Curtis Ippolito is an Anthony Award-winning, and Macavity Award and Derringer Award-nominated writer. He is the author of the crime novel Burying the Newspaper Man. His short stories have appeared in numerous prominent publications, including Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Dark Yonder, Tough, Vautrin Magazine, and more, as well as being featured in several anthologies including The One Percent: Tales of the Super Wealthy and Depraved; and The Amber Waves of Autumn. Curtis is the guest editor of On Fire and Under Water: A Climate Change Crime Fiction Anthology from Rock and a Hard Place Press. He is a member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, and serves as vice-president for the San Diego chapter of Sisters in Crime. 

Website: curtisippolito.com

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/curtis.ippolito

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/curtis_sd/

Blue Sky Handle: https://bsky.app/profile/curtisippolito.bsky.social

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/curtis-ippolito-17599467/

Mentioned in the Podcast

Rock and a Hard Place Press: https://www.rockandahardplacemag.com/

Save the Cat Writes a Novel: https://savethecat.com/products/books/save-the-cat-writes-a-novel

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About SinC

Sisters in Crime (SinC) was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.

www.SistersinCrime.org

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The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/

Marcie R. Rendon, citizen of the White Earth Nation, is the best-selling author of Where They Last Saw Her, and acclaimed author of the Cash Blackbear crime series, the most recent is Broken Fields.

Rendon's poetry, Anishinaabe Songs for the New Millennium, was released in 2024; and Stitches of Tradition, a picture book, Oct 2024.

Mni Giizhik Theater is producing Rendon’s scripts Say Their Names and Sweet Revenge in 2025 and 2026. Out of Hand Theater, Atlanta, GA is producing Say Their Names in November 2025.

Rendon was the 2020 MN McKnight Artist of the Year, she was named a 50 over 50 Change-maker by MN AARP and POLLEN in 2018, and was listed in Oprah’s 2020 list of 31 Native American Authors to read. 

Website: https://www.marcierendon.com/

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/MarcieRendonMN/

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About SinC

Sisters in Crime (SinC) was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.

www.SistersinCrime.org

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The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/

Nina Wachsman studied book illustration under Maurice Sendak at Parsons School of Design and lives in New York City. Her mystery novels and stories are mostly historical, and many feature artists or artwork. She is a founding member of Curators of Crime, a website/blog of four authors who focus on art and crime.

Website: ninawachsmanauthor.com, curatorsofcrime.com, venicebeauties.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nina.wachsman, https://www.facebook.com/curatorsofcrime

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegalleryofbeauties/

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nina-wachsman-4937514

Mentioned in the Podcast:

Save the Cat: https://savethecat.com/

Save the Cat Writes a Novel: https://www.jessicabrody.com/books/non-fiction/save-cat-writes-novel/about/

Emma Darwin This Itch of Writing: https://www.emmadarwin.com/this-itch-of-writing

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About SinC

Sisters in Crime (SinC) was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.

www.SistersinCrime.org

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The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/

Ellen Butler is the international bestselling author of the Karina Cardinal mystery series, praised by Publishers Weekly as “intelligent escapism.” Drawing on her real-life experience working on Capitol Hill and with a medical association in Washington, D.C., Butler infuses her fast-paced mystery-action novels with authenticity and intrigue.

In addition to her contemporary thrillers, Butler writes the Ariadne Winter historical mysteries and award-winning historical spy fiction. Her novel The Brass Compass has earned numerous accolades, including the Speak Up Talk Radio Firebird Book Award, the IndieReader Discovery Award, and a Readers’ Favorite Silver Medal for Historical Fiction.

The sequel, Operation Blackbird: A Cold War Spy Novel, was inspired by true events and went on to win the prestigious Next Generation Indie Book Award gold medal for historical fiction. 

Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/EllenButlerBooks

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ebutlerbooks/

BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/profile/ellen-butler

Website: https:///www.ellenbutler.net

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About SinC

Sisters in Crime (SinC) was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.

www.SistersinCrime.org

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Libby Klein writes ridiculously funny murder mysteries from her Northern Virginia office with a very naughty calico Persian named Miss Eliza Doolittle, and a sweet black Lab named Vader. She can name that tune for 70s and 80s rock in the first few notes, and she's translated her love of classic rock into her Layla Virtue Mysteries. Libby was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease that prevents her from eating gluten without exploding. Because bread is one of her love languages, she includes the recipes for gluten free goodies in her Cape May based Poppy McAllister series. Most of her hobbies revolve around travel, and eating, and eating while traveling. She insists she can find her way to any coffee shop anywhere in the world, even while blindfolded. Follow all of her nonsense on her website libbykleinbooks.com 

Website: https://libbykleinbooks.com/

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/libbykleinbooks/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/libbykleinbooks/

Mentioned in the Podcast:

Manuscript Wish List: https://www.manuscriptwishlist.com/

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About SinC

Sisters in Crime (SinC) was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.

www.SistersinCrime.org

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The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/

Sandra Jackson-Opoku is the author of three award-winning novels. The River Where Blood is Born won the American Library Association Black Caucus Award. Hot Johnny and the Women Who Loved Him was an Essence Magazine Bestseller in Hardcover Fiction. Debut mystery novel, Savvy Summers and the Sweet Potato Crimes won the Malice Minotaur Award for First Mystery. Her fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and dramatic works are widely published and produced, appearing in Midnight & Indigo, Aunt Chloe, Another Chicago Magazine, New Daughters of Africa, Adi Magazine, Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, About Place Journal, the Chicago Humanities Festival, Lifeline Theatre, and others. She also coedited the anthology Revise the Psalm: Work Celebrating the Writing of Gwendolyn Brooks.

Jackson-Opoku has scripted original and adapted works for stage and screen. Stage plays include the co-authored Indignant Women: A Conversation with Lorraine Hansberry and Gwendolyn Brooks, and the novel adaptation, Hungry Ghost Festival, a play with music. Her television screenplays have won the Circle of Confusion Writers Discovery Fellowship, and ranked in the quarterfinals of the Stage 32 Diversity Springboard, ScreenCraft Cinematic Prose, We Screenplay Diverse Voices, and M Lab Summer Shorts.

Other professional recognition includes a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, an American Library Association Black Caucus Award, the Chicago Esteemed Artist Award, a Lifeline Theatre BIPOC Adaptation Showcase, the Globe Soup Story Award, a Plentitudes Journal Fiction Prize, a Circle of Confusion Writers Discovery Fellowship, the Iceland Writers Retreat Alumni Award, the Hearst Foundation James Baldwin Fellowship at MacDowell Arts, a Pushcart Prize nomination, the Casa África Purorrelato Prize, and the Chicago Sun-Times “Finding Chicago's Next Voices” Award, and the Travis Bogard Fellowship at the Eugene O’Neill Center at Tao.

Sandra Jackson-Opoku taught literature and writing at the University of Miami, Columbia College Chicago, and Chicago State University. She presents workshops, readings, and literary events worldwide. 

Website: https://flowauthors.com/sandra-jackson-opoku

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250351906/savvysummersandthesweetpotatocrimes/

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/sandra.jacksonopoku

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sjacksonopoku/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandra-jackson-opoku-81625617/

Mentioned in the Podcast

Research on Cozies: https://www.sistersincrime.org/page/ARG2021Report#Sandra%20Jackson-Opoku

Frank London Brown, Trumbull Park

Jewell Parker Rhodes, Free Within Ourselves: Fiction Lessons for Black Authors

Storyknife Writers Retreat: https://storyknife.org/

William F. Deeck Malice Domestic Grant: https://www.malicedomestic.net/grant

Crime Writers of Color: https://www.crimewritersofcolor.com/

Queer Crime Writers: https://www.queercrimewriters.com/

Every Fifth Reading Challenge: https://www.sistersincrime.org/page/everyfifth

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About SinC

Sisters in Crime (SinC) was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.

www.SistersinCrime.org

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The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/

Raquel V. Reyes writes Latina protagonists. Her Cuban-American heritage, Miami, and Spanglish feature prominently in her work. Mango, Mambo, and Murder, the first in the Caribbean Kitchen Mystery series, won a LEFTY for Best Humorous Mystery. It is in production to become the TV series "Miami Spice." Her work has been nominated for Agatha and Anthony Awards and has won an International Latino Book Award Gold Medal. Raquel's short stories appear in various anthologies, including The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2022.

Her leadership experience is varied and extensive. She has been a Volunteer Coordinator at an AIDS service organization and a Worship Coordinator at her Unitarian Universalist Congregation. She has served on the Mystery Writers of America National Board, done two terms on the MWA-Florida chapter board, been on the Guppies Steering Committee, and was a co-chair of the writing craft conference, SleuthFest, for five years. Raquel values inclusion, equity, and education. 

Find her across social media platforms as @LatinaSleuths and on her website LatinaSleuths.com

Mentioned in the Podcast:

Frankie’s List: https://www.sistersincrime.org/page/frankieslist

Crime Writers of Color: https://www.crimewritersofcolor.com/

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About SinC

Sisters in Crime (SinC) was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.

www.SistersinCrime.org

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sincworldwide

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincworldwide/

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The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/

Tracee de Hahn is a writer, lecturer, and educator. Born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, she grew up in Kentucky. She currently lives in Virginia.

A member of Mystery Writers of America and International Thriller Writers, she served as president on the Worldwide Board of Sisters in Crime from 2024-2025.

Prior to writing fiction she began her career in the practice of architecture, using the need to see great buildings as an excuse to travel. After several years in Switzerland, and receiving an advanced degree in European history, she turned her hand to the non-profit world, eventually running alumni relations for a west coast university. These experiences have served as inspiration for her talks on career change and achieving impossible goals! Her mysteries set in Switzerland were inspired by her years living in Lausanne. Currently she is at work on a historical novel set during the world wars.

She frequently teaches webinars and workshops on various aspects of writing and publishing. She also serves as a writing mentor for the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning in Lexington, Kentucky, working one-on-one with authors to identify and achieve their goals.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tracee.dehahn

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/traceedehahn/

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Threads: https://www.threads.com/@traceedehahn 

Website: https://traceedehahn.com

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About SinC

Sisters in Crime (SinC) was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.

www.SistersinCrime.org

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sincworldwide

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sisters-in-crime/

The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/

Through the years, Heather Weidner has been a cop’s kid, technical writer, editor, college professor, software tester, and IT manager. She writes the Pearly Girls Mysteries, the Delanie Fitzgerald Mysteries, The Jules Keene Glamping Mysteries, and The Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe Mysteries.

Her short stories appear in the Virginia is for Mysteries series, 50 Shades of Cabernet, Deadly Southern Charm, Murder by the Glass, First Comes Love, Then Comes Murder, and Crime in the Old Dominion, and she has non-fiction pieces in Promophobia and The Secret Ingredient: A Mystery Writers’ Cookbook.

She is a member of Sisters in Crime: National, Central Virginia, Chessie, Guppies, and Grand Canyon Writers, International Thriller Writers, and James River Writers, and she blogs regularly with the Writers Who Kill.

Originally from Virginia Beach, Heather has been a mystery fan since Scooby-Doo and Nancy Drew. She lives in Central Virginia with her husband and two crazy dogs (Disney the Jack Russell and Cooper the Mini Aussie Shepherd). 

Website: http://heatherweidner.com

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/HeatherWeidnerAuthor

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heather-weidner-0064b233?trk=hp-identity-name

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@heather_weidner_author

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8121854.Heather_Weidner

Amazon Authors: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00HOYR0MQ

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/HeatherBWeidner/

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About SinC

Sisters in Crime (SinC) was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.

www.SistersinCrime.org

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The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/

Kaye George is an award-winning novelist and short-story writer. She writes cozy and traditional mysteries, a prehistory series, and one suspense novel, which is her seventeenth book. Over fifty short stories have been published, mostly in anthologies and magazines. A horror story will come out in 2026. With family scattered all over the globe, she makes her home in Knoxville TN. You can find out more here: http://kayegeorge.com/ 

Website: https://kayegeorge.com

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/kaye.george

Other Social Media: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4037415.Kaye_George

Mentioned in the Podcast:

Kris Neri: https://krisneriauthor.wordpress.com/

Mary Buckham: https://www.marybuckhamonwriting.com/

Guppies: https://www.sinc-guppies.org/

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About SinC

Sisters in Crime (SinC) was founded in 1986 to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. Through advocacy, programming and leadership, SinC empowers and supports all crime writers regardless of genre or place on their career trajectory.

www.SistersinCrime.org

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sincnational/

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/sincnational.bsky.social

Threads: https://www.threads.net/@sincnational

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sistersincrime

TikTok:: https://www.tiktok.com/@sincnational

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sisters-in-crime/

The SinC Writers’ Podcast is produced by Julian Crocamo https://www.juliancrocamo.com/