Playwright, Screenwriter, Author
My short mystery story, “An Actor Prepares” has been published in WHERE CRIME NEVER SLEEPS: Murder New York Style 4 (Level Best Books.) This marvelous anthology is edited by Elizabeth Zelvin, and includes stories from the members of the NY/Tri-State Chapter of Sisters in Crime. Hope you’ll check it out!
You can pick up your copy on Amazon, or request it wherever books are sold!
I have a lot of news to share this month!
My short play FROSTBITE, about marriage, infidelity, and eating human flesh, will premiere at the LIC One-Act Festival, running in late May and June at The Secret Theatre. It is running the following dates and times:
5/26 (7:30PM)
5/27 (8PM)
5/28 (5PM)
6/1 (7:30PM)
6/3 (2:30PM)
6/4 (5PM)
For more information about the LIC One-Act Festival click HERE.
My short crime story “Gods and Virgins in the Big Easy” has been accepted for publication by CRIME SYNDICATE MAGAZINE. It will be published in issue 3, which will be out in June.
My short mystery story “An Actor Prepares” has been accepted for publication in WHEN CRIME NEVER SLEEPS (Murder New York Style 4), the fourth crime fiction anthology by members of the New York Tristate Chapter of Sisters in Crime, which should be out September 2017.
My short plays LOVE AT FIRST SLICE and MAKING THE CUT will be produced as part of Short & Sweet Theatre Brisbane, in Brisbane, Australia, July-August 2017.
MWA-NY CRIME FICTION READING SERIES
Please join me on Saturday, February 25, 2017 at 6:30 PM at KGB Bar at 85 East 4th Street, New York, NY for the Mystery Writers of America, New York Chapter, Reading Series. I will be reading an excerpt from my short story, “Big Hair, Banana Clips, and the Figure-Four Leglock.”
My short story “Big Hair, Banana Clips and the Figure-Four Leglock” has been published in FAST WOMEN AND NEON LIGHTS: EIGHTIES-INSPIRED NEON NOIR. Check it out on Amazon!
GALS AND GODDESSES, a collection of my ten-minute plays with roles for women of all ages is now available for pre-order from One Act Play Depot.
Plays in the collection include ALONE IN THE GOLDFISH BOWL, SCULPTING PERFECTION and AU NATUREL.
July 8-9: Catch me at ThrillerFest in NYC. You’ll be able to find me at the debut breakfast Saturday morning. (I’m one of the debut authors!)
July 17: Noir at the Bar, New Haven, CT. I’ll be reading from a new short story. The event will be held at 4pm at Goodfellas Restaurant, 702 State Street, New Haven, CT.
August 5-7: Deadly Ink, New Brunswick, NJ.
August 5-29: My short play CLOWN THERAPY will be performed in the Bite-Sized Breakfast show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this August!
Fall 2016: My graphic novel FAKE ID: BEYOND RECOGNITION will soon be available online at Plume Snake Comics. Check them out!
November 2016: My short story, “Big Hair, Banana Clips and the Figure-Four Leg Lock” will be published in Crime Syndicate Magazine’s anthology, FAST WOMEN AND NEON LIGHTS: EIGHTIES-INSPIRED NEON NOIR anthology, due out in November!
My plays THE TEA EXERCISE and TEXT MISDIRECTED will be performed as part of an Evening of Student Directed One-Acts at White Plains High School, White Plains, New York on June 8th at 7pm.
SCULPTING PERFECTION will be performed in the 10-Minute Play Festival at the Actors Theatre Playhouse in West Chesterfield, New Hampshire June 10-25. Click the link above for more information.
Wednesday, April 13, 2016 @ 5:30pm: Mystery Writers’ Jam, Sisters in Crime mystery panel at the NY Public Library 67th Street Branch, 328 East 67th St, NY.
Saturday, April 16, 2016, @ 1:00-3:30: Murder by the Minute, Fairfield County Writers Studio, Westport, CT (Sponsored by Sisters in Crime, New England)
April 29-May 1: MALICE DOMESTIC, Bethesda, MD. I’ll be on the “Start ‘Em When They’re YAs” Panel at 3:50pm on Saturday, April 30th.
Saturday, May 21 @8:30am: #KidLitPalooza, Old Bethpage Elementary School, 1159 Round Swamp Road, Old Bethpage, NY