Kare Flora received the New England Crime Bake Lifetime Achievment Award at 2018 Crime Bake. Left to Right: Ruth McCarty, Susan Oleksiw, Kake Flora, Ken Cohen. Bruce Coffin in back.

Ruth at a book signing at Barnes & Noble in Leominster, MA. She wrote a blurb for their book Flash in the Can: Number One Front Row: Phyllis Cochran, Sharon Harmon. Back Row: Ruth McCarty, Diane Kane, Kathy Chencharik.

Ruth modereated Capers, Crimes & Criminal Minds panel at Crime Bake with (l-r) Kate Flora, Lorrane Nelson, Linda Landrigan (Editor of Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine), Stephen Rogers, and Ruth McCarty.

Kate Flora, Brunonia Barry, Ruth, and Hallie Ephron celebrate the Sisters in Crime 30th Anniversary at the Leomister Public Library.

Ruth and fellow writers at Malice Domestic 2012 on the "If Lucy Ricardo were a Sleuth" panel.

Ruth�s short mystery �Skye Farm Standoff� will be published in Level Best Books upcoming anthology Dead Calm: Crime Stories by New England Writers. (November 2011)

Ruth and fellow SinC/NE writers discuss mystery writing at her old hometown library in Prospect, CT.

Congratulations to Hank Phillippi Ryan whose short story, "On the House," (Level Best Books) won the 2009 AGATHA AWARD for Best Short Story!

Ruth and Jan Brogan discuss writing mysteries at Dedham Public Library.

I'm thrilled to announce that my short story, "No Flowers for Stacey," (DEADFALL: CRIME STORIES BY NEW ENGLAND WRITERS) won the 2009 Derringer Award for Best Flash Fiction, presented by the Short Mystery Fiction Society at Bouchercon 2009.
In photo: Clark Howard, Golden Derringer Award; Ruth M. McCarty, Derringer Award for Best Flash Story; Linda Landrigan, Editor AHMM; Janet Hutchings Editor EQMM; Jim Doherty, SMFS. (Click image for larger version.)

I'm a judge for the Al Blanchard award this year. For information on how to submit a story, please visit website of the New England Crime Bake.

My short story, "No Flowers for Stacey," appears in DEADFALL: CRIME STORIES BY NEW ENGLAND WRITERS, the latest anthology published by Level Best Books.

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