Fault Lines Anthology

Fault Lines

The Sisters in Crime NorCal chapter is proud to announce our first anthology in its 25-year history. Available now with an outstanding lineup of stories:

  • Ana Brazil: Kate Chopin Tussles with a Novel Ending
  • Jenny Carless: The Water’s Edge
  • Diana Chambers: Trip to Paradise
  • Carol Elkovich: True Culprit
  • David Hagerty: SPEDing Toward Self-Destruction
  • Vinnie Hansen: The Last Word
  • Katherine Bolger Hyde: Trouble at Tor House
  • Judith Janeway (Judith Wrubel): Get a Life
  • Mariah Klein: Whose Fault?
  • Mariella Krause: 17 Ways to Kill your Co-Worker
  • Susan Kuchinskas: No Fault Murder
  • Deborah Lacy: Please See Me
  • Bette Golden Lamb: The Old Studio
  • J.J. Lamb: Two Buck Hitch
  • Margaret Lucke: Two Hundred Miles
  • Susan C. Shea: The Champagne Girl
  • Robin C. Stuart: SegFault
  • Nancy Tingley: IF, IF, IF
  • CJ Verburg: Birdbrain

Fault Lines is available from your local independent bookseller, as well as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million and Kobo.

We received many great submissions, which made the selection process both fun and challenging. All submissions were read blind (readers did not know the authors’ names) by at least three people. Thank you to the submissions and selections team: Mysti Berry, Margie Bunting, Pat Dusenberry, Heather Haven, Thonie Hevron, Mariella Krause, Rita Lakin, Margaret Lucke, Ana Manwaring, and Terry Shames.

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Fault Lines. The most obvious reference is to earthquakes and to the seismic activity and susceptibility that many people associate with our region. But a writer’s imagination can take it in other directions.

Fault can also refer to blame, liability, guilt, culpability, weakness, accountability, error, imperfection, criticism, condemnation, failing, foible, frailty, defect, flaw, weakness, sin, no-fault divorce, etc.

Lines can mean not only cracks in the earth but also pencil marks, family and ancestral connections, boundaries, lines drawn in the sand, cord or twine, fishing equipment, etc. Not to mention the lines the author is putting on the page.