May 21, 2020 Mystery author Carmen Amato breaks down the best-selling business book, THE 10X RULE by Grant Cardone, to show how it applies to a writing career. Entitled "What Writers Have to Learn From the 10X Rule," the article appeared as a guest post for Jane...
16 May 2020 NARCO NOIR, the 8th installment in the Detective Emilia Cruz police procedural series set in Acapulco by Carmen Amato, is now available in ebook and paperback formats from Laurel & Croton. A bitter past drives Acapulco’s first female police detective...
August 24, 2019 Carmen Amato has won the 2019 Silver Falchion Award in the Short Story/Collection category from the Killer Nashville International Writers Conference for THE ARTIST a Detective Emilia Cruz short story published in the bilingual illustrated volume THE...
August 1, 2019 Mystery author Carmen Amato received the 2019 Poison Cup Award for Outstanding Series from CrimeMasters of America for the Detective Emilia Cruz police series set in Acapulco. As the first female police detective in Acapulco, Emilia Cruz confronts...
July 31, 2019 In "The Women of Narco Noir," thriller authors Carmen and Amato discuss the four female character types prevalent in narco noir genre literature for Criminal Element, one of the leading websites devoted to crime fiction. The article is available here:...
April 28, 2019 Mystery author Carmen Amato has been inducted into the Arts Hall of Fame in her hometown of Rome, New York, at a ceremony honoring 7 new inductees at the historic Capital Theater. According to the Rome Daily Sentinel, "The Class of 2019 is the...
February 27, 2019 Criminal Element, one of the leading sites devoted to crime fiction, published "The Ascent of Narco Noir: A Literary Game Changer," co-written by thriller writers Carmen Amato and Jeanine Kitchel. Find it here:...