Meredith Anthony

Female

United States

Profile Information:

Hometown:: New York City
About Me:: I'm a copywriter for a major NYC ad agency. Author of humor (MAD magazine, HYSTERIA, 101 Reasons Why We're Doomed, etc) and mystery (LADYKILLER, short stories in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine). I live in Manhattan and take boxing lessons.
I Am A:: Reader, Writer
Website:: http://www.meredithanthony.com
Books And Authors I Like:: Lawrence Light (TOO RICH TO LIVE; FEAR AND GREED)
Jim Fusilli (the excellent Terry Orr series)
Giles Blunt
Lee Child
Janet Evanovich
Peter Blauner
Barry Eisler
JA Konrath
Robert Fate
Denise Mina (I LOVE this woman)
Julia Spencer Fleming (she's just fabulous!)
Ken Bruen (the Jack Taylor books, the Brandt series, everything!)
Duane Swierczynski
Troy Cook
Robert Fate
Christa Faust
Movies And TV Shows I Like:: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Friday Night Lights
Entourage
Lost
24
Mad Men
Trust Me
The L Word
The Nine (Bring it BACK!)
Daybreak (DITTO)
Fat Actress (LOVED IT)
Historically, Twin Peaks, Dynasty, Six Feet Under, Sopranos

The Big Chill
Blade Runner
Romancing the Stone (a guilty pleasure)
The Big Lebowsky (of course!)
Fargo
Blood Simple (maybe the most perfect movie ever made!!!)
Deer Hunter
Apocalypse Now
Outrageous (the Craig Russell classic)
Basic Instinct
early Woody Allen
Pulp Fiction
Rashomon
Animal House
All the President's Men
Conan the Barbarian
American Beauty
Patton
Legally Blonde
Miss Congeniality
all the Grisham movies -- The Firm, The Client, The Pelican Brief
Kill Bill
Frozen River

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Stewart P Evans

Hi Meredith, nice to 'meet' you. Stewart

Jan 31, 2008
dennis marshall

hi meredith. i am looking forward to sharing ideas and opinions with you and many others. currently working on my second book, a sequel to the first.

Jan 31, 2008
Alison Bruce

Hi Meredith,

Thanks for the add. I'm really enjoying this site, especially getting to meet crime fans from further afield than Cambridgeshire. What a diverse taste in films you have, I don't know Blood Simple so I'll check it out, all the best, Alison

Jan 31, 2008
eve seymour

Hello Meredith,

Greetings from water-sodden Worcestershire - actually things aren't quite so bad. My daughters no longer need a canoe to visit. If you're wondering why I'm twittering it's because I'm trying to think of something new to say. HOWEVER, I love your film choice! E.V.

Jan 31, 2008
jKathleen

Thank You for adding to your friends.
Romance Author jKathleen Love

Jan 31, 2008
John Boundy

Hey Meredith...Thanks for adding me as a friend! Look forward to sharing some fun times in the coming days. John.

Jan 31, 2008
Pauline Rowson

Hello, Meredith. Thank you for getting in touch. It's also nice to see some UK friends on your site. I'm on the sunny south coast of England, and once I get the hang of this site I will post some photos because I live sandwiched between two areas of outstanding natural beauty - Langstone and Chichester Harbours -where we sail-weather permitting. I was also interested in your comments about Bouchercon, I know some of my UK author friends attend. I like the way you have added book reviews to your page. This site looks so comprehensive and lively with lots of new authors and books to discover. I think I need to dedicate a day or two to sussing it all out and exploring it more fully.

Jan 31, 2008
Meredith Anthony

Hey gang! Great to see so many new people! This is a great site -- full of writers and readers -- how cool is that?

Jan 31, 2008
Karen Allingham

Hi Meredith, and greetings from Australia. It's nice to be welcomed into new territory ... I'm still getting my bearings, so thanks for adding me as a friend.

Jan 31, 2008
robert walker

Hello Meredith -- thanks for adding me as a Crimespace friend. Enjoyed reading about Ass End of Nowhere. I have lived there a few times in my life.

Rob
City of the Absent

Jan 31, 2008
Shayk1951

thanks for the add, Meredith. Nice meeting you.

Shay

Jan 31, 2008
Bret Wright

Meredith, thanks for the invite! I see FMAM in your reviews, have we met online at some point?

Jan 31, 2008
Mike Morris

Thanks for the invite!!! Meeting some wonderful people here... and an incredible amount of new and wondrous authors! 7th heaven is the basement... Crimespace is the Penthouse!!!

See you down the pub!

Jan 31, 2008
Geoff McGeachin

Hi Meredith,

That’s a hell of a résumé on your website – happy to be on board.
Love NYC! Lived on East 22nd for a couple or years in the 70’s and it’s always great to get back and visit. Last was in 2000 when my wife had a short film showing in a festival so it has been way too long. She works as my sounding board, muse and editor of first and last resort. You and your husband obviously have a great relationship and it looks like you might have a rather interesting sense of humour – launching an Avon book in a Penguin house indeed!
Cheers.

Jan 31, 2008
Neil White

Thanks for the invite, Meredith. I have a policy of not refusing anything to someone who takes boxing lessons. That has got me to 42 with a straight nose.

Jan 31, 2008
Laura L. Cooper

Meredith,
Thanks for the friend invite. I'll look for your story in the May EQMM.
--Laura

Feb 1, 2008
Bill Crowe

Thanks for the invite, nice to meet you.

Bill

Feb 16, 2008
Wilfred Bereswill

Thanks for the add, Meredith.

Feb 16, 2008
Geoff McGeachin

Thrillerfest in NYC? I bloody wish! As a Sag married to a Sag we tend to leave these things in the lap of the Gods and we pack fast and travel light. Actually I only recently encountered the thrillerwriters.org site and the first thing that grabbed me was the Thrillerfest promo. Have to sign up as a member before the next book comes out.

Sunny/cloudy/sunny morning here in beautiful Bondi. Been watching and loving MADMEN again. How does it rate with you guys on a modern Mad Avenue? As a youngster in a Melbourne photographic darkroom I once had to put together an ad for training bras in poplin. There were about fifteen paragraphs of copy encouraging mothers to bring their daughters in for a proper first fitting and I said to the agency creative director, ‘why not just say – Tweenage Bras in Pop-a-lin, pop along and pop-‘em-in!’ He gave me a strange look, walked away and came back the next morning and offered me a job as a trainee copywriter. I think the world is a much safer and happier place for the path that I chose.

Feb 16, 2008
Lynette Rees

Thanks for the add, Meredith.

Feb 16, 2008
Roddie Hunter

Thank you so much for the invitation i have enjoyed reading your page very much, i am from Denise Mina's city and like you think she is a grand writer.

Feb 17, 2008
Margaret

Hi, Meredith, it's good to have you as a friend. I once was a copywriter/typesetter/general nuisance at a small agency in Florida. Janet Evanovich is one author I never miss. Have you read Carl Hiassen? He writes hilarious mystery as well.

Margaret

Feb 28, 2008
Loretta Wheeler

Hi Meredith! loved the quote from January magazine!:)excellent...I like the photo too:) luv the hair, and the humor:)

Loretta

Feb 28, 2008
Christopher Valen

Meredith,
Thank you for the friend invite. I'll add Ladykiller to my reading list. Good luck with your latest book.
Chris

Feb 28, 2008
Betty Gordon

Hi, Meridith. Thanks for the invite and I, too like Christopher, look forward to reading "Lady Killers".

Betty

Feb 28, 2008
Teel James Glenn

I wrote a bit for Mad almost twenty five years ago!! Nice to meet another member of the 'gang'.

Feb 28, 2008
Chris Ewan

Hi Meredith. Thanks for the invite. I'm envious of your photo player widget - must go and see if I can get one of those to work on my page...
Cheers
Chris

Feb 29, 2008
Jim Gracie

Hi Meredith.

Greetings from wet and windy Scotland (today at least), and thanks for the invite. I'm still trying to find my way round the Crimespace site, and I'll have to get my photo corrected.

Mar 1, 2008
L.J. Sellers

Addictive, intense, and not for the faint of heart.
That sounds like my kind of book. My kind of life.
I'm adding it to my TBR pile.

Mar 1, 2008
Christian Heinke

Meredith,
Thanks for your invitation. I'm looking forward to read your novel.

Chris

Mar 19, 2008
Ailene Yasmin

OMG! You like JA Konrath too! He's such a cool guy. He said Jack Daniels was written with Sig Weaver in mind. But, of course, it's Galaxy Quest (buxom and svelte) instead of the 25-yo, Alien Sig. LOL.

Thanks for reaching out. I look forward to getting to know/read you. Congrats on all you've accomplished.

Mar 19, 2008
Maggie Bishop

Your invitation is a great welcome to CrimeSpace. I live deep in the North Carolina mountains and highspeed internet is not available so I can't play your video. Cell phones don't work here either. I'll check out your video the next time I visit the library.

Mar 19, 2008
Jennifer Colt

Congrats on your debut. It sounds great!

The Thin Man should have been listed in my favorites. I'll correct that. I did the list in a big hurry.

Agree with all your movies - possible exception being Conan. (I should see it again.)

Also don't recall Outrageous. . .unless it's about a transexual? Cult classic?

Love Lee Child and many of the other authors you mentioned. Been meaning to read Spencer-Fleming and Ken Bruen for about five years! (Met Bruen at a convention. What a charming gent.)

Mar 21, 2008
Richard Krauss

Thanks for adding me to your list of friends!

Apr 22, 2008
Colin Galbraith

Hi Meredith, thanks for asking me over :-)

I had the pleasure of hearing Denise Mina talk at the Edinburgh Book Festival last year - she's a fabulous writer.

Apr 22, 2008
Susan

Hi Meredith, happy to be your friend. I like many of the same movies ... Blood Simple especially!! And how about Red Rock West?

Also like many of your authors, tho I tend more toward the gritty ones rather than the lighter fare. Have you read Lawrence Block's Keller series? As in Hitman, Hit List, etc. Hilarious. Highly recommended.

Must run. Hope you'll check out my New Orleans based crime thriller, Absolution. And, if you're into music, my website features bios of some fabulous women instrumentalists.

Apr 22, 2008
Janice Mills

Happy to hear from you. Nice to see Bladerunner on your list of movies. It annoys me greatly that the version with the narration by Harrison Ford is not available on DVD in Australia. (my favourite version). Along with the first Mutant Ninja Turtles movie - always good for a giggle.

Apr 22, 2008
Lia

Hiya

Thanks for the invite !

Lia

Apr 23, 2008
Tom Cooke

Thanks for the addition. The 'ass end of nowhere' sounds like it might be in my neck of the woods. I use to live 6 miles on the other side of Lost.

May 1, 2008
K.R. Lewis

Thanks, Meredith. Nice to meet you!

May 1, 2008
Jessica

HI thanks for adding me!!! Nice to see Lost and House on your favorites list! :)

May 1, 2008
Deborah Shlian

Hi Meredith: Just found CrimeSpace. My new book is about to be released by Oceanview in June. Book launch at Borders in Boca Raton on May 29th Wish me lucK!

May 9, 2008
Meredith Anthony

I have a short story in the current issue of ELLERY QUEEN MYSTERY MAGAZINE (July 2008). It's called "Murder on the Main Line" and features a very unusual protagonist. Let me know if you see it and what you think!

May 14, 2008
Fonda (Starmother)

Isn't life a hoot, it is quite an adventure , being in the now, the then and the yet to come.

May 14, 2008
Cynde L. Hammond

Dear Meredith,
Thank you so much for inviting me to be your friend here on Crime Space.
You certainly have a busy life, don't you? I've always wondered what boxing was like. I bet it's wonderful exercise and it makes you feel totally alive!
I hope we become the best of friends and you can contact me any time you need me, ok?
Sincerely,
~Cynde

May 14, 2008
Michael Haskins

Meredith, love EQMM and will look for your story when I recevied my copy.
Michael

May 14, 2008
Cynde L. Hammond

Hi, Meredith!
I hope you had a wonderful Fourth of July and holiday weekend! (Sorry this is late--we had a death in the family.)
I hope all is well with you and I'll talk to you soon,
Cynde

Jul 8, 2008
Michael Naughton

Hi. Meredith. Thank you for the add. I hope to gain a lot of insight here to finally get these ideas published. I am a boxer as well.

Sep 18, 2008
CJ West

Hi Meredith,

Thanks for finding me here. I'm very new and a little distracted at the moment. I've got a new book coming out - A Demon Awaits, October 15th. And I've got a book-to-movie in the works. I optioned the rights and there is a professional writing the script, but I do spend lots of time daydreaming, worrying and sometimes even advising.

Great to meet you.

CJ

Sep 18, 2008
J. Michael Jenne

Hello,

Did you read about me on MY PAGE, or Google: John Jenney for my family's history ( 1623 Plymouth Rock ).

Sep 18, 2008