Past Meetings
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at 7 p.m.
Authors Roundtable: Under the Writer's Veil
Open to the public -- MWA/NY members and non-members are welcome
Join us for a fun and lively discussion of the writing process and the process of getting published!
Hear from long-time published authors and first-timers.
Hosted by Rosemary Harris www.rosemaryharris.com
Moderated by MWA/NY president Jane K. Cleland www.janecleland.net
Borders Stamford
1041 High Ridge Road
Stamford, CT 06905
203.968.9700
Authors Roundtable: Under the Writer's Veil
Rosemary Harris -- Pushing Up Daisies -- St. Martin's Minotaur -- www.rosemaryharris.com
Chris Grabenstein - The Crossroads, Random House Children's (middle grade mystery) www.chrisgrabenstein.com
Roberta Isleib - Preaching to the Corpse, Deadly Advice -- Berkley www.robertaisleib.com
Justin Scott - Mausoleum, Poisoned Pen Press www.seastoriesbypaulgarrison.com
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June 4, 2008
Screenwriter/filmmaker, Michael Tierno: Cinematic plot technique for a thrilling novel
Editors say authors wrestle harder with structure than with any other fiction element. And face it: no one can plot--tightly, tensely, suspensefully--like a screenwriter.
Filmmaker, screenwriter, author and former Miramax Films story analyst, Michael Tierno's award-winning first film, AUDITIONS (Netflix),
deals with the consequences of deception. Don't miss Tierno's sercrets for a mystery or thriller that never loses its grip on the reader.
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May
The Edgars--No meeting
April 2, 2008
Join Andrew Martin, publisher of St. Martin's Minotaur: "Musings on Mystery Readers, Markets, and the Future of Publishing."
Don't miss this opportunity to hear from one of the world's leading mystery publishers about: market trends--what St. Martin's Minotaur is buying now, what they expect to buy in the future, and how e-publishing is likely to affect St. Martin's Minotaur and its authors looking forward; getting published--what makes for a mystery standout, and how contest opportunities differ from "going over the transom"; breaking out--what it takes to break through the noise, how to get national reviews, and what an author can do to help or hinder sales; and reaching readers--how the marketplace is changing, how audience make-up is shifting, and what St. Martin's Minotaur is doing to grow the market.
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March 31, 2008, 6:30-8:30pm
Special Satellite Meeting, hosted by Stacia Friedman
Philly is Murder!
The Irish Pub,
1123 Walnut Street, 2nd Floor,
Philadelphia., PA 19107
If Janet Evanovitch could make Trenton sexy -
wait till you see what we can do with Philly!
Don't miss this opportunity to network with fellow mystery writers, meet bestselling authors, and get tips on breaking out of the regional writer syndrome.
6:30 p.m.: Happy Hour Reception.
7:30 p.m.: Panel discussion: Breaking Out. Moderator: Jane K. Cleland, president MWA/NY Chapter and author of the Josie Prescott Antiques Mysteries. Guest panelists include these best-selling and award-winning authors: George Anastasia, The Last Gangster; Cordelia Frances Biddle, The Conjurer; Solomon Jones, C.R.E.A.M.; William Lashner, A Killer's Kiss; and Nancy Martin, Murder Melts in Your Mouth.
$10, cash or check, payable at the door. Checks should be made out to MWA/NY. Cash bar, free nibbles. Pre-registration required. Registration deadline March 10. To register, contact stacialand@verizon.net .
VIEW PANEL BIOS:
George Anastasia
Cordelia Frances Biddle
Solomon Jones
William Lashner
Nancy Martin
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March 5, 2008
Seventies Noir: the real-life characters
Undercover with Special Agent (ret.) Paul E. Doyle
Junkies, stool pigeons, and hooker informants, Ivy League burnouts and Chinatown mobsters, ghetto pimps and a whole dirty rainbow of violent thugs shared Boston's mean streets in the 1970s with Paul E. Doyle -- undercover street name, "Paulie Sullivan." Now a true crime author and law enforcement trainer, S. A. Doyle (ret.) will tell stories from his rookie days working with his partners to infiltrate the drug underworld, through his coming of age as an experienced narc. He'll decode the undercover persona for us just as he does for his Mass. State Police Academy undercover trainees. And our hero(ine)s will learn -- just as do DEA recruits at Quantico -- how to stay alive. Don't dare miss dinner with the Hot Shots and Heavy Hits author and all his real-life perps -- and good guys -- on March 5th.
Ask the best question, win a copy of the book!
www.pauldoyle.com
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February 6, 2008
The Art of Ghostwriting (aka making a living as a writer)
NYT bestselling ghost, Donald Bain
No one has greater writerly counsel to share than Donald Bain, author or ghost/author of more than 90 titles, from mysteries to investigative journalism.
The distinguished MWA member talks exclusively to us about (for instance) his 33 paperback original series (from new Penguin NAL imprint, Obsidian) written
"in collaboration" with TV's Murder, She Wrote mystery scribe, "Jessica Fletcher." Standing in for the Fletcher character is . . . Bain's real collaborator, his wife,
MWA member, Renee Paley-Bain. Reserve now to hear Donald Bain -- profit from his practical wisdom for years to come.
www.DonaldBain.com
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Thursday, January 3, 2008
21st century sleuth's how-tos? Hey, whatever works!
Investigative Counsel Charles Eric Gordon, Esq.
No sooner had our speaker graduated from SUNY than he began sleuthing as a skip tracer. Now, a law degree and almost 30 years later, he's got an international list of clients-including police-who rely on him to find the toughest subjects. Missing for decades, or, about whom virtually zip is known. He'll access, when necessary, any esoteric database you've never hear of-but really, he'd rather just schmooze. Old fashioned? Check out the Gordon collection of vintage phone books. Nor is this sleuth above brandishing a magnifying glass; says many clients expect that... Even if your novels don't (yet) boast a character with a keen, private eye, a few of Charlie's choice stories provide inspiration in, um spades.
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Winter Revels
at
Sotheby's Institute
570 Lexington Avenue (at 51st St.) 6th floor
New York, NY 10022
December 5, 2007, 6pm-8pm
Hors d'oeuvres, tasty tidbits, open bar, old friends, new friends, special guests...
Festive dress encouraged! Merriment will prevail!
$40 per person (guests of MWANY members are welcome) Reservations required
(Sorry, no email or phone reservations and no walk-ins. No exceptions.)
Pls. mail checks to: Rosemary Harris, 300 E. 59th St., #3506, NY, NY 10022 by Dec. 2
RSVP Rosemary 212-750-5326, or rovideo@aol.com
Nov. 7 , 2007
IN ONE SHOT -- Jack Reacher and his author
An evening of thrills without fail: Lee Child
Meet 'Reacher' and his NY Times best selling creator, Lee Child. In eleven critically-acclaimed thrillers, Jack Reacher -- ex-Army and shades of Sam Spade, Phillip Marlowe and The Saint -- takes on bad guys and governments and makes them suffer. A Man for the Times, Reacher is more lethal than 'Repairman Jack,' and Child's labyrinthine plots always rivet.
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Oct. 3, 2007
PROMOTE YOURSELF TO THE MEDIA
Print, Broadcast, Blogs
Media experts discuss what every author needs to know to be an active self-promoter.in today's competitive bookselling climate. Moderated by Alfred Hitchcocks Mystery Magazine editor-in-chief, Linda Landrigan.
Panelists:
Jillian Abbott is a journalist who receives hundreds of press releases each week and must decide which handful to pursue.
Megan Underwood Beatie is vice president and senior account executive at Goldberg McDuffie Communications where she publicizes both literary and commercial fiction and non-fiction books, and specializes in mysteries and thrillers.
Kate Stine is editor and co-publisher of Mystery Scene Magazine, which provides extensive coverage of the crime and mystery genre. Previously, she was editor of The Armchair Detective and nonfiction editor of The Mary Higgins ClarkMystery Magazine.
Sarah Weinman is a crime fiction columnist for the Baltimore Sun. A new column, "Dark Passages," will appear monthly at www.latimes.com/books. She also writes about crime fiction at her blog, "Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind."
Kate White is editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine, and author of the mystery series featuring crime reporter, Bailey Weggins.
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Sept. 5, 2007
THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: Exonerating the wrongfully convicted
Vanessa Potkin joined the Innocence Project in 2000 as its first staff attorney. She litigates in state and federal courts nationwide on behalf of convicted people seeking DNA testing to prove their innocence. Also an adjunct professor at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, she assists in teaching and supervising legal clinic students. A founder of the Northeast Council of the Wrongfully Convicted, she also is active in life after exoneration ssues.
Her background includes stints as a Civil Rights Intern at Cochran Neufeld & Scheck, working on behalf of police brutality victims; as a research assistant at the Center for Violence Research and Prevention at Columbia University School of Public Health, and as a court advocate for the Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services (CASES) in The Bronx
Barry Gibbs was working for the US Postal Service in Brooklyn in 1988, when he was set up by a crooked detective and wrongfully convicted of murdering a prostitute. "Mafia cop" Louis J. Eppolito had intimidated the only eyewitness into committing perjury. When -- after Mr. Gibbs had spent some 19 years in prison -- Eppolito’s work as a police officer became suspect, attorneys Vanessa Potkin and Barry Scheck helped exonerate Mr. GIbbs in September 2005.
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June 6, 2007
WENDY CORSI STAUB: Author and Editor
Adventures on Both Sides of the Best Seller List
From her early post as an editor at Silhouette Books to her current perch as "the new Queen of Suspense," this NY Times and USA Today best selling author smartly navigated the learning curve to consummate mystery writer. Wendy Staub's 65 books in 15 years include her best-selling chick-lit series by "Wendy Markham".... Under contract now to five major publishers, she'll have published 10 books in the 18 month period ending this fall. Hear how she keeps her plots and characters -- not to mention her editors and publishers -- straight, and her language fresh.... How she manages time, balances her astounding productivity level with family life, and oh, yes -- finds time and energy for book promotion. Any questions?
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April 04, 2007
SMALL TOWN, BIG TROUBLE!
Street Stories from Holmdel, NJ
Welcome to Holmdel: population 16,000. This New Jersey town's police department has come a long way since 1947, when a local school bus driver was appointed part-time constable to handle the few hundred yearly complaints, to today's force of 40 officers who respond to over 21,000 incidents. As police investigators Sgt. Louie Torres and Det. Eric Hernando will explain, police work in a small town is much more than just cats-in-trees jobs....
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March 07, 2007
ADAPTATION: Mystery into Screenplay
Back story to last take, our panelists share the gory details!
MWA-NY Vice-President Jillian Abbott, moderates
Steve Hamilton, Edgar Award winner, author of the Alex McKnight series, whose short story A Shovel with my Name on It was adapted by independent filmmaker Nick Childs.
Nick Childs, filmmaker, director, whose adaptation, Shovels, was a 2006 Tribeca Film festival award winner.
Lee Eypper, screenwriter, actor and award-winning filmmaker, resides in NYC.
Daryl Wood Gerber, novelist and screenwriter, began her writing career in Los Angeles, where she created the syndicated sit-com, Out of this World.
Barbara Nixon, business manager for Illamani Creations, represents (among others) Gary Berntsen, whose explosive Jawbreaker, she optioned to Paramount Pictures and Oliver Stone.
Mark SaFranko, widely published short story writer, novelist, playwright.
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FEBRUARY 07 2007
ON THE TRACK OF ARSON:
Shelly Reuben
Street Stories of a PI / Certified Arson Investigator
Shelly Reuben has determined the Origin and Cause of Suspicious Fires
for over 20 years, doing fire scene analysis, case development and expert testimony for industry and law enforcement. She is the author of six crime
novels: Edgar-nominated JULIAN SOLO; ORIGIN & CAUSE, SPENT
MATCHES, WEEPING, TABULA RASA, and her just-released SKIRT MAN.
Hear this master raconteur with total authenticity in her tool box.
To reserve your place, please send your check for $35, payable to MWA-NY, to MWA, c/o Mr. David Wood, 92 Brewster St., Staten Island, NY 10304, at least ten days before the meeting. We look forward to seeing you there!
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JANUARY 03, 2007
Chapters from the Osborn Saga
4th Generation Forensic Document Examiner John Osborn
Handwriting, typewriting, graffiti, inks, paper, writing instruments, photocopies, photocopy mechanisms and the sequence of writing are just a few of the items and processes scrutinized by John Paul Osborn and his father, Paul A. Osborn, in their New Jersey document examination office. John Osborn himself has 25 years in the business founded around 1910 by his great grandfather. As the firm approaches their centennial, the Osborns' skills - along with their specialized records library and their ever-growing technical equipment arsenal – have used questioned documents to find vital answers in a staggering number of crimes. Our speaker, who typically consults with metro area US Attorneys, District Attorneys and Attorneys General, as well as with the Legal Aid Society and other public and private defenders, well tell fascinating stories specially chosen for us from the office files. Mr. Osborn will kindly share with members, on this occasion only, a limited number of handouts.
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