Welcome to the group! I'm so excited that there has been so much enthusiasm for this today. It started out as a random impulse--I was wondering if there was already a group of queer crime writers, I g

Release Date: Eliot Parker's latest thriller novel "A Knife's Edge" When: Saturday, 9 February 2019 Where: Empire Books and News: Huntington, West Virginia Organizer: viarsempire@... 304-529-7323 Desc

Hi, My second NYPD Chiara Corelli Mystery will be out February 15th so I’m doing lots of conferences: Gulfport Readout in February Left Coast Crime in March/April Malice Domestic in May Golden Crown L

By popular demand, a place to put our cat pictures! Was I the only person demanding this? Well, whatever, I do what I want. I'll go first. The black one is Spenser (yes, named for the Robert B. Parker

I write an LGBTQ crime review column called "Blacklight" for Lambda Literary. I'm always looking for books to review, and I'm always looking for reviewers who I can recommend to Lambda to help build t

I’ve been having fun doing the #authorlifemonth challenge on Instagram this month—anyone else doing it? Or just like Instagram in general? Let’s follow each other. I’m here: Instagram.com/kmlwrites

Release Date: Eliot Parker's latest thriller novel "A Knife's Edge" When: Saturday, 9 February 2019 Where: Empire Books and News: Huntington, West Virginia Description: Hope you can join us for the la

Hi all, There was an outage on the groups.io platform today, but it seems to be back up now—just wanted to send a note out to everyone in case you tried to log in and worried that we had been disbande

Hey all! My beloved HP convention is looking for writers/agents/editors to come participate in the lit track in NY in July. If you're an HP fan and like talking about books, writing, and publishing he

With conference season coming up, I thought I'd start a thread so we can connect live. I will be at the Left Coast Crime conference in Vancouver. Anyone else? I'd love to meet. Dharma Kelleher

Did anyone else see that BCon this year got a table for Pride, in an effort to reach out to queer writers? I'm really impressed with their dedication to "y'all means all." When I met one of the board

Hi friends, Mystery Tribune asked me to write a post featuring crime books by LGBTQ+ writers releasing this year! Here's who I have so far (and yes, most of these are people in our group!)--if you hav

Let's create a calendar with all of our new releases on it (books and short stories). This will help me stay on top of promoting said new releases on the Twitter account. There is a calendar feature h

Hi all! I think a few of you mentioned interest in the OutWrite DC (early August). I’m submitting a proposal for a reading there, and if any of you would like to propose a panel with me on lesbian cri

Hi friends! In the interests of expanding the reach of this group, I'm looking for some help! I am crazy-swamped (well, aren't we all) and Bess has kindly stepped up to help organize this forum--thank

This book festival is looking for writers for their next festival. The article has the list of requirements and a link to the application page: https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/local/share/2019/0

Atta girl, Gale. Fight back, don’t let them get you down. Catherine Maiorisi The Blood Runs Cold A Matter of Blood - Lambda Literary Award Finalist Readers rave: Complex characters, well-written, inte

Looks like everyone is getting stuff done. I have a couple of #NPVs this week. The first was finally working with a photographer to get a real author’s photo. I hate having my picture taken and I espe

Hey everyone! As you know, we're a new group so we're still trying to find our way. If you have any ideas of things you'd like to see QCW do, please let us know! In the meantime, check out this new Fr

I’ll be there doing Author speed dating and a panel Anyone else going? Catherine Maiorisi . The Blood Runs Cold A Matter of Blood - Lambda Literary Award Finalist Readers rave: Complex characters, wel