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Kelli Stanley, Mystery Writer

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is on two deadlines through July ... and is thrilled over the Macavity nomination! :)Mood: busy busyat 5:06 PM May 8 view more

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  • Kelli Stanley

  • 100 / Female
  • San Francisco, California, US
  • Last Login: 7/6/2009

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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. Some Golden Age mystery writers ... Christie, Sayers. 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:

Thanks for stopping by! It gets lonely around here with just a fedora, a typewriter and a bottle of bourbon ...

NOX DORMIENDA, my debut novel, won the Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery Award at Left Coast Crime in 2009, and has been nominated for a Macavity Award (Sue Feder Memorial Historical Mystery). A Writer's Digest Notable Debut (July/August 2008), it marks the first of a new series and new genre: Roman Noir.

Set in first century AD Britain and featuring Arcturus, a hard-boiled protagonist in the best Marlowe tradition, NOX is a new kind of historical mystery, a suspense thriller that combines a classic noir style with the rich texture of the ancient past.

CITY OF DRAGONS--an explosively dark novel set in 1940 San Francisco, and introducing ex-escort and PI Miranda Corbie--will be published by Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's Minotaur in February, 2010. A small-time Japanese gangster is murdered in Chinatown ... and no one wants to know why. Miranda defiantly pursues the truth, uncovering searing racial hatreds and a legacy of pain and exploitation.

For more information, visit my website.

Who I'd like to meet:

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

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