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About Alison McMahan
Alison McMahan grew up in Spain. As an adult she trudged through the jungles of Honduras and Cambodia, through the favelas of Brazil and from race tracks to drag strips in the U.S. in search of footage for her documentaries. Her most recent film is Bare Hands and Wooden Limbs (2010) narrated by Sam Waterston.
She applies the same sense of adventure to her mysteries for all eras. Her historical mystery novel, THE SAFFRON CROCUS (Black Opal Books, 2014), won the Rosemary Award for Best YA Historical and the Florida Writers Association's Royal Palm Literary Award. Her short mystery "The New Score" appeared in the FISH OUT OF WATER Anthology (Wildside Press), and "The Drive By" in the BUSTED: ARRESTING STORIES FROM THE BEAT Anthology (LevelBest Books) April 2017. “Kamikaze Iguanas” appeared in the MWA anthology for middle grade readers entitled SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN, edited by R.L. Stine, (HarperCollins, 2018). "King Hanuman" appeared in the SinCLA Anthology FATALLY HAUNTED, published by Down&Out Press and "Harlem in Havana" in THE BEAT OF BLACK WINGS: CRIM FICTION INSPIRED BY THE SONGS OF JONI MITCHELL (Untreed Reads, 2020). "Volcano" is forthcoming in THE GREAT FILLING STATION HOLDUP: CRIME FICTION INSPIRED BY THE SONGS OF JIMMY BUFFETT, by Down and Out Books.
She is the author two books of nonfiction: THE FILMS OF TIM BURTON: ANIMATING LIVE ACTION IN HOLLYWOOD (Bloomsbury 2005), and the award-winning Alice Guy Blaché, Lost Visionary of the Cinema (Bloomsbury 2002), which was translated into Spanish by Plots Ediciones. It was adapted into the documentary BE NATURAL (2018).
Alison is represented by Gina Panettieri of Talcott Notch Literary.
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Blog postNew Angela Richman book has just dropped! alison Tue, 07/05/2022 - 21:551 month ago Read more
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Blog post"Volcano" Featured on "First Two Pages" alison Wed, 12/29/2021 - 13:077 months ago Read more
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Blog postThe How-To of Deep Point of View - Florida Authors Academy alison Fri, 06/18/2021 - 19:361 year ago Read more
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Blog postTelling and Time in Fiction - NSU Alvin Sherman Library alison Fri, 06/18/2021 - 19:321 year ago Read more
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Blog postThriller Craft: Propelling Suspense with Driving Questions, Part I alison Sat, 11/21/2020 - 16:322 years ago Read more
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Blog postThriller Craft: Using Driving Questions and Character Traits to Drive Suspense - Part 2 alison Sat, 11/21/2020 - 16:042 years ago Read more
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Blog postTODAY! I'm teaching SUSPENSE workshop alison Sat, 10/03/2020 - 06:422 years ago Read more
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Blog post2020 Author's Academy at Murder on the Beach Bookstore alison Sat, 06/13/2020 - 14:262 years ago Read more
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Blog postTONIGHT! 7 pm! Free! Learn Suspense Writing from Alan Orloff, Elaine Viets, and Alison McMahan! alison Sun, 04/26/2020 - 12:482 years ago Read more
Titles By Alison McMahan
In a city of 10 million people, the haunted could be the man waiting to cross the street, or the memory that keeps you awake at night.
Fatally Haunted, a Sisters in Crime/Los Angeles anthology, includes original stories by Julie G. Beers, Julia Bricklin, Roger Cannon, Tony Chiarchiaro, Lisa Ciarfella, Cyndra Gernet, B. J. Graf, Mark Hague, A. P. Jamison, Micheal Kelly, Alison McMahan, Peter Sexton, Gobind Tanaka, and Jennifer Younger.
**NOMINATED** 2021 Anthony Award for Best Anthology
**NOMINATED** 2021 International Thriller Awards for Best Short Story: Elaine Viets for "Dog Eat Dog"
**NOMINATED** 2021 Macavity Award for Best Short Story: Elaine Viets for "Dog Eat Dog"
1/3 of the author royalties will be donated to the Brain Aneurysm Foundation in Joni Mitchell's name. With nine Grammys, multiple lifetime achievement awards, inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, and a Top Ten ranking on Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time,” Joni Mitchell has established herself as one of the most important singer/songwriters, not only of her generation, but in the history of popular music. In this collection, 28 crime writers pay tribute to Joni’s musical legacy with short stories inspired by her lyrics, representing each of her seventeen studio albums from 1968’s Song to a Seagull to 2007’s Shine. Many of the classics are represented here, including “Both Sides, Now” (in the first literary collaboration between Art Taylor and Tara Laskowski, who have each won major awards for their fiction), “Big Yellow Taxi” (by Kathryn O’Sullivan, author of the Colleen McCabe series), and “River” (by Stacy Woodson, winner of the 2019 Readers Choice Award from Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine), plus such equally fascinating titles as “Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire” (by Donna Andrews, author of the award-winning Meg Lanslow series), “The Dry Cleaner From Des Moines” (by Amber Sparks), and “Ray’s Dad’s Cadillac” (by Michael Bracken). This anthology also includes contributions from Alison McMahan, Brendan DuBois, Edith Maxwell and many other talented writers.
A harrowing array of scary stories that all have one thing in common: each either begins or ends with a scream!
R.L. Stine—the godfather of Goosebumps—and some of the most popular authors today bring an unrivaled mastery of all things fearsome, frightening, and fantabulous to this terrifying anthology of all-new scary short stories.
Scream and Scream Again! is full of twists and turns, dark corners, and devilish revenge. Collected in conjunction with the Mystery Writers of America, this set includes works from New York Times bestselling authors telling tales of wicked ice-cream trucks, time-travelling heroes, witches and warlocks, and of course, haunted houses.
Read it if you dare! With twenty never-before-published scary stories from some of the most popular authors today—including Chris Grabenstein, Wendy Corsi Staub, Heather Graham, Peter Lerangis, R.L. Stine, Bruce Hale, Emmy Laybourne, Steve Hockensmith, Lisa Morton, Ray Daniel, Beth Fantaskey, Phil Mathews, Carter Wilson, Doug Levin, Jeff Soloway, Joseph S. Walker, Alison McMahan, Daniel Palmer, Tonya Hurley, and Stephen Ross—it’s sure to leave readers screaming for more.
Included are:
INTRODUCTION, by James M. Jackson
PLAN A: KILL THE FISH, by Beth Green
THE MISSING CONCUBINE, by P. A. De Voe
SCREWED UP, by Anita DeVito
THE ABDUCTION OF DESTINY, by Mo Walsh
DOPPELGANGERS, by Susan Alice Bickford
THE FAR END OF NOWHERE, by Liz Milliron
FOR THE LOVE OF RUBY, by Bern Sy Moss
PING-PONG GIRL, by Rita A. Popp
GOOD NEIGHBORS, by Cori Lynn Arnold
DEAD GIVEAWAY, by Chelle Martin
BOTTOMS UP, by Su Kopil
THE WRITER, by Steve Shrott
FROM THE ASHES, by Kate Fellowes
GOSSIP, by Susan Daly
ON LIKE DONKEY KONG, by Rhonda Lane
CRIME ON HOLD, by Claire Ortalda
SIGHT UNSEEN, by KM Rockwood
THE THUMP AND TAG, by Melinda B. Pierce
STEP AWAY FROM THE COW, by C. C. Guthrie
OF ROOSTERS AND MEN, by LD Masterson
THE NEW SCORE, by Alison McMahan
FAIRY TALES CAN COME TRUE, by Teresa Leigh Judd
And don't miss the first 3 volumes: Fish Tales, Fish Nets, and Fish or Cut Bait!
World Film Locations: Paris takes readers on an unforgettable tour of the City of Lights past and present through the many films that have been set there. Along the way, we revisit iconic tourist sites from the Eiffel Tower – whose stairs and crossbars inspired more than one famous chase scene – to the Moulin Rouge overlooking the famously seedy Place Pigalle. Other films explore lesser-known quarters usually tucked away from the tourist’s admiring gaze. Handsomely illustrated with full-colour film stills and contemporary photographs, more than fifty scenes are individually considered with special attention to their use of Paris’s topography as it intersects with characters, narrative and plot. A host of important genres and cinematic movements are featured, including poetic realism, the New Wave, cinéma-verité, the literary works of the Left Bank Group, and Luc Besson’s slickly stylised cinéma du look. Meanwhile, essays foreground contributions from Francophone African directors and émigré filmmakers.
For centuries, Paris has reigned over the popular imagination. For those who have visited or those who have only imagined it through art, literature and film, World Film Locations: Paris presents a wonder-filled cinematic exploration of the mythical city that fans of French cinema – and new initiates – will appreciate.
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The Films of Tim Burton is the most in-depth analysis so far of the work of this unusual filmmaker - a director who has shown repeatedly that it is possible to reject mainstream Hollywood contentions while maintaining critical popularrity and commercial success.