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The Thin Red Line Not Her Mama's Bookclub Bloody Murder Writers The Sisters in Crime Quarterly • December 2014 The Thin Red Line Not Her Mama’s Bookclub Bloody Murder Writers’ Bane Inner Lie Disclosure Personal Representative Writes of Passage Update Award for Writers of Color …and More! Get a Clue Editor’s Note Molly Weston.....................3 The mission of Sisters in Crime is to promote the Catriona’s Letter professional development and advancement of women Catriona McPherson...............4 crime writers to achieve equality in the industry. The Thin Red Line Martha Reed .....................5 Catriona McPherson, President Leslie Budewitz, Vice President Chapters ............................8 Susan C. Shea, Secretary Lori Roy, Treasurer Not Her Mama’s Bookclub Carolyn Dubiel, Library Liaison Tina Whittle .....................14 Barbara Fister, Monitoring Chair Clare O’Donohue, Bookstore Liaison Bloody Murder Martha Reed, Chapter Liaison Catriona McPherson..............17 Simon Wood, Publicity Frankie Bailey, At Large Writer’s Bane—Talking about Yourself Julie Hennrikus, At Large Laura Brennan ...................18 G. M. Malliet, At Large Hank Phillippi Ryan, At Large Your Inner Lie Disclosure Laura DiSilverio, Immediate Past President Katherine Ramsland, PhD .........20 Molly Weston, inSinC Editor Laurel Anderson, inSinC Proofreader Getting Facts Straight Gavin Faulkner, inSinC Proofreader Leslie Budewitz ..................22 Marisa Young, inSinC Proofreader Sarah Glass, Web Maven/Social Media SinC at Bouchercon .................23 Writes of Passage—Update Beth Wasson, Executive Director Hank Phillippi Ryan...............24 PO Box 442124 Lawrence, KS 66044-2124 Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction [email protected] Award for Writers of Color 785.842.1325 (P) • 785.856.6314 (F) Frankie Y. Bailey..................25 We Love Libraries! ©2014 Sisters in Crime International Andrea Smith....................26 Beth’s Bits inSinc is the official publication of Sisters in Crime International and is published four Beth Wasson ....................27 times a year. • One-year dues are $40 for professional US and Canada writers and $35 for non-professionals (add $5 for other countries). Two-year dues are $80 and $70; Awards & Nominations lifetime, $500 and $350. Address and all other changes can be made by members on If you do not use a computer or need a user name, please Gay Toltl Kinman .................28 www.sistersincrime.org. contact Beth Wasson at the address above. Information in inSinC is submitted or reprinted from sources listed in each article. Where required, permission to reprint has Events & Happenings ................29 been granted and noted. SinC does not investigate each submission independently and articles in no way constitute an endorsement of products or services offered. No mate- The Docket .........................30 rial may be reprinted without written permission from Sisters in Crime. 2 inSinC December 2014 ¡ ¡ Sisters in Crime Past Presidents Sara Paretsky 1987-88 Editor’s Note Nancy Pickard 1988-89 by Molly Weston Margaret Maron 1989-90 Susan Dunlap 1990-91 Carolyn G. Hart 1991-92 ou’re right! This edition is P. M. Carlson 1992-93 Linda Grant 1993-94 coming to you later than usual. I Barbara D’Amato 1994-95 hope you can fit reading it into Elaine Raco Chase 1995-96 Annette Meyers 1996-97 your holiday schedule. Like most Sue Henry 1997-98 writers I’m usually chasing my Medora Sale 1998-99 deadline, but this time several Barbara Burnett Smith 1999-00 Claire Carmichael McNab 2000-01 outside forces combined to make this issue a Eve K. Sandstrom 2001-02 Ybit late. I hope you’ll find the additional late- Kate Flora 2002-03 Kate Grilley 2003-04 breaking information worth the wait! Patricia Sprinkle 2004-05 Libby Hellmann 2005-06 Fall was busy with lots of conferences—I attended three of them, Rochelle Krich 2006-07 including the Writers Police Academy which Martha Reed recaps Roberta Isleib 2007-08 Judy Clemens 2008-09 in “The Thin Red Line.” At the WPA, I attended not one, but three Marcia Talley 2009-10 sessions given by Katherine Ramsland (and she was absolutely fas- Cathy Pickens 2010-11 cinating!). I met Andrea Smith at Magna cum Murder in October. Frankie Bailey 2011-12 Hank Phillippi Ryan 2012-13 Andrea is doing a great job with our “We Love Libraries” program Laura DeSilverio 2013–14 and she’s also president of the Speed City Chapter. At Bouchercon I met Diane Vallare, president of the LA Chapter and I spent some Deadline & Submissions time with Laura Brennan—be sure to see her article on Page 18. I Deadline for articles for the spent a lot of time with our executive director, Beth Wasson. Beth March issue of inSinC is is not only a super resource for everything SinC, but she’s delight- January 15. Include name, email, mailing address, and phone ful company. number with submissions. Send columns, articles, high-res photos, SinC’s annual board meeting is always held at Bouchercon. It’s ideas, praise, and story ideas via always refreshing to see how much new energy new members email to infuse! We’re always sorry to see folks leave the board, but the Molly Weston newcomers always jump in with both feet and new ideas. The hard [email protected] 919.362.1436 work they do during the year is unlike any I’ve ever seen—and I’ve been involved in lots of boards in lots of places. Please be sure to The Docket say thanks whenever you see one of them! To list your publications and award nominations, login to As we come to the end of 2014, thank you for being such wonder- SistersinCrime.org ful siblings and thank you for your many contributions to inSinC! and look for “Quick Links” at the bottom of the home page. Fill in Happy holidays! the information, one entry per publication. Titles released more than six months from inSinC publi- Molly cation date cannot be included. 3 inSinC December 2014 ¡ ¡ Dear Siblings in Crime, that I’ve spent my life surrounded by other girls and then women who’ve I can’t begin to tell you how thrilled forgotten more than I’ll ever know Catriona’s I am to be writing this letter as your Letter and have got my back like a book’s incoming president. I’m still a bit got words in. And—as a bonus—they the publica- dazed that I was asked; or maybe brought brothers-in-law! So, all in all, tion of Writes of it’s altitude sickness from the steep I couldn’t really fail to feel at home Passage edited by learning curve I’ve been on since I when I left my real sisters behind in Hank Phabulous sat in on my first board meeting at the old country and found my new Ryan. I’m not the Albany Bouchercon and tried sibs four years ago. sure if this last to follow the discussion—matching year was particu- names to faces to jobs to reports, Some of the wonders of SinC are larly tremendous deciphering the TLA*s, steeling already so familiar I can’t remember or if it’s like this myself to ask for clarification every a time without them: chapter meet- every year in SinC, but either way I’m time I didn’t understand something. ings with Capitol Crimes and NorCal; feeling very lucky. *Three Letter Acronym the best of the Internet laid on like In the coming year, I’m hoping to rack a buffet in SinCLinks each month; Truly, if I had raised alternate hands up a great deal more learning when I people wearing feather boas to with each question I would now have should be teaching. The current pub- breakfast … Mrs. Obama’s arms. It’s a testament lishing summit on bricks and mortar to the wisdom, generosity and— Some of it’s still new enough for me bookstores has opened the back of a especially—patience of the rest of to feel humbled by good fortune, wardrobe into a whole new world for the board that I’m sort of tentatively mind you. In the last year, I’ve been me and I’m sure it will do the same confident-ish as I sit here typing, lucky enough to visit SinC Desert for you when we publish our findings. instead of being passed out, but still Sleuths to take part in their annual Next year’s publishing summit is no clenched, in a corner somewhere. WriteNow! workshop where I learned more than a twinkle in the eye as I’m writing, but I’m looking forward to it It’s a new experience for me, taking more than I taught by a mile. I made already. If I can get to Crimebake and up the reins like this. I’m the young- my first trip to the South for Killer Writers Police Academy (WPA)—well, est of four sisters in real life and, Nashville, where I once again learned it’ll be a year that (as Alex Marwood as all youngest children know, this more than I taught (and ate grits put it, perfectly) will warm my bones means I’ve never been put in charge which are 1) awesome and 2) not when I’m old. of anything. Never chosen a joint polenta). Then I hung out with the present for a parent, never decided a hands-down finest bunch of people So, thank you, Sisters and Misters. party menu, never got a window seat walking the earth—librarians and I’m delighted to be here, determined in the back of the car, never had a teachers—at PLA in Indianapolis. to do my best for this splendid orga- brand-new bike, and learned—while nization and resolved to make the I can thoroughly recommend any a teenager inclined toward black incomparable Laura DiSilverio glad of those three events to nourish a clothes—to wear a peach crinoline that she approached me.
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