C.S. O'Cinneide

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C.S. O'Cinneide
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C.S. O'Cinneide
Born Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Pen nameC.S. O'Cinneide
OccupationWriter
Nationality Canadian
Genrefiction
Notable works Petra's Ghost
Website
shekillslit.com

C.S. O'Cinneide is a Canadian writer of crime fiction and literary horror, as well as the writer of a blog featuring women authors. Her debut novel, Petra's Ghost, was a semi-finalist in the Goodreads Choice Awards for 2019. [1] [2] Her second novel in the Candace Starr Crime series, Starr Sign, was nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original by the Mystery Writers of America in 2022. [3]

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Education

C.S. O’Cinneide was born in Toronto, Ontario and attended high schools both in Canada and the United States.  She studied at the University of Toronto in the 1990s while a single parent of two children, graduating With Distinction in Sociology.

After working as an IT analyst for decades, in 2015 O’Cinneide walked the Camino de Santiago, a 500-mile pilgrimage in northern Spain. This experience, as well as the disappearance of a female pilgrim at the time, inspired her first novel, Petra's Ghost. [4]

Writing career

C.S. O’Cinneide's debut novel, Petra's Ghost was promoted as literary fiction despite appearing on multiple horror genre book lists, [5] [6] [7] [8] possibly due to a haunting that takes place as part of the story. The novel was named one of the “summer's best horror books” by the Toronto Star where it was noted for "Structuring a novel around a traditional Christian pilgrimage" despite "the overwhelmingly secular, even atheist tone of our times." [9] Petra's Ghost was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for Horror in 2019. [1]

The Starr Sting Scale, published in February 2020, was O’Cinneide's first book in a series, "that could have been written in 1940" if not for the female protagonist, a "functioning alcoholic" and former hitwoman named Candace Starr. [10] The second book in the series, Starr Sign, was nominated in 2022 by the Mystery Writers of America for a prestigious Edgar Award in the category of Best Paperback Original. Starr Sign was the only novel written by a Canadian to be nominated in the adult fiction category in that year. [3]

In the fall of 2022, O'Cinneide will publish her fourth novel, a domestic noir titled Eve's Rib.

Since 2018, the author has hosted the crime fiction book blog, She Kills Lit, where she showcases women writers in the thriller and noir fiction genres. She has interviewed such authors as C.J. Tudor, Denise Mina and C.J.Cooke.

Bibliography

Novels

Short stories

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References

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  2. ↑ "C.S. O'Cinneide in Semi-final for Goodreads Choice Award | Vocamus Press".
  3. 1 2 "MWA Announces the 2022 Edgar Award Nominations – Mystery Writers of America" . Retrieved 2022-04-16.
  4. ↑ Russell, Susannah (July 26, 2019). "Interview with Petra's Ghost author C.S. O'Cinneide". Stories for Ghosts. Retrieved November 19, 2019.
  5. ↑ Booth, Max (December 5, 2018). "The 15 Most Anticipated Horror Books of 2019". LitReactor. Retrieved November 19, 2019.
  6. ↑ Navarro, Meagan (2019-06-01). "Summer Scares: Bloody Disgusting's Horror Reading Guide for a Spooky Summer!". Bloody Disgusting!. Retrieved 2019-11-19.
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