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June 10, 2022 Susan Breen Books, Tips and Tricks

I spent last weekend as a workshop leader at the NY Pitch conference, listening to various editors and agents talk[…]

Publishing roulette

March 28, 2022 Susan Breen #inspiration

I spent last weekend at the NY Pitch Conference, working with authors who were pitching their books to publishing agents[…]

3 Lessons from the NY Pitch Conference

December 9, 2021 Susan Breen Fiction, Writing

I’ve been a workshop leader at the NY Pitch Conference for more than a decade. That means that four times[…]

We’re All In This Together

November 18, 2021 Connie Berry #inspiration, Fiction

Last Sunday I returned from New England Crime Bake, my first in-person writers’ conference since the start of the pandemic. Gathering together with fellow authors was a joy. As wonderful as social media is, as wonderful as Zoom can be, we crave face-to-face with other human beings. That’s how we’re built.

Locked Room Mysteries

November 16, 2021 Emilya Naymark Fiction, Reading, Setting, Writing

Locked room mysteries are awesome because they usually present the environment as an oppositional adversary. It’s easy to imagine oneself trapped with a killer, and how delicious to burrow under a blanket and know you’re safe, while reading about people who most certainly aren’t.

So, here are three locked room mysteries I’ve read lately that are chilling, thrilling, and all around awesome.

Can we talk about shoes?

June 7, 2021 Susan Breen Fiction

A few years ago, I went to the Boucheron World Mystery Convention, when it was in Toronto. One thing led[…]

I Came, I Hosted, I Laughed

April 21, 2021 Alexia Gordon Tips and Tricks, Writing

Thanks to ProWritingAid’s Crime Writers’ Week conference, I can check panel moderator off the list of things I’ve never done. I hosted a Thriller Panel Discussion with Karin Slaughter, Jennifer Hillier, Lisa Gardner, Ian Rankin, and Steve Berry. Was I nervous? Heck, yeah. Should I have been? Nope. All of the panelists were charming and witty and graceful, and a fabulous time was had by all.

Agatha nominations

March 1, 2021 Susan Breen Uncategorized

It’s Agatha Award nominating time, which means that people in the cozy mystery community are going through the books and stories we’ve read this year and cogitating over which ones we’d like to nominate. (Ballots are due in electronically by March 6.)