Marti MacAlister series

The Making of a Fierce and Badass Black Heroine

By Yasmin McClinton

August 25, 2020

Before I hit the SEND button to submit my application for the Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for emerging writers of color, I was on the verge of quitting writing entirely. But as I did some research into Eleanor Taylor Bland, reading various biographies of her. In one particular, she said “I truly believe minorities are…

Ladies First: Groundbreaking Women in Crime Fiction

By kristen lepionka

February 14, 2017

Any mystery lover knows how significant Agatha Christie is to the crime-fiction genre. But she wasn’t the only woman on the scene—nor the first. Women crime writers have always been influential in the world of mysteries, and here are a few who may be less familiar to even a dedicated reader. If you were investigating the case of…