“Our Next Reading is”…
Saturday, February 11th at 6:45PM
SPECIAL EVENING OF MYSTERY WRITERS
Your reader/writers (bios below):
Kenneth Wishnia
Rosemary Harris
Tom Coffey
The Place:
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street, 2nd Floor
The Date:
Saturday, February 11th
The Time:
6:45 p.m.
As always, Trumpet Fiction is sponsored by DUCTS.org and the New York Writers Workshop.
Bios:
Kenneth Wishnia’s novels include 23 Shades of Black, an Edgar Allan Poe Award and Anthony Award finalist; Soft Money, a Library Journal Best Mystery of the Year; Red House, a Washington Post Book World “Rave” Book of the Year; and The Fifth Servant, an Indie Notable selection, winner of a Premio Letterario ADEI-WIZO, and a finalist for the Sue Feder Memorial Historical Mystery Award (Macavity Awards). His short stories have appeared in Ellery Queen, Alfred Hitchcock, Queens Noir, Long Island Noir, Send My Love and a Molotov Cocktail, and elsewhere. He teaches writing, literature and other deviant forms of thought at Suffolk Community College on Long Island.
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Tom Coffey is a writer and editor with an extensive background in journalism. He is the author of three novels — THE SERPENT CLUB (1999), MIAMI TWILIGHT (2001) and BLOOD ALLEY (2008). Both THE SERPENT CLUB and BLOOD ALLEY received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly. BLOOD ALLEY will be published in e-book and paperback by Amazon Encore later this year. (At least that’s what he hopes.) A graduate of the Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University, Tom has been a reporter and editor for some of America’s leading newspapers. A staff editor at The New York Times since 1997, he has also worked for New York Newsday, The Los Angeles Herald-Examiner and The Miami Herald. Tom lives in Lower Manhattan with his wife and daughter.
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Rosemary Harris is a former bookstore manager and video executive who started writing mysteries when she read a two line item in the NY Times about a mummified body found near her home in Connecticut. She is the author of four traditional mysteries featuring amateur sleuth Paula Holliday. The books have been called “a perfect book for summer” (NPR CT) “clever mystery..fast-paced and engaging” Seattle Post-Intelligencer and “a wikld and funny ride” Crtimespree Magazine. She is the former president of Mystery Writers of America’s NY Chapter and Sisters in Crime’s New England Chapter
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