Heading to the Boston Book Festival on Saturday October 19, 2019? You can meet SinCNE Authors at our booth (Booth 19) and events during the day. Below you can find out more about when authors will be at our booth and at which events! SinCNE thanks Frances McNamara for managing this for our members.
10 AM Leslie Wheeler, Hallie Ephron, Nicole Asselin
11 AM Coralie Jensen, Susan Cory, Julie Hennrikus
Noon Sarah Smith, Lisa Lieberman, Sharon Healy-Yang
1 PM Frankie Bailey, Kate Flora, Joanna Schaffhausen
2 PM Connie Hambley, Edith Maxwell, Shari Randall
3 PM Nicole St Claire, Clea Simon, Jeannette de Beauvoir
4 PM Gina Fava, Frances McNamara, Mary Small
Also, find SinCNE authors at these special presentations.
Mystery Making - 11 AM in BPL Orientation Room
In this interactive workshop, five mystery authors representing different sub-genres—including cozy/traditional, thriller/suspense, and police procedural—will be led by moderator Connie Johnson Hambley to brainstorm on their feet and create a brand-new mystery using suggestions provided by the audience. Fun, fast-paced, and fascinating, this improv game offers important insights into mystery writers’ minds and the conventions of the different genres. A cozy mystery author may view a name, setting, or motive differently than a thriller or police procedural author. Sisters in Crime authors Frankie Bailey, Hallie Ephron, Kate Flora, Edith Maxwell, and Joanna Schaffhausen will engage the audience in a fun and lively session on how genre plays into plot and craft. They will show how variations on themes and relationships between victims and murderers can drive today’s crime fiction in unexpected ways.
Death Among Friends: Crime Gets Personal - 1:45 PM BPL McKim Exhibition Hall
Four mystery authors—Brendan DuBois, Elisabeth Elo, Chris Knopf, and Frances McNamara—explore the emotional and professional turmoil that results when family members, friends, and loved ones are threatened with harm, enmeshed in murder, or targeted by impersonal and amoral forces. Forced into action to save those close to them, the central characters of their novels must also confront difficult truths about trust, loyalty, and the sacrifices they are willing to make. Mo Walsh, president of the New England chapter of Mystery Writers of America, will host this fascinating discussion. Sponsored by Mystery Writers of America–New England
Jump-Start A Story - 3:00 PM BPL Exchange
The Surrealists used to pool their money and buy a one-way ticket to the furthest destination they could afford. They'd send one person off on an adventure and they'd have to make their way back somehow, and tell the others all about it when they returned. Along the way, they’d collect talismans that helped them navigate the dark places they encountered. In this workshop, we'll be sending each of you off on an adventure and when you get back, you'll have the outline of a new story. Lisa Lieberman (author of the Cara Walden historical noir mystery series) will be your tour guide, assisted by author and teacher Sharon Healy-Yang.
Keep both eyes open when you walk home this evening, because if the writers in this session are to be believed, Boston’s a hotbed for mystery, mayhem--even murder! In Adam Abramowitz’s A Town Called Malice, a bike messenger and aspiring standup comic gets drawn into an investigation of an attempted hit job at Nick’s Comedy Stop. Edwin Hill’s protagonist is a Harvard librarian with a knack for researching missing people; in his new novel The Missing Ones, a missing persons case strikes close to home. Investigative reporter Hank Phillippi Ryan is a Boston institution, and so are her novels; in her latest standalone, The Murder List, Harvard Law student Rachel is unprepared for her role in researching a homicide case, and even less so for the fact that her boss, the assistant district attorney, may have a vendetta against her. Novelist Kate Racculia might live in Pennsylvania now, but her new novel Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts sends readers on a spirited citywide scavenger hunt to find a dead millionaire’s fortune, in a story that’s a love letter to Boston and to one of Racculia’s favorite novels, The Westing Game. Get ready to explore Boston’s mean streets with these four authors and host Callum Borchers, a reporter for WBUR’s BostonomiX.