Angela Zeman's Page

Hometown:

New York, NY

About Me:

Most current publications: ADIRONDACKS MYSTERIES anthology coming soon! (Oct 1, 2009) Containing my short story "Chanel, 1927." Edited by Dennis Webster of graphic novel fame, published by North Country Books. Some great stories collected here, noir and more noir! "Mountain shadows grow long and deep, as winter arrives in stealth and creep..."

Short story, "Bang," in Linda Fairstein's anthology, WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (April 2009.)

(January 2009) Stuart M. Kaminsky's anthology celebrating Edgar Allan Poe's 200th birthday: THE RAVEN'S WING; my story, "Rue Morgue Noir," a spoof, featuring E. A. Poe as a screenwriter struggling to succeed in today's world.

Currently Chair of PWA (Private Eye Writers of America) Short Story Committee for the Shamus Award, judging stories published in 2008. Award winners will be announced at the PWA Dinner October 16, 2009 at Bouchercon in Indianapolis.

Sony's Reader contains my story, "Lah Tee Dah" as a free preload for purchasers.

Most recent convention attended: (2008) Bouchercon in Baltimore, where I served on the panel of bloggers from the short fiction blog: CRIMINAL BRIEF.

Primarily a short story writer, although have written in many forms and venues, including a published novel and occasional non-fiction pieces.

Author of the Mrs. Risk short story series. Published a novel using Mrs. Risk's ensemble of characters, called: "THE WITCH AND THE BORSCHT PEARL" (collectable at Amazon.com) As a result of that novel, which features stand-up comedians, I was made a Friar in NYC, which is more fun than you can imagine.

Suspense stories for anthologies, such as "Green Heat," Jeffery Deaver's anthology. Nelson DeMille chose "Green Heat" for Otto Penzler's annual "Best American Mystery Stories of the Year."

Stories appear in anthologies by Stuart Kaminsky, Mary Higgins Clark, Nancy Pickard, Linda Fairstein, North Country Boooks, Michael Bracken, Sony, XBox, and many other places--especially Spanish speaking countries.

Favorable reviews in Publishers Weekly and other top venues.

Currently working on a novel of suspense, also a juvenile book for my grandchildren.

Sometime contributor to the short fiction webblog, CRIMINAL BRIEF. Also co-write non-fiction mystery-related articles with husband, Barry T. Zeman, some of which won awards.

Learn more at www.AngelaZeman.com. Member of MWA, PWA, Friars of New York, and ICWA.

Serve as judge for Edgar and Shamus awards and as panelist at conferences such as Bouchercon, Sleuthfest, and others.

I Am A:

Writer

Website:

http://www.AngelaZeman.com

Books And Authors I Like:

James Lee Burke, Eliot Pattison, Hammett, Chandler, Warren Murphy, Molly Cochran, Peter Abrahams, Minette Walters, Lee Child, Reginald Hill, T. Jefferson Parker, Tony Hillerman, Jeffery Deaver, Robert Crais, Elizabeth Peters, Nancy Pickard, Laurie R. King, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Jason Starr, Ken Bruen, Val McDermid, Rex Stout, Arthur Conan Doyle, Daniel Stashower, Charles Todd, P. J. Parrish, Carol O'Connell, Linda Fairstein, Michael Connelly, Sue Grafton, Walter Mosely, Randy Wayne White. I also love comics: Vertigo and Dark Horse imprints; Garth Ennis, Neil Gaimon, ...I could go on endlessly.

Movies And TV Shows I Like:

The Usual Suspects--wish I wrote it! THE DARK KNIGHT was a huge dazzler, far as I'm concerned. I consider it a example of how story-telling skills have evolved in recent years. Fargo; Memento; Pulp Fiction; Station Agent; 24; Crash; Bernard Cornwell's SHARPE series; HBO's Carnival, Sopranos, all the A & E Murder Series; Cohen Brothers movies; the first South Park Movie (I swear it was like a Broadway Show!); Clerks...and then back in another time: Casablanca; Laura; Shot in the Dark; African Queen; Dirty Dozen; Seven Samurai; Long Hot Summer; On the Waterfront; Nick and Nora; those fifties comedies where everybody smoked and drank martinis to the pont of alcoholic poisoning--you get the idea.