Join us for an exciting and informative new webinar on Saturday, April 18, at 1 pm ET / 10 PT / 6pm BST.

Creating a Short Story Anthology: Everything You Need to Know 
Ever wanted your Sisters in Crime chapter to publish an anthology? Have an idea for an anthology theme you’d like to create? Curious about submitting to an anthology and want a peak behind the scenes? Join panelists with experience publishing Sisters in Crime anthologies for the inside scoop on how to make it a success. 

Our panelists for this session are:

• Mark Thielman is the author of the Johnson and Nance mysteries, set in the splendor of America’s national parks. Mark’s short fiction has twice received the Black Orchid Novella Award and been included in The Best Private Eye Stories of the Year (2025). A career prosecutor for both Tarrant and Dallas Counties, Mark also served as a criminal magistrate. He is the president of SINC North Dallas. His third book, The Firefall, will be published on April 14th.
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  • Website: https://markthielman.com/

• Judge Debra H. Goldstein is the award-winning author of With Our Bellies Full and the Fire Dying, a collection of her short stories, Kensington’s Sarah Blair mystery series, and standalones Maze in Blue and Should Have Played Poker. Her novels and short stories have been named Agatha, Anthony, Derringer, and Claymore finalists and received Silver Falchion, IPPY, AWC, and BWR awards. Debra is Vice-President of Sisters in Crime Worldwide and previously was a member of MWA’s national board and president of the Guppy and SEMWA chapters.
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  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/debrahgoldstein/
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  • Website: https://www.DebraHGoldstein.com

• Award-winning author Becky Clark has been writing humorous books for both kids and adults since 2001. Even her nonfiction EIGHT WEEKS TO A COMPLETE NOVEL receives kudos for being funny and accessible. Over the years she has developed many tricks and tips to speed up her writing because the key to a professional writing career is to consistently produce books. Becky is a hybrid author, with feet planted in both the independent publishing world and the traditional publishing world. She is the seventh of eight kids, which explains both her insatiable need for attention and her atrocious table manners. She writes the Mystery Writer’s Mysteries, the Sugar Mill Marketplace Mysteries, the Crossword Puzzle Mysteries, the Dunne Diehl novels, as well as some nonfiction. Visit BeckyClarkBooks.com to snag FICTION CAN BE MURDER (Mystery Writer’s Mysteries book #1) and RAT RACE (Sugar Mill Marketplace prequel novella) as well as several short stories.
  • Website: https://beckyclarkbooks.com/