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CCW MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT: Special 1 THE PURLOINED NEWSLETTER April 2009 www.capitalcrimewriters.com Volume 21, Issue 8 – April 2009 Inside this issue: Message from the President 2 CCW MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT: Ken Gibson Special Guests: Notes from the Editor 3 Trish Dyer & Andrew Seymour Katherine Hobbs April 8, 2009 at 7 p.m. Ways to begin a book 4 The April 8th meeting of Capital Crime Writers will focus on the Forensic Corner: N is for experiences of reporters and journalists who cover criminal Nancy Drew 5 cases and court proceedings. The format will be an "interview" between two reporters with a lot of experience in the field. Bouchercon Report 1992 6 Trish Dyer, one of our CCW members, covered crime for the Toronto Star in Ottawa, 1983-1990, when she joined the CBC as an investigative journalist covering criminal issues. She was with March Meeting Report: 7 the CBC for 10 years, retiring in 2000, to set up her own writing Guest Author Rick Mofina business. Andrew Seymour has been the crime/court reporter with The Ottawa Citizen for the past three years. His articles routinely appear in The Citizen. The final bits & pieces 10 See you at the meeting, Tom Curran, Program Committee Capital Crime Writers is an organization of writers and editors working in the mystery field, as well as readers who love the genre. We meet on the second Wednesday of each month to discuss writing and crime. Meetings are sus- pended in July and August for the summer. Membership fees are: $30 per year, $15 corresponding. Meetings are held in Room 156 at the Library and Ar- chives Canada, 395 Wel- lington Street beginning at CCW member Maggie Taylor poses with author Rick Mofina, who was the guest speaker at the March 11 CCW meeting at Library and Archives Canada. 7:00 p.m. 2 THE PURLOINED NEWSLETTER April 2009 www.capitalcrimewriters.com CCW Executive Message from the President - Ken Gibson It was great President—Ken Gibson listening to Chair@capitalcrimewriters Rick Mofina VP – Vacant speak about vp@capitalcrimewriters writing at our Past President – last meeting. Brenda Chapman His talk was pastchair wide-ranging, @capitalcrimewriters but I found Treasurer – his comments Rachel Pitcher about locating Treasurer@ capitalcrimewriters a story in a place that you Programs – have only Bev Panasky , Deborah Gyapong & Thomas Curran visited once or programsworkshops@ twice, or not capitalcrimewriters at all, to be particularly interesting. known short story Membership Secretary: 2009/10 CCW executive It can be done. So, if writer, said that every Darlene Cole on page 10. We do not membership@ your writing interests day when he reads the have a candidate for capitalcrimewriters span the globe, but newspaper, he finds a Vice-President. If this, your budget keeps you multitude of storylines. Newsletter Editor/ or any other position, Public Relations - close to home, you can He cuts them out and on the executive inter- Katherine Hobbs place your characters puts them in a file and 613-263-0069 ests you, feel free to in any locale with skil- when he feels like writ- newsletter@ seek a nomination. A ful use of the Internet ing, he's never short of capitalcrimewriters vote, if necessary, will pr@capitalcrimewriters and a good supply of topics. be held before the May travel books. meeting. There are some people Webmaster – Rick also said that who get the news be- We also anticipate a Guy Mercier when he is working to fore it appears in the webmaster@ need for volunteers for tight deadlines, he newspaper - crime re- capitalcrimewriters CCW's 20th anniversary doesn't have the luxury porters. At our April celebrations next fall of writer's block. This meeting, I look forward (and for BW?) and per- www.capitalcrimewriters.com reminded me of the to hearing CCW mem- haps other activities. If times I have sat in ber, Trish Dyer, a for- you are interested in front of my computer mer crime reporter, volunteering, please let screen patiently waiting who will be on a panel us know. for inspiration to strike. with Andrew Seymour, a current crime Katherine has filled the ―Bring all your It also made me think reporter with the newsletter with her intelligence to bear on of a writers' panel I Ottawa Citizen. It usual neat stuff, includ- your beginning.‖ attended a number of should be splendid ing another walk down year's ago at a evening. Elizabeth Bowen memory lane with Vicki Bouchercon confer- Cameron. Enjoy! ence. One of the You will see the notice panellists, a well- of nomination for the Ken Gibson 3 THE PURLOINED NEWSLETTER April 2009 www.capitalcrimewriters.com From the Editor- Katherine Hobbs At Bouchercon in Balti- member in attendance is Margaret Dunlop more last October I invited for a free drink at: listened to panels with at the CCW sponsored hour authors like Amaldur long cocktail preceding the Margaret.Dunlop Indridason from Ice- banquet. @rogers.Com land. I bought one of his We’d be happy to books and was hooked. The mystery cafe is open to have you as part of the public and writers from the BW team! When Vicki Delaney across Canada will be par- spoke at our Christmas ticipating at the cafe every Katherine event she referenced half hour. There are lots of Indridason's books as an surprises and it promises to There has been a lot of inspiration in her own be a most entertaining talk about Writer Confer- writing -- she talked event overall. Check out ences lately . I have to about how she used his www.bloodywords2009. admit there hasn't been prose as an example of com for more information much on my mind for how she could get better on what is going on. more than a year now at what she does. other than writer's confer- A great way to get ences. — and more spe- So these events are defi- immersed in the conference cifically Bloody Words. nitely the places to be if and help garner a real you love reading mystery, sense of belonging is to And after reading through if you love writing mys- volunteer. I was a time- the historic copies of The tery, and if you want to keeper at Bouchercon and it Purloined newsletters and meet some of your gave me the opportunity to finding Vicki Cameron's favourite, or soon to be immediately feel part of synopsis of various favourite, authors. things. conferences she'd attended over the years, And now Bloody Words Attendees had volunteered it gave me pause to think 2009 is almost upon us. from all over the globe; an about the myriad of book Australian woman was events and conferences It's been more than a manning the registration I've attended over the year now that the core desk when I signed in. My past year in order to steering committee has volunteer task was easy; I glean the best tips in or- been working on this con- would act as timekeeper at ganization, topics and ta- ference. We are thrilled sessions I wanted to attend boos for putting on with the line up of guests anyway. I had to show up Bloody Words. -- Denise Mina, Louise early, clean up the mess Penny , Barbara Fradkin the preceding panel had First up was Bloody and Mary Jane Maffini -- left, and put out fresh Words in Toronto. Bloody and the line up of media glasses of water. great time. My eyes were personalities to interview opened to writers in them, from the CBC Then I sat in the line of Canada and the US that I (radio and TV), to the Ot- sight of the moderator and didn't know existed tawa Citizen, as well as held up cards giving them previously. Since then the editor of KitchArt 30 minute, 15 minute, or 5 I've bought many books I Magazine. minute warnings -- or might not have picked up whatever time period they ordinarily. This broaden- Bloody Words also gives preferred. What power! ing of my reading list has us an opportunity to increased my overall showcase our national So if you feel so inclined enjoyment of reading capital mystery writing as to volunteer and help out mysteries. organization -- Capital June 5, 6 or 7 at Bloody Crime Writers. Any CCW Words, please contact 4 THE PURLOINED NEWSLETTER April 2009 www.capitalcrimewriters.com Some Ways to Begin a Book Reprinted from the February 1992 edition of The Purloined Newsletter WITH MOTIVE The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. — The Cask of Amontillado, Edgar Allan Poe BY INTRODUCING To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. — A Scandal in Bohemia, THE PROTRAGONIST A. Conan Doyle AND/OR ANTAGONIST WITH THE VICTIM The corpse without hands lay in the bottom of a small sailing dinghy drifting just within sight of the Suffolk coast. — Unnatural Causes, P.D. James WITH ACTION They threw me off the hay truck about noon. — The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain. BY SETTING THE I wasn’t doing any work that day, just catching up on my foot-dangling. TONE — Goldfish, Raymond Chandler WITH IMAGE He was just a pink dance-ticket to her. A used-up one at that, torn in half. — Deadline at Dawn, William Irish Tips from and for Writers From Robert Byler: Talk out your story The most readable writing has a conversational flow and feeling. Say it aloud, especially when sty- mied by a tough sentence or paragraph, and you will write more speedily and readably. Talk to the wall, to a pet, or — better yet — imagine you are talking to a typical reader … From Stephen King: How to Evaluate Criticism: Show your piece to a number of people — ten, let us say.
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