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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Sherry Harris is the Agatha Award nominated author of the Sarah Winston Garage Sale mystery series and the Chloe Jackson Sea Glass Saloon mystery series set in the panhandle of Florida. She is a past president of Sisters in Crime and a member of Mystery Writers of America. Sherry loves books, beaches, bars, garage sales, and Westies — not necessarily in that order. Sherry is also a patent holding inventor.
Website: Sherryharrisauthor.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SHarrisAuthor
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SherryHarrisauthor
Instagram: Sherryharrisauthor
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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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Judy is the author of the Anthony- and Agatha-nominated Stella Crown series and YA thriller Tag, You're Dead (as J.C. Lane). She also writes the Grim Reaper mysteries and published the stand-alone Lost Sons. Her most recent book (2020) is a non-fiction middle-grade book entitled, Making Waves: Fifty Stories about Sharing Love and Changing the World. Judy recently received her master's degree in popular culture, and is currently in the American culture studies PhD program at Bowling Green State University, where her research areas include television and gender studies. She is a past president of Sisters in Crime.
Judy referenced the publishing summits she participated in. Here are all of the SinC Publishing Summit reports: https://www.sistersincrime.org/page/SummitReports
Website: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Clemens
Twitter: @judyclemens1
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/judyclemensauthor
Instagram: judithalane
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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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Hank Phillippi Ryan is USA Today bestselling author of 13 thrillers, winning five Agathas and the coveted Mary Higgins Clark Award. As a television investigative reporter in Boston, she has also won 37 EMMY awards. Her legal thriller The Murder List won the 2019 Anthony Award for Best Novel of the Year. Her 2020 novel is the psychological standalone The First to Lie, which is now a nominee for the prestigious Anthony Award and Mary Higgins Clark Award. The Publishers Weekly starred review calls it "Stellar.” Her upcoming book is HER PERFECT LIFE. (Forge Books, September 14.) The PW starred review calls it "Superlative."
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/HankPhillippiRyanAuthor
Twitter @HankPRyan
Instagram @HankPRyan
Website HankPhillippiRyan.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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Marcia Talley is the Agatha and Anthony award-winning author of DONE GONE and seventeen previous novels featuring Maryland sleuth, Hannah Ives. She is editor/author of two collaborative serial novels, NAKED CAME THE PHOENIX and I’D KILL FOR THAT. Her short stories appear in more than a dozen collections.
Marcia is past-president of Sisters in Crime, Inc. and currently serves as president of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of Mystery Writers of America.
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/marcia.talley
Twitter www.twitter.com/MarciaTalleyBks
Website www.marciatalley.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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New Jersey born Lucy Burdette aka Roberta Isleib is the author of 19 mysteries, including A SCONE OF CONTENTION, the latest in the Key West series featuring food critic Hayley Snow (coming August 10, 2021 from Crooked Lane Books.) Bronze medal-winning THE KEY LIME CRIME is the tenth book in her Key West food critic mystery series. Her books and stories have been short-listed for Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity awards. She's a past president of Sisters in Crime, and currently serving as president of the Friends of the Key West Library.
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/LucyBurdette
Twitter https://twitter.com/LucyBurdette
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lucyburdette/
Website https://lucyburdette.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
Leslie Budewitz blends her passion for food, great mysteries, and the Northwest in two cozy mystery series, the Spice Shop mysteries set in Seattle’s Pike Place Market, and the Food Lovers’ Village mysteries, set in NW Montana. As Alicia Beckman, she writes moody suspense, and made her debut with Bitterroot Lake in April 2021. A three-time Agatha-Award winner (2011, Best Nonfiction; 2013, Best First Novel; 2018, Best Short Story), she is a current board member of Mystery Writers of America and a past president of Sisters in Crime. She lives in northwest Montana.
Website: http://www.LeslieBudewitz.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LeslieBudewitz
Facebook: www.Facebook.com/LeslieBudewitzAuthor
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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. www.SistersinCrime.org
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Cathy Pickens, author of the Southern Fried mysteries (St. Martins/Minotaur), served as Sisters in Crime president and on the boards of Mystery Writers of America and Mecklenburg Forensic Medicine Program. She taught law in a graduate business school, entrepreneurship in the jail, and offers workshops on developing creativity.
Her latest books are Charlotte True Crime Stories (History Press 2019), True Crime Stories of Eastern North Carolina (2020) and CREATE! Developing Your Creative Process (ICSC Press).
Website: www.create-update.com
Twitter: www.twitter.com/CathyPickens
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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
Lori Rader-Day is the Edgar Award-nominated and Anthony Award- and Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author of The Lucky One, Under a Dark Sky, The Day I Died, Little Pretty Things, and The Black Hour. She co-chairs the mystery conference Murder and Mayhem in Chicago and is the immediate past national president of Sisters in Crime. Her next book, Death at Greenway, is based on a little-known moment in history, when a group of Londoners were evacuated from the Blitz during World War II to Agatha Christie’s holiday estate.
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
Kristen Lepionka is the author of the Roxane Weary mystery series. Her debut, The Last Place You Look, won the Shamus Award for Best First P.I. novel and was also nominated for Anthony and Macavity Awards. The second book in the series, What You Want to See, won Shamus and Goldie Awards. She is a cofounder of the feminist podcast Unlikeable Female Characters and currently serves as Chapter President for the Midwest region of Mystery Writers of America. She lives in Columbus, Ohio, with her partner and two cats.
Mentioned in the podcast:
Sam the Cat Detective https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/327702.Sam_The_Cat_Detective
Kellye Garrett https://kellyegarrett.com/
Pitch Wars https://pitchwars.org/
My Sweet Girl by Amanda Jayatissa https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/670363/my-sweet-girl-by-amanda-jayatissa/
Facebook Page http://facebook.com/kristenlepionka
Twitter www.twitter.com/kmlwrites
Instagram www.instagram.com/kmlwrites
Website www.kristenlepionka.com
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
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime
John Copenhaver’s historical crime novel, Dodging and Burning, won the 2019 Macavity Award for Best First Mystery Novel and garnered Anthony, Strand Critics, Barry, and Lambda Literary Award nominations. His second novel, The Savage Kind, will be published in October 2021. Copenhaver writes a crime fiction review column for Lambda Literary called “Blacklight,” cohosts on the House of Mystery Radio Show, and is the six-time recipient of Artist Fellowships from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. He grew up in the mountains of southwestern Virginia and currently lives in Richmond, VA, with his husband, artist Jeffery Paul (Herrity). www.johncopenhaver.com
Facebook Page www.facebook.com/johncopenhaverauthor
Twitter www.twitter.com/johncopenhaver
Instagram www.instagram.com/johncope74
Website www.johncopenhaver.com
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.
www.SistersinCrime.org
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