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Nancy Cohen’s latest novel, Hair Brained  is a Finalist in the RPLA. Hair Brained is the fourteenth installment in the Bad Hair Day Mystery series, starring Marla Shore (now Marla Vail), a Florida salon owner who is as good at solving mysteries as she is at styling hair. Titles in the Bad Hair Day Mysteries have made the IMBA bestseller list, been selected by Suspense Magazine as best cozy mystery, won a Readers' Favorite gold medal, and earned third place in the Arizona Literary Awards.

My short story, The Drive-by, originally published in the Anthology Busted: Arresting Stories from the Beat (Level Best Books 2017) is a finalist in the published short story genre category of the 2018 Royal Palm Literary Awards (RPLA) competition.

Awards are announced at the Florida Writer's Association Banquet at the FWA Conference in Altamonte Springs on October 20th. 

I'm very pleased my story placed, as my novel, The Saffron Crocus, won best YA Historical in 2015.

River of Secrets (Minotaur, Aug 28, 2018) is the second book in the mystery series that started with Roger John's award-winning Dark River Rising. The series features Wallace Hartman, a female police detective in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 

The conference we think of as "Thrillerfest" is really the end-cap of a week of varied events. It started on Monday with the ATF pre-conference.

Every year the International Thriller Writer's organization (ITW) organizes various a series of events to encourage authors who have had their first book published in the preceding twelve months.

Spokane. Leavenworth. Bellingham. It seems that only places like that in Washington state can produce a private investigator hero named Edwina Zapata Schultz. 

The documentary, Be Natural, ba

Inspired by April’s National Poetry Month and thanks to the StoryADay in May writing challenge, May has become identified with the short story. So StoryADay.org made it official and declared May 2013 to be the first organized International Short Story Month.

The Short Mystery Fiction Society joins the celebration each year by highlighting members’ published story every day of the month.