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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Naomi Hirahara is an Edgar Award-winning author of multiple traditional mystery series and noir short stories. Her Mas Arai mysteries feature a Los Angeles gardener and Hiroshima survivor who solves crimes. The Japanese translation of her seventh and final Mas Arai mystery, Hiroshima Boy, is nominated for two awards in Japan. Her first historical mystery is Clark and Division, which follows a Japanese American family’s move to Chicago in 1944 after being released from a California wartime detention center. The book recently won a Mary Higgins Clark mystery award and a Lefty historical mystery award. A former journalist with The Rafu Shimpo newspaper, Naomi has also written numerous non-fiction history books and curated exhibitions. She has also written a middle-grade novel, 1001 Cranes.
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/NaomiHiraharaBooks
Twitter @gasagasagirl
Instagram @gasagasagirl
Website www.naomihirahara.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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Ellen’s Cajun Country Mysteries have won two Agatha Awards for Best Contemporary Novel and multiple Lefty Awards for Best Humorous Mystery. Bayou Book Thief will be the first book in her new Vintage Cookbook Mysteries. She also writes the Catering Hall Mystery series under the name Maria DiRico.
Ellen is an award-winning playwright, and non-award-winning TV writer of comedies like Wings, Just Shoot Me, and Fairly Odd Parents. She has written over two hundred articles for national magazines but considers her most impressive credit working as a cater-waiter for Martha Stewart.
An alum of New Orleans’ Tulane University, she blogs with Chicks on the Case, is a lifetime member of the Writers Guild of America, serves on the national board for Mystery Writers of America, and will be the 2023 Left Coast Crime Toastmaster.
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/ellenbyronauthor/
Twitter @ellenbyronla
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ellenbyronmariadirico/
Website https://www.ellenbyron.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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Leslie Karst is the author of the Lefty Award-nominated Sally Solari culinary mystery series. The daughter of a law professor and a potter, she waited tables and sang in a new wave rock band before deciding she was ready for a “real” job and ending up at Stanford Law School. It was during her career as a research and appellate attorney in Santa Cruz, California, that Leslie rediscovered her youthful passion for food and cooking and once more returned to school—this time to earn a degree in culinary arts. Now retired from the law, Leslie spends her time cooking, cycling, gardening, singing alto in her local community chorus, and of course writing. She and her wife and their Jack Russell mix split their time between Santa Cruz and Hilo, Hawai‘i.
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/lesliekarstauthor/
Twitter https://twitter.com/LeslieKarst
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lesliekarst/
Website http://www.lesliekarstauthor.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
Dean James is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the "Cat in the Stacks" mysteries under the name Miranda James. By day he is a mild-mannered medical librarian; by night and on weekends, he's a serial killer who gleefully dispatches obnoxious characters so his sleuths, Charlie Harris and Diesel, can have fun solving murders.
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/dean.james1
Twitter @MirandaJames57
Instagram @dieselharriscat
Website www.catinthestacks.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
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Hilary Davidson is the bestselling author of seven crime novels, including the standalones Her Last Breath and Blood Always Tells, the Lily Moore series (The Damage Done, The Next One to Fall, and Evil in All Its Disguises), and the Shadows of New York series (One Small Sacrifice and Don’t Look Down). Her fiction has won two Anthony Awards and a Derringer Award, and her short stories have appeared in Thuglit, Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Mystery Tribune, Beat to a Pulp, and in many anthologies. She served for four years on the national board of the Mystery Writers of America. In her prior life as a journalist, Hilary authored 18 nonfiction books. Originally from Toronto, she has called New York City home since October 2001.
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/HilaryDavidsonAuthor/
Twitter @hilarydavidson
Instagram @hilarydavidsonbooks
Website https://www.hilarydavidson.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
Kate Moretti is the New York Times Bestselling author of seven novels and a novella, including her latest, The Spires (T&M, 2021). Her first novel THOUGHT I KNEW YOU, was a New York Times bestseller. THE VANISHING YEAR was a nominee in the Goodreads Choice Awards Mystery/Thriller category for 2016 and was called "chillingly satisfying." (Publisher's Weekly) with "superb" closing twists (New York Times Book Review).
Kate has worked in the pharmaceutical industry for twenty years as a scientist and enjoys traveling and cooking, but not baking. She lives in Pennsylvania in an old farmhouse with her husband, two children and no known ghosts. Her lifelong dream is to find a secret passageway.
Website: www.katemoretti.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/katemorettiwriter
Twitter: www.twitter.com/KateMoretti1
Instagram: www.instagram.com/KateMoretti1
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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
Anthony Award-nominated E.A. Aymar’s most recent thriller, THEY’RE GONE, was published in 2020 to rave reviews in Publishers Weekly, Kirkus (starred), and was named one of the best books of 2020 by the South Florida Sun Sentinel. His next novel, NO HOME FOR KILLERS, is coming out in 2023 by Thomas and Mercer.
His column, “Decisions and Revisions,” appears monthly in the Washington Independent Review of Books. He is a former member of the national board of the International Thriller Writers and, for years, was the managing editor of The Thrill Begins, an online resource for debut and aspiring writers. He is also an active member of Crime Writers of Color, the Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime. He also runs the Noir at the Bar series for Washington, D.C., and has hosted and spoken at a variety of crime fiction, writing, and publishing events nationwide.
He was born in Panama and now lives and writes in, and generally about, the D.C./MD/VA triangle.
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/EAymarWriter
Twitter https://twitter.com/EAAymar
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/eaaymar/
Website www.eaymar.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
National bestselling author Diane Vallere writes smart, funny, and fashionable character-based mysteries. After two decades working for a top luxury retailer, she traded fashion accessories for accessories to murder. A past president of Sisters in Crime, Diane started her own detective agency at age ten and has maintained a passion for shoes, clues, and clothes ever since.
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/DianeVallereAuthor/
Twitter https://twitter.com/dianevallere
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/dianevallere/
Website https://dianevallere.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.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
Robyn Gigl (pronounced guy gull) is the author of SURVIVOR'S GUILT (January 2022) and BY WAY OF SORROW (March 2021), published by Kensington Books. Both books feature transgender, criminal defense attorney, Erin McCabe, and her law partner, Duane Swisher. Robyn is a member of Sisters in Crime, national and the NJ Chapter.
In addition to her writing, Robyn is an attorney and activist who has been honored by the ACLU-NJ and the NJ Pride Network for her work on behalf of the LGBTQ+ community. Robyn is a frequent speaker on LGBTQ+ issues. She is a partner at the law firm of Gluck Walrath, LLP in Freehold, NJ, where she handles complex commercial and employment litigation. Since 2010, Robyn has been selected as a New Jersey Super Lawyer and has also been named as one of the Top 50 Women Lawyers in New Jersey. In 2019, she was appointed by the Governor and Legislature to the New Jersey Transgender Equality Taskforce. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Garden State Equality, NJ’s largest LGBTQ+ Civil Rights Organization. She is a graduate of Stonehill College and Villanova University School of Law. Robyn lives in New Jersey, where she continues to practice law by day, and work on her third novel by night. Fortunately, she has a very boring social life.
Here’s an article about the Governor of Utah’s veto: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/03/23/utah-cox-transgender-athlete-veto/
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/robyngigl
Twitter @robyngigl
Instagram robyngigl
Website www.robyngigl.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
Cheryl Head (she/her) writes the award-winning, Charlie Mack Motown Mysteries whose female PI protagonist is queer and black. Head is a two-time Lambda Literary Award finalist, and winner of the Golden Crown Literary Society’s Ann Bannon Popular Choice award. Her books have been shortlisted for the Next Generation Indie Book Award, and are listed in the Detroit Public Library’s African American Book List.
In 2019, Head was named to the Hall of Fame of the New Orleans Saints and Sinners Literary Festival, and this year she was awarded the Alice B Reader Award. Cheryl is a current member of the national Bouchercon Board of Directors. She lives in Washington, DC with her partner and Abby & Frisby who provide canine supervision.
Discussed on the podcast:
Long Way Home: A World War II Novel by Cheryl A Head
Dru Ann Love’s blog: https://drusbookmusing.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cheryl.head.104
Twitter: @cheaddc
Instagram: @cheadwrites
Website: www.cherylhead.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
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