When friend, Donna Carrick and I co-founded the Mesdames of Mayhem in 2013, little did we realize that our 13 member group would double in size and become a national organization. Nor did we foresee that we’d have a CBC documentary made about us and publish six anthologies, all with the brand of “13”. After all, thirteen has been our lucky number!
Every year stories in our antho’s have been nominated for the CWC Award of Excellence or the Derringer. Two of our stories have won :”The Outlier”, by Catherine Astolfo in 13 Claws (never trust a man what keeps pigs) and “Hatcheck Bingo” by Therese Greenwood in The 13th Letter (never underestimate hardworking women).
And so, we’re super-delighted to announce our seventh anthology, The Power of 13, with the theme of luck, fate, karma, chance, games of chance, deadly gambles…
Publication date September, 2026. Stand by for our spectacular cover reveal!!
