April 14, 2007

"Memoir vs. Fiction: Where does the truth end and fiction begin?"

See www.shelleysinger.com

Shelley Singer is the author of 12 published novels: ten mysteries, one science fiction, and one mainstream fiction. Her most recent, Royal Flush, published in late 1999 by Perseverance/John Daniel and Company, is the sixth in the Jake Samson-Rosie Vicente detective series. A previous mystery, Interview With Mattie, starring her second detective Barrett Lake, was nominated for a prestigious Shamus award. Unlicensed iconoclast Jake Samson and his pal Rosie, a former carpenter who doesn't "want to be schlepping two by fours" while having hot flashes, are PIs in the San Francisco Bay Area. Earlier books in the series are Samson's Deal, Free Draw, Full House, Spit in the Ocean, and Suicide King.

And watch for Blackjack (written as Lee Singer), her new near-future science fiction novel from Five Star Press, now scheduled for June of 2007.

She has taught fiction writing in several venues and has worked one on one with writers as a manuscript consultant, on nonfiction, literary novels and in every genre from memoir to mystery to science fiction to horror. Several clients and students have gone on to become published authors. She has been cited in the acknowledgments or dedications of several published books, including a number of award-winners.

Singer grew up in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and began her working life as a reporter with UPI in Chicago. During a checkered and mercifully brief journalism career, she met many famous people, at least two of whom were murdered.

She says "she has done too many things for a living."