Elizabeth Sims
Elizabeth Sims is an American writer living on the West Coast. She is best known for her Lillian Byrd mysteries, a four-novel series published by Alyson Books (New York), beginning in 2002. The second book in the series, Damn Straight, won a 2003 Lambda Literary Award. The main character, Lillian Byrd, is a reporter turned sleuth whose quest for true love takes her into dangerous places. The series, set mostly in the Detroit, Michigan, area, is noted for its off-kilter characters and wry humor.
In 2008, Sims launched a new suspense series with St. Martin's Press Minotaur. The first novel, The Actress, was published in June, 2008. This new series represents Sims's departure from the gay-lesbian genre niche to mainstream suspense fiction. The main character, Rita Farmer, is a single mother and struggling Hollywood actress who is recruited to secretly coach the unsympathetic defendant in a high-profile murder trial.
Sims has written several articles for Writer's Digest Magazine.
Sims has degrees in English from Michigan State University and Wayne State University. She is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and American Mensa.
Novels
- The Actress (2008, St. Martin's Minotaur)
- Easy Street: A Lillian Byrd Crime Story (2005, Alyson Books)
- Lucky Stiff: A Lillian Byrd Crime Story ( 2004, Alyson Books)
- Damn Straight: A Lillian Byrd Crime Story (2003, Alyson Books)
- Holy Hell: A Lillian Byrd Crime Story (2002, Alyson Books)
Short Fiction and Poetry
- "I am Calico Jones" - short story in Romance for Life, ed. by Lori L. Lake and Tara Young, Intaglio Publications, 2006.
- "Play Money" - short story in Best Lesbian Love Stories 2004, ed. by Angela Brown, Alyson Books, 2004.
- "For Faye" - short story in A Woman’s Touch, ed. by Valerie Reed, Alyson Books, 2003.
- "The Smudge" - a populist-style literary journal based in Detroit (now defunct). Poems in Spring 1978, Summer 1978, Winter 1978-79.
- Moving Out - a feminist literary annual (now defunct):
- - Short story "Beautiful" vol. 13, 1987.
- - Short story "Cleva" vol. 14, 1989. Co-winner, prose contest.
- - Served on editorial board, 1992-93.
- Nonfiction Port Angeles Symphony Orchestra: Seventy-Five Years of Music on the Strait, with Ned Thomas, published by the symphony, 2007.
Articles
- "A New York Lunch," forthcoming feature in Writer's Digest.
- "Learning from the Classics," forthcoming feature in Writer's Digest.
- "A Hollywood Hunt for Deep Background," feature in Writer's Digest, December, 2007.
- "Start Me Up!" feature in Writer's Digest, December, 2006.
- "Store Wars," lead article in LOGOS: Journal of the World Book Community, vol. 13, issue 2, (2002).
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