Cathy Pickens
Charlotte
NC USAContact: cathy@cathypickens.com
NC USAContact: cathy@cathypickens.com
Charleston Mysteries, Murder at Luna Lake, Murder at Folly Beach Creek, Murder at Golden Cove Forest, Murder at Moody Springs Lookout, Murder at Bow Falls, Charlotte True Crime Stories, True Crime Stories of Eastern North Carolina, Triangle True Crime Stories, True Crime Stories of Upstate South Carolina, True Crime Stories of Western North Carolina, True Crime Stories of South Carolina's Midlands, True Crime Stories of the South, CREATE! Develping Your Creative Process, True Crime Stories of the Triad, True Crime Stories of the Lowcountry
Southern Fried Mysteries, Blue Ridge Mountain Mysteries (reprints), History Press Carolinas True Crime, The Best New True Crime Stories anthologies, edited Mitzi Szereto
Amateur Sleuth, Legal, Nonfiction, Traditional, True Crime
Deadly Allies II (SinC and PWA), Partners in Crime true crime anthology, Crimes of Famous & Infamous Criminals true crime anthology, Unsolved Crimes & Mysteries true crime anthology, Women Who Murder: An International Collection
"Uncommon Law" "Love and Strychnine in New Zealand" "The Boy Who Thrived" "The Enduring Mystery of Julia Wallace" "On the Courthouse Steps: The Trial of Susan Smith"
Craft, Subject Expertise, The Business of Writing
Presentations on: Why true crime fascinates us; Mystery fiction inspired by real crime; Using crime and legal cases to write fiction; Developing & Disciplining Your Creative Process Start Here: Beginning A New Writing Project
Cathy Pickens, a lawyer and college professor, is a writer of crime fact and crime fiction. Her first novel, Southern Fried, won the St. Martin’s/Minotaur Best New Traditional Mystery award. The series is now available as the Blue Ridge Mountain Mysteries from Joffe Books. She writes a series on Southern regional true crime for Arcadia Publishing/History Press and is the fact crime columnist for Mystery Readers Journal. She is professor emerita in the McColl School of Business and served as national president of Sisters in Crime and on the boards of Mystery Writers of America and the Mecklenburg Forensic Medicine Program (an evidence collection/preservation training collaborative). She is also the author of CREATE! (ICSC Press), works with prison inmates and those in drug rehab, and offers coaching and workshops on developing the creative process and works with writers on telling their stories.