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SUMMARY:Crime Craft: 'The FBI in Books\, TV and Movies - Myths and Misconceptions'
DESCRIPTION:Join host Kate Hohl on Tuesday\, February 2/17\, at 6:00pm EST for the February Crime Craft with retired FBI Agent Jerri Williams: “The FBI in Books\, TV and Movies – Myths and Misconceptions.” \nWhat most people know about the FBI they’ve learned from entertainment media. From the perspective of a retired agent who has also worked as a technical consultant for TV shows\, Jerri Williams will explore what crime fiction and crime dramas get right and wrong about the FBI and present teachable moments. \n \nWilliams spent 26 years as a special agent\, specializing in economic fraud and corruption investigations. She’s now on a mission to show the public what the FBI is and what the FBI does. The FBI Agents Association has recognized Williams as its Distinguished Service Honoree for sharing FBI stories. Through her police procedural novels\, nonfiction book\, blog\, and true crime podcast\, FBI Case File Review\, she debunks misconceptions about the FBI found in books\, TV\, and movies. She has worked as a consultant for major TV studios\, assisting producers and showrunners in developing realistic FBI characters and storylines. Learn more at jerriwilliams.com. \nJoin here.
URL:https://www.mwany.org/event/crime-craft-the-fbi-in-books-tv-and-movies-myths-and-misconceptions/
CATEGORIES:Writing Craft
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SUMMARY:Pick Your Poison at CrimeCONN 2026 on May 16
DESCRIPTION:CrimeCONN 2026\nFerguson Library\, Stamford\, Conn.\nMay 16 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. \nCrimeCONN 2026 invites you to Pick Your Poison \nThe mystery genre is full of subgenres and sub-subgenres. You can discover how writers convert their life experiences or compelling interests or just plain curiosity into mystery and suspense at CrimeCONN 2026.\nConsidered one of the premier small-scale mystery writers and lovers conferences\, CrimeCONN is cosponsored by the Mystery Writers of America\, New York Chapter\, and the Ferguson Library in Stamford\, Connecticut.\nThe one-day event will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on May 16 and offers a virtual attendance option. The headliner this year is New York Times bestselling author Alafair Burke\, in conversation with John Valeri\, acclaimed mystery reviewer and online host.\nUSA Today bestselling author Hank Phillippi Ryan will hold this year’s one-hour writers workshop\, as well as appear on a panel led by Reed Farrel Coleman. Other bestselling and award-winning authors joining panels include Alison Gaylin\, Lynne Constantine\, Peter Blauner\, Kate White and Hilary Davidson. MWA-NY President Daniella Bernett also will serve on a panel.\nCrimeCONN also features a perennial favorite\, Michelle Clark’s forensic science panel. Michelle is a highly regarded Connecticut death investigator who brings in experts from around the region who give invaluable insight into the real world of crime fighting.\nYou’d be hard pressed to find more to learn\, inform and inspire in the world of crime writing than CrimeCONN 2026. Lunch and coffee will be served all day. \nDiscounts for seniors\, students\, and MWA members. \nRegister here: \nPick Your Poison.  Crime writers who write what they know.  And love.  The mystery\ngenre is full of subgenres and sub-subgenres.  Learn how writers convert their life\nexperiences or compelling interests or just plain curiosity into mystery and suspense. \n9:15\nStir it up. Hear writers dish on the role of food in suspense writing.\nModerator: Tom Straw. Ang Pompano\, Devon Delaney\, Debra Sennefelder\n10:15\nSir or Madam\, will you read my book? How music informs\, enriches and provokes\ncrime fiction.\nModerator: Jim Fusilli. Peter Blauner\, Alison Gaylin\, Mary Anna Evans\n11:15\nPut me in\, coach! Hits\, misses\, and score settling. Authors on the enduring mysteries\nof sports.\nModerator: Charles Salzberg. Tessa Wegert\, Elise Hart Knipness\, Kevin Wade \n12:00\nLunch\nWriters Workshop. \nHank Phillippi Ryan\n1:00\nForensics Panel\nModerator: Michelle Clark. TBD\n2:00\nDifferent strokes for different folks. How life’s passions\, obsessions\, and simple\ncuriosity can lead to the writing life.\nModerator: Reed Farrel Coleman. Rich Cohen\, Daniella Bernett\, Hank Phillippi Ryan\n3:00\nCan’t hold us down. How strong women have come to define 21 st Century crime\nwriting.\nModerator: Gabi Coatsworth. Kate White\, Hilary Davidson and Lynne Constantine \nKeynote\nAlafair Burke interviewed by John Valeri.
URL:https://www.mwany.org/event/pick-your-poison-at-crimeconn-2026-on-may-16/
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SUMMARY:Californian Rob Osler Visiting Mysterious Bookshop in NYC
DESCRIPTION:MWA California member Rob Osler visits The Mysterious Bookshop in NYC on Thursday\, March 26\, to discuss his new book\, The Case of the Murdered Muckraker\, the second in his Harriet Morrow Investigates series. He’ll be joined in conversation by Mariah Fredericks.  Book one\, The Case of the Missing Maid\, won the Lefty Award for best historical novel and is a nominee for the best LGBTQ+ novel at the Lambda Literary Awards. The event is scheduled to run from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. \n 
URL:https://www.mwany.org/event/californian-rob-osler-visiting-mysterious-bookshop-in-nyc/
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SUMMARY:Unforgettable\, That's What They Are: An MWA NY Panel Discussion!
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nJoin us for “Creatiing Unforgettable Characters\,” a Mystery Writers of America New York Panel\, from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. on Monday\, May 18\, at the Tredyffrin Public Library\, 582 Upper Gulf Road\, Strattford\, Pa. \nMan walking away on misty road. Man standing alone on rural foggy and misty asphalt road. Selective focus\nMichael Bradley (moderator) is an award-winning author from Delaware. He spent eight years as\na radio DJ “on the air” before realizing he needed a real job and turned to IT. Never one to waste\nan experience\, he leveraged his familiarity with life on the radio to infuse his suspense novels\nwith a unique blend of familiarity and intrigue. His third novel\, DEAD AIR (2020)\, garnered\ncritical acclaim\, winning a Foreword INDIES Award and an IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award.\nThe novel has been called “absorbing and filled with shocking twists.” His new novel titled\,\nTHOSE WHO SHALL DIE\, is set to release on July 7th.  It has already garnered praise\, being\ncalled “a well-written\, clever whodunit with crafty twists.” \nAfter graduation from Harvard College \, Boston College Law School\, and Harvard Law School and spending three years in the US Air Force\, John Dobbyn practiced as a trial attorney before teaching law for forty-seven years at Villanova Law School. As a fiction writer\, he has had seven\naward-winning novels published by Oceanview Publishing and over thirty short stories in Ellery\nQueen’s Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. His latest novel is Deadly Depths. \nJames McCrone’s stories pose questions about the nature of power\, the choices we make\, and the\nlessons we don’t learn. He’s the author of the thriller trilogy Faithless Elector\, Dark Network\, and Emergency Powers\, about stealing the presidency and creating a puppet government\, and Bastard Verdict\, in which a looming second referendum on Scottish independence threatens to expose irregularities in the first. He’s the current president of the Delaware Valley Sisters in Crime chapter\, a member of Mystery Writers of America\, and the International Association of Crime Writers. He lives in Philadelphia. His latest novel\, Witness Tree\, is out on submission. You can learn more at his website: www.JamesMcCrone. \nJane Kelly is the author of the Meg Daniels Mysteries\, Meg Daniels Mysteries Weekenders\,\nWriting in Time Mysteries and Widow Lady Mysteries. Her standalone novels include\nNightingale Songs\, A Death in Scilly\, and The Secret Audience (2026). She holds an MS in information studies from Drexel University and an MPhil in popular literature from Trinity College\, University of Dublin. She is a past president of the Delaware Valley Sisters in Crime and has served on the board of the New York Chapter of Mystery Writers of America. The fourth and sixth books in the Meg Daniels series\, Missing You in Atlantic City\, and Strangers in the Avalon Dunes\, won Independent Publisher Book Award silver medals for mid-Atlantic fiction. She currently lives in the Philadelphia area. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.mwany.org/event/unforgettable-thats-what-they-are-an-mwa-ny-panel-discussion/
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SUMMARY:Reading and Mingling in Soho
DESCRIPTION:  \nYou asked\, we delivered! For all of you asking for more in-person events\, come check out our get-together for authors and friends of mysteries in fact and fiction at our exciting new location\, Bibliotheque (54 Mercer Street\, NYC)\, at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday\, March 31. \nReaders: \nJeffrey Somers \nElizabeth Crowens \nJames McCrone \nLori Robbins \nGary Cahill
URL:https://www.mwany.org/event/reading-and-mingling-in-soho/
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SUMMARY:Annual General Membership Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Annual General Membership Meeting \n April 13\n7 p.m. \nPlease join us to hear about all the wonderful plans MWA-NY has in store for 2026.This is an opportunity for members to ask the board questions. \nZoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88598730265?pwd=AI6U1jB4KFNOuUdDRNaQ2dEydowgu0.1
URL:https://www.mwany.org/event/annual-general-membership-meeting/
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SUMMARY:CrimeCONN Set for May 16 in Connecticut
DESCRIPTION:CrimeCONN 2026\nFerguson Library\, Stamford\, Conn.\nMay 16 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. \nCrimeCONN 2026 invites you to Pick Your Poison \nThe mystery genre is full of subgenres and sub-subgenres. You can discover how writers convert their life experiences or compelling interests or just plain curiosity into mystery and suspense at CrimeCONN 2026.\nConsidered one of the premier small-scale mystery writers and lovers conferences\, CrimeCONN is cosponsored by the Mystery Writers of America\, New York Chapter\, and the Ferguson Library in Stamford\, Connecticut.\nThe one-day event will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on May 16 and offers a virtual attendance option. The headliner this year is New York Times bestselling author Alafair Burke\, in conversation with John Valeri\, acclaimed mystery reviewer and online host.\nUSA Today bestselling author Hank Phillippi Ryan will hold this year’s one-hour writers workshop\, as well as appear on a panel led by Reed Farrel Coleman. Other bestselling and award-winning authors joining panels include Alison Gaylin\, Lynne Constantine\, Peter Blauner\, Kate White and Hilary Davidson. MWA-NY President Daniella Bernett also will serve on a panel.\nCrimeCONN also features a perennial favorite\, Michelle Clark’s forensic science panel. Michelle is a highly regarded Connecticut death investigator who brings in experts from around the region who give invaluable insight into the real world of crime fighting.\nYou’d be hard pressed to find more to learn\, inform and inspire in the world of\ncrime writing than CrimeCONN 2026. Lunch and coffee will be served all day. \nDiscounts for seniors\, students\, and MWA members. \nRegister here. \nPick Your Poison.  Crime writers who write what they know.  And love.  The mystery\ngenre is full of subgenres and sub-subgenres.  Learn how writers convert their life\nexperiences or compelling interests or just plain curiosity into mystery and suspense. \n9:15\nStir it up. Hear writers dish on the role of food in suspense writing.\nModerator: Tom Straw. Ang Pompano\, Devon Delaney\, Debra Sennefelder\n10:15\nSir or Madam\, will you read my book? How music informs\, enriches and provokes\ncrime fiction.\nModerator: Jim Fusilli. Peter Blauner\, Alison Gaylin\, Mary Anna Evans\n11:15\nPut me in\, coach! Hits\, misses\, and score settling. Authors on the enduring mysteries\nof sports.\nModerator: Charles Salzberg. Tessa Wegert\, Elise Hart Knipness\, Kevin Wade \n12:00\nLunch\nWriters Workshop. \nHank Phillippi Ryan\n1:00\nForensics Panel\nModerator: Michelle Clark. TBD\n2:00\nDifferent strokes for different folks. How life’s passions\, obsessions\, and simple\ncuriosity can lead to the writing life.\nModerator: Reed Farrel Coleman. Rich Cohen\, Daniella Bernett\, Hank Phillippi Ryan\n3:00\nCan’t hold us down. How strong women have come to define 21 st Century crime\nwriting.\nModerator: Gabi Coatsworth. Kate White\, Hilary Davidson and Lynne Constantine \nKeynote\nAlafair Burke interviewed by John Valeri.
URL:https://www.mwany.org/event/crimeconn-set-for-may-16-in-connecticut/
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