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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Brenda Buchanan brings experience as a lawyer and journalist to her crime fiction.
The three books in her Joe Gale series—Quick Pivot, Cover Story and Truth Beat—feature a newspaper reporter who covers the Maine crime and courts beat. Her short story, “Means, Motive, and Opportunity” is included in Bloodroot: Best New England Crime Stories 2021. She's just finished a new novel featuring the protagonist of that story, lesbian criminal defense lawyer Neva Pierce.
An active member of Sisters in Crime, Brenda also serves on the organizing committees of both the New England Crime Bake and the Maine Crime Wave, She's also a longtime member of the Maine Crime Writers blog, https://mainecrimewriters.com/
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/BrendaBuchananAuthor
Twitter @buchananbrenda
Website https://www.brendabuchananwrites.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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Brad Shreve is the author of the Mitch O’Reilly Mystery series. When younger he focused on visual arts. Inspired by Gary Trudeau’s Doonesbury, he developed a comic strip certain a syndicate would distribute it globally. In the process he found he enjoyed writing over sketching and changed his goal. Authors such as Lawrence Block, and Gregory McDonald fueled his passion for mysteries, but it took his discovery of LGBTQ crime fiction to nudge him to go beyond dabbling the keys. To introduce others to the subgenre he created and hosts the Queer Writers of Crime podcast.
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/bradshreve01/
Twitter https://twitter.com/thebradshreve
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thebradshreve/
Website https://bradshreve.com/
Queer Writers of Crime Podcast: https://www.queerwritersofcrime.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
Chantelle Aimée Osman (she/her) is the editor of Agora Books, an award-winning imprint focusing on socially and culturally unique crime fiction and horror from publisher Polis Books. Since its founding in 2019, Agora titles have won three International Latino Book Award medals, been nominated for Edgar, Stoker, Dagger, Anthony, Strand Critics, Macavity and Lefty awards, and been featured in NPR, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Post, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Chicago Tribune and Entertainment Weekly. She was named a Publishers Weekly Rising Star honoree in 2020, she is also a professor at the LIU Brooklyn Polk School of Communication MFA in Writing and Publishing, an instructor at the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, Authors at Large and LitReactor. The former editor-in-chief of RT Book Reviews Magazine and a freelance editor for over 10 years, and has been a judge for the Phoenix Film Festival, International Thriller Awards and the National Association of Hispanic Publication’s José Martí Awards. Chantelle is the author of the non-fiction series on writing The Quick and Dirty Guides To…, has published numerous works of short fiction, and served as the editor of multiple anthologies, including the upcoming Jewish Noir, Vol-ume 2 from PM Press. She hosts the Words of Prey podcast through the Pipeline Artists Network. Find her online at chantelleaimee.com and on Twitter @SuspenseSiren.
Twitter @suspensesiren
Website chantelleaimee.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
Jess Lourey writes about secrets. She's the Amazon Charts bestselling Edgar, Agatha, ITW Thriller, and Lefty-nominated, Anthony-winning author of crime fiction, nonfiction, children's books, YA adventure, and magical realism. She is a retired professor of creative writing and sociology, a recipient of The Loft's Excellence in Teaching fellowship, a Psychology Today blogger, and a TEDx presenter (check out her TEDx Talk for the surprising inspiration behind her first published novel). When not leading women's writing retreats, reading, or fostering kittens, you can find her drafting her next story.
Link to her TEDx Talk: https://youtu.be/a5vSLh3oPXI
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/jessloureyauthor
Twitter https://twitter.com/jesslourey
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jesslourey/
Website http://jessicalourey.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
Art Taylor is the author of the story collection The Boy Detective & The Summer of ’74 and Other Tales of Suspense and of the novel in stories On the Road with Del & Louise, winner of the Agatha Award for Best First Novel. He won the 2019 Edgar Award for Best Short Story for "English 398: Fiction Workshop," originally published in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, and he has won three additional Agatha Awards, an Anthony Award, four Macavity Awards, and four Derringer Awards for his short fiction. He is an associate professor of English at George Mason University.
Books mentioned:
Anne Lamott Bird by Bird
Madison Smartt Bell Narrative Design: Working with Imagination, Craft, and Form
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/ArtTaylorShortStories
Twitter https://twitter.com/arttaylorwriter
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/arttaylorwriter/
Website www.arttaylorwriter.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
Tori Eldridge is the national bestselling author of the Lily Wong series, THE NINJA DAUGHTER, THE NINJA'S BLADE, and THE NINJA BETRAYED—winner of the 2021 Crimson Scribe Award for Best Book of the Year, 2019 Authors on the Air Award for Best Thriller Book of the Year, and Anthony, Lefty, and Macavity Awards finalist for Best First Novel. Her shorter works have been published in horror, dystopian, and other literary anthologies, including the inaugural reboot of WEIRD TALES and her upcoming “Missing on Kaua‘i” short story in MWA’s 2022 anthology CRIME HITS HOME. Her screenplay THE GIFT earned a semi-finalist spot for the Academy Nicholl Fellowship. Tori introduces another empowered female protagonist May 24th in her dark Brazilian novel, DANCE AMONG THE FLAMES. Tori is a proud member of Sisters in Crime, Crime Writers of Color, MWA, HWA, and serves as the ITW Debut Authors Program coordinator.
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/ToriEldridgeAuthor
Twitter https://twitter.com/ToriEldridge
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/writer.tori
Website https://torieldridge.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
Jennifer Hillier is author of seven psychological thrillers, including the bestselling Little Secrets, which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Anthony Award, and Jar of Hearts, which won the ITW Thriller Award and was shortlisted for the Anthony and Macavity Awards. She was born in Toronto, but spent eight years in the Seattle area, which is where she first got published. Her newest novel, Things We Do in the Dark, is coming July 19, 2022 from Minotaur Books.
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/JenniferHillierBooks
Twitter https://twitter.com/JenniferHillier
Instagram @jenniferhillierbooks
Website jenniferhillierbooks.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
Kimberly MacLean (she/her) has been at the forefront of thought leadership about how to combine the best practices of teaching with the benefits of interactive inquiry-based learning, agile thinking, diversity equity inclusion, belonging, and communication for over 20 years. Using her M.Ed. she has impacted the culture at some of the world's most innovative companies around the world & supported dedicated leaders to step into their power. She specializes in creating safe spaces that encourage a growth mindset, good risk-taking, and listening with curiosity.
Kimberly will be working with Sisters in Crime on The Equity Project, a year long series of workshops, webinars, and roundtables that will help us build a library of resources and trainings for our members and community. The work will center around equity and inclusion, and will include writing workshops and prompts for our members to learn how to build a better understanding of issues in their lives, and in their writing.
Read Kimberly’s articles on Medium. https://medium.com/@kimberly.a.maclean
Learn more about The Equity Project: https://www.sistersincrime.org/page/The_Equity_Project
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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
K.D. Richards was born and raised in the Maryland suburbs just outside of Washington, D.C. A writer since a young age, after college Kia earned a law degree and worked as an attorney and legal instructor for fifteen years but never stopped writing fiction. She currently splits her time between Toronto and Maryland with her husband and two sons.
Facebook Page www.facebook.com/kdrichardsauthor
Instagram www.instagram.com/kdrichardsauthor
Website www.kdrichardsbooks.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
Charlaine Harris just celebrated her fortieth year as a published writer. Her career has been full of ups and downs, but she's in a happy place. An avid reader, Charlaine lives in Texas and has a husband, three adult children, two grandchildren, and two rescue dogs.
Facebook Page: Charlaine Harris
Twitter: @realcharlaine
Instagram: @realcharlaine
Website: www.charlaineharris.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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