Marcia Markland
Crooked Lane Books
My Manuscript Wish List®
My Manuscript Wish List® Items
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Fun facts about me:
I like reading about mammals  and insects and birds and reptiles and amphibians. Once while visiting Florida during Covid, quite on impulse I bought a tiny turtle, like the kind they used to sell in Woolworths, fully expecting it to not outlive my visit. However, it survived, much to my surprise. But how to get it home to New York City?  I was told that if you sneak a turtle onto a plane and get caught, you’re banned from flying ever again—seems a bit harsh, but . . . I couldn’t face a train ride during Covid—all those unvaccinated small towns on the way North, and I had grown fond of the little creature. I couldn’t bear to let him loose to be bird food. So I mailed him to myself—Google is SOOO useful.  I did tell the Post Office that he was a Key Lime pie and had to be overnighted in order to be fresh.
Wonder of wonders, Timmy is now a big, big boy and has a big, big tank and the run of the house. He was four-years old on July 1st and with any luck will outlive both me and anyone reading this little tale.
Submissions should be emailed to Marcia.Markland@crookedlanebooks.com
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Favorite sub-genres:
Amateur Sleuth Mysteries, Character-Driven Horror, Climate Fiction, Commercial adult fiction, Cozy Mystery, Crime & Thriller, Crime Fiction, Detective, Domestic Suspense, Domestic Suspense/Thriller, Dystopian, Feminist, Gothic, Gothic Horror, Historical mysteries, Issue-Driven, Literary Horror, Literary Noir, Literary Thriller, Modern Retellings of Fairy Tales, Multicultural and Diverse Thriller and Mystery, Mysteries, Mystery / Crime, Mythic Horror, Nature, Near future, Neurodiversity, Noir, Paranormal Horror, Paranormal Thriller, Political Thriller, Post-apocalyptic, Psychological Horror, Psychological Suspense, Psychological Thrillers, Romantic Suspense, Romantic Thriller, Sci-fi Thriller, Scottish, Social Issues, Social Justice, Southern Gothic, Southern Literary, Speculative Thriller, Suspense, Thrillers, True Crime, Underrepresented Voices, Whodunit, books in translation, domestic thrillers, eco-fiction, ghost story, high concept fiction, horror, international, literary mystery, literary suspense, locked room, mental illness, romantic suspense/mystery, spy, traditional mysteries, upmarket genre fiction
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My favorites include…
I watch a lot of European crime shows and read a lot of European crime fiction. My favorite film is NASHVILLE. I was scared silly after watching LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND.  I stopped eating mammals after reading Mary Doria Russell’s THE SPARROW. I love RIVER and THE NIGHT MANAGER—and will watch anything that features either Stellan Skarsgard or Tom Hiddleston (ALMOST anything—I never watch comic-book films.) Lately it has been necessary to watch an unusual amount of comedy to take my mind off things—Monty Python, anything Gene Wilder or Lily Tomlinson—and sometimes it is comforting to watch old Raymond Burr Perry Mason reruns—the good guys always win.
