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.
September: 9/24 7-9 p.m. Zoom monthly meeting
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.
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?
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?
| Happy May Day, Siblings! May Day, mayday, SOS …—… We had our first Zoom chapter meeting last week, and it went very well. We had 13 attendees for Paul Boal’s cybersecurity talk. If you missed the talk, here’s a link to Paul’s slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1D5i0-R2FovtJg9gbqFZ5pXEnhpkAYJr-3yTed_-3Ax0/edit?usp=sharing Our May meeting was also held via Zoom. Thursday, May 28, from 7-9 p.m. Retired Chief of Security at Purina Mike Rhoades discussed surveillance, cameras, and internet security. |
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.
Fabulous Members only Event!
October 5, 5:30 – 9:00 at the home of Laine and Bryan Boyd
Pasta, Passion & Pistols: at La Speranza, New York City’s most popular Italian eatery, restaurateur Pepi Roni has been shot in the back with his own pistol. Tonight, his family and friends will gather to pay their respects to poor Pepi, but one of the guests won’t be shedding any tears. Murder Mystery dinner was great fun. Laine is an utterly fabulous pasta cook and hostess. Here is a picture of our Laine and her husband Brian. Find more in the 2019 file in our gallery. The game was a hoot.
Have you ever wanted to poison your guest (but not yourself) while sharing a meal? Here’s a tip: join us for our September meeting to hear chemist Kristen VonGruben tell us what she knows about the deadly art of poisoning.
Thursday, September 26. 7:00 p.m. at the Grand Glaize library in meeting room 2. POISONS with chemist Kristen VonGruben.
• February 27, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Thornhill Branch Library, 12863 Willowyck Dr, St. Louis, MO 63146
POISONS, Part II with Kristen VonGruben. A continuation of last year’s popular discussion of how we can help our characters kill each other more realistically. Who knew chloroform smelled like that?!