Greetings Fellow Mystery Lovers,
I can’t thank everyone enough for buoying my spirits and encouraging me to keep writing. And my author friends, who I finally can reconnect with in person (yea!) who have created an explosion of talent in myriad genre during the shutdown. Prepare for your favorites' exceptional offerings!
Writing is my addiction of choice; as natural as breathing. And hearing that readers loved my stories and ask when the next book is coming out. That makes a year's work even more special and keeps my imagination diabolical yarns. Thank you!
Be safe. Be happy. Thank a Veteran and a First Responder. And keep reading!
Nancy
p.s. Books make great gifts. It's not too soon to think about Mother's and Father's Day, graduation, and birthdays. Why not buy a few of your favorite author's to thank your hosts? And don't forget to post 5-star reviews to promote those authors.
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Finally! In Person Events! I'm giddy with delight to be out there and meet readers and friends. Like the Edgar Symposium, just held in NYC. Please stay in touch.
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Check my "X" and FB pages, both at hughescribe1, for updated news.
Upcoming!
Books signed at The Mysterious Bookshop, 58 Warren Street in Tribeca. Pick up a signed copy of my latest mystery, By Rook or By Crook. This amazing independent bookstore, is the oldest and largest in the country; possibly the world. If you're in NYC (near ground zero) please stop in and tell then I sent you.
2025 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Friday, June 27. I'm thrilled to be a Finalist for By Rook or By Crook. You can watch me receive my medal live or archieved on Facebook.
Meet me at American Library Assoc. (ALA) in Philadelphia June 28-30, at the Philadelphia Convention Center. (same venue as the PHS Flower Show). I'll be at my publisher Headline Book's Booth 1762.
There, The Point of the Bodkin, my eighth mystery novel, will be available for the first time at the conference. It's the sequel to By Rook or by Crook, to be released by Headline Books on June 24. Both are available in trade paperback and ebooks at fine bookstores everywhere or directly through from Headline Books. Stop by and help me celebrate my eighth mystery's debut. I can sign copies of both for you.
Books! Books! Books! Saturday, September 27, 2025 from 12 - 5 p.m. Windham Lancaster Resort Expo Center, 2300 Lincoln Highway East, Lancaster, PA 17602. An author's and book buyer's dream and chance to meet authors. I'll be there to sign my novels!
The Southern Christmas Show, November 13-23, 2025. Find me at my publisher's booth, Headline Books, on Saturday the 15th. The Park Expo & Conference Center, 800 Briar Creek Road, Charlotte NC. Nov 2024. Visit southernchristmasshow.com for details.
BCTV's Pub Date with an Author Find my interview with Marilyn Klimcho. You can watch it any time, including their archieves, at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0eQiwK-PQs And, if you missed my interview with host Susan Pena on BCTV on a previous "Pub Date With an Author," you can also find it on BCTV's website archive, (bctv.org)
BOLO for news and opportunities through the New York Chapter of the Mystery Writers of America (MWANY.org) The Chapter includes six states: PA, NY, NJ, WVa, MD and CT. Check out their offerings near you.
The National MWA (mysterywriters.org) is the premier organization for mystery and crime writers, professionals allied to the crime-writing field, aspiring crime writers and folks who just love to read crime fiction. Check it out!
Runners Take Note and Join Me: I'll be volunteering in the Friends of the Reading Hospital's Road Run on Sunday, November 19, 2025, Wyomissing, PA. Great fun, both, and worthy fund raisers. Check out their website.
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Many thanks to these wonderful volunteers programs they present:
Wyomissing Public Library: A Garden Club Presentation, 9 Reading Blvd. Wyomissing, PA, 19610. www.wyopublib.org. The public came and enjoyed my shady secrets.
Murder As You Like It Mystery Conference: An annual event for fans of mystery, spy, thriller and horror novels. Presented by the Mechanicsburg Mystery Bookshop. Check their website for dates and location. And visit their amazing shop at 6 Clauser Road.
Malice Domestic Conference Held annually at 5701 Marinelli Road, North Bethesda, MD. An outstanding event for both authors and fans of the genre.
Pennwriters: Their premier, annual event, a conference, is held alternating years in Pittsburgh and, in 2026, in Lancaster, PA. A wonderful conference for (mostly) Pennsylvania. Meet authors, agents, editors and fans -- fiction, nonfiction, poetry, novels, short stories, magazines, text books. There's something for everyone who reads or writes. Read about all their opportunities for writers of all kinds: https://pennwriters.org.
I was thrilled to be a finalist in Killer Nashville's 2022 Best Mystery competition for Buried Trust. Attention writers: Killer Nashville has been a premier event in the south east for twenty years. Look it up for 2023 at Killernashville.com and think about attending next year.
I was Guest Speaker at the Annual Author’s Tea at The Flanders Hotel in Ocean City, NJ, May 2, 2019. I was honored to speak at the very hotel where I had my college summer job. The event is sponsored by the Ocean City Free Public Library Friends & Volunteers as their major fundraiser.
Buried Trust, my sixth mystery and the fourth in my Trust series, was released Saturday, June 11, 2022, by Black Opal Books.
Buried Trust by Nancy A. Hughes is featured in the September 2022 edition of The Big Thrill magazine. Go here!
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Vanished Reviewed by Kirkus
"An Engrossing read that's built around a chilling premise."--Kirkus Reviews. Read the entire review here: Reviews by Kirkus
Redeeming Trust, the sequel to A Matter of Trust, was in the news!
Click here to read the full article that appeared in the Sunday, December 17, 2017 newspaper facing the best-seller list.
GOOD DAY PA ABC 27
I was interviewed on Good Day PA ABC 27’s “Author Spotlight” on Tuesday, October 30, to talk about her newest novel, “Vanished: A Trust Mystery.” The third mystery in the Trust series will be launched October 27. Good Day PA’s lifestyle TV program airs at 10:30 each weekday afternoon.
Click here to view the program on the ABC27 website.
I was the featured author on Good Day PA! Author Spotlight on Thursday, June 30 at 10 a.m., answering questions about my latest mystery, Buried Trust. If you couldn't get WHTV-TV/abc27--it's central PA--you can watch my interview, above, and on my website. Click the blue line, top of my homepage.
"GOOD DAY PA, abc 27 News," on Thursday, January 23, 2020. The show was broadcast live from their studio in Harrisburg PA, from 10 to 11 a.m. I was featured guest and talked about my suspense novel, The Innocent Hour, and its relevance to today's breadking news about wrongful convictions. It's the sequel to her debut novel, The Dying Hour.
GOOD DAY PA ABC 27 (Nov 2019 exact date TBA)
Nancy will be interviewed on Good Day PA ABC 27’s “Author Spotlight” to talk about her newest novel, “The Innocent Hour,” to be launched Saturday, Octoer 19, 2019. It’s the long-awaited sequel to “The Dying Hour,” which was her dubut novel in 2016. Good Day PA’s lifestyle TV program airs at 10:30 each weekday morning.
Past Favorite Events:
The Mysterious Bookshop
Friday, November 9, at 6:30 p.m.
The Mysterious Bookshop hosted a book signing for Nancy’s new mystery novel, the third in the Trust trilogy. The oldest mystery bookshop in the country is located at 58 Warren Street, NYC, in Tribeca, and shelves works of 1300 mystery writers and 541 Sherlock Holmes items.
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Jungle Red Writers
On Thursday, November 1, Jungle Red Writers hosted Nancy as their blog guest, which coincided with the release of Vanished: A Trust Mystery. Her topics include what inspires her writing, particularly her shade garden. Click to read the entire post.
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