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.
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Martha M. Geaney is the author of the amateur sleuth Star O'Brien mystery series which begins with "Death on Clare Island." The series is set County Mayo, Ireland. Martha currently serves as the President of Citrus Crime Writers in Central Florida. She has been a member of SinC since 2017. Martha earned her Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies, and before turning to the mystery life, served as dean of a business college in the Pennsylvania State University system. Martha and her agility puppy, Turlough reside in Florida.
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Website https://martha-geaney.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.
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The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
Rhys is the NYT bestselling author of the Royal Spyness novels as well as the Molly Murphy mysteries she now writes with her daughter Clare Broyles. In addition Rhys writes internationally bestselling stand alone historical novels, mostly set in WWII. She has received three Edgar nominations and won twenty awards to date, as well as being published in over thirty languages. Rhys was born and educated in Britain, worked in BBC drama but now divides her time between California and Arizona
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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.
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The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
With over 21 million copies of her books in print over a career spanning four decades, New York Times bestselling author J.A. JANCE is the author of the Ali Reynolds series (with COLLATERAL DAMAGE being the most recent), the J.P. Beaumont series, the Joanna Brady series, a series of Southwestern thrillers featuring the Walker family, a volume of poetry, and more. Born in South Dakota and brought up in Bisbee, Arizona, she lives with her husband in Seattle.
Blog post: Sometimes No Is the Right Answer: http://jajance.com/Blog/2023/03/03/sometimes-no-is-the-right-answer/
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Twitter https://twitter.com/JAJance
Website https://www.jajance.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/
Susanna Calkins writes award-winning historical fiction, including the Lucy Campion mysteries set in 17th century London and the Speakeasy Murders set in 1920s Chicago. Her books have been nominated for the Agatha, Mary Higgins Clark, Anthony, Macavity, and Lefty (best historical). She holds a PhD in early modern English history and is currently a university administrator. She grew up in Philadelphia and lives in the Chicago area, with her husband and two sons.
Facebook Page www.facebook.com/authorSusannaCalkins
Twitter @scalkins3
Website www.susannacalkins.edu
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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
Auction site: https://www.32auctions.com/CrimeWritersForJustice
The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/
We celebrated our 100th episode with two of the people responsible for this project, former SinC presidents Lori Rader-Day and Sandra SG Wong. Join us as we celebrate 100 episodes and catch up with these fabulous people.
Sandra SG Wong (she/her) writes fiction across genres, including the cross-genre Lola Starke novels, Crescent City short stories, and the bestselling standalone suspense novel, IN THE DARK WE FORGET. A hybrid author, she has been a Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence finalist and a Whistler Independent Book Awards nominee. Wong has been involved with genre and literary organizations, conferences, festivals, and workshops across Canada and the United States. She served on the Sisters in Crime national board as its first president of Asian heritage, and currently chairs its DEIJB Advisory Committee. She is also an active member of Crime Writers of Color.
Website: https://sgwong.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/S_G_Wong
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sgwong8/
Lori Rader-Day is the Edgar® Award-nominated and Agatha, Anthony, and Mary Higgins Clark award-winning author of Death at Greenway, The Lucky One, Under a Dark Sky, The Day I Died, Little Pretty Things, and The Black Hour. Her next contemporary suspense novel, THE DEATH OF US, will be released in the fall of 2023. She lives in Chicago, where she is co-chair of the mystery readers’ festival Midwest Mystery Conference (fka Murder and Mayhem in Chicago) and served as 2019-2020 national president of Sisters in Crime. She teaches creative writing for Northwestern University’s School of Professional Studies.
Website: https://loriraderday.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LoriRaderDay
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/loriraderdaybooks
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/loriraderday/
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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/
Cara Black is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 20 books in the Private Investigator Aimée Leduc series, and two World War II-set novels featuring American markswoman Kate Rees. Cara has received multiple nominations for the Anthony and Macavity Awards, a Washington Post Book World Book of the Year citation, the Médaille de la Ville de Paris—the Paris City Medal, which is awarded in recognition of contribution to international culture.
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/CaraBlackAuthor/
Twitter https://twitter.com/carablack
Instagram https://instagram.com/carablackauthor/
Website https://www.carablack.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/
Son of a mechanic and a librarian with roots in the Texas Hill Country and the Mississippi Delta, Gary Phillips must keep writing to forestall his appointment at the crossroads. He is the editor of South Central Noir and the Anthony winning The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir. The Washington Post and Booklist selected his most recent novel One-Shot Harry as one of the best mysteries of 2022. He was also a writer and co-producer on FX's Snowfall which streams on Hulu about crack and the CIA in 1980s South Central where he grew up.
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/gary.phillips.357284
Website https://gdphillips.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/
Linda L. Richards is the award-winning author of 16 books. The founder and publisher of January Magazine and a contributing editor to the crime fiction blog The Rap Sheet, she is best known for her strong female protagonists in the thriller genre. Richards is from Vancouver, Canada and currently makes her home in Phoenix, Arizona. Linda will have two books published in 2023: The noir thriller DEAD WEST (Oceanview Publishing), third in the Endings series, comes out in September. A work on non-fiction for 9 to 13 year olds, WILD HORSES: RUNNING FREE (Orca Publishing), is out in October. Linda’s 2021 novel, ENDINGS, was recently optioned by a major studio for series production. Richards is an accomplished horsewoman and an avid tennis player. She enjoys yoga, hiking, cooking and playing guitar, though not at the same time.
January Magazine https://januarymagazine.com/wp/author/lindalrichards/
Walter Mosley This Year You Write Your Novel
James A, Michener Writer’s Handbook: Exploration on Writing and Publishing
Stephen King On Writing
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Website https://lindalrichards.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/
LynDee Walker is the Amazon Charts bestselling author of two crime fiction series featuring strong heroines. Her first Nichelle Clarke crime thriller, FRONT PAGE FATALITY, was a finalist for the Agatha Award, and her Texas Ranger Faith McClellan novel LEAVE NO STONE was named a Thriller Award finalist. Reviews have praised her work as "well-crafted, compelling, and fast-paced," and "an edge-of-your-seat ride" with "a spider web of twists and turns that will keep you reading until the end." Before she started writing fiction, LynDee was an award-winning journalist who covered everything from ribbon cuttings to high level police corruption. Her work has appeared in newspapers and magazines across the U.S. LynDee’s favorite things are porches, beaches, books, and coffee. She lives in Richmond, Virginia, where she is working on her next novel when she's not juggling laundry and children's sports schedules.
Bruce Robert Coffin’s John Byron series http://www.brucerobertcoffin.com/books.html
The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection Pile by Noah Lukeman
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Twitter www.twitter.com/LynDeeWalker
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Website www.lyndeewalker.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/
Misty Simon always wanted to be a storyteller…preferably behind a Muppet. Animal was number one, followed closely by Sherlock Hemlock… Since that dream didn’t come true, she began writing stories to share her world with readers, one laugh at a time.
Touching people’s hearts and funny bones are two of her favorite things, and she hopes everyone at least snickers in the right places when reading her books. She lives with her husband in Central Pennsylvania where she is hard at work on her next novel or three.
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/MistySimonAuthor
Twitter https://twitter.com/mistysimon
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/gabbyallanspeaks
Website www.mistysimon.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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