Arizona Mystery Writers

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: 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

Saturday, September 10, 2011 meeting will be at the Sheraton at the corner of Campbell and Speedway.

HomeTown Buffet has closed its doors and are no longer in business.

See you at the Sheraton for The first AMW meeting this fall. Sept 10, 10 am to 2 pm. If you have questions, make a comment below and it will get to me.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

The Board members of AMW

Just a reminder, there are no meetings in June, July and August.

I will pass along information about events, such as the Second Firdays in Mesa (posted below).

Have a nice summer.

Mary

   My name is Bob Nelson, and I am helping
assisting with the upcoming June 10th Mesa Second Friday Event, themed for
books! I thought the members of the Arizona Mystery Writers would be interested
in participating. The Second Fridays downtown event in Mesa has drawn
considerable attention for it’s fun and unique family atmosphere. For the month
of June, the merchants that organize the event would like to showcase writing
and the literary arts. The Mesa Arts Center and Mesa Libraries will be
participating, as well and many of the merchants themselves. 

The theme is Word on the Street, and one of the tremendous benefits that the
event offers to vendors is that there are free spaces offered to those who fit
with the theme of the event.

Please consider sending to your membership an opportunity to put their writing
in front of thousands of patrons at the event that won Best Block Party in the
2010 News Times Best of Phoenix awards. Any author or organization that would
like to participate should visit the official website for the event, 2ndfridaynightout.com.
The site contains the contact information for authors wishing to reserve a
space. Authors and arts organizations can reserve a space for free, with no
commission on sales.

Also,

   We are thinking of potentially creating a world of books
where we post local writers around Main Street in various stores, and attendees
would have a ‘Passport’ to go around and have the authors stamp as people come
around from store to store. We also thought it would be nice if we rewarded
people if they purchased books from any of the authors with a drawing at the
end of the night for some prizes.

   This would serve the function of getting people into your
places of business, perhaps people that would not normally come to your
business, and allow you to chat them up, as it were.

  If you are interested in participating, have questions, or would
like to contribute something to the drawing at the end of the night, I would
love to hear from you.

Who’s coming so far?

NYT Bestselling Author Lisa McMann will be at Evermore Nevermore
along with Tom Leveen, Katie Mullaly & J. Patrick Ohlde, Darryl
Dawson, Caris O’Malley and Thomas Gawron.

I look forward to hearing from you and helping making this upcoming Second
Friday a tremendous event…

Thank You,

Bob Nelson

Bob Nelson

bob@anthology.org

www.boboratory.com

Director, Anthology, Inc.

PO Box 4411

Mesa, AZ 85211

www.anthology.org

(602) 478-9508

Poetry, Prose and Art

Owner, Brick Cave Media

PO Box 4411

Mesa, AZ 85211-4411

www.brickcavemedia.com

(602) 478-9508

Cool literary gifty things

Arizona Mystery Writers

May 14, 2011

Morning Speaker: How to Detect the Presence of a Bomb. Come meet Tom Koukalik, a retired Pima County Sheriff’s Department Bomb Squad Deputy. Tom will take questions and tell us a little about the detection of certain types of explosives. The information could make for a good story line for mystery writers.

Afternoon Workshop: Our last session before the summer break will include a very specialFlash Fiction writing exercise, announcement of our Annual Writing Contest winners, and election of new Board Members. AMW will resume in September with another exciting season of special guest speakers and informative workshops designed to stimulate our love of writing.

May 14, Home Town Buffet. 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM $17.50 non-members includes the lunch buffet. RSVP Molly 624-0792 or email amw2010mm@gmail.com Cash or checks only please.

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 12^th - 13^th 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

Last Call to enter The Sandy.  Experienced writers don’t miss out!

Very low on submissions in F/SF category.

Only 5 days left to enter The Sandy Writing Contest. (www.thesandy.org/sandy.php)!

Don’t miss out on this fabulous opportunity to snag the attention of  these acquiring editors and agents!

                 2011 Sandy Final Judges
•                Romance - Holly Blanck, Assistant Editor, St. Martin’s Press
•                Mainstream Adult Fiction - Leis Pederson, Associate Editor, Berkley
•                Suspense / Thriller / Mystery - Sarah Knight, Senior Editor, Simon & Schuster
•                Fantasy / Science Fiction - Suzie Townsend, FinePrint Literary Management
•                Children’s & YA - Holly Root, Agent at Waxman Literary Agency

Deadline is February 13, 2011
Take advantage of the posted score sheets to see exactly how each entry will be judged,
and the formatting and writing tips.  Polish up that manuscript and enter today!