Make Your Own Mystery Story with Richard Cass, Jule Selbo, & Julia Spencer-Fleming In-Person
Join three of the best minds in Crime Fiction to create a mystery of our very own! We'll develop the who what why where how and throw in a few red herrings just for fun.
- Date:
- Thursday, September 18, 2025
- Time:
- 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Meeting Room
- Audience:
- Adults
- Categories:
- Author Talks Writing
Richard Cass is the author of the Elder Darrow jazz mystery series: Solo Act was a finalist for the 2017 Maine Literary Awards in Crime Fiction. Its prequel, In Solo Time, won the 2018 Maine Literary Award in Crime Fiction. Burton's Solo was released in 2018 and the fourth book in the series, Last Call at the Esposito, will release in September, 2019.
Cass holds a graduate degree in writing from the University of New Hampshire, where he studied with Thomas Williams, Jr. and Joseph Monninger. He has also studied with Ernest Hebert, Ursula K. LeGuin, and Molly Gloss. He has been an Individual Artist's Fellow for the state of New Hampshire and a Fellow at the Fishtrap Writers' Conference in Oregon. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Playboy, Gray’s Sporting Journal, ZZYZVA, and Best Short Stories of the American West. He lives in Cape Elizabeth, ME.
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Jule Selbo left a long and successful career as a produced screenwriter (TV and film) in Los Angeles to move to Maine and focus on writing novels. Her first was a mystery/romance titled Find Me in Florence, (1st Place Chatelaine Award) followed by two historical fiction novels, the first about the amazing experimental physicist Laura Bassi in the 1700s, Breaking Barriers, recipient of a Goethe Award, the other Dreams of Discovery, about Giovanni Caboto (we know him as John Cabot) who, in 1497, sailed under England’s flag and claimed a large portion of the eastern seaboard for King Henry VII. Jule moved into her favorite genre – mystery crime: her Dee Rommel Mystery Series is well underway with the spring 2025 publication of the latest novel, 7 Days, A Dee Rommel Mystery.
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Julia Spencer-Fleming is an American author of bestselling mysteries, and religious mystery novels set in the Adirondack region of Upstate New York. She’s the winner of Agatha, Anthony Macavity, Dilys, Barry, Nero Wolfe, and Gumshoe Awards, and an Edgar and Romantic Times RC Award finalist. Born at Plattsburgh Air Force Base, she spent her childhood constantly moving.
She studied history and acting at Ithaca College, receiving her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Maine School of Law. Currently, she resides outside of Portland Maine with her husband and children as well as two dogs.
The first novel that Julia Spencer-Fleming wrote is called ‘In the Bleak Midwinter’, and this is the first novel in this mystery series. Clare Fergusson, St. Alban’s new priest, barely fits in at the old-fashioned Episcopal parish. She’s not only a lady, she’s also a hardened ex-army chopper pilot and wise as an owl. When a newborn is left at her church door, she’s brought together with police boss Russ Van Alstyne.
