Author: SinC STL

Congratulations to members’ new books in 2019.

October: 10/22, 7-9 p.m.

Do you want to suck readers in immediately and keep them reading?
Are you tired of hearing that your action-packed open started too slowly OR that your slow burn was “hard to get into”?
Are you using mental movies to destroy reader exhaustion and keep those pages turning?
Want to make every scene open fresh and hot and ready to roll?
RITA finalist author Bria Quinlan will cover all of this and more in Hooks and Anchors.

September: 9/24 7-9 p.m. 

How to Injure Your Characters

Chicago-based emergency nurse Brian Cuocci, MSN RN CEN will answer questions and share stories of his life at work. Brian works in a Level I trauma center in the Chicago area. He’s a Certified Emergency Nurse and Certified Adult/Adolescent Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner.

Thursday July 23 from 7-9 p.m.

Instructions for joining are in the July newsletter.

• July: Thursday, July 23 at 7:00 p.m. Zoom Perfect Page Party
  • Meet us over Zoom for a wacky but wonderful Perfect Page Party (If you don’t have a perfect page, get busy and write one. If you don’t have a best page, send your second best, or third—or any old page at all so long as you’ve written it yourself.) Send your page to SinCStLouis@gmail.com with the title “Perfect Page.” Be sure to include “Send to” and your email in order to receive your Phrases of Praise.  Attached to this newsletter is a sample and your first installment.
  •  I will send these to members for PRAISE. No snarks or downers, please. We all love to hear praise—but more important for writers—we need good news for our promos, back covers, and ads. Gleaning 3-7 word phrases for the authors to use is one goal.
  • The other is to analyze the ingredients that make pages sing. That leads to the final goal of making our own pages worthy of climbing the bestseller charts.
  • At the meeting, we can read our pages and collect our Phrases of Praise. And yes, vote to decide who wins the Perfect Page Prize.
• Fedora – your hostess for Greater St. Louis’s SinC’s Perfect Page Party!

• Thursday, June 25 at 7:00 p.m. Zoom meeting
  • Spy Apprentice Digital “Escape Room” Adventure. We’ll see how good we are at solving a mystery together! 

Congratulations to Laura Schmidt and Fedora Amis. The St. Louis Writers’ Guild just brought out their 100th Anniversary Anthology. Two of our own Sisters in Crime have stories included. Laura Stewart Schmidt called hers “The American Dream.” It’s about a poet with a surfeit of really rotten luck. Fedora Amis wrote “To Build a better Coffin.” It’s about a man in 1871 St. Louis who has a peculiar fixation. Care to guess the nature of his fetish?

Thursday May 28 from 7-9 p.m.

Our May meeting will be held via Zoom.  The meeting will be Thursday, May 28, from 7-9 p.m.  Retired Chief of Security at Purina Mike Rhoades will discuss surveillance, cameras, and internet security–and possible flaws in the systems.

Congratulations to Laura Schmidt and Fedora Amis. The St. Louis Writers’ Guild just brought out their 100th Anniversary Anthology. Two of our own Sisters in Crime have stories included. Laura Stewart Schmidt called hers “The American Dream.” It’s about a poet with a surfeit of really rotten luck. Fedora Amis wrote “To Build a better Coffin.” It’s about a man in 1871 St. Louis who has a peculiar fixation. Care to guess the nature of his fetish?

Regular Monthly Meeting

Thursday April 23 from 7-9 p.m.

Instructions for joining are in the April newsletter.

For our April meeting, we’ll meet remotely at our usual time: Thursday, April 23, from 7-9 p.m.  Our speaker will be Paul Boal, Chief Security Officer for Amitech Solutions.  He’ll talk about corporate security (data security, not physical/building security), hacking, and interesting anecdotes.  Many of you have met Paul; he’s my husband.  Thanks for “volunteering,” Paul!     He’ll stick around for as long as anyone has questions he can answer.

Congratulations to our own Candace Carrabus! She won two awards for “Wrong Lead, Dream Horse Mystery #3” She received a Winnie Award from the EQUUS Film & Arts Fest and the 2020 bronze Feathered Quill, an award given to independent authors. You go girl!

Our March meeting was to be a special reception for our president Lori Rader-Day before her mystery presentation with two other writers at Library HQ on Tuesday March, 24, 2020. Covid-19 outbreak cancelled that as well as every live entertainment event across the country. Libraries closed as did schools, restaurants–everything except gas stations and grocery stores. Let’s hope it works to keep down the hideous infections and impending deaths.