Setting — and Meeting — Writing Goals
Author Laura K. Curtis gives some tips on achieving your word count and publishing goals.
WHERE CAN WE FIND YOU?
Romantic suspense novelist and MWA-NY Board Member Laura K. Curtis discusses why you as an author need to have a digital home on the Internet.
Terrie Farley Moran and the Sophomore Scare
Agatha Award recipient Terrie Farley Moran discusses how writing CAUGHT RED-HANDED, the second book in her Read ’Em and Eat cozy mystery series, exposed the frail ego of a writer.
Mug Shot: Rob Hart
Rob Hart is the associate publisher of MysteriousPress.com and the class director at LitReactor. He is the author of The Last Safe Place: A Zombie Novella, and his short stories have appeared in Thuglit, Needle, Shotgun Honey, All Due Respect, Helix Literary Magazine, and Joyland. His first novel, New Yorked, was published by Polis Books in June 2015, with the sequel, City of Rose, to follow in 2016.
SIX OF THE WORST — CATRIONA MCPHERSON HAS FUN WITH CLICHED CHARACTERS CREATED ON PURPOSE
Multi-award-winning Catriona McPherson shares with us some fun she had teaching a class on character, where she asked her students to dream up the worst cliched characters they could. She took six of the worst and wrote a piece of flash fiction in which they were featured.
REMEMBERING ED WRIGHT
Ali Karim, assistant editor of Shots eZine, stops in from across the pond to remember Edward Wright, award-winning author of the John Ray historical thrillers.
HOW EDGAR ALLAN POE INFLUENCED THE GAME OF SCRABBLE
Who would have guessed that Edgar Allan Poe influenced the development of the game of Scrabble? Read how Poe’s analysis of the frequency of English letters in his short story “The Gold-Bug” served as a basis for Scrabble’s scoring system almost 100 years later.
A NEW YORK STATE OF MIND: FEATURING COLIN CAMPBELL
Meet Colin Campbell, Yorkshireman, 30-year veteran of the West Yorkshire Police force, and the author of The Resurrection Man series of novels. Campbell shares his thoughts on developing a New York state of mind.
Mug Shot: Matt Cook
Matt Cook is the author of Sabotage, which he wrote at 19 while an undergraduate at Stanford. There he also published two nonfiction books and cofounded a nonprofit dedicated to government transparency. A professional close-up magician trained at the Hollywood Magic Castle, he has performed in over 80 countries, and enjoys weaving exotic locales into his stories. Cook is now a doctoral student in Economics at Penn. He enjoys travel, scuba, and Latin dancing for fun.
ON THE CASE: FIVE QUESTIONS FOR ROBERT LEONARD
One of the many benefits MWA-NY offers its members is access to the experts who pursue the perpetrators and solve the crimes we write about. We asked a few of those experts to tell us about their work in law enforcement and forensics. (And don’t forget to check the MWA-NY Event Calendar for upcoming programs.) Today, we’re featuring Robert Leonard, the director
THE LANGUAGE DETECTIVE COMES TO MWA-NY
On our monthly dinner meeting in April, the MWA-NY chapter was treated to a lecture by forensic linguistics expert Robert Leonard at the Salmagundi Club in Manhattan. With a PhD in language studies from Columbia University, Leonard helped to pioneer the profession of analyzing language patterns in letters and notes in order to profile and identify criminals. In some cases,
ON THE CASE: FIVE QUESTIONS FOR BARBARA BUTCHER
One of the many benefits MWA-NY offers its members is access to the experts who pursue the perpetrators and solve the crimes we write about. We asked a few of those experts to tell us about their work in law enforcement and forensics. Don’t forget to check the MWA-NY calendar for upcoming programs. Today we’re featuring Barbara Butcher, the former chief
COMBATING THE FOMO: THE LAUNCH OF #MWANYWriteIn
Writing is a solitary business — but you don’t have to do it alone. Learn about our new #MWANYWriteIn series. The next session is this Sunday, May 17!
ON THE CASE: FIVE QUESTIONS FOR BERNARD WHALEN
One of the many benefits MWA-NY offers its members is access to the experts who pursue the perpetrators and solve the crimes we write about. We asked a few of those experts to tell us about their work in law enforcement and forensics. Don’t forget to check the MWA-NY calendar for upcoming programs. Today we’re featuring long-serving NYPD lieutenant (and MWA-NY member) Bernard Whalen, who spoke
Mug Shot: Tracey Landau
Tracey Landau began her writing career at the age of three, dictating stories to her mother. Twenty-one years later, her first novel, The Queen of Diamonds, has been published by Wildside Press. Landau started writing this book—her third novel and the first to be published—when she was 17, writing on receipt paper during her job at Friendly’s. She is working on