Mitzi Szereto

Female

Greater London

United Kingdom

Profile Information:

Hometown:
Greater London, England
About Me:
Mitzi Szereto (mitziszereto.com) is an American-British author and anthology editor whose books encompass multiple genres, most recently in true crime with her popular series The Best New True Crime Stories. Her work also spans crime fiction, gothic fiction, horror, cozy mystery, satire, sci-fi/fantasy, literary erotic fiction, and general fiction and nonfiction. Her work has been translated into several languages. A contribution in her anthology Getting Even: Revenge Stories received the Crime Writers’ Association Short Story Dagger “Highly Commended.” She has the added distinction of being the editor of the first anthology of erotic fiction to include a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Mitzi has appeared internationally on radio and television and at major literature festivals, and has taught creative writing around the world, including universities in the UK. In addition to having produced and presented the London-based web TV channel Mitzi TV, she portrays herself in the pseudo-documentary British film, Lint: The Movie. Her next book, Women Who Murder: An International Collection of Deadly True Crime Tales, will be published in 2024. Follow her on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Threads, and Bluesky @MitziSzereto. Also on Mastodon and Spoutible.
I Am A:
Writer, Editor
Website:
http://mitziszereto.com
Books And Authors I Like:
"The God of Small Things" - Arundhati Roy
"Lolita" - Vladimar Nabokov
"Sputnik Sweetheart" by Haruki Murakami

Comment Wall:

  • David L. Hoof

    Mitzi,
    Your mind and mine may be stuck on the same Mobius-like twists. How bizarre and wonderful!

    Dec 26, 2007

  • David L. Hoof

    Okay, Mitzi,
    As an incurable Anglophyle, I owe you a complete history of sorts. My father served as an attache at the American Embassay on Grovesnor Square under JFK. Both my Ph.D. mentor and post doc employer were Englishmen, as is my son-in-law. Brits on all sides and no way out, nor one sought, either.
    Sometimes ideas about sex take over in literary ideas. The synonymous use of death for sex goes beyond passing the vital force to the next genitilia, oop, I mean generation and makes me wonder whether the Elizabethan code for sex didn't spill over to the Metaphysical Poets, chiefly Donne, who -- a preacher remmeber -- scolded (?) perhaps "Death Be Not Proud," which makes "Death, thou shalt die" an almost Bushian admontion for Nancy Reagen's "Just say no." Or if death is coitus, one could cleverly insert -- if mind and body are both willing -- an allusion to death via coitus in the character of Coy Tess, perhaps an undescribed confidante of Chaucer's Wife of Bath, but no relation to Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles. Asleep indeed! Likely story. To sleep perchance to dream, of if asleep too near the fountains of youth, perhaps to wet dream. Now what to end this with a bang. TS Eliot advises to whimper out, but I'd rather go with David Hemming's line in "Blow Up" I must have it. Your collections of course. What else did you think I meant? Where can I get them?
    All Best,

    David

    Dec 27, 2007

  • David L. Hoof

    Methinks the lady doth protest too much.

    Dec 27, 2007

  • Vicki Hendricks

    Hi, Mitzi,
    I guess it's only a short step from sex to crime! The only good motivation for crime as I see it. Welcome into the darker side.

    Dec 28, 2007

  • David L. Hoof

    Mitzi,
    I still owe you some feedback on pies from Shirlington, if I have it right. Sorry for the delay. I've got some egg on my face for that, but believe they still may be in business. Shirlington helps. Rents there aren't what they are on Wisconsin Avenue in DC, where we've seen fully seven merchants or restaurants go belly up in the last year or so. I don't know if this will satisfy any more than your curiosity, because the pies don't travel well. Yes, there are places like Mino's Pizza in Pittsburgh that will Fed Ex you a Pizza on dry ice for reheating, if you're empty enough in the stomach and full enough in the wallet.

    Dec 28, 2007

  • Kim Smith

    Hey Mitzi, just dropping by my friend's place(s) to say hello and hope you have a great New Year!

    Dec 28, 2007

  • Victor Gischler

    Yo!

    Hope 2008 is treating you right!

    Jan 3, 2008

  • Darren Laws

    Thank you for accepting. Best wishes for 2008!

    Jan 3, 2008