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.
Arizona Mystery writers will once again have their booth at the 2011Tucson Festival of Books, the University of Arizona staging area on the Main, March 12th - 13th from 9:00 - 5:00.
Check our website for times and authors who will be delighted to sign your purchase and be sure to take the opportunity to visit with our passionate members. Just look for the ‘Crime Scene tape’, that’s us! Please visit…arizonamysterywriters.com… for further information
Morning Speaker: Tom Sommerville, CSI Specialist for the Town of Marana, will explain the working process of collecting forensic evidence from a crime scene (i.e. latent prints, DNA, etc… Tom was a 30-year veteran of the Detroit Police Department, before coming to Arizona in 2003 and joining the Marana Police Force. He will discuss a cold case homicide that the MPD is investigating, and how they exhumed the body then had the FBI’s Facial Imaging Unit construct a clay model of the victim’s facial features.
Afternoon Workshop: The Use and Misuse of Adjectives in a Story Plot.
Jan Pope, an Arizona Mystery Writers member and author, studied acting for several years while trying her hand at writing. She soon discovered many techniques and attitudes used in her acting actually helped with her writing. Jan has had several travel articles published on line by Gap-Year, a British publisher. She is also the author of a mystery novel, Deadly Dreams.
Saturday, February 12, 2011 Home Town Buffet 5101 N. Oracle Rd. 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. $12.50 for members, $17.50 non-members including the lunch buffet. RSVP Molly 624-0792 or email amw2010mm@gmail.com Cash or check only.
Note- the speaker and workshop times have been switched due to Kris Neri needing the morning hours to drive to Tucson from Sedona.
Next Meeting- October 9, 2010
Home Town Buffet, 5101 N. Oracle Road from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. RSVP to Molly at amw2010mm@gmail.com or 624-0792. Costs- $12.50 for members, $17.50 for nonmembers. Workshop or Speaker, only (no lunch) $5 for members, $10 for non-members. Cash or checks only, no credit cards accepted).
Business meeting - (10:00 to 10:15 pm)
Workshop-(10:15 to 11:30 am) - Mike Alvarez: How to Avoid The Seven Deadly Writing Errors.
Mike has been writing for over thirty years. His stories, poems, and articles have appeared in such publications as the Arizona Daily Star and Writer’s Digest. His Writer’s Digest award-winning story, “The Human Element,” was included in the short fiction anthology, Computer Legends, Lies and Lore (Ageless Press, 1994). Mike has published two Nick Madrid mysteries, Deliver Us From Evil and The Last Place God Made; a young adult mystery novel, The Treasure of the Santa Ritas, and the suspense thriller, Kino’s Gold. He has also published a book about writers and their craft, Mamas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Writers. The classes Mike teaches at Pima Community College, where he’s taught writing since 1990, confirm Mike’s enthusiasm for his
craft.
Mike will discuss the most common writing flaws and help you discover ways to make writing more desirable to editors and readers alike. Learn how to write a compelling opening scene for your next mystery. Mike has written and published numerous short stories, and novels.
Lunch-(11:30 to 12:30)
Speaker - (12:30 to 2:00 pm)- Kris Neri
Kris is an award-winning author, writing instructor and bookseller. She lives in Sedona, Arizona and will be presenting, “How to Inject Humor into Your Writing” and will also be providing handouts on humor-writing and keeping readers engaged. For more information about Kris, go to her web page- http://www.krisneri.com/
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