On our monthly dinner meeting in April, the MWA-NY chapter was treated to a lecture by forensic linguistics expert Robert Leonard at the Salmagundi Club in Manhattan. With a PhD in language studies from Columbia University, Leonard helped to pioneer the profession of analyzing language patterns in letters and notes in order to profile and identify criminals. In some cases, […]
One of the many benefits MWA-NY offers its members is access to the experts who pursue the perpetrators and solve the crimes we write about. We asked a few of those experts to tell us about their work in law enforcement and forensics. Don’t forget to check the MWA-NY calendar for upcoming programs. Today we’re featuring Barbara Butcher, the former chief
Writing is a solitary business — but you don’t have to do it alone. Learn about our new #MWANYWriteIn series. The next session is this Sunday, May 17!
One of the many benefits MWA-NY offers its members is access to the experts who pursue the perpetrators and solve the crimes we write about. We asked a few of those experts to tell us about their work in law enforcement and forensics. Don’t forget to check the MWA-NY calendar for upcoming programs. Today we’re featuring long-serving NYPD lieutenant (and MWA-NY member) Bernard Whalen, who spoke
Tracey Landau began her writing career at the age of three, dictating stories to her mother. Twenty-one years later, her first novel, The Queen of Diamonds, has been published by Wildside Press. Landau started writing this book—her third novel and the first to be published—when she was 17, writing on receipt paper during her job at Friendly’s. She is working on
Arrgh, me buckos! Authors are having to deal with their books being pirated on the Internetz! Who is stealing our books? Is there any way to stop them and how? Is it any use?
Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford shares his recipe for a cream-topped caramel apple crostada (not a Frenchified “gallette”). As recorded by Gary Cahill, in his winning entry for our Mystery Writers of America Cookbook giveaway contest.
MWA-NY President Emerita and Chair of the Festivals and Conferences Committee Patricia King rounds up information and anecdotes about some of the most popular events for writers out there.
Henry Chang is a native son of New York City’s Chinatown, where he sets his stories, from the underbelly of the immigrant demimonde. He’s been a lighting consultant, and a freelance journalist. He has been a Security Director for the Trump Organization, and for corporate and retail Loss Prevention. A local product, he attended Pratt Institute, and graduated from CCNY. He resides in the Chinatown area of Lower Manhattan—“in the old ‘hood,” as he calls it. He is currently working on his fifth book in the NYPD Detective Jack Yu series.
“Are you killing time?” she asked. “Yes,” I said, “and I’ve got the bar tab to prove it.” “Would you like some company?” She sat down on the stool to my right without waiting for an answer. She was not what you would call a pretty woman, but sitting in the bar at O’Hare, two hours to kill until boarding,
