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Small towns have always been thought of as sleepy places where nothing bad ever happens, but as Mitzi Szereto's
The Best New True Crime Stories: Small Towns shows that bad things can and do happen in small communities all over the world.
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Mitzi Szereto is a bestselling author and anthology editor of multi-genre fiction and non-fiction. She has her own blog "Errant Ramblings: Mitzi Szereto's Weblog," and is the creator/presenter of the Web TV channel "Mitzi TV," which covers the "quirky" side of London, England. Her books include
The Best New True Crime Stories: Serial Killers,
Ladies of Gothic Horror (A Collection of Classic Stories),
Florida Gothic,
Oysters and Pearls: Collected Stories,
Rotten Peaches (The Thelonious T. Bear Chronicles), and more. Her anthology Erotic Travel Tales 2 is the first anthology of erotica to feature a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Mitzi's Web TV channel, Mitzi TV, has attracted an international audience. Segments have ranged from prowling the streets of London in search of jellied eel and chatting about classic cars with Formula 1 race-car driver/BBC TV presenter Tiff Needell and couture shoe designer Jimmy Choo, to joining in a lively pub singalong, being recruited into dance by a troupe of Morris dancing software geeks, hanging out with a chapter of Harley Davidson riders, and covering a teddy bear festival with her ursine sidekick, Teddy Tedaloo. She also plays herself in the pseudo-documentary British film
Lint: The Movie.
Mitzi divides her time between the UK and the Pacific Northwest. Follow her on Twitter @mitziszereto
Zusammenfassung
Small towns have always been thought of as sleepy places where nothing bad ever happens, but as Mitzi Szereto’s The Best New True Crime Stories: Small Towns shows that bad things can and do happen in small communities all over the world.
Vorwort
- Her titles, which have sold in the region of 300,000 copies, have been published in print, digital, audio and CD formats as well as book club editions.
- Her books and short fiction have been translated into multiple languages.
- Mitzi has appeared at literature festivals worldwide including Miami Book Fair International, Wordplay Book Festival (Scotland), Cambridge Literary Festival (England) and The Cheltenham Festival of Literature (England).
- She has an aggregate social media following of 55,000, encompassing multiple presences on sites such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Goodreads, LinkedIn, Crimespace etc. plus newsletter subscribers.
- She maintains a blog of personal essays at Errant Ramblings: Mitzi Szereto’s Weblog and created/presented the London-based Web TV channel Mitzi TV.
- She’s lectured in creative writing at several British universities and teaches writing from Europe to the Pacific Northwest.
- Her anthology Erotic Travel Tales 2 is the first anthology of erotica to feature a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
- A story from her crime anthology Getting Even: Revenge Stories received a “Highly Commended” from the UK Crime Writers Association’s Silver Dagger Awards.
