Welcome!

The Sisters in Crime Greater St. Louis Chapter is dedicated to helping every writer achieve the dream of publication. It is a place for men and women to find camaraderie and encouragement. Our main goal is to create an active, non-competitive atmosphere for writers, readers, and other lovers of the mystery genre.

Congratulations to our members and their books published in 2023!


Members are cordially invited to
a Good Old-Fashioned
Sisters in Crime

Picnic

Chef John
Here’s our magic chef John Frain

Join Greater St. Louis Sisters in Crime for a potluck picnic in the park
Kirkwood Park at 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday April 24, 2024.
John, Gary, and Fedora invite you to bring the whole family for good talk, good times, and great food.

Let me know ASAP how many people and what you plan to bring, Please RSVP by April 20 to Fedora@Fedoraamis.com. Check our website (https://sistersincrimestl.org/) for food updates.

Sign up for an open category below so we’ll have a grand assortment of goodies.

  1. Paper-plastic goods (plates, napkins, cups, plastic ware) -Fedora (1)
  2. Cooler of drinks (soda, water, etc) – Gary (2)
  3. Grillables and stuff – John (1)
  4. Buns and fixin’s –
  5. Chips, Veg, and dip –
  6. Dessert –
  7. Side –
  8. Number of people expected – 4
    Directions: (If you need more complete directions, just ask.) The park is at 111 S. Geyer Road if you want to put that into your GPS.

Heading west on Adams at Geyer, turn left into Kirkwood Park at the second entrance off Adams. Make an immediate right. When you go up a slight hill, you’ll find us at the Campbell shelter on the left.

If you get lost, just follow the billowing smoke from Frain burning the burgers.

See y’all there!
Grillmaster Frain

Monthly Meeting of Greater St Louis Sisters in Crime

Kirkwood Park at 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday April 24, 2024.


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Our own SinC chapter member and publisher of her own imprint at White City Press, Sandy Murphy, is offering a great opportunity for you!

Anthology of St. Louis short stories with deadline of April 30, 2024

Yeet Me in St. Louis: Humorous Crime Fiction From Under the Arch

www.mistimedia.com/yeet/

The Arch has to be a feature in the story but doesn’t have to be the main focus. We don’t want a dozen people all killed down at the Arch. If you have any questions, feel free to email me. Deadline is April 30, pay is $25 so stories qualify for awards.

I’d love to see submissions from you and the other SiC members.

Sandy Murphy

Yeet: Transitive Verb: to throw especially with force and without regard for the thing being thrown.

The St. Louis Arch is one of the most iconic symbols of the Midwest. It presides over a city filled with great music, barbecue and blues. But under every city lies an undercurrent of crime, mischief and murder. Yeet Me in St. Louis is a humorous crime fiction anthology to showcase the writing talent of this terrific American city, and is the first installment in our new Humorous Crime Across the Country series celebrating the best humorous crime fiction from around the United States.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

1. Your work must take place in St. Louis and the Arch needs to make an appearance in the story (although it does not need to be the main location for the story).
2. This anthology is for the celebration of the city of St. Louis and of St. Louis/Missouri authors. This anthology is only open to authors currently living in or having lived in St. Louis and/or Missouri. Please be ready to prove this should your story be accepted.
3. Humor must be a very strong element, but you still must have a STORY and a good crime/mystery.
4. LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC characters and authors very, very strongly encouraged. Be authentic!
5. All works must be original to this publication and cannot have been published or self-published previously.
6. We’re perfectly ok with simultaneous submissions to other publishers, but please let us know if you’d like your story withdrawn from consideration.

TECHNICAL GUIDELINES

1. We’re not looking for flash fiction, but we’re not against it if it works. Prefer more in the regular short story length (3000-5000 words).
2. All submissions need to be in DOC, DOCX or Pages format. Everyone knows by now that we don’t care about fonts and spacing and all that other stuff.
3. All entries should be sent to smurphy@mistimedia.com with YEET in the subject heading. All entries will be acknowledged.
4. All submissions need to be received no later than 11:59PST, April 30th, 2024. Decisions will be made by May 15th. We will do our best to notify authors early if their work is not accepted, but they cannot be resubmitted. Estimated publication is July 2024.
5. Stories will pay $25 per contributor, due within 90 days of publication of the anthology. Contributors have the choice of receiving $25 or applying it towards author copies. All contributors will receive an ebook copy and deep discounts on paperback versions. Our anthology agreement gives us exclusive rights for six months from publication date, then non-exclusive rights thereafter, meaning that contributors are free to reuse their story in any manner they wish after the first six months of publication.
6. Original stories only, no reprints.
7. The anthology will be limited to no more than 12 stories.
8. This anthology will be published under a special “Sandra Murphy Presents” imprint of our White City Press house.

Please direct all questions to Yeet anthology editor Sandra Murphy at smurphy@mistimedia.com.


Congratulations to our officers for 2024


President – Sarahlynn Lester
Vice-President – Fedora Amis
Secretary – Marjory and Thomas Drennan
Treasurer – Laine Boyd

Our spotlight interviews of authors and mystery subgenres are now viewable on our You Tube Channel – Sisters in Crime Greater St. Louis Branch.

  • Classic with Laine Boyd
  • True Crime with Charlotte Ekker Wiggins
  • Amateur Sleuth with Mary Kate Mandeville
  • Private Eye with Gary Miller
  • Police Procedural with Debra Walden Davis
  • Historical with Jo Allison
  • Young Adult with Sarahlynn Lester

Don’t Miss our new blog series – Must Reads for Mystery Lovers: Eight Subgenres Defined and Illustrated. First is True Crime in honor of Jo’s brand new true crime book. You don’t want to miss our top ten authors and reading recommendations from crime writers who love the genre. See all eight subgenre blogs at http://stlsinc.blogspot.com/


Sisters (and a mister) at Celebrate Wildwood

Saturday, September 25, 2021, Greater St. Louis Sisters in Crime sold books and made friends for the chapter.

Sisters in Crime
Fedora Amis, Debra Walden Davis, Sharolynn Barth, and Gary Miller

Celebrating the Twentieth Anniversary of Greater St. Louis Sisters in Crime
Front Row: Peter Green, Eleanor Sullivan, Fedora Amis, Sarahlynn Lester, Lea Braff, Elaine Abramson
Second Row: Laura Schmidt, Gary Miller, Gloria Bratkowski, Laine Boyd, John Frain
Taking the picture – Warren Martin

Fedora Amis’s interview with Jill Orr at Left Bank Books