General Membership

Membership is open to all fans, writers, and publishing professionals. There are two levels of membership: Active and Associate.

Active Membership

An active member has sold one or more stories with a Private Investigator as the protagonist.

Associate Membership

An Associate Member is typically someone involved with the publishing and/or sale of PI fiction, or in some cases a writer who is actively writing PI fiction for sale but has not yet sold a PI story. Note that sales of mystery novels and short stories that do not have a PI as the protagonist do not qualify one for active membership. The story that has been sold must have a PI as the protagonist.

Our Online Membership Gateway is now online, so you can join the Private Eyes of America, or renew your current membership.

 

We regret that we can no longer accept checks for Membership dues.

In order to synchronize memberships, all new and renewed Active and Associate Memberships will be valid through the end of 2026.