Writing is hard. In fact, sometimes, it can be MURDER. This Saturday 1 PM, five local mystery novelists will share their process for writing suspenseful fiction.
The visiting authors are:
- Robin Acton: Award winning journalist and author Robin Acton is known for her work in covering crime, courts, and investigative projects for western Pennsylvania newspapers. Her 2021 debut novel, The Taker, was a Best Mystery finalist for the 2022 Silver Falchion Award given annually by the Killer Nashville International Writers’ Conference. Her second book, Empty Boxes, is set for a November release by the Blank Slate Press under the Amphorae Publishing Group.
- Cathy A. Corn: Cathy A. Corn lives happily ever after in Pittsburgh with husband Alan and feline wizards Cato and Cleo. She’s retired from nursing and massage & energy work, and now writes about, speaks, and teaches about the faeries. Her love of the supernatural and the Woo are reflected in her supernatural romantic faery and paranormal romantic mysteries set in Pittsburgh.
- Annette Dashofy: Annette Dashofy is the USA Today bestselling author of sixteen mystery novels including seven Agatha Award finalists and a Dr. Tony Ryan Book Award winner. Her latest release is What Comes Around: A Zoe Chambers Mystery. Annette is a board member of Pennwriters and is president of the Pittsburgh Chapter of Sisters in Crime.
- Liz Milliron: Liz Milliron is the Shamus award-nominated author of The Homefront Mysteries, The Laurel Highlands Mysteries series, and The Jackson Davis Mysteries. Her short fiction has been published in multiple anthologies. Liz is a member of Pennwriters, Sisters in Crime, International Thriller Writers, and The Historical Novel Society and is the current Secretary of the Pittsburgh chapter of Sisters in Crime and the Education Liaison for the National SinC board.
- Linda Rettstatt: Linda Rettstatt began her writing career at the tender age of eighteen while working as a classified ad clerk for her hometown newspaper. She covered the local community theater stories no one else wanted to cover, and she did so with enthusiasm, insisting upon a by line. Rettstatt’s creative nature steered her into a career as a semi-professional folk musician for a number of years. Finally, in 2002, she sat at a computer determined to find out if she could write a novel. That novel and three more were contracted by a small press. She moved from small press publishing to self-publishing in 2014 and has forty-plus novels and novellas and several short stories in her bibliography.
The authors will have books for sale after the program and will leave time for questions. Light refreshments will be served.
Adults 18 + up welcome with registration. Register online or call 412-269-0334.
