IInnSSiinnCC The Sisters in Crime Newsletter Volume XXII • Number 3 September 2009 SinC Puts Forward StroPnick. MgarySis anlawaardt- eat tfheoRefreren2ce D0esk0and9as -the2lib0rary1’s PR0 co - ByCRlicohébyeers,tabuItsitletriubl,y PseeamsstlPikereyessitderednayt that winning poet and short ordinator. One of the very best parts of her job is Libby Hellmann called to ask if I’d consider tak - story writer and former bringing writers — especially mystery writers — ing a spot on the Sisters in Crime National Board recording engineer. She to the library. “There is absolutely nothing better of Directors. These four years have been chal - lives in Nashville. than for a library user to tell me they have been lenging and so very rewarding and it’s with mixed Treasurer Kathryn reading a mystery author because they met her at feelings that I step down. On behalf of the nomi - R. Wall is the author of the library and that they can’t wait for her next nating committee, I am delighted to offer SinC Covenant Hall and book to come out!” members a very strong slate for the 2009-2010 eight previous Bay Tan - Nancy Martin board. Elections will take place at Bouchercon in ner mysteries set in the (Member At Large) Indiana. If you’re not planning to attend, please Mary Saums Low Country of South wrote more than 40 ro - vote by mail, using the ballot on page 15 in this is - Carolina. The Mercy mance novels before sue. And now, the slate: Oak , released in 2008, turning to her real pas - President-elect was a Southeastern In - sion – murder myster - Marcia Talley is the dependent Book - ies. Her first mystery, Agatha and Anthony sellers Alliance nomi - How to Murder a Mil - award-winning author nee for fiction. A for - lionaire , was nominated of Without a Grave mer accountant and for an Agatha and and seven previous Ohio native, Kathy launched the Blackbird mystery novels featur - lives with her husband Sisters mystery series. In Nancy Martin ing breast cancer sur - on Hilton Head Is - 2009, Romantic Times magazine awarded her a vivor and sleuth, Han - land. Lifetime Achievement award for amateur sleuth nah Ives. Marcia is also Jim Huang (Book - mysteries. She lives in Pittsburgh and blogs at author/editor of two seller Liaison) is an Kathryn Wall The Lipstick Chronicles. star-studded collabora - Marcia Talley editor, bookseller and Charlaine Harris tive novels, Naked Came the Phoenix and I’d Kill publisher, and he also often writes about the mys - (Member At Large) , for That . Her short stories appear in more than a tery genre. He is the co- New York Times best - dozen collections. She lives in Annapolis, MD, chair of Bouchercon selling author and win - with a husband who loves to sail and a cat who 2009, the 40th annual ner of an Anthony doesn’t. World Mystery Con - Award, is best known Incoming Vice Pres - vention. A New York for her series of novels ident Cathy Pickens’ native and a graduate of about Sookie Stack - first novel, Southern Swarthmore College, house, a telepathic bar - Fried , won the St. Mar - he lives in Carmel, IN, maid in Louisiana fea - tin’s Malice Domestic with his wife Jennie Ja - Charlaine tured in the HBO se - Award for Best Tradi - cobson and their two ries True Blood . She al - tional Mystery and was daughters. Harris so writes books about a finalist for Romantic Jim Huang Mary Callahan Harper Connelly, who Times Best New Mys - Boone (Library Liaison) is a life-long reader of finds the dead for a liv - tery. She is an attorney, mysteries. She's a trans - ing. Charlaine has Cathy Pickens a founding board planted Southerner been a member of Sis - member of the Mecklenburg Forensic Medicine who lives in Bowling ters in Crime for more Program, and a business professor. She lives in Green, OH, with her than 20 years and is Charlotte. husband, three cats, serving on the board SecretaryMary Saums' new series stars two and two dogs. She has for the second time. gun-toting 60-something ladies, Jane Thistle and worked at the Wood Charlaine lives in Phoebe Twigg. They made their debut in Thistle County District Public southern Arkansas. and Twigg , a finalist for the 2008 SIBA Award for Library in Bowling Julianne Balmain Fiction, presented by the Southeastern Indepen - Green since 1997. Her (aka Nadia Gordon) Julianne dent Booksellers Association. The second book, time at the library is (Monitoring Project) Mighty Old Bones , was a Romantic Times Top split between working Balmain Mary Boone (Continued on page 6) Get aClue Sisters in Crime Newsletter 2009 - 2010 Slate ........................... ...1 The mission of Sisters in Crime is to promote the pro - fessional development and advancement of women President’s Message ..................... .......3 crime writers to achieve equality in the industry. Judy Clemens , President Jim Huang , Bookstore Liaison SinC Into Great Writing! .............. ....3 Marcia Talley ,Vice President/President Elect Mary Boone , Library Liaison Mar y Saums , Secretary Charlaine Harris, At Large Kathryn Wall, Treasurer/Authors Coalition Liaison Nancy Martin , At Large Breakfast at Bouchercon ............. ……..3 Robin Burcell ,Chapter Liaison Julianne Balmain , Monitoring Project Cathy Pickens, Publicity Roberta Isleib, Past President Books into Movies .......................... ....4 Bonnie J. 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