in SinC The Sisters in Crime Quarterly June 2018

June 2018 inSinC 1 ¡ ¡ Get a Clue inSinC Kendel’s Letter ...... 3 The Sisters in Crime Quarterly June 2018 Chapters ...... 4 Education Committee Mission Statement Tina Whittle ...... 7 Promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and Why Did the Deputy Freeze? Or Did He? professional development of women crime writers. Ellen Kirschman, PhD ...... 8 Kendel Lynn, President Continuing the Conversation Sherry Harris, Vice President Susan C. Shea, Secretary Greg Herren ...... 10 Lori Roy, Treasurer Editor’s Note ...... 11 Shari Randall, Library Liaison Debra H. Goldstein, Monitoring Chair Writing Mystery—Is It a Mystery? Julie Hennrikus, Authors Coalition Liaison Marcia Rosen ...... 12 Diane Vallere, Immediate Past President G. M. Malliet, Member at Large We Love Libraries Kellye Garrett, Publicity Liaison Sybil Johnson ...... 13 Karen Pullen, Chapter Liaison Tina Whittle, Education Liaison RIP Doris Ann Norris & Bill Crider ...... 13 Molly Weston, inSinC Editor Gavin Faulkner, inSinC Proofreader Fingerprint Basics—Part IV Marisa Young, inSinC Proofreader ...... 14 Sarah Glass, Web Maven/Social Media Liaison

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Psycho-Braiding inSinc is the official publication of Sisters in Crime International and is published four times a year. • One-year dues are $50 for professional US Katherine Ramsland, PhD ...... 21 and Canada writers and $40 for non-professionals. Two-year dues are $100 and $80; lifetime, $500 and $400. Address and all other changes SinC at —St. Petersburg ...... 22 can be made by members at www. sistersincrime. org. If you do not use a computer or need a user name, please contact Beth Wasson at the address above. Information in inSinC is submitted or reprinted from Make Short Story Writing Part of Your Year sources listed in each article. Where required, permission to reprint has been granted and noted. SinC does not investigate each submission inde- Paula Gale Benson ...... 23 pendently and articles in no way constitute an endorsement of products or services offered. No material may be reprinted without written permis- My Ventures into the World of sion from Sisters in Crime. Little Free Libraries Jeri Westerson ...... 24 “Sisters Incredible?” Leslie Budewitz ...... 25 If you have to reach for Eleanor Taylor Bland Award ...... 25 your reading glasses while Nominations & Awards reading inSinC online, hit Gay Totl Kinman ...... 26 the plus button (+) at the top of the screen to enlarge Events & Happenings ...... 27 the page.

June 2018 inSinC 2 ¡ ¡ Sisters in Crime e just wrapped the Sisters in Crime Strategic Plan, Past Presidents which was a wonderful and educational experience. 1987-88 It led us to examine many facets of this organiza- 1988-89 W tion, including questioning why people join Sisters in Crime. 1989–90 Susan Dunlap 1990-91 What leads them to us? And why stay? The recurring themes: Carolyn G. Hart 1991-92 seeking to belong, seeking to join in, and well, seeking. P. M. Carlson 1992-93 Linda Grant 1993-94 Barbara D’Amato 1994-95 Many of us joined Sisters in Crime because we’re looking for Elaine Raco Chase 1995-96 something. Whether it’s guidance, experience, wisdom, strength, Annette Meyers 1996-97 comradery, from women we either know and/or admire. Those Sue Henry 1997-98 Medora Sale 1998-99 who might guide us through a career filled with glass ceilings Barbara Burnett Smith 1999-00 and little lady minefields. Claire Carmichael McNab 2000-01 Eve K. Sandstrom 2001-02 I’ve found mentors my whole life whether in school or the work- Kate Flora 2002-03 Kate Grilley 2003-04 place or right here in this organization. I didn’t always intentionally seek them out, but Patricia Sprinkle 2004-05 rather I instinctively gravitated toward them. Those women imprinted on me. Leaders, Libby Hellmann 2005-06 Rochelle Krich 2006-07 trailblazers, role models. Roberta Isleib 2007-08 Judy Clemens 2008-09 I admired how they handled situations and solved problems. They displayed more than 2009-10 grace under pressure, but actual poise under pressure. They shared stories with me on Cathy PIckens 2010-11 Frankie Bailey 2011-12 how to climb the ladder without getting tripped up on the rungs. Behind office doors, at 2012-13 dinners and drinks, at lunches and girls’ nights out. Laura DiSilverio 2013–14 Catriona McPherson 2014–15 These women helped me grow into my strength. To take it as encouragement when Leslie Budewitz 2015–16 Diane Vallere 2016–17 someone cracked: Oh that Kendel, she has a mind of her own. You bet your ass I do!

I strive every day to be a role model. One of the greatest compliments I ever received Deadline & Submissions came from one of our senior editors. She told me I was her biggest role model, that she Deadline for articles for the wanted to be me some day. September issue of inSinC is July 10. Include name, email, It doesn’t boost my ego, it warms my heart. And encourages me to continue to be a mailing address, and phone strong woman. An example for those around me. Of course, I always ask myself: Have I number with submissions. Send done enough? Am I doing enough? I hope so. But I’ll never stop trying. Not out in the columns, articles, high-res photos, world and not within this organization. ideas, praise, and story ideas via email to Molly Weston [email protected] Sisters in Crime is a place to be welcomed. Where women help women be stronger 919.413.5169 women. Where it’s okay to be a strong woman. We state it boldly, right in the mission statement. We’re here to promote women. We promote each other. And it’s not a secret. For guidelines for articles, chapter sub- We don’t have to make sure we’re not overheard in the halls or in the panel rooms. missions, or photos, please email Molly at the above address. When in doubt, My hope is that you find women in this organization who are your mentors, whether remember to include no more than four UNCROPPED, HIGH RESOLUTION photos they know it or not. My second hope is that you are a mentor to someone in this organi- and a two- to three- sentence author bio. zation, whether you realize it or not. Bios are not necessary for chapter notes. Captions will not be included in inSinC. Thank you for being a member of Sisters in Crime. May you always enjoy the company of the women around you. And may you all have a mind of your own. —­­ Kendel

June 2018 inSinC 3 ¡ ¡ Atlanta www.SinCAtlanta.com

n February, the Atlanta Chapter, with assistance News Chapter from National’s Speakers Bureau, presented a day- long workshop by Jessica Lowry, author of Write and Sell Your Novel: from Idea to Publication. The Isold-out workshop was held at the Decatur Library’s spacious auditorium.

“Lunch Can Be Murder” was presented for the sec- ond year. Co-sponsored by the Atlanta Chapter and the Smyrna Public Library, the public event featured best-selling author Karen White, whose Tradd Street mysteries set in Charleston enjoy wide popularity. Members and mystery fans tucked into a delicious chef-catered lunch of chicken with mushroom sauce, spinach and mushroom lasagne, salad, rolls, and SinC/Central Jersey fabulous cupcakes with a mystery theme. Karen SistersInCrimeNJ.com spoke about her writing journey; she, as well as SinC authors, had books available. If all that weren’t enough, he Central Jersey Chapter marked the 30th would-be Sherlocks had the chance to solve a mystery! anniversary of Sisters in Crime with the publi- Chairs Dawn Gepfer and Lisa Malice did a great job cation of its own anthology, 30 Shades of Dead, putting together this terrific day! edited by N.L. Quatrano and featuring thir- 2 teenT short stories by SinCCJ members. At the group’s January meeting, guest speaker Rona Gofstein, who writes fiction as Rachel Kenley, offered advice with “Getting Readers to Buy Your Book without Selling It to Them.”

In March, our chapter welcomed spring with a “Tea and Intrigue” party at our traditional meeting-place, the Jamesburg Senior Center. Members provided a buffet of light lunch fare and teatime desserts before holding a raffle of gift baskets created around mystery themes. Jackie Souders, an investigative reporter and realtor, talked about her non-fiction, richly illustrated book on the Pine Valley Golf Club. The average New If your chapter has a logo, please send it to me at Jersey resident knows little about this exclusive, fenced [email protected]. I’ll keep it on file and use it community, which has hosted two international tour- with your article. Please include your chapter URL beneath the chapter name and credit the person naments. Over the decades it has been home to Gats- who writes it at the end. Remember to send ONLY by-era wealth, British nobility, Roaring ’20s gangsters, TWO uncropped, high resolution (about 1 mb) a WWII secret scientist, and now celebrities, captains photos. And in case you haven’t noticed,, I don’t need of industry and political leaders. It also has been the captions. Thanks for your help! —Molly scene of at least one unsolved murder! 2

June 2018 inSinC — E. F. Watkins 4 ¡ ¡ Upper Hudson Chapter UpperHudsonSinC.com

arch 24th, Mavens of Mayhem (SinC, Upper Hudson) and the East Greenbush Community Library co-hosted forty-five par- ticipants in a confab called Murderous March. More time was the main suggestion after the hour-long panel, “Bringing Out Mthe Mystery Within,” and choice of three forty-five-minute workshops. New York nysinc.org Moderated by researcher Michael Catoggio, published-author Frankie Y. Bailey (chapter president/SinC past-president), Robert Knightly, Carol he New York Chapter Pouliot, and K.A. Laity shared their paths to writing, plot origins, charac- kicked off 2018 with one ter models, and more. They inspired the audience who were left wanting of our most popular yearly more once the program moved on to a break and choice of workshops for programs, January Open MicT Night. Fifteen members vol- writers (2) and fans (1). unteered to read up to five minutes “Squeezing the Book In” (Kate Laity) focused on overcoming challenges of from something they’d written. We having a life outside writing. As a prolific author, professor, and bi-conti- love it because it offers members nental family-woman, Kate shared how she finds balance and overcomes the opportunity to practice reading tough competition for her attention. before an audience and we get to hear what everyone is writing. As a retired librarian and researcher for Dana Stabenow, Michael Catog- gio shared a trove of approaches, methods, and tools during “When I Die, Our February meeting was can- Clear My Browser History: Research for Crime Writers.” Thank goodness celled due to snow. In March we for handouts: The riches were abundant and the pace, swift. held another member-centered meeting where members shared Fan and novice writer Rhonda Rosenheck and adult services librar- writing, publishing and marketing ian Laurie Dreyer led “How to Find My Next Great Read.” Participants tips. Chapter Secretary Laura Joh explored their own druthers, then learned how to combine self-knowledge Rowland moderated the lively with search resources to feed their reading tastes. Again, handouts were a exchange of information and blessing. ensured time was available for The second annual Murderous March will be on March 16, 2019, with members to get questions answered Vicki Delany as our keynote speaker. by more experienced writers.

—Rhonda Rosenheck In April we hosted author Megan Abbott who shared information about her writing career and then dis- cussed her work as a script writer on HBO’s “The Deuce.” She also provided the inside scoop on developing a TV pilot for one of her books. Megan is a terrific speaker, warm, open, and direct and we were thrilled that she took time from her busy, over-scheduled life to meet with us. 2 —Catherine Maiorisi

June 2018 inSinC 5 ¡ ¡ Sisters in Crime Chicagoland www.SinCChicago.com

inCC mapped paths to publication in January, as President Patricia Skalka (Door County cozy series), led a panel including Susanna Calkins (Lucy Campion historical series), SEmily Victorson (Allium Press) and Emily Kaplan (indie author) about different options to consider when going public with our work.

We took our February meeting inside the exposed brick walls of Story Studio to talk privately about sex. Patricia Rosemoor, with more than 100 novels combining romance and crime, enticed us to lose our Sisters in Crime New England inhibitions…writing. We blushed and discussed how SinCNE.org to use love, intimacy, and physical expression to propel characters and plots. e had an event-packed spring beginning in February when we brought former Crime writers joined St. Patrick’s Day revellers when FBI forensic investigator Geoff Symon to the River turned green, but we went for for a day-long workshop full of (blood) red at Murder & Mayhem Chicago, co-chaired Wuseful details presented in the most entertaining fash- by and Anthony Award-winning ion. If you get a chance to see him, you won’t regret it. SinCC Co-VP Lori Rader-Day. The conference fea- tured book sales, expert panels, and lunch with NYT We transitioned our web site to a new platform in best-selling author Gillian Flynn, whom we are making March. Frances McNamara did the lioness’-share of the a lifetime SinCC member. Gillian talked writing, why work to move our member database, photographs, and she loves Post-It notes, and how a manuscript draft is content over to Club Express. We’re still fine-tuning a like dating. (You shouldn’t settle for the first one.) few things but it should keep us current for some years to come. No fooling around in April for us as Victoria Thomp- son, Edgar- and Agatha-nominated author of the In April, chapter Past-President Hallie Ephron pre- Counterfeit Lady and Gaslight series, took the mystery sented a morning workshop on character. She’s an out of plotting a mystery by demonstrating an easy excellent teacher and we gathered several new mem- technique for novels of any genre. We had a great time bers from the free event. plotting a murder during the meeting—starting with a setting, victim, and killer. In May our geographically scattered chapter held a Members Read event in each of the six New England states. Members and friends read for up to five minutes from their work in progress and socialized before and after the programs.

Social Media Maven Kathryn Gandek-Tighe asks an intriguing question on our Facebook page every Tues- day and has drawn some excellent discussion in the comments. All are welcome to join the conversation.

Our speakers bureau continues to be active, sending panels of authors to libraries around the region. 2 — June 2018 inSinC 6 ¡ ¡ Education Committee by Tina Whittle s your education liaison, I am pleased to long-standing member of multiple introduce the newest volunteer member of writing organizations, Goff has served our Education Committee, Chris Goff, and on several local, regional and national System Administrator Liz Stuewe. They boards, including Mystery Writers of Awork together to administer the new Education America. She has served as chair for Grant program, providing funds directly to mem- several large conferences, including bers to be used for select educational opportunities. two Left Coast Crimes, and began serving a four-year term on the Exec- Chris is an award-win- utive Council of International Crime ning author of six novels Writers Association in October 2017. based on environmental themes and two interna- Liz Stuewe lives in Lawrence, tional thrillers. Her most Kansas and splits her time recent book, Red Sky between putting on commu- (Crooked Lane Books, nity health programs at the June 2017) is set in local library, teaching yoga, Ukraine and Asia, where and helping non-profits man- Diplomatic Security Ser- age and use their data. Liz’s vice Agent Raisa Jordan love of mysteries started with tests the boundaries of diplomacy as she races to Nancy Drew and continues prevent the start of a new Cold War. Goff’s series today. She is especially partial debut, Dark Waters, was nominated for the 2016 to dark, twisty novels and any- Colorado Book Award and 2016 Anthony Award thing set in a library (preferably with cats). 2 for Best Crime Fiction Audiobook. Tina Whittle, author of the Tai Randolph/Trey Seaver mysteries, serves as president of the Low Country Sisters in Crime and as She began her career writing non-fiction, writing chair of the SinC National Education Committee. Busy lady! articles for regional and national publication. A

SinC at Malice… (more throughout issue)

June 2018 inSinC 7 ¡ ¡ by Ellen Kirschman, PhD

here were so many mistakes leading up to the Learning to control one’s stress, Parkland school shooting it’s hard to know where especially in crises, is a perishable to begin or how to separate opinion from fact. skill, one that requires reinforce- THumans are meaning-making mammals. We ment. Routine, repeated training crave order, safety, and predictability. We like to think that closely simulates high-risk we’re in control—strong, brave, fearless in the face of situations can overcome our death. Truth is, how we’ll behave in a crisis may be instinctual risk-adverse responses. very different than what we imagine or hope for. Many first responders have had such training. Combined with When violence strikes, as it did in Parkland, our illu- mental preparation and personal attributes of bravery sions about control are shattered, so we do the next and dedication to service, they are willing to face risks best thing—hunt for a villain. When we find one, and that the rest of us can’t or won’t. in this case there were many, we point our fingers and pile on, often prematurely, in the vain hope that Personal Example once the perpetrator, the guy who dropped the ball, is When I was considerably younger—and I believed banished, we can breathe easy. We know what he did myself to be brave, strong, and gutsy—I was walk- wrong and we’re certain we never would have made the ing along the beach in Monterey California. It was a same egregious error. He’s flawed. We’re not. rainy, blustery day and the ocean was churning. I was wearing jeans, hiking boots, and a yellow rain slicker. I don’t know Scot Peterson, one of—now we know— A young girl, dressed in a fake fur jacket, ran into the several deputies who stood outside while the shooter surf. She fell and the weight of her wet jacket kept her went on a rampage. All I know is what I’ve read in the from standing again. Her mother ran into the water, a news. I’m not joining the critics who are criticizing pocketbook dangling from her arm. I ran in the water his actions. I wasn’t there. I didn’t see what he saw or after her, thinking I could help. Fully dressed, in up hear what he heard. What I want to do, based on my to my hips, I was no match for the undertow and the thirty-plus years as a police psychologist, is to stop the waves. As mother and daughter struggled to safety, I rush to judgment and contribute to the conversation by turned back. raising some seldom-spoken of issues unique to law enforcement. Did I deliberate about getting out It’s important, first of all, to understand of the water? Consider my options? the physiological mechanics of extreme Not for a second. I was in survival stress. In simple terms we humans are mode. The alarm system in my brain, hardwired to respond to threats to our known as the amygdala, was on high survival—real or perceived, our body alert. And when the amygdala goes doesn’t know the difference—in three on, the pre-frontal cortex, the think- ways: fight, flight, or freeze. These ing, deciding, judging, deliberating responses produce thousands of invol- part of the brain, goes off. This is untary chemical reactions. Our senses involuntary. I didn’t get to vote on it. distort. We get tunnel vision or tunnel hearing. Time Neither do you. compresses or expands. We hyperfocus on the threat Is this what happened to Deputy Peterson or the other and are blind to everything else. deputies we now know didn’t enter the building? At

June 2018 inSinC 8 ¡ ¡ Deputy - cont’d. fifty-four years old with thirty-three years of service, The truth is that good, well-trained cops feel all these Peterson was older than many cops. Was he concerned things. And they don’t always get the shooter. Reducing about his fitness? Did he believe himself to be out- the conversation about any officer’s actions to a debate gunned or outnumbered? Did he fear being injured between courage vs. cowardice is too simplistic. Cour- and becoming yet another victim who needed rescue? age exists in relationship to caution. To quote psycholo- Was he reverting to training that mandated him to wait gist Charles-Hampden Turner, an exceptional thinker for backup? There are more questions than answers. and teacher, “Courage without caution is recklessness I feel confident about one thing: Deputy Peterson is and caution without courage is cowardice. almost assuredly suffering mentally and emotion- ally. Nearly every police officer I know does, at some Building Trust point in a twenty-to-thirty year career, oscillate Following a major incident, precise, thoughtful, thor- between remorse for actions taken and remorse for ough, and objective after action reports are critical to actions deferred. It’s an essential dilemma facing building public trust and generating organizational law enforcement officers (LEOs) and many other and tactical learning, as is discipline, up to and includ- first responders. I’ve worked with officers who killed ing termination. This is different from jumping to con- unarmed suspects after mistaking a cell phone or a clusions, snap diagnoses, name-calling, finger-point- metal comb for a weapon. Their torment is terrible, ing, and a rush to judgment—all of which feels like a their moral pain bottomless. I’ve also worked with betrayal, especially coming from the law-enforcement LEOs who tormented themselves for real or imagined family that no doubt once promised to have Deputy inaction—not shooting quicker, wounding the suspect Peterson’s back. Police officers have a lot of power and instead of killing him, losing a fight, losing a gun, fail- must be held to high standards. Nothing about this ing a victim. Police psychologists have several terms for this brand of self-torture—“magical thinking,” second tragedy changes that. But let’s also consider that the guessing, and the tyranny of the myth of perfection. degree to which we hold them to high standards is the degree to which their departments and their commu- Cops want to be seen and see themselves as exceptional. nities owe them support. 2 At the same time, they want to be acknowledged as Ellen Kirschman is a licensed clinical psychologist, mem- fully human. To see oneself as always brave, prepared, ber of the International Association of Police Chiefs- in control, able to solve problems and protect the pub- Psychological Services Section and the author of I Love a lic, are necessary, but unrealistic beliefs. Without them, Cop: What Police Families Need to Know, I Love a Fire Fighter: LEOs wouldn’t be able to function on the job. It’s not What the Family Needs to Know; lead author of Counseling just LEOs who hold these beliefs: The public has bought Cops: What Clinicians Need to Know, and five Dot Meyerhoff into the myth that cops are beyond human and don’t mysteries. She’s happy to answer your questions at feel pain, fear, exhaustion, doubt, even compassion. www.ellenkirschman.com.

June 2018 inSinC 9 ¡ ¡ Continuing the Conversation by Greg Herren

s it only me, or does so much happen these days that it to see minority voices. So, even as I despair, seems like years have passed between the writing of these I acknowledge the change that is like water columns? It seems like decades I’ve been doing this, but wearing away at stone—it can take a while, but my files show otherwise. The almost daily assaults, on if the water is relentless… Inearly every side are emotionally and creatively exhausting and And this brings me to this column’s inter- draining. I know that every day, as I sit down to write I think view subject: Mia P. Manansala, whom I met about the world around me. I think about the news—from social in this past year at Bouchercon. media to newspapers and magazines and I sometimes despair. How can I, as a writer, depict these volatile, mad times? Do I close Her bio reads, “Mia P. Manansala is a writer of my eyes and ears and ignore the world outside my current work? I words (most of them sarcastic) and the winner of the 2017 William became a crime writer because I wanted to write about the search F. Deeck-Malice Domestic Grant for Unpublished Writers and the for justice where it sometimes cannot be found. But the more I 2016 Mystery Writers of America/Helen McCloy Scholarship. She is write, the more the answers elude me. What is justice? Whose also a 2017 Pitch Wars mentee.” view is correct? Is compromise a betrayal of principles and ethics? Tell us about your book in progress. Or is everything just another shade of gray, and the best we can hope Death Comes to ComiKon features Sunshine Salinas, a hard-hit- is to find a shade that pleases no one but everyone can live with? ting, super sarcastic Filipina-American amateur sleuth (Think Veronica Mars, but queer, Asian-American, and all grown As I watched “Seven Seconds,” on Netflix those questions kept up). Obsessed with the cult-favorite TV show “Samurai Surfer running through my mind. The show took on powerful, com- Squadron” since childhood, Sunshine must crack the case when pelling social issues; crimes against the marginalized, yet never the show’s star turns up dead at Chicago ComiKon and her child- judged. There were no clear-cut heroes or villains, just flawed hood heroine becomes the prime suspect. But if Sunshine’s not humans who made decisions whether or right. As excellent as it careful, they might be sharing a cell: Chicago PD is all too eager was—well written, well acted, directed, and produced, it was ulti- to cast her as the faithful sidekick and accomplice to mately unsatisfying because the viewer never knew what murder. really happened around the crime nor saw a cathartic justice served. Perhaps this is why the show was not a Tell us a little about participating in “Pitch Wars.” ratings juggernaut: In entertainment, we want answers. “Pitch Wars is a contest where published/agented We want justice. Because it isn’t always served in reality. authors, editors, or industry interns choose one writer Recently, two major Hollywood studios released films each, read their entire manuscript, and offer sugges- that shouldn’t have been successful, based on Holly- tions on how to make the manuscript shine for the wood’s history: Black Panther, the latest Marvel superhero movie, agent showcase. The mentor also helps the writer’s pitch for the and Love Simon, a gay John Hughes-style high school romantic contest and the query letter for submitting to agents.” comedy. Conventional Hollywood wisdom—films about racial or sexual minority characters won’t be successful—was wrong In November during the agent showcase, each mentee is featured in both instances. Last year saw Wonder Woman and Call Me on a post that includes their pitch and the first page of their By Your Name, two critically acclaimed, successful films that manuscript.” My entry is at tinyurl.com/y8rsnl9f. [See full details also defied conventional Hollywood wisdom. A recent piece in about “Pitch Wars” at www.PitchWars.org.] Hollywood Reporter tried to explain the success of these films; to For the 2017 contest, there were almost 3,000 entries worldwide right the status quo and prove that conventional wisdom correct: and only 183 were chosen. I was one of the lucky ones. Audiences were hungry for these films, but will not turn out for more of them. They must be explained in order to justify a return How did you hook up with Kellye as your mentor? to the films Hollywood prefers to churn out: where the cisgender Kellye and I became friends on social media after briefly chatting straight white male is front and center. at Malice’s Agatha Banquet. She kept posting on Twitter about “Pitch Wars.” I can’t remember if she messaged me or I asked her One step forward, two steps back. about it, but once she gave me the info, I knew I had to apply. But change is happening; in publishing, I see it everywhere in As late as June 2017, I didn’t have a finished manuscript. So I the enthusiasm of young, talented, fresh minority writers. I love buckled down, finished a story for the first time, and sent in seeing submission calls for anthologies and manuscripts asking the application naming her as my top mentor choice. Surprise,

June 2018 inSinC 10 ¡ ¡ Conversation - Cont’d.

surprise, she chose me! With her help, I borhoods. It didn’t end well for him. I’d ended up rewriting about two-thirds of like to think of that story as the beginning my manuscript, and got a good amount of of not only my writing career, but a very agent attention during the showcase. telling moment as a crime fiction writer. t was I didn’t sign with one of the “Pitch Wars” What books/writers do you consider bound agents, but with Janet Reid whom I met influences? to at Malice; however, I credit Kellye and the The Baby-Sitters Club series by Ann M. happen “Pitch Wars” experience with producing Martin is probably what made me want to sometime and this a manuscript good enough to sign with become a writer, while the Encyclopedia was it! When my amazing agent. Now Kellye and I are Brown series by Donald J. Sobol is what friends for real, and she can’t get rid of me! turned me on to mystery. Mary Higgins I was laying Iout the issue, I How thrilling was it to win the Malice Clark also played a huge role in my early ran out of room grant? reading/writing life. For non-mystery related reading, Neil Gaiman is everything. Winning the grant has changed my life. before I ran out I’d been working on my story for about a of photos. Let me explain: In order to More recently, Lori Rader-Day has had a year and a half before the 2016 elections. print inSinC—or anything that is bound big impact on my writing—her workshop is I had lost all interest in writing and for the reason I began writing a mystery. And I by staples, the number of pages must be months afterward, I’d look at my unfinished dissected Little Pretty Things, to understand divisible by four and I have to leave a manuscript and wonder, “What’s the point? how a non-cozy, unlikeable female amateur half page for address information. Nobody cares. Nobody’s waiting for this.” sleuth went about looking for clues and the Obviously, I had sunk into a deep depres- impact the investigation had on the protag- If, however, you’re reading this sion and it took a while for me to claw my onist and her character arc. online, none of the above relates to way out. I would be remiss to not mention Kellye you because you’re seeing more pic- Then in February, I got a voicemail from Garrett and her fantastic debut, Hollywood tures from Malice Domestic than I Harriette Sackler saying she had a few Homicide. Even if she weren’t my mentor, could use in the print version. questions about my cover letter. I was I recommend this book to everyone and about to take my class on a field trip, but their mama. It’s super funny and entertain- I selected the cover for this issue figured I could answer her questions dur- ing, with a protagonist you don’t often see because it reminded me of the old ing my fifteen-minute break. After asking in traditional mysteries. Plus. I support any Nat “King” Cole song, “Lazy, a couple of questions, Harriette informed effort to get more people of color (par- Hazy Days of Summer.” I know me I’d won the grant. Shocked is an under- ticularly young women of color) into the statement! I almost started crying, but my mystery field. that writers tend to be readers, students were watching me through the too, and I wanted to remind you Kellye is the ideal mentor: knowledgeable, glass doors, so I pulled myself together and to devote some time enjoying our tough yet fair, and infinitely patient and thanked her. Her phone call got me writing favorite pastime. kind. My writing has improved immensely again after months of inactivity. in the last few months thanks to her help. As always, I look forward to Because the grant enabled me to attend I don’t know what I’d do without her, but Malice, I was able to meet tons of fantas- now she’s stuck with me forever! meeting more of you at Bouchercon tic people, including Kellye Garrett who in September. I’ll be at all the Mia is on social media at Twitter and became my mentor! SinC events from SinC into Great Facebook at MMtheWriter. Her blog is Writing, the breakfast (at dark- When did you first decide you wanted to www.mpmthewriter.com. Her website is be a writer? coming soon. thirty!), at the table in the bookroom When I was in 5th grade, each student in with Beth and Sarah, and all And I, for one, can’t wait to read her novel. my class received an award for some spe- 2 around St. Pete! cial attribute and mine was for “wonderful Greg Herren is the award-winning stories.” I also remember that was the year author of more than thirty novels, Meanwhile, happy reading and the teacher had everyone write a re-telling including two detective series and six writing! of the “Three Little Pigs.” My version had young adult novels. He lives in New the Big Bad Wolf as a drug dealer trying to Orleans with his partner of twenty-one —Molly peddle his wares in the Pig brothers’ neigh- years.

June 2018 inSinC 11 ¡ ¡ Writing Mysteries Is It a Mystery? by Marcia Rosen

riting a mystery book or series is akin to put- A good mystery story includes: an ting together a thousand piece puzzle. Where intriguing plot, interesting characters should you begin? Do you start with the corner (often with unique characteristics), Wand edge pieces, providing details on the main descriptive places and locations that characters including the heroes and criminals? Or do you set a mood, interesting and contro- start in the middle, revealing up front the murder and versial dialogue, clues (real and false) complexity of the story plot? leading to the bad guys (and gals), and a bit of humor. Be clear about your point of view. Is Whether you start with corners, or center pieces, what it from the perspective of the main character as in Sue matters is sticking with your structure and then pacing Grafton novels or a third person as in Raymond Chan- the plot. You need to keep it moving forward by creating dler mysteries? suspense with clues and mysterious happenings. Ultimately, you want to be able to explain your characters’ In the television mystery series, “Columbo,” the murder motivation for their criminal behavior. Common sources always took place at the beginning. The seemingly flus- are anger, hate, power, money and, of course, revenge. tered but persistent detective follows various suspects and Revealing truths, secrets and lies with stories of betrayal clues to eventually catch the murderer. In other TV mys- and vengeance with surprise endings leave your reading teries, you follow the path of an ordinary citizen—writer, wanting more—especially in a series! baker, doctor, librarian, or florist—who is captivated by certain events and incidentally gets involved in solving Although you might think it strange, I suggest you ask crimes. These amateurs just can’t seem to help themselves, yourself what your motivation is for writing or wanting even when following the clue leads them to danger. to write mysteries. In my series, ‘The Senior Sleuths,” the actions of my senior characters, Dick and Dora, often From these types of mysteries known as cozies, to film reflect my truths about life and relationships. noir with gangsters and hard-boiled detectives, to terri- fying thrillers, mysteries have long appealed to the reader I grew up in an unusual, and sometimes outrageous, and viewer. As a writer, you can choose your own style, environment. It wouldn’t take a genius, a psychiatrist, or your own way of creating characters and stories of mur- a palm reader to figure out the genesis of my fascination ders and mayhem, and your own way of presenting clues with crime and criminals. In “The Senior Sleuths,” Zero and suspects leading toward solving the crime. Yet, there the Bookie is a version of my dad, and several other char- are certain elements essential to a good mystery, which can acters are based on a few of his many associates. take the reader on a fascinating ride through a criminal’s mind and the minds of those who reach into that mind to Our history and experiences can define us, inspire our catch them. actions, and, as writers, impact our words and stories. Mine most definitely have. My father was a small-time You want readers to become involved and interested gangster. Really! No doubt, thanks to my father, writing in your story so they follow the clues you leave while mysteries is in my DNA. 2 attempting to solve the crimes with you. Don’t make it Marcia Rosen has previously published four mysteries in her “Dying too easy: There should be numerous possible suspects. to Be Beautiful” series, The Woman’s Business Therapist and My Mem- Enhance the plot with character conflict and red her- oir Workbook. She created radio and TV talk shows, and received rings to confuse and steer the reader away from the real awards for her work with business and professional women. She murderer. The bad guy can also lead the reader astray by lives in Carmel, California. Visit www.theseniorsleuths.com and placing suspicion and blame on someone else. www.levelbestbooks.com. NOTE: This article appeared first on Women’s National Book Association, Chapter. June 2018 inSinC 12 ¡ ¡ We Love Libraries!

by Sybil Johnson

ig news here in the We Love Libraries! The staff had a lot of fun with their entry photo! They program. A recent policy change means all dressed as characters from detective/crime novels even more U.S. libraries are eligible for written by women. They are featured below. Bthe $1000 grant. Previously, if one library within a multi-branch system receives the WLL!! grant, all other libraries in that same system were disqualified from apply- ing for it. That rule has now been eliminated. The grant is now available to all libraries, even if another branch within their system has previously won.

Please encourage your local library to enter! All libraries in the United States are eligible. Simply have them go to tinyurl.com/y97yh5q2, complete the form and upload a photo of one or more of their staff with three books in their collection by In Georgia Sisters in Crime members Recent WLL! winners The March 2018 grant winner was the Kinchafoonee are below. Regional Library. Headquartered in the Terrell County Public Library in Dawson, Georgia, the six-branch In Illinois system serves the citizens of Calhoun, Clay, Quitman, On January 26th, Patricia Skalka, president of the Randolph, Terrell, and Webster Counties. Chicagoland Chapter, presented the check to the 2 November 2017 winner, the Edward G. Shumacher Sybil Johnson writes the Aurora Anderson mystery series Memorial Library, at the quarterly meeting of the featuring computer programmer and decorative-painting Library Advisory Committee. Lori Rader-Day and enthusiast Aurora (Rory) Anderson. Originally from the Adelaide Whitehouse, Co-Vice Presidents of the Pacific Northwest, Sybil now wields pen and paintbrush from her home in Southern California. chapter, joined Patricia at the event.

Patricia Skalka is the author of the Dave Cubiak RIP Doris Ann Norris and Bill Crider Door County mysteries. Death in Cold Water, We are always saddened to lose SinC members; however, received the Edna Ferber Fiction Award from the losing these two siblings was especially hard for me per- Council for Wisconsin Writers. Lori Rader-Day is sonally. I knew Doris Ann by reputation before I met her. the author of the Mary Higgins Clark Award-win- I thought she must be able to walk on water. When I got ning Little Pretty Things and the Anthony to know her, I realized that the woman who called herself Award-winning The Black Hour. Adelaide White- variably “the world’s oldest” or the “200-year-old” librarian was all that folks had said. house is a writer and sign language interpreter. I knew Bill through his writings long before I met him. In Mississippi I was incredibly excited to be on a panel with him at a Bouchercon. He was one of the most courtly Southern The January 2018 grant winner was the Willis gentlemen I’ve ever known—and I will continue recom- H. Lott Learning Resources Center located on mending his books. the Perkinston campus of Mississippi Gulf Coast Rest in peace, Sister and Brother. —Molly Community College.

June 2018 inSinC 13 ¡ ¡ Fingerprint Basics Part IV by Jan Burke

n this final installment of our series on the basics of Unbeknownst to their hosts, Ed fingerprint evidence, we’ll look at a few additional German was able to read katakana, methods of discovering latent prints, and at some the Japanese syllabry, and he mem- of the recent controversies surrounding fingerprint orized the characters on the spray Ievidence. can. They searched Japanese stores and eventually realized it was a In May of 1977, Fuseo Matsumura, a trace evidence spray form of cyanoacrylate. examiner for the Japanese National Police Agency, was working on the case of a murdered taxicab driver. He US Experiments Begin was using cyanoacrylate to attach hairs from the case They began experimenting on a small scale with it. In to a microscope slide, and noticed his own fingerprints 1980, they rotated back to the US, where they were developing on the glass. He told his coworker, Masato assigned to the Army’s main crime lab in Atlanta. Here Soba, of his discovery, and Soba began researching the their work was noticed by Frank Kendall of the ATF use of cynoacrylate in latent print development in ear- Laboratory in Atlanta, who came to the Army lab to nest. He announced his results at the Kyushu District use equipment there. Kendall developed ways to speed Identification Science Research Meeting in June, and the process using heat. in November, 1978, he presented his research at the National Fingerprint Identification Study Meeting of As happens more often in science and technology the National Police Agency of Japan in Tokyo. than most suspect, but seems to be especially true Cyanoacrylate is known of fingerprints—similar discoveries were made else- to most of us as the where almost simultaneously. In 1979, in the United product trademarked as Kingdom, research was underway and in 1980, Louis Super Glue; fingerprint Bourdon of Canada filed for a patent of a latent print examiners use a number development system using cyanoacrylate, two cham- of cyanoacrylate products bers, and a pump. in their labs. Although this led to some disputes, when the dust In September, 1979, according to Ed German, whose settled, cyanoacrylate became widely used, if not website I’ve recommended to you in every installment always safely. I encourage you to take a look at Ed of this series (and is the source of this history), he and German’s site for examples of a few of the most unsafe Paul Norkus were US Army Crime Lab fingerprint episodes, including details of a particularly wild one experts responsible for processing forensic evidence in involving hot plates and an attempt to superglue fume a wide-ranging area that included Japan. While work- an entire car. ing on a murder case in Tokyo, they met with members The reason cyanoacrylate fuming works is that of the Japanese National Police Agency, who demon- cyanoacrylate has an affinity for the amino acids, pro- strated several new technologies, including one that teins, and fatty acids that are among the components involved an amazing method for revealing latent prints of latent prints. Because prints on nonporous surfaces on nonporous surfaces. are easily damaged, cyanoacrylate fuming provides an Not wanting to give away their secrets, Soba and his inexpensive and effective way to preserve them. It is colleagues didn’t tell Norkus and German the name also noted for helping to find older latent prints—not of the chemical they sprayed on glass to reveal prints. always possible with powders. June 2018 inSinC 14 ¡ ¡ Further Developments This is not to say that fingerprints are perfect evidence. The use of cyanoacrylate is common in crime labs, but In recent years, as all areas of forensic science have is hardly the end of scientific exploration of the world come under greater scrutiny, scientists have questioned of latent prints. While the comparison of the patterns the validity of some claims made by fingerprint ana- in latent prints to those of the patterns on our finger- lysts. Late last year, the American Association for the tips is still a widespread, inexpensive, and established Advancement of Science (AAAS) published an article method of identification, in recent years scientists entitled “Fingerprint Source Identity Lacks Scientific have looked at new ways of revealing them, and, most Basis for Legal Certainty.” The AAAS study was the recently, what is in the print itself. As DNA examina- third in recent years by an important organization (the tion becomes more sensitive, requiring smaller and others being the American Academy of Sciences and smaller amounts for testing, “touch DNA” has become the 2016 President’s Council of Advisors on Science a reality. and Technology) to say that while a fingerprint exam- iner may rule out many people with latent prints, there Scientists are also learning more from the chemicals has not been the scientific statistical validation nec- deposited in latent prints. Sensitive tests, able to work essary to claim that fingerprints are individual. Most with chemical amounts about the size of a grain of examiners will no longer testify that they can be “100% sand, may be able to tell gender, race, diet, and lifestyle. certain,” as they did in the past, but many still speak Another new technology uses gold nanoparticles to as if there is no question that an assertion made in reveal older latent prints. the 19th century and carried forward by tradition has New, less destructive methods of discovering prints validity in fact. are being developed. As the National Clearinghouse All of these studies believe there is a scientific basis for for Science, Technology and the Law has said, “Digital using fingerprints for identification, but all also ques- holography, micro-X-ray fluorescence (MXRF), and tion the human element—the examiners comparing the scanning Kelvin Probe (SKP) employ recent scien- images. The AAAS report raised questions about the tific and technological advances to obtain latent finger- “variability of human fingerprints; the range of differ- prints without compromising or destroying the actual ences of a distinct fingerprint lifted at different points fingerprint evidence found at a crime scene.” This is in time, from different digits or hands, or under a vari- important to prevent difficulties when latent prints and other types of evidence, such as DNA, may be present ety of conditions; as well as the accuracy of automated on the same object. fingerprint systems.”

There have also been major strides in storing and (Ed German’s site contains some of the arguments accessing fingerprint records, as computers have made some members of the fingerprint examiner community what was once a slow, cumbersome, and nearly impos- make in response.) sible task into one that can be carried out on a much These are not minor matters. While in fiction we often larger scale and at previously unimagined speeds. portray the world of forensic science as being one of utter certainty, in real life, questions are being raised —as they should be when Links justice for victims and the liberty of Ed German’s site www.onin.com/fp the innocent are at stake. Perhaps we Especially Fuming Tips onin.com/fp/cyanoho.html should consider the more complex real- Live Science article on new techniques tinyurl.com/y8g2ha59l ities in crafting our manuscripts. 2 Chemistry World article on nanoparticles tinyurl.com/yaqvqnrk Jan Burke www.janburke.com has won AAAS report on fingerprints tinyurl.com/yaueu7h3 the Edgar, Agatha, and . National Clearinghouse for Science, She is author of the Irene Kelly series and Technology and the Law: a lifetime member of SinC. She is an active Advances in Fingerprint Technology tinyurl.com/y8g2ha59 advocate for the improvement of forensic science. June 2018 inSinC 15 ¡ ¡ Writers’ Police Academy

Why Once Isn’t Enough by Linda Lovely

he Writers’ Police Academy (WPA) will mark its in 2014 guided the details in my third book Bridges tenth anniversary in August. This annual one- Burned. The notes I took about investigating a crime of-a-kind event convenes at a real police acad- have come in handy many, many times.” emy in Green Bay WI, offering writers exciting, T Dashofy says her most recent manuscript benefits from heart-pounding interactive and educational hands-on experiences to enhance their grasp of law enforcement, her 2017 experiences, including how tourniquets have firefighting, emergency services (EMS), and forensics. evolved. “I was an EMT decades ago and techniques and The experiences help authors understand and portray equipment have changed drastically, as have practice the mindset of their fictional characters and the emo- dummies. They move now! Freaked me out!” tional challenges they face. She adds that a glimpse into the law enforcement mind- The August 9–12 WPA presents more than forty unique set is invaluable. “You don’t get to experience that any- courses and high-intensity training options. The instruc- where else. The shoot-don’t shoot scenario is a big eye- opener. You can’t possibly understand how fast things tors have real-life experience as undercover cops, Secret happen, how the heart races, how you miss details when Service and Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosive you’re focused on a threat.” (ATF) agents, homicide investigators, crime scene inves- tiation (CSI), gang, and interrogation experts, arson Bottom line? “Unless you’re already a cop, you’ll never investigators, judges, and forensic psychologists. And find a better opportunity to improve the story you’re that’s just a partial list. See all classes and instructors at writing. You can’t possibly know what you don’t know www.writerspoliceacademy.com. until you do this. WPA is the best money you’ll ever invest in your career.” Sisters in Crime, a major WPA sponsor, grants a $150 registration fee discount to SinC members attending for the first time. Yet, once authors make an initial visit, While the NYT and Amazon best- they’re often the first to sign up for a WPA repeat. Why? selling author and TV script writer/ For starters, WPA pays off in realism for works in pro- producer first attended as a WPA gress and inspiration for new books and series. speaker, he’s returning in 2018 as a Annette Dashofy student. His many credits include his best-selling novel True Fiction, the The USA Today Bestseller & Nominee Fox & O’Hare thrillers he co-authors writes the Zoe Chambers Mysteries about a paramedic/ with Janet Evanovich, and Monk and deputy coroner and a Diagnosis Murder TV shows and small-town chief of police. spin-off novels. She credits WPA with contributing to this series’ Goldberg credits WPA and the con- sense of realism. tacts he made there for a new novel coming in the fall of 2020 and a two-book deal. WPA has had a huge impact “I’ve been twice. I’d attend on his career, he says, and the authenticity of the book the WPA every year if I he’s written since. could,” says Dashofy. “I learn something new each ”The new novel was inspired by a case I learned about at time. My experience with a homicide detectives training conference I attended as the fire school’s burn house a direct result of WPA contacts,” he says.​ “I couldn’t get June 2018 inSinC 16 ¡ ¡ the case out of my head. I reached out to the detectives I Though Kennedy describes herself as an introvert met and they were glad to help.” reluctant to ask questions in class, she’s found the WPA instructors easy to approach. “They enjoy your interest Goldberg notes it’s impossible to attend all the semi- in their subject matter.” nars you want during a first visit. “This time I can pick courses I missed the first time. Now that I am writing a Jeannette Bauroth police procedural series, the more practical experience I As a book translator for German markets, she says WPA can get, the better!” is a rich resource for anyone involved in book publish- ing, television entertainment, and journalism. WPA Among WPA courses that have impacted his writing, he attendees have included editors, publishers, TV show- cites ones detailing investigative techniques, bombs and runners, reporters, and translators like Bauroth, who’s arson investigation, blood-spatter, applying a tourni- twice made the long trip from Germany to attend. quet, and the proper handling of weapons.

“I really enjoyed learning, through practical simulated “Before, I had no practical knowledge of weapons,” training how armed officers clear a building and try to says Bauroth. “WPA really helped me gain insight into lessen the dangers of pulling over a vehicle. Both courses different kinds of weapons, how they worked, and what were hands-on and extremely informative and impacted holding and shooting them felt like. I also took part my writing. Heck, the entire conference was great! in several eye-opening shoot/don’t shoot scenarios. Though it was just a simulation, I was standing ready to “It’s the most worthwhile, instructive, and memorable act the entire time, my pulse racing. It made me realize conference you will attend all year. It’s far more valuable the kind of emotions a real-life situation might elicit. than any of the other genre conferences crime writers typ- When translating, ically attend. This one will give you practical experience it’s all about picking that will make a lasting difference in your crime writing.” the right words to AR Kennedy transfer emotions from the original Author of Nathan Miccoli Mysteries & Short Story text. Gaining some Winner, Kennedy will attend her eighth WPA in 2018. hands-on experi- She says she takes different classes every year. ence really helped me with my work.” “Friends love when I text my options,” she says. “Should I go to Blood Splatter or Building Searches? Constitutional The translator says a ride-along with a sheriff deputy Law or Fingerprinting? Prostitution or Arrest Tactics? during her first WPA marked the first time she’d seen an Some of the greatest hits return each year and there are American police car from the inside. “And in the course always great new additions and instructors.” Among her of a few hours we got three calls: one to a neighborhood favorite courses were Constitutional Law—“phenom- where people had seen a mountain lion, one to a suicide, enal”—and Dr. Denene Lofland’s bio-terrorism classes and the third to a case of domestic violence including a —“disturbing and great fodder for novels.” machete attack. What an introduction!”

Kennedy adds that every book in her Nathan Miccoli Among translations benefitting from her WPA knowl- Mystery series has been touched by WPA. “Characters edge, Bauroth cites Lethal Bayou Beauty by Jana DeLeon have been born and molded at WPA. Nathan went applied WPA knowledge about American weapons to undercover after I attended William Queen’s class on determine how they paired with what’s common in Ger- undercover work.” She says Saving Ferris, the new legal many to make good translation choices.” thriller she’s penned, was inspired by an afternoon at WPA. “In one class, I found something an instructor Bauroth advises anyone who loves crime fiction to attend said thought provoking. The very next class something WPA. “It’s an amazing event. I learned so much, made a sparked, and an entire novel was born.” ton of friends, and found great new writers to read.” 2 June 2018 inSinC 17 ¡ ¡ Right of Publicity by Jodé Susan Millman

n my last article, I discussed copyright basics. I’d you live. In the case of Elvis like to reiterate that just as someone else must or Jimi, you have the right to obtain permission from you to reproduce your use their names in your works work, you must similarly oblige. Let’s say that you because the dead do not possess have a scene where your heroine is serenading the hero the right of publicity under New Ion guitar with “Just the Way You Are” by either Bruno York State’s Civil Rights Law. Mars or Billy Joel. In order for you to use any lyrics That’s my jurisdiction, but conversely, California treats from that song in your novel, you must get permis- someone’s likeness and image as a property right. sion from the copyright owner (Billy or Bruno) unless Thirty years after John Lennon’s death, Yoko Ono was the material is in the public domain and not subject still suing a bar in Scotland themed after her hus- to copyright protection. This is true even if you give band. As you can see, it’s one of those funky laws that them attribution. Licensing music lyrics can be awfully changes from state to state, so check our your laws expensive, so you’re better off naming the song title for before naming dead people in your novel. However, free than paying them all of your royalties. The same you would need their estate’s permission to put their rule applies to text or quotes. photo on a mug or tee shirt or the cover of your book.

Generally, works published before 1923 are in the pub- Paula McLain is an example of an author who has writ- lic domain, and the status of copyrights works between ten several bestsellers reimagining the lives of famous 1923 and 1964 can be searched at Stanford University’s deceased women such as Ernest Hemingway’s first wife Copyright Renewal database. A complete copyright Hadley, aviator Beryl Markham, and war search can be performed at the U.S. Copy- correspondent Martha Gellhorn in The right Office website. Paris Wife, Circling the Sun, and Love and Ruin, respectively. No permissions were What about using the names of people in required since her subjects were not alive your book? Suppose you’re writing a novel at the time of publication. However, in about your character’s elicit love affair with the case of Mr. Musk, or any living per- singers Elvis Presley or Jimi Hendrix or busi- son whom you intend to mention in your ness magnet Elon Musk. Do you need their novel, it’s best to get permission to use his permission to name names? Interestingly, name. this is not a copyright issue. Rather, this question concerns two different rights— the Recently, a friend asked me whether he right of privacy and the right of publicity. could license a photograph he’d taken in the 1980’s of a now infamous entertainment mogul. The guy is still The right of publicity is a right that we all possess in alive and kicking, so my answer was an unequivocal the commercial use of our name, likeness or picture. “No.” In order for my friend to sell his photo of Mr. If you want to produce mugs with the words “World’s W, he’d have to get Mr. W’s permission, and the odds Greatest Author” beneath your photo, you or your of that are unlikely. Only, Mr. W can profit from his licensees have the right to do so. Only you have the photo, likeness or name even though he is considered right to the commercialization of You for as long as to be a public figure.

June 2018 inSinC 18 ¡ ¡ The right of privacy is held to a different standard. possibly believe that your fictionalized character was While not specifically created by law, the Supreme intended to be factual. Court has interpreted the right to exist in order to A great example of conflating fact with fiction is the prevent the government’s unwarranted intrusion in the bestseller Primary Colors. This was a thinly veiled issues of marriage and birth control. Anyone who has novel depicting ’s 1992 presidential run. seen the wonderful movie, Loving, understands this Originally published by an anonymous author, the point. However, the right of privacy is closely related columnist Joe Klein was ultimately unmasked as the to the First Amendment’s protection of the freedom of novelist. At the time, this proved to be an effective the press and the laws of defamation. marketing strategy, but with today’s social media, this If you base a fictional character on stunt wouldn’t stand a chance. a real person, generally, the public It wouldn’t hurt to add a disclaimer, disclosure of private facts is prohib- which although self-serving, may ited. So, if you’ve woven an intimate support the defense that the identifi- fact about Mr. Musk’s sexuality, family cation of the real person is unreason- life or medical conditions into your able. It should appear on the reverse manuscript, which are not a matter of title page of your novel, or be skill- public concern, watch out! You could fully integrated into either the intro- be the next Starman spinning around duction or preface of your book. Placing the subtitle the planet. You are permitted by law to disclose only “A Novel” also helps. Most important, if you truly matters of public knowledge. have questions about a potential defamation case, And if in your novel, you include information about contact your attorney. Mr. Musk, knowing that it is untrue and holds him Taylor Swift has made a career out from writing up to ridicule, public contempt or disgrace, you may masterful lyrics about old boyfriends without nam- be subject to prosecution under the defamation laws. ing names. And we are all still trying to figure out There are two types of defamation: whether Warren Beatty or Mick Jagger was described Libel is the written act of injuring a living per- in Carly Simon’s “You’re so Vain.” son’s reputation, and Keeping your readers guessing is half of the fun of Slander is the spoken act of defamation. writing and with a bit of creativity, you can do it too without naming names. 2 Public figures are held to proving a higher standard of Jodé Susan Millman is an attorney practicing in New injury as they must show that the statement was made York’s Hudson Valley and a member of the EASL Section with actual malice. of the NYS Bar Association and a contributing editor to the Kaminstein Legislative History Project analyzing the In order for a plaintiff in a fiction-defamation lawsuit Copyright Law of 1976. Her first unpublished thriller novel, to win, they must prove that the publisher and author “The Midnight Call,” won Best Police Procedural from of a defamatory statement knew or should have known Chantireviews.com and was short-listed for the Clue Award in 2014. that the “fictionalized” character was objectively iden- tifiable as the real person. In other words, the details of your character must be so closely aligned that some- one who knows that person would have no difficulty linking the two together. So, if you want to want to Stanford University’s Copyright Renewal database | base your fictionalized character on Mr. Musk, or any exhibits.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals living public figure, do your homework and go big or U.S. Copyright Office go home. Merely changing the name is not enough. copyright.gov Make certain that if you’re getting real, that your char- acter is so outrageously over-the-top that no one could

June 2018 inSinC 19 ¡ ¡ From the Library Liaison by Shari Randall

Using Event Grants to Attend Library Conferences Every month BCC runs a themed Looking for an opportunity to introduce library mov- booklist of SinC authors’ books. ers and shakers to your books? SinC is encouraging How to enter the lottery for one of local chapters to use event grants to attend national these slots? Watch your email. Every and state library conventions. Ask your local librarian month, SinC National sends a notice for the nearest conferences and be sure to plan ahead— with a link to a form where you can grant requests must be received 90 days prior to the enter your book. event. Follow this link to complete information tinyurl.com/yd7rfyzz Upcoming themes The Colorado Chapter attended ALA Midwinter in July—Mystery from Sea to Shining Sea (books set in —they had a wonderful time and made lots of different states) great contacts. They’ve kindly offered to talk to other August—Beach Reads (books set by the sea) chapters about their experience. September—Academic Mysteries October—Things that Go Bump (paranormal) Want to Go to the Big Dance? Looking Ahead November—Culinary Mysteries ALA Midwinter, Seattle WA • January 25–29, 2019 ALA Annual, Washington DC • June 20–25, 2019 You can subscribe to Book Club Central’s newslet- ALA Midwinter, PA • January 24–28, 2020 ter—the link is at the bottom of the BCC homepage. ALA Annual, Chicago IL • June 25–30, 2020 Change to We Love Libraries! So, chapters in Seattle, DC, Philly, and Chicago, here’s The SinC Board voted to change a rule for the We Love your chance to get unparalleled access to librarians Libraries! Program. For years, if one library branch in from all over the country. Attending a conference is a a system won the grant, then no other branch within great opportunity to represent SinC, make contacts, that system could apply. Now, any branch (except pre- and introduce your authors to librarians, publishers, vious winners) may apply. Please spread the word! The and other book lovers. application is at tinyurl.com/ycm55sde 2 Book Club Central A former librarian, military wife, and movie musicals fan, I hope you’ve been checking out the SinC booklist Shari Randall is the author of the Lobster Shack Mysteries on Book Club Central at www.bookclubcentral.org. from St. Martin’s Press.

June 2018 inSinC 20 ¡ ¡ PSYCHO-BRAIDING Help Your Characters Innovate by Katherine Ramsland n a recent episode of the legal drama, “For the Peo- “Rolestorming” is another approach. People ple,” two attorneys lament over issues in their separate take on roles and come together to think cases. At one point, their issues overlap and one of about a problem. For example, the “superhe- Othem gains something she needs from what the other roes” method involves addressing a problem attorney says. Without this conversation, she would not have fig- the way Superman, Spiderman, Thor, or ured it out. That’s the idea of psycho-braiding for plot twists. Wonder Woman might. The participants might facilitate this process (and have more Entanglement theory in physics predicts that, under certain circumstances, seemingly isolated particles are actually instanta- fun) with masks or costumes. The goal is to neously connected through space and time. In psychology, this adopt a perspective different from one’s own: suggests that minds might be similarly entangled, giving rise to What would Superman think about this? Or Sherlock Holmes? Or new ideas from the mutual encounter. In Snap! Seizing Your Aha! Pippi Longstocking? Moments, I described some real-life examples. We can look at the brain to see why this works. It appears to be a A Special Walk system of feedback loops that constantly generate new thoughts. A famous example occurred in 1905. Albert Einstein was out When neuropsychiatrist Nancy Andreasen studied inventive walking with his colleague, Michele Besso, an engineer. As they geniuses, she learned that they have little need for the conceptual pondered issues concerning motion, Einstein laid out his futile structures that most people use for comfort and predictability. approaches thus far. As he articulated them, he experi- They can tolerate ambiguity, along with mixing enced an unexpected insight. “With this new concept,” and matching, so they’re more mentally agile and he later said, “I could resolve all the difficulties com- open to new ideas. pletely for the first time.” He soon completed a paper on his special theory of relativity. Two mentally flexible people from diverse backgrounds can create things that neither would He told an associate that, in the whole of Europe, he have thought of alone, especially if they’re eager could not have found someone better than Besso with to explore the results of psycho- braiding or whom to try out his ideas. Besso was a terrific sound- mental mash-ups. ing board. For his part, Besso could not comprehend how Einstein could have gained such significant In my own field, Frances Glessner Lee was an inspiration from his “inadvertent statements.” heiress who learned to create miniature dioramas to entertain people. Secretly, she wanted to go into medicine. When she met But creative collaboration has its own energy: One person says or a friend of her brother’s, George Burgess Magrath, she grew does something that another person filters into a different context, enthralled with his tales about death investigation. This inspired giving it a new spin. Despite distinct individuals being credited her to use her talents and money to create her “Nutshell Studies of with important discoveries, most realize that teamwork, brain- Unexplained Deaths”—dollhouses that offered police officers the storming, and even the absorption of a professional culture can opportunity to learn or improve their crime scene analysis. be whetstones for honing their thinking. Diverse minds crossing paths at the right time can spark any number of ideas. Many ideas arise from the serendipitous mash-up of diverse For example, the aim of 6-3-5 Brainwriting, developed in Germany disciplines or perspectives. An appreciation for cross-fertilization for a structured approach to innovation, involves gathering six and an attunement to fresh ideas are key to inspired psycho-braid- people and having each generate three new ideas in five minutes, ing. Put some of your characters into such situations and see what pops! and to keep going like this for a full thirty minutes. The starting 2 person writes her ideas on a sheet of paper. She passes the paper to Dr. Katherine Ramsland is a writer and professor of foren- the next person, who reads them and generates three more, work- sic psychology and criminal justice. Among her sixty-three ing off of the original three or adding new ones. The participants are encouraged to find inspiration in another’s perspective, and the books are The Ripper Letter and Confession of a Serial Killer, time pressure generates energy. with a forthcoming sequel, Track the Ripper. June 2018 inSinC 21 ¡ ¡ SinC at Bouchercon St. Petersburg FL

SinC into Great Writing VIIII! SinC Annual Breakfast Your Most Successful Book Launch September 5, (the day before Bouchercon begins!) Friday, September 7 • 7:30 a.m. Vinoy Renaissance Hotel - Registration opens at 12:00 noon Room TBA (If you’ve pre-registered, you’ll Workshop 1:00–5:00 (3:00 break with beverages & receive an email confirming room name.) snacks) SinC Members – $25 Vinoy Renaissance Hotel - Register at tinyurl.com/yd98cvo2 Room TBA (If you’ve pre-registered, you’ll ur Annual Breakfast features a full break- receive an email confirming room name.) fast—try to find one anywhere else for this SinC Members–$50 (this is a placeholder deposit) low cost—a brief business meeting, and lots Register at tinyurl.com/y7s7kg7e Oof fellowship with Sisters and Brothers. hat does it take to successfully launch Registration online is preferred, but you may also mail a book in today’s marketplace? While a check to there are more avenues for authors to Sisters in Crime market their books than ever before, it PO Box 442124 Wcan also be overwhelming. What promotional efforts Lawrence KS 66044 will really move the needle? Veteran book publicist, Dana Kaye, will take participants through the journey Deadline for checks to be received in Lawrence is of a successful book launch and outline what authors August 15. Online registration will continue until the need to do in order to increase sales. From online pres- breakfast is sold out. There is no guarantee that tickets ence to media outreach, to advertising and marketing, will be available onsite; however, if available, we will Kaye will arm you with the tools you need to make be able to take US dollars only at the conference. You your next book launch successful. will receive a reminder email about a week prior to the Dana Kaye is a veteran publicist, social media pro, and event. Meanwhile, mark your calendar—and set your alarm! brand manager. In 2009, she founded Kaye Publicity, 2 Inc., a boutique PR company specializing in publishing and entertainment. Known for her innovative ideas and knowledge of current trends, she coaches her clients on how to identify and establish their unique personal brands.

Kaye is also the author of Your Book, Your Brand: The Step-by-Step Guide to Launching Your Book and Boost- ing Your Sales, and the creator of “Branding Outside the Box,” an online resource aimed at helping individu- als become more memorable and get the career trajec- tory they want.

Kaye’s book Your Book, Your Brand: The Step-by-Step Guide to Launching Your Book and Boosting Your Sales will be available to purchase at the workshop. 2 NOTE: All hotels are full at press time.

June 2018 inSinC 22 ¡ ¡ by Paula Gail Benson Make Short Story Writing Part of Your Year

ach year, we contemplate ways we can noncompliance will end up in your extend and improve our writing craft. Why story being rejected regardless of should we consider adding short story writ- its content and quality. One source ing to our repertoires? There are a number I depend upon to find anthologies of reasons, both for growth in writing ability as well as seeking stories is Sandra Seamans’ Efor publication opportunities. “My Little Corner” at sandrasea- mans.blogspot.com. She updates on a daily and weekly Short story writing allows you to: basis, linking to the sites offering guidelines for anthol- Examine craft in a more contained format, •  ogies. She also has a side column that lists existing and Explore new genres and methods of storytelling, •  continuing online and periodical markets. Encounter shorter deadlines and new markets, •  Third,become part of the community before publish- Experience competition that may lead to writing •  ing a short story. Join the Short Writ- credits as well as possible award nominations, ers Society shortmystery.blogspot.com. Also, join a Entice new readers and SinC chapter that publishes an anthology or find out •  Excite continuing fans by featuring series characters how your local chapter can create one. The Guppies •  in shorter works between novels. online chapter has been very successful with its series of anthologies, including Fish Tales, Fish Nets, Fish or Cut If you haven’t already started down the short story Bait, and Fish Out of Water. For submissions to Fishy writing path, how should you go about it? Business , this year, the Guppies organized a specialized critique group where writers could review each other’s First, find a mentor or role model for inspiration. John story prior to submission. The Guppies also have a con- Floyd is an exceptional example. He has written more tinuing short story critique group where members can than 250 short stories and been the recipient of three offer advice. Many new members from the specialized Derringer awards from the Short Mystery Fiction Soci- group have continued with the regular one. ety as well as being an Edgar finalist and nominated three times for the prestigious Pushcart Prize. Two of Fourth, read and study other short story writers’ his stories have appeared in editions of the annual Best work, particularly now, during the awards season, American Mystery Stories anthologies. If you are not when nominated stories are accessible online. (For familiar with John’s work, let me refer you to his web- the Agathas, see malicedomestic.org/agathas.html.) site www.johnmfloyd.com and a recent message he There are a number of online journals to read. Also, posted on the Sleuthsayers blog, “Non-Vital Statistics: remember the We Love Short Stories initiative, where, 2017 in Review” at tinyurl.com/y9hfhvgq. In his list of as a SinC member, you may subscribe to AHMM, thirty-four short story publications for the year, John EQMM, and other magazines for a reduced rate. sets a high goal for beginners to attempt to follow and So, take the plunge. Try short story writing in 2018 and lists potential markets for submsission. enjoy the benefits! 2 Second, read the “want ads”—that is, find out who is Paula Gail Benson writes fiction, nonfiction, and drama. The accepting submissions and what they want. Be sure to legislative attorney’s short stories have appeared in print read the specifications for submissions carefully since anthologies and online.

June 2018 inSinC 23 ¡ ¡ My Venture world of Little Free into the Libraries by Jeri Westerson had heard of Little Free Libraries on social media, little hut- the fee, you receive a charter sign with your like, mailbox-sized structures installed near the sidewalk on registration number, and the “Take a Book, people’s properties. The idea that you could put out a box with Return a Book” slogan on it, which you books with a “Take a Book, Return a Book” philosophy seemed mount on the library. They work with people Iso very democratic that I was intrigued. They were as simple as in eighty plus countries around the world, a carved-out tree stump, or as elaborate as a solar panel-lit doll which I thought was pretty keen. house. I wanted in. Since snow and snowplows don’t seem to Now, I could have built it myself, but the days when I built bird- be in issue in SoCal, I felt confident that we houses and carved gifts for friends and family were pretty much could put it right next to the sidewalk, and over. It was tough to turn around in our very cluttered garage and since we have a corner lot on a path leading directly to an ele- I had books to write. But I mentioned it enough that my husband, mentary school and near a school bus stop, I knew it should have Craig, took note, even as to the kind I was thinking of making: a Tudor-style cottage. an adequate supply of YA and children’s books. That’s the bottom shelf. The upper shelf has mysteries for adult readers. Little Free When my birthday rolled around last year, he was working on a Library emphasizes that it isn’t up to the Steward to keep the secret project in the garage. I was not allowed in there. And I had library stocked—that’s the community part—but to encourage no clue as to what he was doing. When it finally emerged, I knew neighbors to also be stewards and add their own books, always instantly what it was. making sure the books are appropriate for a varied audience. He put the white base coat on and I had a brief kerfuffle with someone left it for me to do the artistic paint- from a religious sect who left pros- ing. I got to it right away—from the elytizing books and who restocked “thatched roof,” to the aged plaster, to almost as quickly as I took them the half-timbers. out. Once I posted a sign, “Posi- But this was way back in July. It’s tively NO religious books of any hot in the Inland Empire. Too hot kind,” it finally stopped. Neighbors to be outside digging a foundation stuffed it to the gills with children’s and doing cement work. And then a books anyway as soon as they took book tour took away our weekends. note on their walks or bike rides It wasn’t until late November that he that the Little Library was there. I was able to get out there and set it up. still go out there from time to time He’d already gotten it registered (see link below) and it was up to to straighten it and remove the odd outdated tax books and other me to add the details to get it on the world map. Turns out there’s books that just aren’t appropriate. another one in my town a few miles away. In these times where ignorance seems to be celebrated, I had The project is a non-profit grassroots organization based out of hopes that my small effort might yield encouraging results. Only Hudson WI that encourages people in communities all over the time will tell. world to offer free books in residential areas, in front of their Check out LittleFreeLibrary.org for more information. businesses, in parks, and other places the public can see them, to 2 promote “literacy, community, and creativity.” If you can’t build Jeri Westerson is former SinC chapter vice your own, you can buy a little library from them, even get books (though I got a lot of mine from my local library’s Friends of the president, former two-term president of the SinC Orange Library bookstore, especially the YA books that I simply don’t County chapter, and former president of the SoCal chapter have around. And yes, even copies of my own mysteries.) Now of MWA. She writes the Crispin Guest Medieval Noir mysteries; I’m called a “Steward” and though I try not to obsess over it, I am Booke of the Hidden, an urban fantasy series; and the Skyler constantly creeping by my front window to spy on it. I want to be Foxe LGBT Mysteries. See more at JeriWesterson.com, handy to answer questions, though when you register it and pay BookeoftheHidden.com, and SkylerFoxeMysteries.com.

June 2018 inSinC 24 ¡ ¡ “Sisters INCREDIBLE?” — Past Presidents on Video

by Leslie Budewitz

op the corn or pour a cup of your favorite bev- much of the programming members erage and sit back to enjoy a glimpse into the still rely on. history of Sisters in Crime. While you’re at it, take a look at the PAt the 2017 Bouchercon, a group of Sisters written history, if you haven’t already created “Sisters in Crime: Raising Women’s Voices for tinyurl.com/yachzllx. Told through Thirty Years,” a history of the organization. the perspective of the women who have led it, it’s an eye-opening look at the past that As part of that project, we recorded interviews with helps us all better understand not just SinC Sara Paretsky, our founding mother and first president, and Marcia Talley, president but the larger industry, and I think, benefits in 2009–10, a particularly important year. both the organization and individual members Those videos are now available on SinC’s move forward. YouTube channel. Each runs less than half Since humor has always been part of SinC, it’s an hour—one or both would make a great fitting that the process has also given us a new program for your chapter. Find the videos: nickname. YouTube’s closed captioning software Paretsky’s is at youtu.be/5W4tPLk_iaQ doesn’t always hear well, and translated “Sisters in Talley’s is at youtu.be/XHdaknc41o0 Crime” as “Sisters Incredible.” You’ll learn about conditions in the publishing indus- Or maybe the software understood us perfectly. Take try in 1986-87 that prompted Paretsky, Nancy Pickard, a look at the videos and the report, and I think you’ll Margaret Maron, and others to form the organization. agree, we are pretty incredible. You’ll hear why they focused on 2 reviews, and how the SinC review As a practicing attorney, Leslie Budewitz Webmaven Sarah Glass has just wrote a quarterly legal column for in- project has significantly expanded made the SinC YouTube subscrip- SinC. She was president of SinC National the audience for crime fiction by tion link easier to find! Look for it at in 2015–16. Afterwards, she chaired women. You’ll learn about early tinyurl.com/ybtv7g8t. You can get both the SinC into Great Writing work- opposition, and how the hard- other SinC National videos there, too. Thanks, Sarah! shop and the Summit project. “Raising won changes in our tax status Women’s Voices for Thirty Years” was the enabled the organization to begin result of that effort. Eleanor Taylor Bland Award Application Deadline June 15 Sisters in Crime is currently taking submissions for its an- nual grant of $1,500 for an emerging writer of color. This HURRY grant is intended to support the recipient in activities Deadline June 15 related to crime fiction writing and career development (ie. workshops, seminars, conferences, online courses, and research required for completion of the work). Both mem- bers and nonmembers of SinC can apply.

June 2018 inSinC 25 ¡ ¡ Awards 1 Nominations by Gay Totl Kinman

Kelly Armstrong’s Missing was a Hilary Davidson’s “Jerusalem M. Ruth Myers’ finalist in the Arthur Ellis Award Syndrome” in Passport to Murder Dames Fight for Best Juvenile/Young Adult Bouchercon Anthology was a finalist Harder is a Crime Book. for the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Shamus Award Crime Short Story. nominee for best Catherine Astolfo’s “The Outlier” Original Private in 13 Claws was a finalist for the Vicki Delany’s Blood & Belonging Eye Paperback. Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime was a finalist for the Lou Allin Short Story. Memorial Award for Best Crime Gigi Pandian’s “The Library Novella. Ghost of Tanglewood Inn” won Mattias Bostrom’s From Holmes to the Agatha for Best Short Story. Sherlock: The Story of the Men and Devorah Fox’s The Zen Detective Women Who Created an Icon won ranked #34 of 50 Best Indie Books ’s A Great Reckoning the Agatha for Best Nonfiction. of 2017. won the Lefty for Best Mystery Novel—and the Agatha for Best Rhys Bowen’s In Farleigh Field Kellye Garrett’s Hollywood Contemporary Novel. won the Agatha for Best Historical Homicide: A Detective by Day won Novel. the Agatha for Best First Novel. Dianna Scott’s “Destruction in Paradise” was a finalist in the Best Laura Brennan’s manuscript “The Alexia Gordon’s Murder in G Major Unpublished Manuscript category End of All Things” was a finalist won the Lefty for Best Debut Mys- sponsored by Dundurn Press. in the Freddie Award for Writing tery Novel. Excellence by the Florida Chapter Sylvia Maultash Warsh’s “The Ran- of MWA. Georgia Jeffries’ “What Would chero’s Daughter” in 13 Claws was Nora Do?” was selected for the a finalist for the Arthur Ellis Award Ellen Byron’s A Cajun Christmas MWA/Random House anthology for Best Crime Short Story. Killing won the Lefty for Best Odd Partners. Humorous Mystery Novel. Holly West’s “The Best Laid Kristen Lepionka’s The Last Play Plans” was selected for the 2018 Cindy Callaghan’s Sydney You Look is a Shamus Award nomi- Bouchercon Anthology Sunny Places, Mackenzie Knocks ’Em Dead won nee for Best First Private Eye Novel. Shady People. the Agatha for Best Children’s/ Young Adult Novel. Paul Marks’ “Windward” in Coast Michael Wiley’s Monument Road is to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to a Shamus Award nominee for Best M. H. Callway’s Snake Oil was a Shining Sea was selected for the Private Eye Novel. finalist for the Lou Allin Memorial 2018 Best American Short Stories Award for Best Crime Novella. anthology—and a Shamus Award Please send award information of nominee for Best Private Eye Short Sisters in Crime members only to Matt Coyle’s Blood Truth is a Story; and his “There’s an Alligator [email protected] for Shamus Award nominee for Best in My Purse” was selected for the inclusion in this column. Private Eye Novel. 2018 Bouchercon Anthology Sunny Places, Shady People.

Reading for writers is like training for athletes. —Linda Sue Park

June 2018 inSinC 26 ¡ ¡ Magna cum Murder IN • Oct. 19–21 GoH Reavis Z. Wortham, Int’l GoH EVENTS tinyurl.com/y83xv4lk HAPPENINGS New England Crime Bake Boston-Woburn MA • Nov. 9–11 Maine Crime Wave GOH Portland ME • June 1–2 CrimeBake.org SG Tess Gerritsen, Meg Ruley mainewriters.org/maine-crime-wave 2019 Thrillerfest New York NY • July 10–14 Left Coast Crime TM George R.R. Martin, SG & Vancouver BC • Mar. 28–31 Lisa Gardner thrillerfest.com “GoH C.J. Box & Maureen Jennings, FGoH Don & Jen Longmuir, TM Cathy Ace. Sue Harrogate Crime Writing Grafton Lifetime Achievement Award. Festival www. LeftCoastCrime.org/2019 Harrogate UK • Jul. 19–22 Malice Domestic SG Dan Brown tinyurl.com/jrjaaff Bethesda MD • May 3–5 Writers Police Academy GoH , TM Chris Green Bay WI • Aug. 9–12 Grabenstein, LA Parnell Hall, FGoH P.J. Coldren, Malice Remembers Sue Feder GoH Jeffrey Deaver, SGoH Carrie Stuart Parks, Bouchercon Deadly Ink 2018 TX • Oct. 31–Nov. 3 Dist. Contr. to Genre, James Patterson; Iselin NJ • Aug. 10–12 Lifetime Achievement, Peter Lovesey; GoH Meg Gardiner,TM Roberta Rogow American GoH, Hank Phillippi Ryan; deadly-ink.com Local GoH, Deborah Crombie; Fan GoH, Edinburgh Book Festival McKenna Jordan; TM, Harry Hunsicker Edinburgh, Scotland • Aug.11–27 www.Bouchercon2019.com www.edbookfest.co.uk Killer Nashville 2020 Nashville, TN • Aug. 23–26 Left Coast Crime killernashville.com CA • Mar 12–15 Bad Sydney GoH Rachel Hozwell Hall, GoH T. Jefferson Parker, TM Matt Coyle Sydney Australia • Sep.1–2 www.badsydney.com Bouchercon Bouchercon Sacramento CA • Oct. 15–18 CORRECTION “Where Murder Is a Capitol Crime. ” St. Petersburg FL • Sep. 6–9 Exemplary Body of Work, Walter Mosely; Karin Slaughter, Sean Chercover, Sara Distinguished GoH, ; Local Blaedel, Mark Billingham, Lisa Unger, Tim GoH, Cara Black; Fan GoH, Janet Rudolph; Dorsey, Ian Rankin, Judy Bobalik, Ayo TM, Catriona McPherson. Onatade, & GhoH John D. MacDonald. www.Bouchercon2020. org www.Bouchercon2018.com

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