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Kelli Stanley, Mystery Writer

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  • Kelli Stanley

  • 99 / Female
  • San Francisco, California, US
  • Last Login: 12/16/2009

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Interests

  • General

    Other than writing: classic films, travel, nature, history, art and design and fog.

  • Music

    ..Jazz, baby, jazz. Mainly classic jazz from the big band through the cool era. Sarah Vaughan, Duke Ellington, Nancy Wilson, Chet Baker, Louis Armstrong ...

  • Movies

    ..Casablanca. '30s musicals. Lots and lots of film noir...my favorite genre. There's a list of my own top 25 favorites on my website.

  • Television

    Old stuff.

  • Books

    ..Raymond Chandler is my greatest influence and my favorite writer. Hammett. Hemingway. Fitzgerald. Shakespeare, a lot of classics, Jane Austen, and Thomas Hardy. And a bunch of current authors, mainly in noir, thriller and crime fiction.

  • Heroes

    Elizabeth II and Winston Churchill. And Batman.

Details

  • Status: In a Relationship
  • Here for: Networking, Friends
  • Zodiac Sign: Gemini
  • Occupation: Author, Novelist

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About me:

Kelli Stanley is an award-winning author of crime fiction (novels and short stories). She makes her home in Dashiell Hammett’s San Francisco, a city she loves to write about. Kelli earned a Masters Degree in Classics, loves jazz, classic films, battered fedoras and speakeasies.

Kelli’s second novel CITY OF DRAGONS will be released by Minotaur on February 2, 2010.

Next Valentine's Day, you'll leave more than your heart behind in 1940 San Francisco ...

February, 1940. In San Francisco's Chinatown, fireworks explode as the city celebrates Chinese New Year with a Rice Bowl Party, a three day-and-night carnival designed to raise money and support for China war relief. Stuck in the crowd, Miranda Corbie, 33-year old private investigator, stumbles upon the fatally shot body of Eddie Takahashi. The Chamber of Commerce wants it covered up. The cops acquiesce. All Miranda wants is justice--whatever it costs.

From Chinatown tenements, to a tattered tailor's shop in Little Osaka, to a high-class bordello draped in Southern Gothic, she shakes down the city--her city--seeking the truth.

"Children's Day", a short story prequel to CITY OF DRAGONS, will be published by Tor in the upcoming International Thriller Writers Anthology FIRST THRILLS, featuring twelve stories from the bestsellers of today paired with twelve from the bestsellers of tomorrow.

FIRST THRILLS releases June 22, 2010 from Tor.

Kelli's debut novel, NOX DORMIENDA (A Long Night for Sleeping) (Five Star; July, 2008), won the Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery Award and is nominated for a Macavity Award. The book broke new genre ground as the first "Roman noir", a pun on its unique combination of Chandler-esqe hardboiled style and rich historical texture.

NOX DORMIENDA is currently in its third printing. Italian rights (mass market paperback) have also been sold to Mondadori; Greek rights have been purchased by Periplous.

CURSED, the sequel to NOX DORMIENDA, will be published by Thomas Dunne/Minotaur Books in 2011.

For more information about Kelli and her work, visit her website.



Trailer for CITY OF DRAGONS

First book trailer for CITY OF DRAGONS, my new thriller releasing in February ...

Who I'd like to meet:

Readers, writers, film noir fans, and the man who invented the whiskey sour.

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