Off the Shelf is an author-to-readers program developed and hosted by the Sisters in Crime Atlanta Chapter. Every month we bring a recently published author to our reader audience via Zoom for engaging conversation to learn about their life, their writing, their characters, their stories. The program is free and open to the public. If you are an author and would like to be considered for Off The Shelf, please email Dawn Gepfer (dawngepfer@aol.com) with your information.
Watch SinC's latest Off the Shelf Authors!
August 2024: Darryl Bollinger and his wife, June, live in Western North Carolina. He spent twenty-eight years working in the health care industry and has a masters degree in health care administration from Trinity University. His novels, all medical thrillers, have won numerous awards. His latest, Treatment Plan, was released in November 2023 and goes back to South Florida where six of his novels are set. The Healing Tree and The Cure are set in the mountains of Western North Carolina.
July 2024: Deb Richardson-Moore has written and published five mysteries, which includes the Branigan Powers 3-book series and two standalones. A graduate of Wake Forest University, her early career involved ministering at Triune Mercy Center in Greenville, South Carolina which she writes about in her memoir, The Weight of Mercy. She is a popular speaker at book clubs, universities and churches and has won numerous awards for community involvement, including the 2020 Humanitarian Award and the 2017 Leadership Greenville Distinguished Alumni Award. Her fifth mystery – Through Any Window – was published in early 2024 and her sixth mystery, The Last Beach Town, is due out in 2025.
June 2024: Elizabeth Crowens is an entertainment industry veteran of both NY and LA for over 25 years. Writing credits include short stories and articles in Black Belt, Black Gate, and Sherlock Holmes Mystery magazines, stories in Hell’s Heart and the Bram Stoker Award-nominated A New York State of Fright. She is the recipient of the Mystery Writers of America-New York Leo B. Burstein Scholarship, NY Foundation of the Arts grant to produce a self-published, photo-illustrated anthology, a Glimmer Train Honorable Mention, an Eric Hoffer First Prize, two Grand Prize and four First Prize Chanticleer Review awards. After a successful science fiction fantasy series about a time traveling professor, Elizabeth has recently published the first novel of her new A Golden Age of Hollywood mystery series, "Hounds of the Hollywood Baskervilles," a soft-boiled crime with a touch of humor and some recognizable characters set in the glamorous old Hollywood.
May 2024: Kathy Manos Penn creator of the Dickens & Christie cozy mystery series set in the quaint English village of Astonbury and features intelligent, witty senior women, a loyal dog and a sassy cat. Now retired from corporate America, Kathy has published nine books in the series with #10 - Puzzles, Purrs & Murder - releasing in early June. Her writing has won the Readers’ Favorite Gold Award and a Georgia Author of the Year nomination. Kathy is a member of Sisters in Crime Atlanta and lives in Sandy Springs, Georgia with her husband and her four-legged office assistants.
April 2024 KAREN DIONNE, the USA Today and #1 internationally bestselling author of the award-winning psychological suspense novels "The Marsh King’s Daughter" and "The Wicked Sister." The Marsh King's Daughter was made into a Lionsgate major motion picture starring Daisy Ridley and Ben Mendelsohn. She is also the co-founder and co-host of The-Back-Room, a twice-monthly online authors series. Karen enjoys nature photography and lives with her husband on a small lake surrounded by forest in the middle of Michigan.
March 2024: March 2024 Off the Shelf was with author Sally Handley creator of the Holly & Ivy cozy mysteries and the standalone suspense novel, “Stop the Threat.” A retired teacher and professional services marketer, Sally lives in Mauldin, SC where she is a member of Sisters in Crime’s Upstate South Carolina Chapter and host of the monthly on-line Mystery Book Club and Meet the Author series.
February 2024: Lisa Malice - yes, that is really her last name - a former corporate psychologist and recent first-time published author. Her first novel, Lest She Forget, is a psychological thriller that digs deep into an amnesiac's struggle to remember her forgotten past while running for her life. Prior to publication, the manuscript earned multiple finalist honors in five unpublished manuscript contests, including the Chanticleer International Clue Award and the Whodunit Mystery Writing Contest. Originally from Minnesota, Lisa spent 23 years in Atlanta and now lives in New Port Richey, Florida where she is a member of Sisters in Crime, International Thriller Writers and Mystery Writers of America.
January 2024: DL Mitchell is the author of Trust the Terrier: A Coral Shores Veterinary Mystery and a practicing small animal veterinarian. Combining amusing and heartwarming true-life animal care cases with a love of mystery novels became the inspiration for her debut novel "Trust the Terrier." Outside of her veterinarian practice and writing engaging mysteries, she loves spending time with her husband, daughter, and their menagerie of pets, planning the next travel adventure, and running on nearby trails. She is an active member of the Florida Gulf Coast Sisters in Crime and the Atlanta Writers Club, and is a board member of the Sisters in Crime Atlanta chapter.
November 2023: John Pruitt is an Atlanta icon & legendary news anchor. John spent over 50 years reporting major news events as they unfolded, including the turbulent and impassioned Civil Rights Movement of the 60s. His debut novel, TELL IT TRUE, is a work of fiction based on his experiences and the challenges journalists faced during that time.
Off the Shelf with Author Christopher Swann
Off the Shelf with Lexi George
August Off the Shelf with Award Winning Author, Carl Vonderau
July Off the Shelf with USA Today Bestselling author, Cathy Tully, creator of the Dr. Susannah Shine ChiroCozy Mystery Series
June 2023: Off The Shelf with Jeff Shaw
May 2023: Robert Gwantley's debut novel, The Cicada Tree, won the Somerset Award for Literary Fiction. An Atlanta resident, Robert is a Vice President of Easter Seals North Georgia and is an active member of the Broadleaf Writers Association.
April 2023: Lis Angus, author of "Not Your Child", is a Canadian suspense writer.
March 2023: Emily Carpenter, the bestselling author of the suspense novels Burying the Honeysuckle Girls, The Weight of Lies, Every Single Secret, Until the Day I Die, and her most recent release, Reviving the Hawthorn Sisters.
January 2023: Katherine Nichols is a three-time author, podcast co-host and fellow Sisters in Crime Atlanta member. More info on this interesting and busy lady can be found on her website: https://kathy-nichols.com/
November 2022: Judy Penz Sheluk, an author and editor who has published two mystery series and contributed to numerous short crime fiction collections. "Before There Were Skeletons" is the 4th in her Marketville Mysteries series and was published in October, 2022.
October 2022: Liz Lazarus is an engineer turned author of three published mysteries. Her most recent novel, "Shades of Silence," was published in 2021.
September 2022: J. Woollcott, a Canadian writer born in Belfast and creator of detectives McBride and Lamont, who is introduced in her first published novel, "A Nice Place to Die."
August:2022: Kathleen Donnelly, a K-9 narcotics dog handler and award winning author of "Chasing Justice," her debut novel.
