What does it take to be a forensic psychologist? Join SEMWA for their 2nd Monday Gathering, this coming Monday, May 9, at 7:30 p.m. EDT to find out. Their own Rick Helms will discuss the major duties of the field and more.
Helms is a retired college professor and forensic psychologist. He has been nominated eight times for the SMFS Derringer Award, winning it twice; seven times for the Private Eye Writers of America Shamus Award, with one win; twice for the ITW Thriller Award, with one win; four times for the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award, with one win, and once for the Mystery Readers International Macavity Award. He was a contributor to the Bouchercon Anthony Award-nominated anthology The Eyes of Texas: Private Eyes from the Panhandle to the Piney Woods. His story in that anthology, “See Humble and Die,” was selected for Houghton-Mifflin-Harcourt’s Best American Mystery Stories 2020, edited by Otto Penzler and C.J. Box.
Helms is also a frequent contributor to Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, along with other periodicals and short story anthologies. He is a former member of the board of directors of MWA, the former president of the Southeast Regional Chapter of MWA, and a recipient of the SEMWA Magnolia Award for service to the chapter. When not writing, Helms enjoys playing with his grandsons, travel, reading, gourmet cooking, simracing, and rooting for his beloved Carolina Tar Heels and Carolina Panthers. He lives with his wife Elaine live in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Check out this link to his YouTube book trailer for A Kind and Savage Place, which came out March 1.
The event is free but registration is required. Register here.