Title: Az Historical Society Holiday Book Fair
Location: 949 E. Second Street
Link out: Click here
Description: A fundraiser for the historical society’s Publications Division, the book fair will feature dozens of local and regional authors. Authors will be available on both days to visit with readers and to sign copies of their books, which will be available at a 20% discount.
Start Date: 2011-12-09
Start Time: 6:00 pm-8:00pm
End Date: 2011-12-10
End Time: 10:00-12:00

Title: AMW Meeting
Location: EL Parador
Description: Arizona Mystery Writers invite you to attend our December 10th meeting.

End of Year Workshop:
Karen McLeish puts together an intriguing cast of characters in a unique setting to be used by participants to joyfully murder their way through diabolical plots schemed on the spot. Karen has published several short mystery stories and is the author of Criminal Justice, a novel set in a maximum security prison

Holiday Book Fair:
Show and sell your mystery books! E-book authors use flyers. Get one minute of microphone time to blurb your latest. Come early to set up. Bring your own cash box. Nonmember fee $20 includes table space, lunch and workshop. No fee for members, lunch extra. Membership is $25.

Join us, the second Saturday of each month, September through May, at El Parador Restaurant 2744 East Broadway Blvd. (East of Tucson Blvd), 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM, for fascinating and informative speakers on all aspects of writing mystery, thrillers, and suspense. $20 non-members and walk-ins includes lunch; $14 members. $10 for one session, morning or afternoon, no lunch. No credit cards please. Reservation and menu choice by noon Wednesday before the meeting. RSVP: Molly 520-624-0792, amw2010mm@gmail.com.

Start Time: 10:00
Date: 2011-12-10
End Time: 14:00

Title: 3rd Annual Holiday Book Fair
Location: SSA - Green Valley Chapter
Description: Local Authors Gather at the Valley Presbyterian Church, 2800 S. Camino del Sol, Green Valley to sign and sell their books, in all genres.
Start Time: 1:00 p.m.
Date: 2011-12-03
End Time: 4:00 p.m.

Let’s all cheer for one of our (modest) members, who sent this email to Molly. Something else to be grateful for on this Thanksgiving Week!

Hi All!
At the risk of ‘tooting my own horn’, I just have to share that an award-winning children’s magazine has chosen one of my stories for their November issue!
Link to Story
Enjoy and have a great day!
Diedre Knight

Title: Book Signing
Location: Poison Pen Bookstore
Link out: Click here
Description: Clark Lohr will be signing his new book at the 25th Annual Sister\’s in Crime Party at the Poison Pen Bookstore.
Date: 2011-11-15

Title: Meeting
Location: El Parador Restaurant
Description: Speaker- April Stonehouse, a criminalist with the Arizona Dept. Of Public Safety, is a DNA specialist.
Workshop-Meg Files is a writer and teaches creative writing, chairs the English and Journalism Department, and directs the Pima Writers’ Workshop at Pima College’s West Campus in Tucson.
Start Time: 10:00
Date: 2011-11-12
End Time: 14:00

Morning Speaker-

April Stonehouse, a criminalist with the Arizona Dept. Of Public Safety, is a DNA specialist. Using the latest forensic technology to analyze blood or other body fluid at a crime scene, she extracts a DNA profile and submits it to CODIS, the DNA database system, for a match. She will describe how the technology works and how it has been used to solve crimes.

Afternoon Workshop-

Meg Files is a writer and teacher whose books include the novel Meridian 144, Home Is the Hunter and Other Stories, Write from Life: Turning Your Personal Experiences into Compelling Stories, The Love Hunter and Other Poems, and Galapagos Triptych: Three Ways of Seeing the Galapagos Islands. She teaches creative writing, chairs the English and Journalism Department, and directs the Pima Writers’ Workshop at Pima College’s West Campus in Tucson. A regular judge for writing contests, Meg Files reveals the qualities that make award-winning stories.

Location and Costs-

Join us, the second Saturday of each month, September through May, at El Parador Restaurant 2744 East Broadway Blvd. (East of Tucson Blvd), 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM, for fascinating and informative speakers on all aspects of writing mystery, thrillers, and suspense. $20 for non-members includes lunch, or, $10 for one session, morning or afternoon, no lunch. Exact change appreciated. No credit cards please. Reservations required by noon Wednesday before the meeting. For menu choice and RSVP: Molly 520-624-0792,  amw2010mm@gmail.com.

Reservations? Who me?

Now that we are meeting at El Parador, our procedures have had to change. Many of you had been to groups there and the old system was to pick a colored chip out of a basket when you got there. El Parador has changed there procedures. They now require a guaranteed head count and menu choice on the Wednesday before the meeting.  Unfortunately if we tell El Parador that 25 people will be having lunch, we have to pay for 25 lunches. We are allowed a few walk-ins (about 3 more), however we can only add to the numbers of lunches. We cannot ask for fewer lunches after the reservations are made. If you make a reservation and don’t attend the meeting, AMW is obligated to pay for your lunch. Sorry for the inconvenience, but this is our only option at this time.

Arizona Mystery Writers is having it’s second annual Mystery writing contest open to the public.

Click here for2012 Writing Contest Entry Form and Guidlines.

Mystery stories less than 2,500 words must be submitted by February 29, 2012.

Arizona Mystery Writers Invite you to attend our November 12th meeting.

Morning Speaker:
April Stonehouse, a criminalist with the Arizona Dept. Of Public Safety, is a DNA specialist.
Using the latest forensic technology to analyze blood or other body fluid at a crime scene, she extracts a DNA profile and submits it to CODIA, the DNA database system, for a match. She will describe how the technology works and how it has been used to solve crimes.

Afternoon Workshop:
Meg Files is a writer and teacher whose books include the novel Meridian 144, Home Is the Hunter and Other Stories, Write from Life: Turning Your Personal Experiences into Compelling Stories, The Love Hunter and Other Poems, and Galapagos Triptych: Three Ways of Seeing the Galapagos Islands. She teaches creative writing, chairs the English and Journalism Department, and directs the Pima Writers’ Workshop at Pima College’s West Campus in Tucson. A regular judge for writing contests, Meg Files reveals the qualities that make award-winning stories.

Join us, the second Saturday of each month, September through May, at El Parador Restaurant 2744 East Broadway Blvd. (East of Tucson Blvd), 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM, for fascinating and informative speakers on all aspects of writing mystery, thrillers, and suspense. $20 non-members and walk-ins includes lunch;  $10 for one session, morning or afternoon, no lunch. No credit cards please. Reservation and menu choice required by noon Wednesday before the meeting.  RSVP: Molly 520-624-0792,  amw2010mm@gmail.com.