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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Sujata Massey is the author of fifteen novels, most of them mysteries. Starting with The Widows of Malabar Hill, the three books in this historical feminist series set in 1920s India have won the Agatha, Macavity, Lefty, and Mary Higgins Clark awards, and been finalists for the Shamus and Harper Lee Legal Fiction awards. Her earlier mystery series featuring amateur sleuth Rei Shimura is set in modern Japan. Sujata is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and is a former reporter for the Baltimore Evening Sun newspaper. She lives in Baltimore with her family and travels to Asia to research her books.
Books mentioned in the podcast:
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Artists Way by Julia Cameron
Seven Steps on the Writer's Path: The Journey from Frustration to Fulfillment by Nancy Pickard and Lynn Lott
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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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Agatha Award-winning author Edith Maxwell writes the Quaker Midwife Mysteries, the Local Foods Mysteries, and short crime fiction. As Maddie Day she pens the Country Store Mysteries and Cozy Capers Book Group Mysteries. A past president of Sisters in Crime New England, she’s a member of Mystery Writers of America and a lifetime member of Sisters in Crime.
A fourth-generation Californian, Maxwell lives with her beau north of Boston, where she writes, gardens, cooks, and wastes time on Facebook. Find her (and Maddie) at EdithMaxwell.com, wickedauthors.com, Mystery Lovers’ Kitchen, and on social media.
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/MaddieDayandEdithMaxwell
Twitter https://twitter.com/edithmaxwell
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/maddiedayauthor/
Website https://edithmaxwell.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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Amina Akhtar is a former fashion writer and editor. Her satirical first novel, #FashionVictim, drew rave reviews and acclaim and was covered in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Martha Stewart Living, Entertainment Weekly, Fashionista, Book Riot, CrimeReads, and more. Akhtar’s new book Kismet takes on the world of wellness and all the crystals that go with it. This #OwnVoices novel is set in Sedona, Arizona, where nature is just as much a character as anyone else.
Akhtar has worked at Vogue, Elle, the New York Times, and New York Magazine, where she was the founding editor of the women’s blog The Cut. She’s written for numerous publications, including Yahoo Style, Fashionista, xoJane, Refinery29, Billboard, and more. She currently lives not too far from the Sedona vortexes. Kismet is her second novel.
Amina recommended Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert in this podcast.
Twitter https://twitter.com/Drrramina
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/drrramina/
Website https://www.aminaakhtar.work/
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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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USA Today bestselling novelist Karen Odden earned her PhD in English at NYU, writing her dissertation on the discursive origins of trauma and PTSD in Victorian railway disasters in novels, medical treatises, and legal texts. She taught English literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, has written introductions for novels for the Barnes and Noble Classics Series, and edited for the academic journal Victorian Literature and Culture (published by Cambridge University Press). All of her novels are set in 1870s London, with seedy Whitechapel, the rowdy music halls, dangerous railway accidents, and the smelly Thames River.
Her first three novels, A LADY IN THE SMOKE, A DANGEROUS DUET, AND A TRACE OF DECEIT each feature a different young woman protagonist who is drawn into a mystery when someone she loves is injured or murdered. They have all won awards for historical mystery and historical fiction. Her newest book, DOWN A DARK RIVER, is about a former thief and bare knuckles boxer named Michael Corravan, who becomes an inspector at Scotland Yard. Her next book is the sequel, UNDER A VEILED MOON.
Karen is a recipient of a grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and a member of both Arizona chapters of Sisters in Crime, Grand Canyon Writers and Desert Sleuths, where she serves as the programming chair for 2022. She also assists with the social media group at Sisters in Crime National. Her e-newsletter publishes every 6 weeks, featuring exclusive content and essays and giveaways by guest authors. You can connect with Karen at www.karenodden.com.
Facebook Page @karen.odden
Twitter @karen_odden
Instagram @karen_m_odden
Website https://karenodden.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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Gigi Pandian is a USA Today bestselling and award-winning mystery author, breast cancer survivor, and accidental almost-vegan. The child of cultural anthropologists from New Mexico and the southern tip of India, she spent her childhood being dragged around the world on their research trips and now lives outside San Francisco. She writes the Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt mysteries, Accidental Alchemist mysteries, and forthcoming Secret Staircase mysteries. She’s been awarded Agatha, Anthony, Lefty, and Derringer awards, and is a co-founder of Crime Writers of Color.
Mentioned in podcast: Alexandra Sokoloff’s Writing Workshops: https://alexandrasokoloff.com/writing-workshops/
Twitter Handle @GigiPandian
Facebook Page www.facebook.com/GigiPandian
Instagram Handle @GigiPandian
Website URL www.gigipandian.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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Olivia Matthews is the cozy mystery pseudonym of award-winning, national best-selling author Patricia Sargeant. Patricia has been inspired by writers such as Walter Mosley, Dick Francis and Tami Hoag, who put ordinary people in extraordinary situations and have them find the Hero Inside. To learn more about her upcoming releases and events, visit PatriciaSargeant.com.
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/AuthorPatriciaSargeant
Twitter https://twitter.com/BooksbyPatricia
Website https://patriciasargeant.com/
Books mentioned:
Black Hearts in Battersea by Joan Aiken
Goal, Motivation and Conflict by Debra Dixon
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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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Rachel Howzell Hall is the critically acclaimed author of the Amazon Charts bestseller These Toxic Things and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize-nominated And Now She’s Gone, which was also nominated for the Lefty-, Barry-, Shamus- and Anthony Awards. Also author of the Audible Originals bestseller How It Ends, Rachel is a New York Times bestselling author of The Good Sister with James Patterson, She’s received nominations and acclaim for They All Fall Down, an homage to Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None, and for Land of Shadows, Skies of Ash, Trail of Echoes and City of Saviors in the Detective Elouise Norton series.
Rachel is a former member of the board of directors for Mystery Writers of America and has been a featured writer on NPR’s acclaimed Crime in the City series and the National Endowment for the Arts weekly podcast; she has also served as a mentor in Pitch Wars and the Association of Writers Programs. Rachel lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter. For more information, visit www.rachelhowzell.com
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/rachel.h.hall
Twitter @RachelHowzell
Instagram @rhowzellhall
Website www.rachelhowzell.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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Wanda M. Morris is an alumna of the Yale Writers’ Workshop and Robert McKee’s Story Seminar. She is a member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America and Crime Writers of Color. As a corporate attorney, she has worked in the legal departments of several Fortune 100 companies. An accomplished presenter and leader, Morris has previously served as president of the Georgia chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel and is the founder of its Women’s Initiative, an empowerment program for female in-house lawyers. Morris is married, the mother of three and lives in Atlanta, Georgia. All Her Little Secrets is her debut novel.
Twitter Handle @WandaMo14
Facebook Page @WandaMorrisWriter
Instagram Handle @wandamowrites
Website URL www.wandamorriswrites.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/
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Alexia Gordon is the award-winning author of the Gethsemane Brown mysteries, paranormal cozies set in Ireland. She is also a physician, a blogger with the Missdemeanors —and since June 2019, host of The Cozy Corner with Alexia Gordon, a biweekly podcast that features interviews with authors of traditional and cozy mysteries. Her short story, "Love's Labor," in the most recent Bouchercon anthology, This Time for Sure, is all about a podcast episode that takes an unexpected turn . . .
Alexia's most recent novel is Execution in E, available wherever books are sold.
Podcasts mentioned:
Cozy Corner with Alexia Gordon: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cozy-corner-with-alexia-gordon/id1460677756
Small Town Murder: https://www.stitcher.com/show/small-town-murder
Dateline: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dateline-nbc/id1464919521
True Crime Obsessed: https://www.truecrimeobsessed.com/
Dr. Death: https://wondery.com/shows/dr-death/
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/AlexiaGordon.writer
Twitter @AlexiaGordon
Instagram @alexiagordonauthor
Website https://alexiagordon.net/
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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
Robert Justice is a Denver native. They Can't Take Your Name is his debut novel and was named a runner up for the 2020 Sister's in Crime Eleanor Taylor Bland Award. He's also the host of the Crime Writers of Color podcast.
Mentioned in the episode:
John Truby’s The Anatomy of a Story: https://truby.com/the-anatomy-of-story/
Crime Writers of Color podcast: https://www.crimewritersofcolor.com/podcast
Twitter @Robert4Justice
Website www.RobertJusticeBooks.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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Twitter: https://twitter.com/SINCnational
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