
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Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon
Victoria Bond and T.R. Simon met twenty years ago while working together in publishing and became fast friends. After kicking around the idea of a collaboration for years, the idea of writing a middle-grade mystery novel about Zora Neale Hurston emerged, and both knew they had stumbled into the project of their dreams. Excited and humbled by the opportunity to expose young readers to a seminal figure in twentieth-century American letters, they discovered that Zora’s life as both field anthropologist and writer custom-fit their own backgrounds. T. R. (Tanya) Simon has an MA in anthropology, while Victoria Bond holds an MFA in creative writing.
Richie Narvaez
A former MWA-NY chapter president, Richie Narvaez is author of the award-winning Roachkiller and Other Stories and the gentrification thriller Hipster Death Rattle. His latest novel is the historical YA mystery Holly Hernandez and the Death of Disco.
Melanie Rehak
Melanie Rehak is the author of Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her, a New York Times Bestseller, Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year, and winner of an Edgar Award for Biography from the Mystery Writers of America; and Eating for Beginners: An Education in Eating from Chefs, Farmers, and One Picky Kid. She has been a fellow at The Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library as well as The MacDowell Colony. Her essays, reviews, food writing and poetry have appeared in many publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Bookforum, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, The L.A Times, Slate, The Times Literary Supplement, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue, and many others.
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