News from Members about new releases, contests and events.
Meet LSF Writers Founding Member and Conference Chair Caridad Pineiro at the Brooklyn Book Festival. Caridad will be at the Romance Writers of America Booth, # 323-324, from 12:45 to 3:15. The booth will be located near Montague & Cadman Plaza and the Columbus Statue Garden. For more info, please visit https://brooklynbookfestival.org/.
Meet LSF Writers Members Maria Rodriguez Bross and M. Flagg at the Hoboken Library Festival, Saturday, September 20, from 12 pm to 3 pm. Visit with them on the 2nd Floor and grab signed copies of their books. For more info, please visit https://hobokenlibrary.org/library-festival-2025/.
Congratulations, LSF Writers Founding Member Lois Winston! SORRY, NOT SORRY, the 13th book in Lois’s Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery series, won the Silver Falchion Award for Best Comedy at Killer Nashville. Lois was also one of the Keynote Speakers at the event.
Congratulations to LSF Writers Vice President and Member Samantha Ann on the release of her new romance novel, TRAVELER. If you’d love a story about the banished princes of an underwater kingdom and the surf photographer who discovers his secret, this might be the book for you! Grab your copy at https://amzn.to/4mUTmcF.
Congratulations to LSF Writers Member and Treasurer Jay Siegel. Jay’s COSTUMED TO KILL (5100 words, Comic-Con police whodunnit) has been published online at The Yard, https://theyardcrimeblog.com/2025/08/25/costumed-to-kill-detective/ (free to read; written as Jacob Graysol). This story benefited from LSF Writers’ critique session comments, as well as a mentorship from Gwen Jones that Jay won at last year’s Sunscribe Goal challenge.
Did you like the story at The Yard? Visit with them at:
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https://mewe.com/theyardcrimeblog/feed
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7365753539731615744/
https://medium.com/WatchTheYard
Congratulations to LSF Writers Member @MickeyFlagg on her great awards! Haunting Melody has won the International Impact Book Award for Young Adult Fiction – Teen Fantasy. Memories of a Hunter’s Moon has made the Long List for the Shelley Awards through Chanticleer.
Congratulations to LSF Writers Member Mickey Flagg whose NIGHT OF THE CRESCENT MOON won Second Place in the NEST awards (National Excellence in Story Telling) through the Central Region Oklahoma Writers. Grab your copy today at https://amzn.to/4eBfK7o.
Congrats to LSF Writers Member Lois Winston! Lois’s 13th Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery, SORRY, KNOT SORRY, is a finalist in the Killer Nashville Best Comedy category! Grab your copy today at https://amzn.to/4lB7c2K.
We’re always excited to see one of our members taking part in a conference panel! Hopefully, you can join LSF Writers member Carol Binkowski at Thrillerfest, where she will be taking part in a panel on “Tone, POV or Syntax: Finding Your Author Voice” on Friday, June 20th at 8:55 a.m.
We’re so excited for our LSF Writers members who will be attending the Aces Wild Author & Reader event on June 14 from 10-4 at the Atlantic City Convention Center. Take a comment to come by and visit with them and check out all their fabulous books!
