Category: Past Events

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Award Winning Ways of a Self-Publishing Whiz

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Secrets of Self-Publishing, June 23, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. Central Time (Zoom)


Up next is a program you won’t want to miss. Author of the Gambit Investigation series. Look above to see the cover of her latest Went for a Ride. Debra Walden Davis will let us in on her “Award winning ways of a self-publishing whiz” Check her out at https://www.debrawaldendavis.com/

Debra Walden Davis

Fun-and-Food In-Person Picnic!

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  • for Members of Greater St. Louis Sisters in Crime along with their families and friends
  • Thursday, May 26, 2022 @ 11:30 a.m.
  • Kirkwood Park
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  • OUR NEXT MEETING IS NOT A MEETING AT ALL. IT’S A FUN-AND-FOOD IN-PERSON PICNIC!
  • John, Gary, and Fedora invite members to bring the whole family at 11:30 a.m. on May 26 at Kirkwood Park area 14 across from Campbell pavilion

John Frain

Just One More Chapter

Writing the Modern Military with Luis Rosas

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April 28 – Luis Rosas – Writing the Modern Military. (Zoom). His expertise comes from military service while in the Marine Corps, extensive global travel (particularly to less desirable locations), understanding of intelligence related subjects, and having lived in the Washington, DC area for over a decade.

We are opening our meeting to the public for this timely program. Here’s your invitation.
Time: Apr 28, 2022 07:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

     

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Luis Rosas

Writing the Modern MIlitary

Detective Joe Shepard

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Monthly SinC Meeting – Thursday, February 24, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. CST on Zoom

Joe Shepard, detective with the St. Louis County Police Department, was Laine’s police advisor on Murder Most Unstable. He’s headed up the investigations on some of St. Louis County’s most infamous murder cases
Hosted by Laine Boyd
Our January program Jo Allison in Conversation with Fedora Amis is archived at
Left Bank Books Facebook Live or You Tube

Jo Allison in conversation with Fedora Amis

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*****Special Event and Monthly SinC Meeting –Tuesday, January 25, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. CST*****

These two members of Greater St. Louis Sisters in Crime will talk about Jo’s new book Storied and Scandalous St. Louis: A History of Breweries, Baseball, Prejudice, and Protest and regale you with little-known tidbits of history .
Tune in to Left Bank Book Facebook Live or You Tube to eavesdrop on two experts discussing St. Louis’s fascinating past.
https://www.left-bank.com/category/event-type/author-events
That brings up a calendar with links to Facebook Live and You Tube
Or Google Left Bank Books, Events, Calendar on Jan. 25
If you have questions about life in the last decade of the 19th century and the first of the 20th, you’ll never have a better opportunity to ask.
Jo Allison is versatile. Her writing credits include a 5 book mystery series featuring typist Julia Nye. She also has out a brand new non-fiction book. Storied and Scandalous St. Louis: A History of Breweries, Baseball, Prejudice, and Protest published October, 2021. She is currently working on a new series that propels one of the characters forward into World War One. Those books are spy thrillers.
Jo will share her take on history and regale us with delightful stories about St. Louis
Jo Allison
Storied & Scandalous

 

Next SinC Meeting TUESDAY, January 25, 2022, at 7:00 p.m. Left Bank Books Facebook Live or You Tube. Discover more with Fedora’s interview of Jo https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCffBSG39bC3kUE4pupngklw and http://stlsinc.blogspot.com/2021/11/must-read-historical-mysteries-books.html

Jo Allison

Storied and Scandalous

Dinner with Jo Allison and G. M. Miller

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Members enjoyed dinner and book exchange at Frisco Barroom in Webster Groves before the signing.
WEDNESDAY, December 8, 2021, at 7:00 p.m. Central Time at Novel Neighbors in Webster Groves. In addition to Jo, other members autographed also on the 8th. Case in point: G. R. Miller’s new book, Dead Legends, on the Heels of the Earl. (Pictured above.) Here’s a taste. “For 1950s St. Louis Private Eye Randal Murphy it’s Friday the 13th, the end to a bastard of a week, like all his weeks lately. Things couldn’t get much worse. Then she sways into his office.”
We celebrated the season with our member from Virginia, Jo Allison.

Is St. Louis Storied and Scandalous?
Come find out at The Novel Neighbor bookstore
Wednesday   December 8, 2021 at 7 p.m.
 . . . when author Jo Allison talked about her new non-ficitonbook
Storied and Scandalous St. Louis: A History of Breweries, Baseball, Prejudice, and Protest

The Novel Neighbor
7905 Big Bend Boulevard
Webster Groves

Jo Allison

Storied and Scandalous

UMSL Noon Series Featured National SinC Pres.

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  • UMSL Noon Series Featured National SinC Pres.
  • “The Lucky One: Fiction from Truth and True Crime” with Sisters in Crime National President Lori Rader-Day
  • Monday, February 17, 2020 • 12:15 p.m.-1:15 p.m., University of Missouri, St. Louis
  • Gallery 210 
  • Sisters in Crime Officers
  • Laine Boyd (Local VP), Sarahlynn Lester (Local Pres.),
  • Lori Rader-Day (Nat. Pres.)
  • and Fedora Amis (Local Sec.)

Spotlight Interview Wrapup

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  • Mystery subgenre categories – Classic, True Crime, Amateur Sleuth, Suspense/Thriller, Private Eye, Police Procedural, Historical, S-F/Fantasy and Young Adult.
  • New in 2021 – “Getting to know the Author” Spotlights We’re setting aside a time to meet our members up close and personal. Thursdays in June and July at 2 and/or 7 p.m., we’ll be hosting thirty minute Zoom interviews. Do you have questions you’d like to ask authors? Are you intrigued by how mysteries are constructed or how writers balance family and day job and still have time to write? Want to know more about mystery, writing, editing, finding agents, paths to publication? Look no further. Our members cover the spectrum from traditionally published, self-published to not-yet-published and they are happy to share their hard-earned knowledge. Look here for names and dates. Information for joining will be in our facebook the week before each program. Members may choose a time to sign up by Email to  Fedora@FedoraAmis.com
  • Summer 2021 Sisters in Crime Spotlights
  • June 3 2: 00 p.m. Laine Boyd. “Killing people tastefully.” (Classic Mystery) Video is now up!
  • June 10 2:00 P.M. Charlotte Ekker Wiggins.  Beekeeping expert and author of three reference books is ready to launch into beekeeping murder mysteries. (True Crime)
  • June 17 2 p.m. Mary Kate Mandeville. Travel maniac, Mary Kate Mandeville heats up Great Lake’s cozy tourist spots with mystery and mayhem. (Amateur Sleuth)
  • June 24
  •  Chapter Meeting at 7:00 p.m. Make Goodreads Work for You with Goodreads Librarian Diane K. Peterson
  • July 1 2:00 p.m. Laura Stewart Schmidt. Inspired by good books for bad children, Laura is writing her own for YA and adults. (Suspense/Thriller).
  • July 8 2:00 p.m. Gary Miller. Colorful characters live in Gary’s novels, poems, and short stories. (Private Eye)
  • July 15 2:00 p.m. Jo Allison author of fictional history and historical nonfiction, most of it centered in St. Louis. (Historical)
  • July 22 2:00 p.m. Debra Walden Davis author of new book, Went for a Ride. (Police Procedural)
  • Chapter Meeting at 7:00 p.m. Spotlight Interview Wrap Up
  • TUESDAY JULY 27 at 7:00 p.m. President Fedora Amis will moderate cozy mystery panel with Lynn Cahoon, Maria DiRico, and Gabby Allen.
  • Left Bank Books Facebook Live. 
  • July 28 2:00 p.m. Rebecca Young interviews Fedora Amis. This is not only futuristic, it is the most ancient. Remember Aesop? (Science Fiction/Fantasy)
  • July 29 2:00 p.m. Sarahlynn Lester “Late at night, when everyone else sleeps, I write.” (YA Mystery)
  • Interviews will be conducted by President Fedora Amis, author of historical whodunits with a touch of humor

Making Goodreads Work for You

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  • Our June 24th, 2021 speaker, Diane K Peterson from Columbia, Missouri is a Goodreads librarian and ambassador. A member since 2011, her collection includes 26412 books and her list of friends is 2107 and growing. All of the books she owns (print and ebooks) are cataloged and she updates regularly on Goodreads to show what she is currently reading. Diane has participated in the yearly reading challenge for the past five years.
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  • One of Diane’s current projects is to help readers learn to use all of the great features of Goodreads. She teaches online classes and is happy to assist authors with any problems such as adding books in a series, something the author cannot do without help. Readers with questions about using Goodreads are welcome to contact her. Google at Goodreads Dianekpeterson
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  • You can view the meeting in the Zoom cloud using this link
  • https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/Uu6ZaCRdSfCqDjF4jJ0S-oi2L1hkf6TPoOX5GAxUzkJ8YOXld8GCOilJCDU-_ni9.KUGbQr_X1SY1V0wJ Passcode: wWZ4Dt*b

Crime Scene Cleaner Wows People across the U.S. and Canada

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  • April 22, 2021. 7-9 p.m., Central Time Zoom.
  • All about crime scene cleaning with our Texas-Based speaker, Erick McCallum, founder and CEO of https://www.cleaningguys.com We threw this exceptional meeting open to all who would like a glimpse into the good, the bad, and the ugly of the aftermath of crime.
  • Ex policeman McCallum turned a carpet cleaning business into a multi-million dollar empire complete with franchisees in states from Texas to Missouri. He holds patents for equipment he has invented himself, machines powerful enough to suck up tons of rotten fish when a lake overflowed into a stream–which dried up–and left a huge mess on a golf course. He explained their protective measures and told us all about cool, warm, and hot zones. People from all across the U.S. and Canada were spellbound for an hour.
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