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.
TERROR IN THE RESEARCH RABBIT HOLE by Anne Louise Bannon
By Debra Goldstein | | Blogpost, Women Writers
“Relax,” said the librarian in the history department at the Los Angeles Public Library. “If you can’t find it, probably no one else can.” Probably. Hmmmmm. Probably doesn’t mean won’t, and knowing my luck, some self-important blowhard is going to find some uber obscure factoid that I missed in my latest historical mystery and work […]
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 […]






