Sisters In Crime's Blog – July 2007 Archive (4)

TOP TEN REASONS TO JOIN SISTERS IN CRIME

Have you been thinking about joining Sisters in Crime or just curious about what your dues provide? Here are a few of the high points of the past yearand some things to look forward to as well!

1. Review monitoring project--this is the backbone of the organization and it's aimed directly at the mission statement. Judy Clemens has been heading it up and you can read about it here: http://www.sistersincrime.org/monitor/.

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Added by Sisters In Crime on July 31, 2007 at 3:02am — No Comments

Guppies: A school of—and for—emerging writers

by guest blogger Elizabeth Zelvin

Sisters in Crime was the first organization I joined in 2002 when I completed the first draft of Death Will Get You Sober, the mystery manuscript I'd been talking about for years. I visited my local chapter, which was going through a lull at the time. And I signed up for Guppies, which I was told was the SinC online interest group (not yet a chapter) for the Great UnPublished, or prepublished wrtiers, as they are often called in SinC. I'm so glad I…

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Added by Sisters In Crime on July 17, 2007 at 11:11pm — 1 Comment

Ask not what SinC can do for you. . .

posted by Donna Andrews, SinC Chapter Liaison and author of the Meg Langslow & Turing Hopper mystery series.

Potential SinC members often ask what benefits they can get from joining

the organization. And most SinC members--including me--have very

decided ideas about what benefits SinC could or should offer.



But just to play devil's advocate--or possibly prove that I'm still a

child of the sixties--I'd like to suggest that we all need to shift our…

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Added by Sisters In Crime on July 11, 2007 at 11:45am — No Comments

Twisted Sistahs and Bruthas of The Final Twist

One of the best, unkept secrets in Houston is The Final Twist, the Houston Chapter of Sisters in Crime, founded four years ago by Diana L. Driver, author of Ninth Lord of the Night.

Against the odds, and despite a membership scattered all over this very large and sprawling city, the chapter has grown, managing to not just survive, but to thrive.

TFT members are mostly published authors or aspiring authors--though we're proud to include in our membership a reviewer, a movie…

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Added by Sisters In Crime on July 3, 2007 at 6:12am — No Comments

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