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.
Oct. 3, 2007
Print, Broadcast, Blogs Promote Yourself to the Media Moderated by Linda Landrigan, Editor in Chief, Alfred Hitchcock Magazine
Media experts discuss what every author needs to know to be an active self-promoter.in today's competitive bookselling climate.
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.
Sept. 5, 2007
Exonerating the wrongfully convicted The Innocence Project
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 -- Eppolitos work as a police officer became suspect, attorneys Vanessa Potkin and Barry Scheck helped exonerate Mr. GIbbs in September 2005.
June 6, 2007
Adventures on Both Sides of the Best Seller List Wendy Corsi Staub: Author and Editor
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?
April 04, 2007
Street Stories from Holmdel, NJ Small Town, Big Trouble
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....
March 07, 2007
Adaptation Mystery into Screenplay Moderated by MWA-NY Vice-President Jillian Abbott
Back story to last take, our panelists share the gory details!
PANELISTS:
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.
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!
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.
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?
Back story to last take, our panelists share the gory details!
On the Track of Arson: Shelly Reuben