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Kelli Stanley

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Born

in The United States

January 01

Website

http://www.kellistanley.com

Twitter

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Genre

Mystery, Historical Fiction, Thriller

Influences

Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Cornell Woolrich, Ernest Hemingway ...more

Member Since

April 2008

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Kelli Stanley is the multiple award-winning, critically acclaimed and bestselling creator of the Miranda Corbie series (CITY OF DRAGONS, CITY OF SECRETS, CITY OF GHOSTS, CITY OF SHARKS), noir novels set in 1940 San Francisco and featuring "one of crime's most arresting heroines" (Library Journal).

Kelli has also written an award-winning "Roman Noir" series set in Roman Britain (NOX DORMIENDA, THE CURSE-MAKER), and has published numerous short stories and essays.

Kelli also founded and was president of the non-profit publisher Nasty Woman Press, which published the award-winning anthology SHATTERING GLASS.

A winner of the Macavity, Bruce Alexander, Golden Nugget and Anthony awards (the latter as a publisher of SHATTERING GLASS), she was also ...more

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Kelli Stanley's Blog

And thereby hangs a tale …

I’ve launched a new newsletter/blog called And thereby hangs a tale over on Substack. I don’t add more technology to an already tech-saturated life without reason: in this case, the idea is that the Substack effort will help promote an event an Bouchercon that I’ve organized called “Free Books!”— a spectacular spectacular geared toward providing information and support for libraries and the ALA’s

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Kelli Stanley’s books

Average rating: 3.58 · 3,099 ratings · 501 reviews · 19 distinct works • Similar authors

	City of Dragons 3.29 avg rating — 559 ratings — published 2010 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nox Dormienda: A Long Night for Sleeping (Roman Noir #1) 3.67 avg rating — 279 ratings — published 2008 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	City of Secrets: A Mystery (A Miranda Corbie Mystery, 2) 3.49 avg rating — 206 ratings — published 2011 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	City of Ghosts: A Miranda Corbie Mystery 3.74 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Curse-Maker (Roman Noir, #2) 3.56 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	City of Sharks: A Miranda Corbie Mystery 3.82 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memory Book: A Miranda Corbie Story 3.68 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Reckoning (A Renata Drake Thriller Book 1) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	City of Dragons Lib/E by Kelli Stanley (Goodreads Author), Cynthia Holloway (Reader) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Writing is one long session of insecurity and fear punctuated by occasional elation. Which is why so many of us are on Twitter.”
― Kelli Stanley

tags: humor, writing

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Kelli’s Quotes

“A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.”
― Raymond Chandler

tags: writing

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“My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: When you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.”
― Elmore Leonard, Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing

tags: creative-process, focus, writing

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“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov

tags: broken-glass, glass, moon, moonshine, show-don-t-tell, writing

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“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: saint-sinner

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“soles occidere et redire possunt:
nobis cum semel occidit breuis lux,
nox est perpetua una dormienda. ”
― Catullus, Carmina

tags: love-poetry, roman

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message 6: by Stan

Apr 03, 2013 05:15PM

A belated thanks for choosing me to be among your friends, Kelli. It may interest you that my book Marvin Clark—In Search of Freedom in now a matching FREE download on Amazon Kindle. Enjoy it while you can. (A little review on Amazon wouldn't hurt either!)
Stan
http://www.amazon.com/Marvin-Clark-Se...

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message 5: by Kris

Feb 09, 2012 11:40AM

Good to connect with you here, Kelli. See you in Sacramento.

Kris

Kris Neri
Magical Alienation: A Samantha Brennan and Annabelle Haggerty Magical Mystery

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message 4: by Kelli

Aug 03, 2009 05:18PM

Hi, Rosanne, and thanks so much for the friendship! :) Thanks for the support and best of luck with your own writing! :)
Kelli

Rosanne wrote: "Hi Kelli, thanks for accepting my friend invite! I'm happy you write crime fiction because I love readng crime fiction. And that's why I also became a fan of your's. I myself haven't written any cr..."

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message 3: by Rosanne

Jul 30, 2009 03:22PM

Hi Kelli, thanks for accepting my friend invite! I'm happy you write crime fiction because I love readng crime fiction. And that's why I also became a fan of your's. I myself haven't written any crime fiction stories, only 1 mystery fiction story which was accepted & published in Storytime Tapestry, an Internet publication. Looking forward to reading your work! ~Rosanne Catalano, publisher/editor/author, The Cat's Meow for Writers & Readers, www.rosannecatalano.net

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message 2: by Bradley

Aug 27, 2008 07:24AM