EUROPEAN INFLUENCES: How Living Abroad Affected My Thriller Writing by William Burton McCormick – Wednesday October 9, 2024 at 7:00 pm (EDT)

William Burton McCormick is an Edgar Award-nominated writer whose short fiction regularly appears in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post and elsewhere. Twenty-four of his best stories are included in his new collection Deeds of Darkness from Level Best Books. 

William is a graduate of Brown University, earned an MA in Novel Writing from the University of Manchester and was elected a Hawthornden Writing Fellow in Scotland.  He is the author of the acclaimed thrillers House of Tigers, A Stranger from the Storm and KGB Banker. His historical novel of the Baltic Republics, Lenin’s Harem, was the first work of fiction added to the permanent library at the Latvian War Museum in Rīga. A native of Nevada, William lived nearly twenty years in Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia and Russia for writing purposes.

William will be talking about his experiences living in Eastern European countries and how his time there influenced his use of setting and served as research and inspiration for fiction of all lengths and in many genres.