Andrew Welsh-Huggins and I have been hanging out in the same Midwestern mystery circles for a couple of years now, and we finally got to spend some time together last year at Magna Cum Murder in Indianapolis. You should think about coming to Magna, too, because Midwestern…
Susan Van Kirk is a writer of short stories, mysteries, and a memoir about teaching. Her first mystery, Three May Keep a Secret, came out in December 2014. Susan and I met on a panel at Bouchercon (I think—I remember the room, but those conference rooms start…
Susan Spann and I met through The Debutante Ball. No, neither of us are party dress or tiara types, but we know a good thing when we see it. We got in on that action, learned a lot, and met a slew of great women authors, including—ta…
Have you ever known someone casually and then suddenly, by accident, had the chance to get to be better friends with him? That happened to me with Alex Segura the evening of the 2013 Anthony Awards in Long Beach, California. I hadn’t made plans to meet anyone…
Jennifer Kincheloe and I both write mysteries featuring smart—if somewhat misguided—women protagonists. We interviewed each other about our shared interests, writing, writing some more, and all things writing. Who’s Jennifer Kincheloe? Well, pick up a copy of The Secret Life of Anna Blanc, and you’ll not soon…
I met Triss Stein at Malice Domestic in early 2015 when we were put on the same panel. It was called “School for Murder,” which suited me just fine because I had a murder mystery set on a college campus. For some of the other panelists, the…
True story. When I first met Catriona McPherson, I hadn’t read her work. But I liked her so much as a person that I decided, of course, that I would pick up the first in her Dandy Gilver mystery series. Until I did, I hoped hoped hoped…
If you don’t know who Jenny Milchman is, then you haven’t been to a bookstore lately. I don’t just mean that her three novels, including the brand-new As Night Falls, are well-stocked in our nation’s book nooks. I mean Jenny herself is there. Known for her round-the-country…
I met Jim Ziskin through Seventh Street Books. His excellent Ellie Stone mystery series—set in 1960 upstate New York and featuring a spitfire “girl reporter”— is published by them. I didn’t get to read the first book in the series, Styx & Stone, until this year and…
Susanna Calkins and I met through Mystery Writers of America Midwest Chapter, but then we figured out a reason we might look familiar to one another—we both worked at the same Day Job University! We’re finding all the mystery authors who work there and forcing them into…
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