Background
Kris Neri was born on June 24, 1948, in Newark, New Jersey, United States, to Margaret O'Brien Doroshenko.
Kris Neri
Morgantown, WV 26506, United States
From 1966 to 1968, Kris attended West Virginia University.
120 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02116, United States
During the period from 1969 to 1970, Kris studied at Emerson College.
Morgantown, WV 26506, United States
From 1966 to 1968, Kris attended West Virginia University.
120 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02116, United States
During the period from 1969 to 1970, Kris studied at Emerson College.
Kris Neri and her dog, Annabelle
(Meet Tracy Eaton, mystery writer, detective wannabe and t...)
Meet Tracy Eaton, mystery writer, detective wannabe and the offspring of reality-challenged Hollywood stars. Trouble always knows how to find Tracy, but she never expects it to pop up at her sister-in-law's wedding - until the bride is kidnapped.
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1999
(When the cops catch mystery writer Tracy Eaton's mom, Hol...)
When the cops catch mystery writer Tracy Eaton's mom, Hollywood legend, Martha Collins, alone with the bloody remains of celebrity litigant Vince Sperry - holding nothing but a lame excuse - Tracy leaps to her mother's defense, despite her own publication woes.
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2000
(Hit by a car and left for dead on a San Diego street, it ...)
Hit by a car and left for dead on a San Diego street, it is only because of her indomitable will that professional triathlete Zoey Morgan is able to fight her way back from death's door. Too bad, she left behind in that nether world, not only her memory of the vehicular assault, but the events, that led up to it. When the attacks against her escalate, and the police seem to regard Zoey more as a suspect than a victim, she must struggle alone to save her own life.
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2005
(Award-winning short mystery fiction writer, Kris Neri, de...)
Award-winning short mystery fiction writer, Kris Neri, delivers quite a selection of thrills in this compilation.
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2008
(Imagine the surprise of fake psychic Samantha Brennan, wh...)
Imagine the surprise of fake psychic Samantha Brennan, when she encounters the real thing - that's right: an honest-to-heavens Celtic goddess, hidden beneath the steely exterior of FBI Special Agent Annabelle Haggerty. Yet Annabelle's magical powers might not be enough, when America's sweet and sexy movie star, Molly Claire, is made the centerpiece of a gangland siege, that brings the City of Angels to its knees. And if Annabelle and her family of deities are no match for the Demon of Darkness, that she believes is masterminding LA's own Armageddon, what chance does a poor little fake like Samantha have?
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2009
(Free-spirited Tracy cheers, when her stuffy husband, Drew...)
Free-spirited Tracy cheers, when her stuffy husband, Drew, loosens up enough to rearrange the nose of his secretive boss, Ian Dragger. But Drew's timing couldn't be worse.
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2010
(When Megan Aguila's brilliant, but emotionally erratic hu...)
When Megan Aguila's brilliant, but emotionally erratic husband, Nick, is released from prison for a crime he didn't commit, it seemed as if all their troubles were over. But then Nick was kidnapped and held for a staggering ransom.
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2011
(Fake psychic Samantha Brennan and Celtic goddess/FBI agen...)
Fake psychic Samantha Brennan and Celtic goddess/FBI agent Annabelle Haggerty team up again. While the rock people twist the surface of the earth and Sedona heads into the darkest night the planet has ever seen, Samantha wonders which, if any of them, will survive it. But when Celtic gods are involved, nothing is ever as it appears.
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2011
(Historic Route 66: With its signs for "New Dead Things," ...)
Historic Route 66: With its signs for "New Dead Things," the Biker Bunny Bin and the Kontiki Pizza and Chinese Restaurant, that serves only waffles - it's kitchy, crazy and fun. How appropriate, that it would hold a place of importance to unconventional Tracy Eaton and her dad, aging Hollywood hunk, Alec Grainger.
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2013
(Witness Protection surviver, Kylie Taylor, has been throu...)
Witness Protection surviver, Kylie Taylor, has been through the wringer. After witnessing a crime, committed by Russian mobster, Alexei Zhukov, and getting shot herself, she was whisked into WITSEC, losing the life she'd built and loved, along with the family and friends she held dear.
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2019
(Poor Plum Tardy. Between being saddled with a goofy name,...)
Poor Plum Tardy. Between being saddled with a goofy name, to the way she misquotes proverbs, to her quirky style of dress, Plum always feels out of synch with other people. But even if others do seem to move in lockstep toward successes Plum can't even imagine, while she erratically leaps through life, as if it were some giant hopscotch court, that doesn't explain the startling way her life unravels.
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2020
Kris Neri was born on June 24, 1948, in Newark, New Jersey, United States, to Margaret O'Brien Doroshenko.
From 1966 to 1968, Kris attended West Virginia University. She also studied at Emerson College from 1969 to 1970.
During her lifetime, Neri held many positions, including those of an actress, secretary, member of management staff at a medical laboratory, insurance salesperson and retail clerk. Until 2015, Neri worked at the Well Red Coyote Bookstore in Sedona, Arizona. Currently, Kris teaches crime writing online for the prestigious Writers' Program of the UCLA Extension School and other organizations. She is also a guest on media programs.
Kris Neri writes novels, such as Hopscotch Life, a quirky, accept yourself in all your glory, women's fiction-crime crossover. She is also the author Samantha Brennan and Annabelle Haggerty magical mystery series, High Crimes on the Magical Plane and Magical Alienation, featuring a questionable psychic, who teams up with a contemporary goddess/FBI agent. Kris has also published some standalone thrillers, including Never Say Die, Trust No One and Devil's Gambit - Devil's Due.
In addition, Kris has published some sixty-plus short stories in such publications, as Blue Murder Magazine, Murderous Intent Mystery Magazine, Woman's World, Mystery Time, Futures and many others, as well as some well-received anthologies in the United States and overseas. Some of her stories have been collected in The Rose in the Snow: Tales of Mischief and Mayhem, a short story collection.
Kris also often works as a freelance editor for novelists and short story writers. In addition, she provides on-going writing coaching for writers, who need personal attention.
Kris Neri is best known as a prolific author of nonfiction, magical mysteries, short stories and thrillers. Some of Neri's short stories have been translated into German, and her books are slated for publication in Japanese.
Neri's novels have been finalists for such prestigious awards, as the Agatha, Anthony and Macavity. Her works have been honored with three Lefty Award nominations for humor. One of her most recent works, Revenge on Route 66: A Tracy Eaton Mystery, was a New Mexico-Arizona Book Award finalist. Neri won the same award for her work, titled Magical Alienation, in 2012.
(When the cops catch mystery writer Tracy Eaton's mom, Hol...)
2000(Imagine the surprise of fake psychic Samantha Brennan, wh...)
2009(Hit by a car and left for dead on a San Diego street, it ...)
2005(Historic Route 66: With its signs for "New Dead Things," ...)
2013(When Megan Aguila's brilliant, but emotionally erratic hu...)
2011(Free-spirited Tracy cheers, when her stuffy husband, Drew...)
2010(Award-winning short mystery fiction writer, Kris Neri, de...)
2008(Meet Tracy Eaton, mystery writer, detective wannabe and t...)
1999(Fake psychic Samantha Brennan and Celtic goddess/FBI agen...)
2011(Witness Protection surviver, Kylie Taylor, has been throu...)
2019(Poor Plum Tardy. Between being saddled with a goofy name,...)
2020Kris says, that when she was growing up, it was hard to find strong female role models for her stories. She has loved the mystery since she first discovered Nancy Drew as a little girl. Nancy Drew, a fictional character, a sleuth in an American mystery series, created by publisher Edward Stratemeyer as the female counterpart to his Hardy Boys series, was such an intrepid, adventurous heroine - the exact opposite of what Kris was being taught to be at home and in school.
Today, Neri says, that when she reads books in the Nancy Drew series, especially in their original form, she finds them a little stilted and racially insensitive, to say the least. But as a young girl, Nancy Drew gave her the image of the smart, courageous girl Kris could also be. And that shaped the woman and the writer Neri would become. Those books were actually so influential in Kris's life, that these books sparked in her a love of the mystery form, primarily because it reinforced Neri's own belief, that justice is critically important. Since one sometimes sees too little justice in the real world, Neri thinks both writers and readers often need to experience vicariously the sensation of right prevailing in print. What Neri likes most about the modern mystery is that, while justice is always served, it isn't always in the most obvious or predictable way.
Neri also says, that she has observed, that, both in life and in mystery fiction, crimes are often committed to keep wrongs hidden. In life, too often, the secrets, that should be aired, are not, and the ones, that should be kept, to protect the innocent, are exposed, thus hurting the innocent in both situations. On her mind, the desire to write is often accompanied by an equally strong desire to be published and read. Too often frustrated writers find themselves trying to write, not the stories, that grow inside them, but what they think will sell. Not only are publishing trends too erratic to predict, but that outlook is guaranteed to produce soulless writing. Neri thinks, that the only way to write with the conviction, that will influence publishing decision-makers, is to write the things you love and in which you genuinely believe.
However, Neri also advises writers to become staunch, persistent advocates of their own writings. No one else will ever believe in a writer the way she or he believes in her/himself. With publishing opportunities shrinking, writers need to bring as much creativity and determination to their marketing efforts as they do to their writing. Kris believes, that, before attending a conference, at which there might be an opportunity for meeting agents and editors, a new writer should write a short, sharp description of his book and commit it to memory. Then, when an opportunity to talk about his book arises, he can rattle out a compelling pitch without fumbling.
Quotations:
"Though I've written a fair amount of nonfiction and even a couple of romance short stories and I'd like to write some mainstream fiction in the future, the literary love of my life has always been mystery fiction."
"I don't think we choose our genres, I think they choose us, by meeting needs we may not even know we have."
"I like that in writing crime fiction I get to decide, which secrets are kept and which are brought to light. Some might say it's playing God, but I think it's just putting things right."
"It's quite a heady thrill to know my work is being read by people across the globe. Beyond my own personal experience, though, the fact, that fiction does well in translations, makes me think we humans share many commonalities, that transcend national borders and language differences."
Kris is a former member of the Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, American Crime Writers League, Romance Writers of America, Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
Kris is fond of reading, hiking, skiing, swimming and cooking. Neri has been a lifelong voracious reader. Her tastes are varied. She loves mysteries - both cozies and those, that are darkish, but humorous mysteries are her favorites. She also reads thrillers, urban fantasy, humorous urban fantasy, general fiction, personal growth and a little bit of everything else.
On July 29, 1968, Neri married Joseph R. Neri, an investment advisor.
