Join us on March 3 for the third in a series of Zoom chapter meetings highlighting the states and regions of the New York chapter. The March meeting will feature a panel of four Hudson Valley writers discussing the use of location and atmosphere in their fiction as well as their other techniques they’ve developed for crafting an engaging mystery.
- D. M. Barr
- Carol Goodman
- Emily Naymark
- Rich Zahradnik
- Moderated by Nancy Bilyeau
The event will stream on the MWA New York Facebook page. All our virtual events are free.
Please remember to support our Indie bookstores as well as our authors by buying any books that interest you at one of the following links or at your local indie bookstore.
D.M.Barr
A former travel trade journalist and Realtor, D.M. Barr penned her debut novel, the satiric and kinky psychological thriller “Expired Listings” to warn fellow agents and the public of the dangers of residential resale. In 2020, Barr released the domestic suspense novel, “Saving Grace: A Psychological Thriller.” The current president of Hudson Valley RWA, Barr is a member of MWA, ITW and the programming chair on the board of Sisters in Crime/NY-Tri-State.
Carol Goodman
Carol Goodman is the author of 22 novels, including “The Seduction of Water,” which won the 2003 Hammett Prize; “The Widow’s House,” which won the 2018 Mary Higgins Clark Award, and “The Night Visitors,” which won the 2020 Mary Higgins Clark Award. Her books have been translated into 16 languages. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her family and teaches literature and writing at The New School and SUNY New Paltz. Her latest novel is “The Sea of Lost Girls.”
Emilya Naymark
Emilya Naymark’s debut novel, “Hide In Place,” was published in February 2021 by Crooked Lane. Her short stories appear in the Harper Collins anthology “A Stranger Comes to Town,” “Secrets in the Water,” “After Midnight: Tales from the Graveyard Shift,” “River River Journal,” “Snowbound: Best New England Crime Stories 2017” and “1+30: THE BEST OF MYSTORY.” She has a degree in fine art, and her artworks have been published in numerous magazines and books.
Rich Zahradnik
“Lights Out Summer,” the fourth book in Rich Zahradnik’s Coleridge Taylor Mystery series, won the 2018 Shamus Award for Best Paperback Private Eye Novel. “A Black Sail” was named best mystery in the 2017 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. He was born in Poughkeepsie, worked his first newspaper job in Peekskill and lives in Pelham, where he teaches kids how to write news stories and publish newspapers. He is on the board of the New York chapter of MWA.
Nancy Bilyeau
Nancy Bilyeau, who moved with her family to the Hudson Valley in August 2020, is the author of the 2019 historical mystery “Dreamland,” set in turn of the century Coney Island, and four other historical novels. She is a magazine editor and writer who currently works at the Center for Media, Crime and Justice at John Jay College.