Sisters In Crime's Blog – August 2007 Archive (3)

SinC Chapters

I'd like to put the focus on chapters for a moment. You can belong to Sisters in Crime without joining a chapter--but if you don't belong to a chapter, you could be missing some of the most rewarding benefits and opportunities that SinC can offer.

For starters, chapters are one of the best ways to get to know your fellow Sisters in Crime--the people who love mysteries the way you do. The people who write the mysteries you read--or read the mysteries you write.

I have writer…

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Added by Sisters In Crime on August 21, 2007 at 2:33am — 1 Comment

2007-2008 Sisters in Crime Book Events – Opportunities for all SinC Members

Sisters in Crime has been doing book events all over the country for as many years as I can remember. I think I remember booking a booth in 1992 for Sisters in Crime at the Miami Book Fair. Since then we’ve always had a presence at Malice Domestic, Bouchercon and the American Library Association Conference. In fact there have only been two library liaisons for Sisters in Crime in fifteen or so years. Could that be? The wonderful Kathy Harig pioneered the job dragging materials all over the…

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Added by Sisters In Crime on August 14, 2007 at 2:24am — No Comments

Libraries in the 21st Century

When Edison first invented his phonograph, there were articles in various periodicals that the book public libraries would be a thing of the past.

Books and libraries are still with us, though now the printed word is available in electronic form and in audio books on tape, CD and MP3...and who knows what devices in the future.

The public has mostly turned their backs on e-books. I surely don't want to read a mystery on my computer screen or some other electronic instrument. On…

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Added by Sisters In Crime on August 6, 2007 at 11:03pm — No Comments

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