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SUMMARY:Panel Discussion: Creating Unforgettable Characters
DESCRIPTION:MWA Panel: “Creating Unforgettable Characters” In Person \nJoin us on Monday\, May 18\, for a free panel discussion on character development. At the heart of any memorable story is a character who probably remains with the reader long after the last page ends. Is it the strong backstory? The distinct personality? A unique voice? Does the character evolve and grow throughout the story? Do all of these attributes create a remarkable and lasting impression? This panel discussion with three mystery authors is open to MWA members and the public. \nMonday\, May 18\n5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. \nTredyffrin Public Library\nKing Meeting Room\n582 Upper Gulph Road\nStrafford\, PA 19087 \nRegistration is required. There are 35 seats available. \nModerator:\nMichael Bradley is an award-winning author from Delaware. He spent eight years as a radio DJ before realizing he needed a real job and turned to IT. Never one to waste an experience\, he leveraged his familiarity with life on the radio to infuse his suspense novels with a unique blend of familiarity and intrigue. His third novel\, Dead Air (2020)\, garnered critical acclaim\, winning a Foreword INDIES Award and an IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award. The novel has been called “absorbing and filled with shocking twists.” His new novel\, titled\,Those Who Shall Die\, is set for release on July 7. It has already garnered praise\, being called “a well-written\, clever whodunit with crafty twists.” \nPanelists: \nJohn Dobbyn: After graduation from Harvard College\, Boston College Law School\, and Harvard Law School and three years in the US Air Force\, John Dobbyn practiced as a trial attorney before working forty-seven years as a professor of law at Villanova Law School. As a fiction writer\, he has had seven award-winning novels published by Oceanview Publishing and over thirty short stories in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. His latest novel is Deadly Depths. \nJames McCrone: James McCrone’s stories pose questions about the nature of power\, the choices we make\, and the lessons 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 and 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: JamesMcCrone.com \nJane Kelly: Jane Kelly is the author of the Meg Daniels Mysteries\, Meg Daniels Mysteries Weekenders\, Writing in Time Mysteries\, and Widow Lady Mysteries. Her stand-alone novels include Nightingale 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 the Independent Publisher Book Award silver medals for mid-Atlantic fiction. She lives in the Philadelphia area. \nhttps://ccls.libcal.com/event/16690759
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LOCATION:Tredyffrin Library\, 582 Upper Gulph Rd.\, Strafford\, Pennsylvnia\, 19087\, United States
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SUMMARY:Crime Craft: "The Mistress of Misdirection: Agatha Christie Through the Novelist's and Scholar's Eye"
DESCRIPTION:Please join host Kate Hohl for a special Crime Craft celebrating National Mystery Month on Tuesday\, May 19\, at 6:00 p.m. EST for the May Crime Craft: “The Mistress of Misdirection: Agatha Christie Through the Novelist’s and Scholar’s Eye” with authors Lori Rader-Day and Dr. Michelle M. Klazmer!\n\nZoom meeting link:\nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/83794864332?pwd=sZ4GSNGYygUCr6hySlym6Y0P9i9pM4.1\n\nLori Rader-Day is the USA Today bestselling author of eight novels\, including Wreck Your Heart\, The Death of Us\, Death at Greenway\, The Lucky One\, and Under a Dark Sky. She has been nominated for crime fiction’s highest award\, the Edgar Award\, and has won the Mary Higgins Clark Award\, the Agatha Award\, three Anthony Awards\, and an Indiana Author Award. Lori is a former national president of Sisters in Crime\nand a former national board member of Mystery Writers of America. She lives in Chicago\, where she cochairs the crime fiction readers’ event Midwest Mystery Conference and teaches creative writing at Northwestern University. Visit her at www.LoriRaderDay.com.\n \n\nMichelle M. Kazmer\, MLS\, PhD\, is dean of the College of Communication and Information at Florida State University in Tallahassee. Since 2014\, Kazmer has maintained a research agenda applying information science theories to Golden Age detective fiction focused on Agatha Christie. She has written about information behavior in Agatha Christie’s Parker Pyne short stories; the character of Jessica Fletcher from the television series Murder\, She Wrote in comparison with Christie’s Jane Marple; and comparisons between Archie Goodwin from Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe mysteries wand Arthur Hastings from Christie’s Poirot stories. She has published book chapters about information behavior in the Miss Marple novels and about clues as information objects in Agatha Christie’s novels\, novellas\, and short stories.\nDr. Kazmer was on the team of researchers who developed the script for the BBC Maestro course Agatha Christie on Writing.  She holds a PhD from the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\, an MLS from the University of Pittsburgh\, and a BS in mechanical engineering from Columbia University.\nWe look forward to seeing you there!
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SUMMARY:Library Panel Discussion: Creating a Mystery Novel: Building Worlds and Plotting Twists and Turns
DESCRIPTION:How do mystery writers build the world of the novel? What contributes to an exciting and intriguing location that offers varied possibilities for storytelling and supports the writer’s ability to supply a plotline that twists and turns? Join these MWA-NY mystery authors at the Hoboken Public Library on May 30 as they offer clues to successfully meshing the world of the mystery with surprising and unexpected plot twists. \nThis panel is open to MWA members and the public. \nMay 30\n2-4:00 p.m.\nHoboken Public Library\, 500 Park Avenue\, Hoboken\, NJ 07030 \nRegister here \nModerator: \nTom Coffey retired from The New York Times in 2023 after a decades-long career in journalism. His first novel\, The Serpent Club\, was published in 1999 by Pocket Books and earned a starred review from Publishers Weekly. In 2008 Toby Press printed Blood Alley\, which also earned a starred review from PW. His series with Level Best Books\, The Devine Trilogy\, which is named for the dysfunctional family at its center\, began in 2023 with the publication of Public Morals\, which gained four- and five-star reviews on Amazon and Goodreads. The second book in the series\, Special Victim\, was published in 2024\, to similar acclaim. Tom recently completed the final book in the series\, Stop and Frisk\, which will be published next year. \nPanelists: \nJeff Cohen\, who also writes as E.J. Copperman\, writes comedies that have mysteries in them. Sometimes they have ghosts. A lot of the time they don’t. He has been a newspaper reporter\, trade magazine editor\, freelance journalist and screenwriter (no credits on IMDb) and mystery novelist. The last one stuck. Jeff is a native New Jerseyan and has never been outside the Garden State for more than two weeks at a time. He has no patience for any form of entertainment that has no sense of humor at all\, and will tell you about that at length if you are foolish enough to ask. Find him on Facebook and at www.ejcopperman.com. \nDawn M. Barclay is an Agatha Award and Lowell Thomas Gold Award-winning author and a Chanticleer finalist. She writes psychological/domestic/romantic suspense as D.M. Barr and nonfiction under her own name. Traditionally published works include seven novels\, three anthologies\, and three nonfiction books\, with several anthologies to be published by White City Press in 2026. The owner of Suggested Development Editing and Book Coaching\, she’s a former acquisition editor for Champagne Book Group\, former editor for Down & Out Books\, and the current editor for Hold Fast Publishing. She is the incoming co-president of Sisters in Crime New York/TriState and a former MWA board member. \nKellye Garrett’s crime fiction novels have been named to Time magazine’s 100 Best Mystery & Thrillers of All Time\, were spotlighted as a $1\,000 clue on Jeopardy\, and have won Agatha\, Anthony\, Lefty\, IPPY\, and ITW Thriller awards. After breaking into publishing with the Detective by Day lightweight mystery series\, she transitioned into standalone suspense with Like A Sister. Her latest\, the Jersey City-set Missing White Woman\, was a Reader’s Digest Book Club pick\, CBS New York Club Calvi selection\, Apple Books Staff Pick\, and Amazon Editors’ Pick. In addition to writing\, Kellye is a cofounder of Crime Writers of Color\, which received the 2023 Raven Award from MWA and Boucheron’s 2024 David Thompson Special Service Award. She’s a New Jersey native.
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SUMMARY:MWA-NY Hosting First Spring Fling
DESCRIPTION:Spring Fling 2026 \nMWA-NY is hosting its first spring party on Thursday\, June 11. \nGreat memories and new friendships await. \nJoin us as we celebrate the world of mystery. \nSpecial Guest: \nNew York Times bestselling author  \nSusan Elia MacNeal \nIt would be a crime to miss it! \nDeets: \nMWA-NY Spring Fling! \nThursday\, June 11\, 6 – 9 p.m.\nThe Tailor Public House\n505 8th Ave. New York\, NY 10018\nRegistration link: \nhttps://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/ZC8F25BEMUKJL \n  \n  \n 
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