G.M. Malliet and Mary Ann Corrigan - Bookcast

G.M. Malliet and Mary Ann Corrigan were interviewed for BookCast by Fairfax County Public Library Director Sam Clay. BookCast is sponsored by Virginia Commerce Bank through the Fairfax Library Foundation.

Corrigan and Malliet are local mystery writers who have contributed to Chesapeake Crimes 3, an anthology of stories set in the Chesapeake Bay regions of Maryland and Virginia. They are both members of the Sisters in Crime Chesapeake Chapter.

The two authors will join a dozen other mystery writers and contributors to Chesapeake Crimes 3 at a special program at 7:00 p.m., July 23 at the Martha Washington Library, sponsored by the Friends of the Martha Washington Library.

Mary Ann Corrigan has a Ph.D. in English and works as an instructional designer for online courses. She has taught nonfiction writing, detective fiction and drama at Georgetown University, Northern Virginia Community College, and other colleges. Her essays on modern drama have appeared in five anthologies.

A longtime Reston resident, she enjoys visiting Maryland’s Eastern Shore, the setting for her Chesapeake Crimes 3 story and for the tennis mystery series she hopes to have published. The first book in the series, The Murder Racquet, was a finalist in the 2008 St. Martin’s Press Malice Domestic contest. Besides reading and writing fiction, her hobbies include tennis, bridge and crosswords.

G.M. Malliet worked as a journalist and copywriter for national and international news publications and public broadcasters. Winner of the Malice Domestic Grant (Death of a Cozy Writer) and the Romance Writers of America's 2006 Stiletto Award, Malliet attended Oxford University and holds a graduate degree from the University of Cambridge. She has published Death of a Cozy Writer;the second in the series: Death of a Lit Chick, will be published in 2009. She is working on the third mystery in the series.