Mystery authors share their skills at East City event
A daylong event coming to East City on Saturday aims to help those who’d like to write a whodunnit or any other form of mystery novel.
The Mystery Writers’ Craft, organized by organized by the Canadian Authors Peterborough Branch, will feature presentations by two celebrated Canadian authors of the genre, organizers stated in a release.
Vicki Delany will lead off with Page One Chapter One: Starting your Novel with Impact, before Steve Burrows talks about applying one’s passions to writing.
Delany is one of Canada’s most prolific and varied crime writers and a national bestseller in the United States, organizers stated. She has written more than 30 books, from Gothic thrillers to gritty police procedurals, to historical fiction and novellas for adult literacy.
Delany is currently writing the Three Cozy Mystery Series, Sherlock Holmes Bookshop series for Crooked Lane, the Year Round Christmas mysteries for Penguin Random House and, as Eva
Gates, the Lighthouse Library series, for Crooked Lane Books.
She is a past president of the Crime Writers of Canada and her work has been nominated for the Derringer, the Bony Blithe, the Ontario Library Association Golden Oak, and the Arthur Ellis Awards.
Burrows is an award-winning writer, journalist, and past recipient of a Nature Writer of the Year award from BBC Wildlife. The author of the birder murder mysteries combines his two passions, writing and bird watching, in his ecological murder series of books.
His first novel was named one of the top 100 books of 2014 by the Globe and Mail and won the Arthur Ellis Award the next year for Best First Novel.
“To sit and watch the activity at backyard feeders is to enter a realm in which there will be much that is familiar to readers of great fiction,” Burrows stated.
“There are triumphs and tragedies, feuds and collaborations, rewards and injustice. In short, the stuff of life — all played out against a backdrop of suet and seed.”
The event begins at 9:30 a.m. in the Friendship Hall of Mark Street United Church at 90 Hunter St. E. in Peterborough. All are welcome. Admission for the daylong session is $30, while students will pay $15 or what they can.
The Peterborough Branch of the Canadian Authors Association meets at 6:30 p.m. on the first Friday of every month at the Empress Gardens retirement residence. An open invitation is extended to any writer, or aspiring writer, to drop by because the group is keen to help other writers begin, develop or perfect their writing.
For more information or to be added to the Canadian Authors Peterborough Branch mailing list, email, email unassumminggrace@fishdog.ca
NOTES: For more information about Vicki Delaney, visit www.vickidelany.com … For more information about Steve Burrows, visit www.abirdermurder.com .