SMFS congratulates SMFS list member
P.M. Raymond
for receiving the 2024 Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award. Details
on the winning story, A Nasty Business, author’s background, and the award
itself can be found on the Sisters in Crime website.
Website Description:
The Sisters in Crime Writers' Podcast is a
conversation about writing. Featuring SinC members, and hosted by executive
director Julie Hennrikus, this podcast is about the writing journey, lessons
learned, publishing journeys, and the importance of community.
Episodes are released Monday, and they are available
where you download podcasts, or through the links on this page. Just click on
the image to download the podcast.
Annette Dashofy is the USA Today best-selling author
of twelve novels including the Agatha-nominated Zoe Chambers mystery series
about a paramedic/deputy coroner in rural Pennsylvania’s tight-knit Vance
Township. Her standalone, Death By Equine, set in the world of Thoroughbred
horseracing, won the 2021 Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award for excellence in
thoroughbred racing literature. Her first in a new series, Where the Guilty
Hide, comes out in January 2023 and is available for pre-order now. Annette
serves on the board of Pennwriters and is the president of the Pittsburgh
chapter of Sisters in Crime. She and her husband live on ten acres of what was
her grandfather’s dairy farm in Washington County, PA, with their very spoiled
cat, Kensi.
SMFS list member Lorie Ham is the featured guest this
week at The Sisters in Crime Writers' Podcast. More information, including
links to listen, is at their website.
Details:
The Sisters in Crime Writers' Podcast is a
conversation about writing. Featuring SinC members, and hosted by executive
director Julie Hennrikus, this podcast is about the writing journey, lessons
learned, publishing journeys, and the importance of community.
Episodes are released Monday, and they are available
where you download podcasts, or through the links on this page. Just click on
the image to download the podcast.
Lorie Lewis Ham lives in Reedley, California and has
been writing ever since she was a child. Her first song and poem were published
when she was 13, and she has gone on to publish many articles, short stories,
and poems throughout the years, as well as write for a local newspaper, and
publish 6 mystery novels. For the past 12 years, Lorie has been the
editor-in-chief and publisher of Kings River Life Magazine, and she produces
Mysteryrat’s Maze Podcast where you can now hear an excerpt of her new book One
of Us. You can learn more about Lorie and her latest book on her website
mysteryrat.com and find her on Twitter @mysteryrat and Facebook. Another way to
keep up with Lorie’s writing is to subscribe to her newsletter, which you can
do on her website.
Lorie has been married to Larry for 30 years and they
have 2 grown children—Jayce and Joseph Ham. She currently has 5 cats (Merlin,
Sam, Dean, Sidney, and Willow), 4 dogs (Lestat, Huey, Xander, and Phoebe), a
pet dwarf rabbit (Sherlock), and pet rat named Yuki. For many years, she worked
in pet rat rescue, and has had many pet rats of her own over the years.
SMFS list member Tara Laskowski is the featured guest this week at The Sisters in Crime Writers' Podcast. More information, including links to listen, is at their website.
Details:
The Sisters in Crime Writers' Podcast is a
conversation about writing. Featuring SinC members, and hosted by executive
director Julie Hennrikus, this podcast is about the writing journey, lessons
learned, publishing journeys, and the importance of community.
Episodes are released Monday, and they are available
where you download podcasts, or through the links on this page. Just click on
the image to download the podcast.
Tara Laskowski’s debut suspense novel One Night Gone
won the Agatha Award, Macavity Award, and the Anthony Award. Her second novel,
The Mother Next Door, was called a “polished and entertaining read” by The New
York Times Book Review. She also wrote two short story collections, Modern
Manners for Your Inner Demons and Bystanders. She has won the Agatha Award and
Thriller Award for her short fiction and was the longtime editor of the online
flash fiction journal SmokeLong Quarterly. A graduate of Susquehanna University
and George Mason University, Tara grew up in Pennsylvania and lives in
Virginia.
Details:
The
Sisters in Crime Writers' Podcast is a conversation about writing. Featuring
SinC members, and hosted by executive director Julie Hennrikus, this podcast is
about the writing journey, lessons learned, publishing journeys, and the
importance of community.
Episodes
are released Monday, and they are available where you download podcasts, or through
the links on this page. Just click on the image to download the podcast.
José H.
Bográn is the internationally published author of novels, short stories, and
scripts for film, plays, and television. José's genre of choice is thrillers,
but he likes to throw in a twist of romance into the mix. Although he’s the son
of a journalist, he ironically prefers to write fiction rather than fact.
His latest
novel, DARKSOUL, co-authored with Steven Savile, is about Sophie
Keane, an assassin devoted to the criminal organization called The Hidden, but
her loyalty is tested with an impossible mission: supply children to be used as
test subjects for a new bio weapon.
He serves
as the Assistant Editor for The Big Thrill, and writes the occasional book
review for The Washington Independent Review of Books.
In his
native Spanish, he’s collaborated in three 20-episode TV serials for domestic
broadcasting, and has penned several screenplays; the latest one for the movie
11 Cipotes, which was an early contender for the 2016 Oscars in the Foreign
Film category.
He’s a
member of the Crime Writers of Color, Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in
Crime, International Thriller Writers, and Short Mystery Fiction Society where
he served as the Vice President.
He signs
his emails with the motto: “I never tell lies; I only write them.”
Several SMFS list members are published in Crime Wave: A Canada West Anthology. Published by the Sisters in Crime-Canada West Chapter, the read is available in both print and eBook formats at Amazon. The SMFS members in the book are:
K.L. Abrahamson with “"News on the Buckhorn.”
Marcelle Dubé with “Cold Wave.”
Merrilee Robson with “Autumn is a Time for Dying.”
Amazon Synopsis:
Come Catch the Wave of Western Canadian Crime Fiction with Crime Wave, the first anthology from members of the Canada West Chapter of Sisters in Crime.
Crimes at sea, in coastal villages, in wind-tossed Prairie fields, on icy mountains, in valleys that, instead of offering shelter, trap their residents in fear.
The mysteries unfurl in the cold of a Yukon winter night, on a boutique cruise ship, along the Pacific coast and in the BC interior, in a dying Alberta town as winter closes in and in a historical Saskatchewan farming community in the heat of summer. They're investigated by an amateur sleuth who’s smarter than the local police detective, a freezing cross-country skier, the desperate owners of a struggling B&B, a timid teenage girl, a young RCMP officer, a cruise-ship entertainer, and a senior combating both dementia and murder.
The eight mystery stories in Crime Wave range from
thrilling, to wistful, to laugh-out-loud funny.
