New York: Give Me Your Best Or Your Worst

An Anthology celebrating the literary legacy of the Big Apple, illustrated with photography and edited by award winning alternate history and Hollywood mystery writer Elizabeth Crowens with an introduction by New York Times bestselling writer Reed Farrel Coleman. NY Times bestselling mystery writer of over thirty-one novels, Reed Farrell Coleman. Reed is a four time Edgar Award nominee in three different categories: Best Novel, Best Paperback Original, and Best Short Story. He is a four-time recipient of the Shamus Award for Best PI Novel of the Year. He has also won the Audie, Macavity, Barry, and Anthony Awards. Other contributors include: Charles Salzberg (The Henry Swann Book series), Tom Straw (screenwriter from Night Court, Nurse Jackie, author of the Richard Castle mysteries), R.J. Koreto (mysteries set during the Gilded Age of New York), Steven Van Patten (writes horror featuring African Americans in New York), Randee Dawn (entertainment journalist for Today.com, wrote The Unofficial Companion Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), Barbara Krasnoff (staff writer for The Verge, nominated for multiple awards in speculative fiction including The History of Soul 2065), Marco Conelli (retired NYPD detective, author of the Matthew Livingston Young Adult Mystery series, among others), Triss Stein (mysteries set in Brooklyn), and Richie Narvaez (Hipster Death Rattle, Noiryorican, and Holly Hernandez and the Death of Disco.) This project was grant-funded through the City Artist Corps Grants program, presented by The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), with support from the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) as well as Queens Theatre.