Agatha Party and Joint Meeting with Liberty States Fiction Writers Saturday, September 23, 2023 11:00 AM Eastern This hybrid event will feature an author panel, “Building to a Climax” at 11:00am Eastern. Then at 1:00 pm Liberty States Fiction Writers will host Stephanie Moon for a presentation entitled “Marketing and Making Your Brand.” Zoom link: […]
Sunday, October 1, 2023, 2 p.m. Hollywood Women’s Club 1749 N. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046 Networking 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm Meeting 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm Speaker: Adam Sikes will talk about CIA: Fiction vs. Reality The CIA makes for great fiction both as the hero and the villain. But have […]
SCROLL DOWN TO SEE New Releases Praise, Awards, & Nominations Book Deals Author Appearances New Releases HANGING BY A THREAD, the second book in Dorothy Howell‘s Sewing Studio cozy mystery series, will be released on September 26th in hardcover, ebook, and audio from Kensington Publishing. “When the owner of a new bakery in the quaint, […]
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Their “Animals in Mystery” theme for the next issue was so popular, they’re using the theme for two issues. If you’d still like to submit, the deadline is OCTOBER 15. Email to: janet@mysteryreaders.org
Stories must be set in New York. An invitation to challenge Agatha Christie’s claim that detective stories can’t take place in NYC, because “New York City is itself a detective story.” or to agree with her and set your narrative in another part of the state. The deadline for entry is November 15. (Author must […]
Story Magazine’s fifth annual Story Foundation Prize is now open! The winner will receive $1500 and publication in our summer 2024 issue for a single short story. Submissions for the Story Foundation Prize open on August 15th and will close at midnight PST on December 15th. Submit one short story of up to 10,000 words […]
Our Sizzling Summer Series is a collaboration between the Sisters in Crime Chapters in Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego and Northern California. During the months of June through September, each chapter takes a turn hosting a zoom meeting for the four chapters, bringing you great programming, including speakers who aren’t necessarily local. On Saturday, […]
As part of our Sizzling Summer Series, the August meeting was held August 6th, hosted by us, the Sisters in Crime Los Angeles chapter, and featured Sara Paretsky as the speaker and Anne Louise Bannon as the reader. The topic was “Readers and writers, are we an endangered species” and featured a conversation with Sara […]
Saturday, October 14, 2023, 2pm Studio City Branch Library 12511 Moorpark Street Studio City, CA “Crime Under the Sun” panel discussion, promoting the new crime fiction anthology from Partners in Crime, the San Diego chapter of Sisters in Crime, featuring several members of the Los Angeles Sisters in Crime chapter discussing their stories in […]
