Stay ConnectedThe Sisters in Crime Writers' podcast features conversations with our members about the writing journey: their process, what they've learned, what they wish they'd know sooner. For 40 years we've supported our members with classes, workshops, webinars, and community. We're also an advocacy organization for all crime writers. No matter where a writer is on their journey, SinC is an organization where writers belong.
Learn more at www.sistersincrime.org and https://sincworldwide.com/
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Like her Ground Rules Mystery series, Emmeline Duncan is based in Portland, Oregon. Her series includes 2021's Fresh Brewed Murder, Double Shot Death, and Flat White Fatality, plus more to come. Emmeline also writes for teens as Kelly Garrett. Her debut YA novel, The Last To Die, was an Oregon Book Awards finalist. She was also a 2020 Oregon Literary Fellow. When not writing, she spends her time seeking out new coffee shops and hiking trails to explore, frequently accompanied by her Great Pyrenees sidekick. You can track her online at emmelineduncan.com.
Self Editing for Fiction Writers bu Renni Brown and Dave King
Nora Ephron Ball Analogy: “Nora Ephron was speaking about how we’re all keeping a bunch of balls in the air at one time. We’re going to drop a few things but we should make sure that it’s a plastic ball (one that will bounce and recover) and save the glass ones (ones that would shatter or be irreparably harmed if dropped).” https://gwengavinbooks.wordpress.com/2020/02/07/juggling-all-the-things/
Shut Up and Write: https://shutupwrite.com/
Friends of Mystery series: https://www.friendsofmystery.org/
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/WriterEmmelineDuncan
Twitter https://twitter.com/DuncanEmmeline
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/writeremmelineduncan/
Website emmelineduncan.com
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Sisters in Crime (SinC) was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
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The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Rob Osler writes mysteries featuring LGBTQ+ main characters. Book one of his “Hayden & Friends” series, Devil’s Chew Toy, was a best first novel finalist for the 2023 Anthony, Macavity, Agatha, and Lefty Awards. Book two, Cirque du Slay, arrives early next year. Rob’s first-ever publication, Analogue (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine), won the 2022 Robert L Fish Award at the MWA Edgar Awards. Other shorts include Miss Direction (EQMM Sept/Oct 2023) and (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes, (Brutal & Strange: Stories Inspired by Elvis Costello Songs from Down & Out Books, Dec 2023). On the horizon is book one of a new historical series, Harriet Morrow Investigates, set in Chicago and featuring a queer female detective during America’s Progressive Era (Kensington Books, January 2025).
Queer Crime Writers http://queercrimewriters.com/
Ellery Queen https://www.elleryqueenmysterymagazine.com/
Facebook Page www.facebook.com/roboslerwriter
Twitter www.twitter.com/robosler
Instagram www.instagram.com/roboslerwriter
Website https://robosler.com/
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Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Judge Debra H. Goldstein writes Kensington’s Sarah Blair mystery series. She is also the author of two standalones: Maze in Blue and Should Have Played Poker: a Carrie Martin and the Mah Jongg Players Mystery. Her novels and short stories have been named Agatha, Anthony, Derringer, Claymore (The Night for Sinners) and Silver Falchion finalists and received Silver Falchion, IPPY, AWC, and BWR awards. Debra’s short pieces have appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies including Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and Black Cat Mystery Magazine. She served on the national boards of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America, and was president of the Guppy and SEMWA chapters, and is returning to the national SinC board in October. A civic volunteer and mother of four, Debra is married to a man whose blood runs Crimson.
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/DebraHGoldsteinAuthor
Twitter @DebraHGoldstein
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/debrahgoldstein/
Website https://www.DebraHGoldstein.com
Anne George, Southern Sisters Mysteries
Chris Roerden, https://writersinfo.info/
Guppies, https://www.sinc-guppies.org/
Promophobia, https://www.sistersincrime.org/promophobia
Pitfalls in Publishing, https://www.sistersincrime.org/PitfallsinPublishing
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Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Despite completing a Fine Arts degree, all Betty Hechtman ever wanted to be was a writer. She wrote a weekly column in her college newspaper and later wrote magazine and newspaper pieces along with short stories and a prize-winning screenplay before turning to novels. She has had over twenty-five books published across three mystery series, all of which include yarn craft. She lives with her family in Southern California.
Links:
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/BettyHechtmanauthor
Website www.BettyHechtman.com
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Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Andrea J. Johnson is the author of the Victoria Justice Mysteries about a trial stenographer turned amateur sleuth (think Murder, She Wrote meets The Pelican Brief). She holds an M.F.A. in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University and a copyediting certification from UC San Diego. She currently teaches creative writing and African American literature at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, and her craft essays have appeared on several websites such as CrimeReads and LitReactor. Andrea has also contributed to the women’s lifestyle websites Popsugar and The List Daily. In addition, she has written a series of nonfiction books that include How to Craft a Killer Cozy Mystery, Mastering the Art of Suspense, and How to Craft Killer Dialogue.
Website: https://ajthenovelist.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajthenovelist
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ajthenovelist/
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Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Bonnar Spring writes eclectic international thrillers. A nomad at heart, she hitchhiked across Europe at sixteen and joined the Peace Corps after college. After living and teaching overseas, Bonnar returned to the US where she earned an Ed.M. from Harvard and taught ESL for many years.
Bonnar recently trekked to Macchu Picchu for a significant birthday. Her award-winning debut, TOWARD THE LIGHT, is set in Guatemala, and the newly-released DISAPPEARED takes place in Morocco.
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/bonnar.spring.7
Twitter https://twitter.com/gretagarbo42
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bonnarspring/
Website https://bonnarspring.com/
Phyllis A. Whitney Quote: “A map is not a journey.”
Guppies–the Great Unpublished, an online chapter of Sisters in Crime https://www.sinc-guppies.org/
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Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Peggy Ehrhart is a former English professor with a doctorate in Medieval Literature. Her Maxx Maxwell mysteries, Sweet Man Is Gone (2008) and Got No Friend Anyhow (2011), were published by Five Star/Gale/Cengage and feature a blues-singer sleuth.
Peggy is currently writing the Knit & Nibble mysteries for Kensington. Her amateur sleuth, Pamela Paterson, is the founder and mainstay of the Arborville, New Jersey, knitting club, nicknamed Knit and Nibble. Knit & Nibble #9, Irish Knit Murder, was a March 2023 release. Knit & Nibble #10, Knitmare on Beech Street, will appear in December 2023, and Murder Most Irish will appear next spring in Kensington’s 2024 St. Patrick’s Day novella anthology, Irish Milkshake Murder.
Website www.PeggyEhrhart.com
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Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Leigh Perry/Toni L.P. Kelner is two authors in one. As Leigh, she writes the Family Skeleton mysteries, featuring adjunct English professor Georgia Thackery and her skeletal pal Sid. The sixth, The Skeleton Stuffs a Stocking, was published in 2019. As Toni, she’s written eleven mystery novels and co-edited urban fantasy anthologies with Charlaine Harris. And under both names, she writes short fiction. She's been nominated for the Anthony, the Macavity, and the Derringer, and has won the Agatha Award and an RT BookClub Lifetime Achievement Award. Her most recent publication was a short story in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and forthcoming is a contribution to an anthology inspired by Father Knox's Ten Rules for Writing Mystery Fiction. These days, she's working on a seventh Family Skeleton novel.
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/LeighPerryAuthor
Instagram @leighperryauthor
Website leighperryauthor.com
Lawrence Block writing books: https://lawrenceblock.com/series/books-for-writers/
The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man by David Maurer
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Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Carola Dunn was born and grew up in England. Almost all of her books are set there (with forays to Russia, Istanbul, Costa Rica et al), though she has lived in the US for most of her life. The author of 27 mysteries, the Daisy Dalrymple series set in the 1920s, and the Cornish mysteries set around 1960, she has also written over 32 Regencies. She lives in Oregon with her Border heeler Callie (with forays to Southern California to see the grandkids).
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/CarolaDunnMysteryAuthor
Website https://caroladunn.weebly.com/
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Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
During her career in television news, Myra created Emmy Award winning special reports and investigations and told stories of true crime. But her love of traditional and cozy mysteries motivated her to write the Sarah Doucette Jean-Louis Mystery series. The stories are based in the San Francisco Bay Area and give a nod to Myra’s childhood, growing up in the progressive Berkeley, California with conventional Louisiana Creole parents.
The U.C. Berkeley Bancroft library has included Myra’s mysteries in their local authors collection. Myra has appeared on Geraldo Rivera’s true crime show, “Murder in the Family,” which tells the stories of celebrities who have been victimized by crime. She has also appeared in segments of the TV One crime series, “For My Man,” a reality show about women who commit crimes for the men in their lives.
Myra credits Sisters in Crime and its chapters with providing the tools and environment for women to hone their writing skills, and to enter a supportive crime writing community.
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/MyrasCreoleMysteries/
Instagram www.instagram.com/myra_jolivet
Website https://myrajolivet.com/
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Sisters in Crime was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
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