Meet Debbie Beamer of the Mechanicsburg Mystery Bookshop. BACKGROUND: The store, established in 1990, sells only crime stories — mysteries, espionage, thrillers, and so on, both new and used, and related other items, such as gifts. They will also do special orders for any book. Their customer base is all ages, in a diverse community, but with the majority being […]
Nina Mansfield is a Greenwich, CT-based writer. Her YA mystery novel Swimming Alone was recently published by Fire & Ice. Her short fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and Mysterical-E. Her plays have been produced throughout the United States and internationally, and are published by Smith and Kraus, One Act Play Depot, YouthPlays and Original Works Publishing.
Meet Marilyn Thiele of Moonstone Mystery Book Store. BACKGROUND: In 1999, Marilyn bought, and still owns, a used book business called Twice Told Tales. When the adjoining store closed, she took over the space and opened Moonstone, fulfilling a longtime dream of owning a mystery bookstore. The nearby presence of a Borders was a concern, but she took what she
Last week I provided some background to this project of learning more about the independent bookstores in our very diverse MWA-NY region. Here is the first of a series of interviews. Meet Asha Sanaker of Buffalo Street Books in Ithaca, New York. Ithaca is a small, lively town in the Finger Lakes region and is home to both Cornell University
Triss Stein, author of Brooklyn Graves, gives us the inside scoop on independent bookstores.
Author Nancy Bilyeau talks about how MWA-NY authors got to read at the first annual Queens Lit Fest.
MWA-NY members Daniel L Friedman and Eugene B. Friedman write about their experience attending our recent outing to Sing Sing Correctional Facility on July 23.
MWA-NY member Catherine Clark writes about our recent outing to Sing Sing Correctional Facility.
Author Linda Maria Frank writes about the debut of Long Island-area events for MWA-NY members.
Jeff Markowitz is the author of the Cassie O’Malley Mysteries, an amateur sleuth mystery series set deep in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. He loves to write early in the morning. You can usually find him at his computer at 5:30 in the morning plotting someone’s murder. When he’s not out looking for dead bodies, Markowitz keeps busy as the founder and Executive Director of a network of programs and services for adults with autism. He recently joined the board of directors of the New York chapter of the Mystery Writers of America. His new book, Death and White Diamonds, is out now.
