Sisters in Crime Launches "SinC Talks" Jan 15: Learn How to Create Your "Author Brand"

Looking for a great way to jump start your year? Want to learn how to grab readers’ attention and increase your readership? Join the International Sisters in Crime organization for the first in a series of LIVE Webinars with Dana Kaye. The first event is FREE to members and non-members alike. 

“Your Author Brand”  will be presented by Dana Kaye on Tuesday, January 15, 2019, 3:00-4:00 pm ET

Online Registration is available until: 1/14/2019

Each year, millions of books hit the market, both online and in-stores. How will yours stand out?

While some readers are willing to take a chance on a new author or a book they’ve never heard of, most want a guarantee that the next book they pick up is worth their time and money. That means the established names, the books getting tons of media attention and the current award winners get chosen.

So how can new or midlist authors tap into that buzz? How can you get readers’ attention and build an audience in such a crowded marketplace?

By establishing an author brand.

This workshop will lead you through the steps in identifying your author brand, creating a tagline or brand message, and establishing that brand online.


Dana Kaye is  veteran publicist, social media pro, and brand manager. She founded Kaye Publicity, Inc., a boutique PR company specializing in publishing and entertainment in 2009. Known for her innovative ideas and knowledge of current trends, she coaches her clients on how to identify and establish their unique personal brands. Kaye is also the author of Your Book, Your Brand: The Step-by-Step Guide to Launching Your Book and Boosting Your Sales, and the creator of Branding Outside the Box, where she helps driven entrepreneurs and aspiring leaders become more memorable.

All registered attendees will receive an email with the time and log-in information prior to the event.

The next two SinC Talks will be:

Tuesday, February 12, 2019: Growing an Engaged Community
Social media and email marketing should not be a one-way conversation or a constant wave of self-promotion. The most successful authors are the ones that cultivate relationships with their readers and grow an engaged community.

This workshop will illustrate what happens after a reader becomes familiar with your work, focusing on email marketing, social media, and in-person events.

Tuesday, March 12, 2019: Launch Your Own PR Campaign
Whether you're self-publishing a book, working with a small press, or under contract with a Big Five publisher, most of the promotion responsibilities fall on the author. Between securing review coverage, booking TV and radio appearances, and locating influential bloggers, the book promotion process can feel daunting and overwhelming.

Following the live presentations, all webinars will be available for replay in the MEMBERS ONLY section of the website. Watch for additional programming.  If you have any questions, please email us at Education@sistersincrime.org.

Sisters in Crime is an international organization that promotes the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of (mostly) women crime writers. However, male members are welcome. The organization offers networking, advice and support to mystery authors. The 3600 members in 51 chapters include authors, readers, publishers, agents, booksellers and librarians bound by our affection for the mystery genre and our support of women who write mysteries. 

Speed City Sisters in Crime is the Indiana Chapter which meets on the fourth Saturday of every month at Barnes and Noble Bookstore, 8675 River Crossing Blvd, Indianapolis, IN 46240 (next to Keystone at the Crossing).

Membership in Sisters in Crime is $50 per year, and membership in the Speed City Chapter is $15 per year. Information on membership can be found at https://www.sistersincrime.org and http://www.speedcitysistersincrime.org

Learning What You Write: Speed City Sisters in Crime Receive Weapons Instruction

(From left, Instructor Paula Beeson, Stephen Terrell, Janis Thornton,
Janet Williams, Hawthorn Mineart, Lillie Evans & Ramona Henderson

It is not a surprise that the stories and novels of Speed City Sisters in Crime often include firearms. But what may surprise some is the lengths chapter members go to make sure their writing is authentic.

Instructor Paula Beeson of Safe Shotz

Seven members of the Speed City Chapter took a full day class on firearms last Saturday, then headed to the range to test out their new knowledge. 

Paula Beeson is a licensed firearms instructor with more than 35 years experience. She teaches classes in gun safety, shooting and hunting ethics for beginners, intermediate and experienced shooters. She taught the day-long introductory class and later supervised the range experience. 

Brigitte Kephart channeling her best James Bond

Members were taught about various types of handguns and long guns, including revolvers (single action and double action), semi-automatic pistols (including James Bond's Beretta), bolt-action rifles, lever-action rifles (think TV's "The Rifleman"), and semi-auto rifles, including an AR-15.

On the firing line: Hawthorn "Dead Eye" Mineart &
Janet  "The Kid" Williams with Paula Beeson

Paula explored every aspect of how each type of firearm worked, as well as the benefits and drawbacks of each. She also covered aspects of ammunition, including differing bullets and gunpowder used in the cartridge. Paula even came up with scenarios as to how the unique features of specific guns could be used as plot points for stories involving weapons.

Ramona Henderson examines barrel of semi-auto pistol

Much of the time was spent on meticulous and repeated safety instruction. Paula was adamant about the importance of safety, covering everything from basic handling of a weapon, to safety in cleaning a gun, how to handle a gun on a firing range, and even how to safely handle a misfire.

Brigitte "Bullseye" Kephart practicing with laser gun

Before heading out to the range, Sisters in Crime writers tried their hand at laser target shooting. Everyone had a chance to practice their grips, aiming and the necessary steady trigger pull before trying live ammunition.

Brigitte Kephard getting instructions from Paula Beeson

The highlight was the trip to the nearby range, where Paula is a Board Member. The Sisters in Crime members experience with guns ranged from moderately experienced to complete novices. Each member had the opportunity to fire six shots from four handguns:  a .22 revolver ("pop"), a .22 Ruger semi-auto ("crack"); a .380 Sig Sauer semi-auto ("bang") and a booming .38 Special ("BOOM!").

Lillie "Two Gun Grandma" Evans

Even those with a hesitancy about firearms had to admit -- firing the guns was a great experience.

Janis "Big Shot" Thornton

The entire Sisters in Crime group were unanimous that the class and range experience will be tremendously useful in future writing. 

Speed City Brigitte Kephart was responsible for setting up the class.  Those attending included  Brigitte "Bullseye" Kephart,  Janet "The Kid" Williams,  Lillie "Two Gun Grandma" Evans, Janis "Big Shot" Thornton, Ramona "Babyface" Henderson, Hawthorn "Deadeye" Mineart,   and Stephen "Blind Eye" Terrell.

Anyone interested in taking an excellent firearms safety class should contact Paula Beeson at www.safeshotz.com.  
Photos by Janis Thornton & Stephen Terrell

Home and Drama: Reflections by Award-Winning Author Lori Rader-Day

By Lori Rader-Day

Home Is Where the Drama Is

My third novel, The Day I Died, is getting published soon and maybe it will surprise no one that it’s set in Indiana. Well, half of it is. Here’s how the book begins:

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On the day I died, I took the new oars down to the lake. They were heavy, but I was saving myself the second trip. The blades rode flat along the ground, flattening two tracks through the wet grass.

It was morning. The air was cool, but down on the dock, the slats were already hot. I noted a lone fishing boat out on the water. Inside, two men hunched silently over their tackle, their faces turned out across the lake. Beyond them, mist rose off the water, nearly hiding the far shore.

This moment. This is what I return to.

Later, I will note the long crack in the new oar, just before my head goes under, just before the flume of blood rises off my skin under the water like smoke. I will come back to this moment and think, if I had just gone back up the steps to the house immediately. If I had just stayed up at the house in the first place.

If I had just.

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That’s a prologue of sorts. You can read the first full chapter HERE, where you’ll see that the protagonist has survived whatever-this-is to find a home in a small town in Indiana with her son.

I love to write about home. “Home,” though, is a complicated word. Is it where I grew up? Or is where I’ve lived for the last sixteen years? That’s exactly the kind of thing the protagonist of The Day I Died, Anna Winger, thinks about, with one big difference: she can’t go back to hers. Or at least she thinks she won’t. And then there’s the current situation brewing inside her apartment with her son.

 Home makes good stories, because home is where the drama is.

My first novel was set in the surrounds of Chicago; the second back home in Indiana. This one is split between the place Anna lives now and the place she yearns for. I can already tell you that my next next book is set in Michigan; the protagonist is a transplant to Chicago, like me, merely visiting. I had to borrow the Michigan setting, but I was able to bring a Chicagoan’s hard glare to everything she encounters there. That makes the story easier for me to get inside of, the better for me but also the better for my reader.

But with that next work-in-progress drafted, now I have a moment to think: What’s next? The Sisters and Misters of the Speed City Chapter probably feel the same as I do: Ideas are easy. I had three ideas while I was brushing my teeth this morning. But which idea has legs enough to run for four hundred pages? How do I want to spend the next year of my writing life?

It’s really no wonder I so often write about home. Home is where I’d rather be, no matter where I am.

How do you decide the setting of your stories?

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Lori Rader-Day, author of The Day I Died, The Black Hour, and Little Pretty Things, is the recipient of the 2016 Mary Higgins Clark Award and the 2015 Anthony Award for Best First Novel. Lori’s short fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Time Out Chicago, Good Housekeeping, and others. She lives in Chicago, where she teaches mystery writing at StoryStudio Chicago and is the president of the Mystery Writers of America Midwest Chapter and the co-chair of Murder and Mayhem in Chicago.

Lori is also a member of the Speed City Chapter of Sisters in Crime.

Celebrating 30 Years of Sisters In Crime with Award-Winning Author Rhys Bowen

Speed City hosts  internationally renowned author Rhys Bowen and celebrates 30 years of Sisters in Crime

By MB Dabney

  

The Speed City chapter of Sisters in Crime has always loved murder, mystery and mayhem. That love is the heart and soul of what we do.

Best-selling author and Agatha Award Winner Rhys Bowen

Speed City is the only Indiana chapter of the national Sisters in Crime organization. Since the fall of 2007, the chapter has completed five short story mystery anthologies, with the newest, The Fine Art of Murder, hitting book shelves last October.

While the Speed City chapter is only 15 years old, Sisters in Crime this year marks its 30^th anniversary of advocating for female mystery and crime writers, and for diversity in the crime writing industry. And to celebrate, the Speed City is hosting a day of fun on February 25, with internationally renowned bestselling British author Rhys Bowen.

A winner of both the Anthony and the Agatha mystery awards, Rhys is the author of Molly Murphy mystery series and the Royal Spyness series, among other novels and short stories.

Rhys will speak to the chapter at our regularly scheduled monthly meeting at 11:30 a.m., at the Barnes and Noble bookstore on River Crossing Boulevard on the north side of Indianapolis. Following that, the chapter and the College Park Book Club are hosting a British tea for Bowen at the College Park community center on Fordham Road from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Then from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., there is a book fair again at the Barnes and Noble store, with Rhys greeting fans and signing books.

Local authors with stories in the chapter’s five mystery anthologies will also be on hand at Barnes and Nobel to sign copies of our books.

In addition to the The Fine Art of Murder, the chapter’s collection includes Racing Can Be Murder (2007), Bedlam at the Brickyard (2010), Hoosier Hoops and Hijinks (2013), and Decades of Dirt (2015).

The Speed City Chapter is

proud to have Rhys Bowen in Indianapolis to help celebrate Sisters in Crime, which has been serving as the voice for excellence and diversity in crime writing for 30 years.

Bestselling Author Rhys Bowen to Visit Indy Celebrating 30 Years of Sisters in Crime

New York Times bestselling author and Agatha Award winner Rhys Bowen will visit Indianapolis on Saturday, February 25 meeting with fans at two appearances. Her visit is sponsored by Sisters In Crime national organization and hosted local Speed City Chapter, all as part of Sisters in Crime's 30th Anniversary Celebration.

HOW TO MEET RHYS BOWEN:  Saturday, Feb. 25. Fans can meet Rhys at two events. Both events are open to the public and there is no charge.

Rhys will speak and meet with fans from 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. at a Sisters in Crime 30th Birthday Tea. The event will be held at the College Park Neighborhood Clubhouse, 3050 Colby Ln, Indianapolis, IN 46268.

This will be followed by a book signing from 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. at the Barnes & Noble Bookstore, 8675 River Crossing Blvd, Indianapolis, IN 46240, next to the Keystone at the Crossing Fashion Mall. Copies of her books will be available for purchase.

Bestselling author Rhys Bowen

Rhys  is the New York Times Bestselling Author of the Royal Spyness Series, Molly MurphyMysteries, and Constable Evans. She has won the Agatha Best Novel Award and has been nominated for the Edgar Best Novel. Rhys’s titles have received rave reviews around the globe.

Rhys currently writes two mystery series, the atmospheric Molly Murphy novels, about a feisty Irish immigrant in 1900s New York City, and the funny and sexy Royal Spyness mysteries, about a penniless minor royal in 1930s Britain. Her books have made bestseller lists, garnered many awards, nominations, and starred reviews. She was born in England and married into a family with historic royal connections. She now divides her time between California and Arizona.

Rhys was born in Bath, England, of a family that was half Welsh, half English. She was educated at London University and then began her career with the BBC, where she became a drama studio manager. She had made up stories all her life. While working on a boring play she decided to write a play of her own. With the bravado of a 22-year-old, she marched into the office of the head of BBC drama and handed him the script. Two days later he summoned her and told her that they were going to produce the play. Rhys has never looked back.

The British climate forced Rhys to escape to Australia, where she worked for Australian Broadcasting before meeting her future husband, a fellow Brit who was on his way to California. So Rhys packed up again and found herself in San Francisco, where she settled and has lived ever since, raising four children.

Finding nothing like the BBC in San Francisco, Rhys turned to writing children’s books under her married name, Janet Quin-Harkin. Her first picture book was an immediate success and won several awards. More picture books followed, then her agent asked her to write a book for young adults. This was a turning point in Rhys’s career. Her first young adult novel was an instant hit. By her third she was selling half a million copies. Many more popular YA novels followed until Rhys decided she had said all she wanted to say about teenage love and angst, and she turned to her real love—mysteries.

The sort of books she loves to read are those with a great sense of time and place. So she considered where to set a series of her own and chose the mountains of North Wales, where she had spent many happy childhood vacations, and used her grandfather’s name as her nom de plume. Constable Evan Evans was the hero of these novels that took place in a tiny fictitious village in Snowdonia. The series was well received from the start. The second book, Evan Help Us, was nominated for a Barry Award. Evan’s Gate achieved the ultimate success when it was nominated for the Edgar best novel—the highest prize in mysterydom.

But it was a chance visit to Ellis Island that made Rhys start thinking in a new direction. The spunky and not always wise Molly Murphy came into her head, fleeing from Ireland and finding herself implicated in a murder on Ellis Island in the first book, Murphy’s Law. This book won the Agatha Best Novel award, plus three others. Every subsequent book in the series has received awards, nominations and glowing reviews. Book 11, Hush Now, Don’t You Cry, was a New York Times bestseller. Book 16, Time of Fog and Fire, was published in March 2016, and Book 17, The Ghost of Christmas Past, will be a Christmas book in 2017.

Never one to rest on her laurels, Rhys reacted to the gloom and doom of real life by creating a second heroine—this one aimed to amuse. She is Lady Georgiana, 34th in line to the British throne but utterly penniless and struggling to make her own way in the cruel world of the Great Depression. Her Royal Spyness was a bestseller, nominated for many awards, and instantly endeared readers to her heroine. The following books have all received award nominations. The 2011 book, Naughty in Nice, started off with a starred review from Publishers Weekly and was then nominated for an Agatha, Bruce Alexander and RT Reviews award. The audio version was also nominated for an Audie. In April 2012 it won the Agatha Award for best historical mystery. Queen of Hearts (2014) won the Agatha Award. Malice at the Palace (2015) was nominated for the Agatha and won the Left Coast Crime historical award.

In 2016 Rhys was honored with a career achievement award by the RT Convention.

As well as novels, Rhys has written many short stories, including an Anthony winner. She is an ex-chapter president of Mystery Writers of America. When not writing she loves to travel, sing, hike, paint, play her Celtic harp, and spoil her grandchildren.

*Bio from RhysBowen.com website

BOOK REVIEW: In Time and Fog and Fire by Award-Winning Author Rhys Bowen

A Time of Fog and Fire by Rhys Bowen

Reviewed by S. Ashley Couts

       A published writer once told me the best way to engage an audience is to create a great character, put her in a situation and keep throwing rocks at her. That is exactly what occurs in  Rhys Bowen’s  In Time of Fog and Fire.  Molly Murphy Sullivan, a turn of the century former detective, wife and young mother living in New York city is barraged with obstacles. Following intuition and a cryptic message sent in her husband’s letter she bundles her toddler, tucks a few necessities into a carpet bag, folds her frocks into a steamer trunk then heads into the unknown. Will she even find her husband who is on a secret mission for President Roosevelt?

       To tell the truth before reading this book, I was not a fan of historical fiction I prefer contemporary works by the likes of Sue Grafton or Janet Evanovich. But Bowen hooked me right off the bat with two liberated female characters. These two women living together, wearing manly clothing, bravely defying the norm-- Suffragists marching for cause are portrayed as gentle, kind, literate and great, good. She weaves in a visit with Mark Twain, takes us to the Opera where Caruso is appearing and winds us through China town eventually dropping us into the horror of out of control fires.

        Molly is brave and yet, a bit naïve I suppose having littler knowledge of the world beyond New York or her home across the sea. Plunked into the middle of a disaster, she must scramble to survive. As a writer, I admired the way Bowen wound plot and characters through real life historic events name dropping along the way thus revealing not only attention to detail but careful research. I was spurred to head for my computer and text books to look up the San Francisco earth quake—a disaster that left her characters bereft of resources. And while the subject was lush-- the opera, New York City at the turn of the century--the Golden Gates by the sea, the harbors with ships coming and going from the orient, the soldiers with their brass she did not go overboard with description simply etching it deftly into the story so, I could almost feel the snow, the pain, the salt and the moist curl of the fog as well as the loss.

In the end, I am not sure if I’d fallen in love with historical fiction. But, I definitely want to know more. I need to find out if Molly can solve the next crime now that she’s just found she’s pregnant again. She how she hooked me.   

*New York Times bestselling author Rhys Bowen will join the Speed City Sisters in Crime on February 25.  She will speak and meet fans at a Tea from 2 p.m - 4 p.m. at the College Park Neighborhood Clubhouse, then hold a book signing at Barnes and Noble next to Keystone at the Crossing from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. The public is welcome.

PRESS RELEASE: Speed City Sisters in Crime Hosts Bestselling Mystery Author Rhys Bowen

For Immediate Release

February 8, 2017

FROM: Michael Dabney, Speed City Sisters in Crime chapter president

Speed City Sisters in Crime Chapter Celebrates 30th Birthday with Internationally Renowned Author, Rhys Bowen

Tea and Book Signing on Feb. 25

Indianapolis—The Speed City chapter of Sisters in Crime welcomes renowned mystery writer Rhys Bowen on Saturday, Feb. 25, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the founding of the national organization.

Bowen is the featured speaker at a celebration tea from 2-4 p.m. at the College Park Clubhouse, 9001 Fordham St., Indianapolis, IN 46268. From there, she will attend a special book signing and fair from 5-7 p.m. at Barnes and Noble River Crossing, 8675 River Crossing Blvd., Indianapolis, IN 46240. A portion of the book fair proceeds will go the Speed City Sisters in Crime chapter for local programs and activities.

“We are thrilled to have a writer of Rhys Bowen’s stature to join our group of local writers as we celebrate 30 years of great mystery writing,” said Michael Dabney, president of Speed City Sisters in Crime.

Ms. Bowen is an award-winning author of three mystery series, including the Molly Murphy novels about an Irish immigrant in early 1900s New York City and her Royal Spyness books about a penniless minor royal in 1930s Britain. Her books have topped the New York Times best seller lists and she has won one of the top awards for mystery writers, the Agatha Best Novel Award.

Her newest stand-alone novel, In Farleigh Field, will be released March 1.

Ms. Bowen, who was born in England, married into a family with royal connections. She now divides her time between California and Arizona.

“Whether she is writing about turn-of the century New York or Depression-era Britain, her novels never fail to entertain,” Dabney said. “It’s our privilege to welcome her to Indianapolis for this very special event.”

Details of the Feb. 25 celebrations can be found at www.speedcitysistersincrime.org.

Event highlights:

Who: Rhys Bowen, award winning mystery writer

What:

Tea and book signing to celebrate 30 years of Sisters in Crime, an organization to recognize and promote great mystery writing by female authors

Where and when:

2-4 p.m. — Celebration tea at College Park Clubhouse, 9001 Fordham St., Indianapolis, IN 46268

5-7 p.m. — Book signing with Rhys Bowen at Barnes and Noble River Crossing, 8675 River Crossing Blvd., Indianapolis, IN 46240

The Speed City Indiana Sisters in Crime is the local chapter of the national Sisters in Crime organization. Sisters in Crime is an organization dedicated to promoting the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers. It has 3,600 members in 50 chapters worldwide, offering networking advice and support to mystery authors. For more information on the national Sisters in Crime, go to www.sistersincrime.org

How We Write: Are You a Pantser or Plotter -- or Somewhere In Between?

By Monette Michaels

Member, Speed City Sisters in Crime

*Image open source license for reuse

I’m often asked whether I’m a pantser or a plotter when it comes to writing.  I’m neither ... and both.

When I began my writing career, I tried to be a plotter.  I’d start my novels with pages and pages of beautifully outlined plot points and scenes. But once I got past the first chapter or so, I’d realize I wasn’t on point with my outline, that I had gone off in a new direction. Instead of continuing to write, I’d stop, revise the outline using the new direction in which my muse or characters had taken me, and then pick up where I left off in my novel.  After stopping and rewriting/revising my outlines for several books, I finally just said to “hell with it.” I spent more time revising outlines than writing.  What was worse – the outlines stifled my creativity. I had to find another way.

So that made me a pantser, right?  Wrong.

Being A-type, I still needed some structure. There had to be a starting and an end point.  And I soon realized I needed certain things to happen along the way.  I didn’t need to know every scene that would occur in the book, but did have to assure that my characters wouldn’t end up meandering all over creation and getting stuck in the middle.

My solution to this “not-a-plotter, but not-quite-a-pantser” dilemma came after taking some writing classes. The solution? The plot-point method.

In the plot-point method, all a writer needs to know is where to start (the set up) followed by the first main plot point, the inciting incident, where your main character is forced outside his or her comfort zone and forced on a journey to attain a goal. Then after a series of scenes and complications (the middle), there is the second main plot point, the crisis, where the main character is forced to make a decision in an effort to attain his/her goal and which then leads to the final climactic scenes and, eventually, the end.

That’s two plot points. Very important ones to be sure. The bulk of the novel is then made up of scenes that turn on complications facing the character(s) in attaining his/her goal(s).

This simple method allows you the room to let your novel evolve rather than follow a strict outline. And, if your characters are anything like mine, they are fairly bossy and know what needs to happen next.

Thus, when someone asks me whether I am a pantser or a plotter, I tell them I’m a quasi-pantser. Maybe you can be a quasi-pantser, too.

Monette Michaels is a Speed City SINC member who has over twenty-five published novels and is best known for her romantic thriller series, Security Specialists International, and her science fiction romance series, The Prime Chronicles.  She also has written paranormal romantic suspense under the pen name Rae Morgan.

All Hallows' Evil - Tales for Halloween

Speed City Sisters in Crime member Sarah E. Glenn has edited an anthology of mystery and crime All Hallow's Evil, published by Mystery and Horror LLC, features a story by Speed City member Marianne Halbert, as well as Sisters in Crime members Gloria Alden, Erin Farwell, Harriette Sackler and Agatha winner Barb Goffman.
stories for Halloween.

The print version of the book is available through CreateSpace (click here). Through October, enter the following code for a 50 percent discount:  S58DAU48
  

LAST CALL FOR SPEED CITY RETREAT ! ! !

Deadline is coming up August 5 for registering for the Speed City Sisters In Crime Retreat September 30 - October 2 at Bradford Woods.

Here's a message from Cheryl Shore:

This is a final call for members to sign up for the retreat on Sept 30 thru Oct 2, 2016, at Bradford Woods. If you've already made your deposit, you can stop reading. You don't need to do anything further at this time. 

However, if you are still planning on attending but haven't made your deposit, you need to let me know ASAP and get your $50 deposit to Brenda Stewart. After Friday, August 5, we'll be opening our remaining slots to non members at a higher price. We only have a few spots left, and if members take them - of course, the nonmembers won't have this opportunity. 

Our last retreat was a great success. We had perfect weather and enjoyed the programming, as well as having time to write and critique. 

Bouchercon: Going Early? "SinC Into Writing" Workshop Features Walter Mosely

Bouchercon  is the GenCon of mystery writers and fans. This year's event is September 15-18 in New Orleans. But if you're planning on attending, you might consider heading down a day early to take in the Sisters In Crime "SinC Into Writing" workshop on Wednesday, September 14.

The event runs from 1p.m. to 6 p.m. and features noted author Walter Mosely, author of 43 books including the popular Easy Rawlins series.Other speakers include  Greg Herren, Cindy Brown, Linda Rodriguez, and Frankie Bailey.

For more information on the SinC into Writing, including registration, CLICK HERE.