Twenty people came to the 58th St. Library last Saturday to hear MWA-NY authors read from their work.
Catherine Maiorisi is an award-winning author of romance, mystery, and general fiction. She is a member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, and the Golden Crown Literary Society. She writes the NYPD Detective Chiara Corelli mystery series featuring Corelli and her reluctant partner, Detective P.J. Parker. She read from the latest of the five books in that series: Blood of the Innocents.
Gary Ross reads.
Gary Ross was for many years an English professor at the University of Buffalo. He is also a playwright, novelist, short story writer, essayist, audiobook narrator, and—occasionally—an actor and director. His stage play Matter of Intent won the Edgar Award. He read from the latest novel in his series set in Buffalo (“the Nickel City”), called Nickel City Monsters.
Debbie Babitt is the author of Saving Grace and First Victim and wrote “Adventures in Copywriting” for the nonfiction book Making the Perfect Pitch: How to Catch a Literary Agent’s Eye. Her previous creative incarnations include actress, playwright, drama critic, and copy director for two major Manhattan publishing companies. Debbie read from her third novel, The Man on the Train, a Hitchcockian thriller set in New York City and the Hamptons.
Debbie Babitt reading as Gary Ross (far left), Carole Lawrence (standing), and Catherine Maiorisi (seated, far right) among the audience.
Carole Lawrence, under what she says are “too many pen names,” has published sixteen novels, six novellas, and several dozen short stories and poems. Her physics play, Strings Attached, was produced off Broadway on Theatre Row. Several students who take Carole’s online course in creative writing came to the reading. She read from her most recent novel, Cleopatra’s Dagger, set in New York in the 1880s, which was nominated for an Edgar Award as Best Original Paperback.
If you are a member of MWA-NY and would like to read aloud from your work, the next Manhattan Mystery Readings will be on the following Saturdays: August 9, October 4, and December 6 from noon to 2:00 p.m.
The 58th Street Library is at 127 East 58th Street, between Park and Lexington Avenues. Getting there is easy by mass transit: the 4, 5, 6, N, and R trains all stop at 59th Street and Lex. Uptown buses run on Third Ave.; downtown buses on Lex. The M31 and M57 buses run crosstown on 57th Street. The Library’s meeting room is on the second floor, and there is no elevator.
For further information, please email info@mwany.org