Wednesday, March 20th, 2019

BOOK & AUTHOR PROMOTION ON A SHOESTRING BUDGET 

Our own Dawn Barclay will discuss her steps to success, including:

*Creating A Web & Social Media Presence
*Guest Blogging & Podcast Appearances
*Hosting A Launch Party
* and more strategies that can get you the sales you want.

Plus, you’ll take home an 8-page handout filled with useful tips.

Join us Wednesday, March 20th at
The Jefferson Market Library
10th Street and Sixth Avenue
Meet and greet: 6:00 pm
Program: 6:30 to 8:00 pm
Optional dinner follows

Saturday, April 13th, 2019

Hallie Ephron one day Writing Workshop covering

– A Crime-Fiction Writer’s Toolbox
– Structuring scenes; structuring the novel
– Building memorable characters
– Writing suspense, action, and reflection
– Writing dialogue
– Harnessing viewpoint

$25 for members
9 am – 3 pm with a break for lunch

To reserve send a check to C. Maiorisi, 215 West 90th Street, NY, NY 10024. Details will be emailed.

NOTE: This replaces our regular April monthly meeting

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019

Beth (Jaden) Terrell, SinC national speaker

As Jaden Terrell, Beth Terrell is the internationally published author of the Nashville-based Jared McKean mysteries. She’s a contributor to the Killer Nashville Noir: Coldblooded anthology, the collaborative anthology Eight Mystery Writers You Should be Reading Now, and to Now Write! Mysteries, a collection of writing exercises published by Tarcher/Penguin for writers of crime fiction. Her first book, Racing the Devil, was shortlisted for a Shamus award. Her workbook for beginning crime writers, Question Me a Novel, was published in December.

POLISHING SILVER AND PLANNING FOR  GOLD: REVISION AND EDITING FOR AUTHORS

Join us at The Mysterious Bookshop
58 Warren Street
NYC
Meet and greet: 6:00 pm
Program: 6:30 to 8:00 pm
Optional dinner follows

NOTE: We are meeting at The Mysterious Bookshop, not The Jefferson Market Library

Tuesday, June 18th, 2019

Annual year-end party at Cowgirls restaurant

Details will follow

The October meeting of Sisters in Crime will not be held at the Jefferson Market Library. Instead, members and friends will gather at The Mysterious Bookshop, 58 Warren Street, NYC, to celebrate the publication of Where Crime Never Sleeps, the fourth Murder New York Style anthology. Join us for short readings from the stories, conversation,  beverages and snacks. Books will be available for purchase.

Edited by Elizabeth Zelvin, Where Crime Never Sleeps contains stories by: Fran Bannigan Cox, Lindsay A. Curcio, Joseph R.G. DeMarco, Ronnie Sue Ebenstein, Rhonda Gold, Catherine Maiorisi, Nina Mansfield, Mary Moreno, Anita Page, Ellen Quint, Roslyn Siegel, Kathleen Snow, Triss Stein, Cathi Stoler, Mimi Weisbond, Stephanie Wilson-Flaherty, Elizabeth Zelvin

Join mystery authors Rona Bell, Lindsay A Curcio, Kathleen Snow, Triss Stein, and Elizabeth Zelvin for a discussion and readings from Where Crime Never Sleeps: Murder New York Style
4, the anthology of stories by seventeen members of the New York chapter of Sisters in Crime.

Taking the Mystery out of Your Mystery. A presentation by SJ Rozan.