Books by Debra H. Goldstein
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Sisters in Crime Worldwide – SINC into Great Writing – October 10, 2026
Debra will be hosting this year’s SinC Virtual Writing Conference. Check back for featured authors.
It’s Not Always a Mystery…
…to know what Debra and her friends are thinking about. Read Debra’s Blog.
Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy by Ray Tabler
By Debra Goldstein | | Blogpost
How do you write science fiction or fantasy? Just like any other fiction, it takes two main ingredients, a story, and a setting. One usually pops into the writer’s head before the other, but both are required. Where science fiction and fantasy differ from mainstream fiction is the setting of the story. Which the author […]
Query, Query, Quite Contrary by Dianna Sinovic
By Debra Goldstein | | Blogpost, Women Writers
Four million books entered the marketplace worldwide last year, and at least some of them entered their path to publication via a query letter, addressed to either a literary agent or a publisher. A strong query letter can push your manuscript farther up in the slush pile. Considering that agents receive thousands of queries each […]
Why Mysteries? by Saralyn Richard
By Debra Goldstein | | Blogpost, Women Writers
In 2018, I wrote my first mystery novel, MURDER IN THE ONE PERCENT. In the months after the book launched, I took it on a whirlwind tour of ten U.S. cities, where I met with people at bookstores, libraries, museums, and private homes. One of those cities was Chicago, where I had lived for several […]






