ERICA MINER
Award-winning author Erica Miner believes opera theatres are the perfect environment for creating fictional mischief! Drawing on her 21 years as a violinist at New York’s famed Metropolitan Opera, Erica’s fanciful plot fabrications reveal the dark side of the opera world in her Julia Kogan Opera Mystery Series: Aria for Murder (Finalist, 2023 Eric Hoffer Book Awards and Chanticleer Independent Book Awards), Prelude to Murder (Distinguished Favorite, 2024 NYC Big Book Awards, and Distinguished Favorite, 2025 Independent Press Awards), and Overture to Murder (Distinguished Favorite, Independent Press Awards). She recently received the Readers House Magazine Editor's Choice Award of Literary Excellence.
Erica’s debut novel, Travels with My Lovers, won the Fiction Prize in the Direct from the Author Book Awards, and her screenplays have won awards in the Writer’s Digest, Santa Fe, and WinFemme competitions. She is also a top speaker and lecturer on music and writing and has given workshops and seminars for writers conferences and in libraries throughout the west coast.
THE JULIA KOGAN OPERA MYSTERIES
