the savvy sleuth - Sisters in Crime Desert Sleuths Chapter

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JANUARY 2014
THE SAVVY SLEUTH
A SISTERS IN CRIME DESERT SLEUTHS CHAPTER PUBLICATION
Next Desert Sleuth’s Meeting
S.O.P.: Apprehension and Booking
Tim Moore
A 27-year veteran of the Phoenix Police
Department will be guest speaker at the Wed.,
Jan. 15, 2014 meeting of Desert Sleuths at
Grimaldi’s Pizzeria Wall Street Room, 4000
N. Scottsdale Rd., Scottsdale.
Phoenix Police Detective Tim Moore, a
Desert Sleuths member, will talk about
"Standard Operating Procedures:
Apprehension and Booking.”
Following several years as a patrol officer, Moore has been a
detective for 23 years, working a wide range of assignments
beginning in the Property Crimes Bureau, Airport
Investigations Unit and Family Investigations Bureau, where
he investigated domestic violence and assault cases. He was
then assigned to the Violent Crimes Bureau and Homicide
Detail before an appointment as a Court Liaison to the
Maricopa County Attorney's Office, after which he was
selected to work in the Laboratory Services Bureau. There,
Moore’s team established guidelines for the department’s
Cold Case investigations.
He is currently the Administrative Detective in the Reserve
Division where he processes applications from retired officers
and from citizens in the community wanting to become
Reserve Officers.
JOIN US!
The Desert Sleuths Chapter of
Sisters in Crime meets on the
3rd Wednesday of each month
at Grimaldi’s in Old Town
Scottsdale. Desert Sleuths
Member authors please feel
free to bring your books to sell
at meetings!
6:00-6:30
DINNER & NETWORKING
6:30-7:00
BUSINESS MEETING
7:00-8:00
PHOENIX POLICE
DETECTIVE: TIM MOORE
Grimaldi’s Pizzeria
Wall Street Room
4000 N Scottsdale Road
Scottsdale, AZ 85251
480-994-1100
INSIDE LOOK:
2From the President
4Member News, Announcements
7Writing News, Upcoming Events
9Member Spotlight: Kris Tualla
11Rogue’s Gallery
13Crime Corner
15Caught in the Act
16Anthology
17Membership
Moore has a Bachelor’s Degree in Public Administration. He has taught Crime Scene
Management, Crime Scene Photography, Collection and Preservation of Evidence,
and Interview and Interrogation Techniques, along with Specialized Crimes and Death
Investigation, at the Arizona Law Enforcement Academy in Phoenix.
He has been married to his wife, Laurie, for 27 years and they have two grown
daughters.
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LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
Dear Sisters and Misters,
2014 CHAPTER OFFICERS
Happy New Year to all of you!
Whether you are a resolution maker or not, it’s always
good to be as organized as possible with your writing.
SinC Immediate Past President Hank Phillippi Ryan
suggests writing first thing in the morning, before
you’ve checked email and Facebook. Others get their
second or third wind late at night, when it’s quiet and
the phones have stopped ringing. Whatever is your
best time to write, the main thing is that something
gets on the page on a regular basis. Whether you’re
cranking on your novel, solidifying your 250 words
for the Alfred Hitchcock Murder Mystery Magazine or
following a Writer’s Digest prompt, just keep writing.
President: Laurie Fagen
Vice-President: Margaret Morse
Secretary: Merle McCann
Treasurer: Cathy Rogers
Member-at-Large, Membership:
Susan Budavari
Member-at-Large, Special Events:
Judith Starkson
Member-at-Large, Publicity Chair:
Laurie Fagen
Newsletter Team:
Connie Flynn, Martina Cartwright,
Laurie Fagen
Newsletter Layout:
Berkley Bosch
As your new president, I’m excited about our
growing chapter and the enthusiasm from your board
and all of our members. By the time you read this, your board will have met in a daylong retreat to discuss plans for the future events of Desert Sleuths, which included
budgets, by-laws and many other topics. More to come on that.
As a means of introduction, I’ve been a professional writer in many mediums for most
of my life, starting as a broadcast journalist in commercial radio and television, moving
to cable television and video production, even writing a few spec TV and film scripts
along the way, two of which won awards in Writer’s Digest contests, and a rewrite that
got stuck in “development hell” in Los Angeles. I came full circle as a journalist when
my late husband and I published an 80-page, twice-monthly
community newspaper, the SanTan Sun News, for 13 years
until his death in March 2013. I’ve also written murder
mystery plays, parade scripts, magazine articles – just about
anything anyone would pay me to write.
And I wasn’t kidding about that Alfred Hitchcock story – in
fact, that’s how I started writing crime fiction after reading the
genre since I was a teen. I penned a short mystery story for the
magazine and won an honorable mention – enough to give me
encouragement to jump into mysteries and crime fiction.
Since then, I’ve had two short stories published in Desert
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LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
Sleuths’ anthologies, have written a number of short stories and am finishing a novel
called FADE OUT about a young radio reporter who covers the cops, sheriff’s office and
courts, and helps the local police department solve cold cases. For fun, she writes and
produces mystery podcasts. Of course, it’s a series!
In one of my email signatures, I refer to myself as a “Serial Entrepreneur,” because in
addition to writing, I’m a fiber and jewelry artist, a jazz vocalist and an art promoter.
But as president of Desert Sleuths, one of my primary goals is to get as many people
involved in and excited about our chapter as possible. Not only does it spread the tasks
of running a more than 100-member organization, it also grooms members to take on
other roles and prevents burn out for those who have been volunteering for years. So
please say “yes” when we call on you to help! It’s a fun group, you get to learn a new
skill for your résumé and we ALL get time to write.
I’m still learning members’ names, so please introduce yourself at one of the next
meetings or drop me a line by email. Until then, keep writing!
Laurie Fagen, [email protected]
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MEMBER NEWS, ANNOUNCEMENTS
Desert Sleuths member Merle McCann had two book signings at The Lakeside Bar & Grille
in Peoria in early December, and sold about 22 books.
“I never imagined I would be signing and selling my books in a sports bar, but it turned out just
fine,” she says. “I met lots of friendly people, and management at the Grille were fabulous
hosts.”
She agrees with the adage, “Never turn your back on an
opportunity.” While she said it was tough competing with the
bar and a “gazillion” television sets, the book buyers didn't
seem to notice.
McCann had a drawing, in which she gave away a copy of the
first DS Anthology produced. She says a woman named Dolly
was thrilled when she learned she had won.
For others who would like to take on an evening “at the bar,”
give Paul or Tomasina a call at 623-566-1470. The Lakeside Bar & Grille is at 9980 W Happy
Valley Rd, Peoria.
Desert Sleuths member Annette Mahon has sold another mystery to Five Star/Gale/Cengage.
It will be called BRIGHT HOPES, a St. Rose Quilting Bee Mystery. The fifth in this series,
Mahon says it will be out in September 2014.
In December, St. Martin's Press offered Desert Sleuths member Betty
Webb a two-book contract for her upcoming Gunn Zoo books. After a
brief period of celebration, though, she turned it down in order to keep
the series with Poisoned Pen Press. The Gunn Zoo books — The
Anteater of Death, The Koala of Death and The Llama of Death, with at
least two more books to come — has been with PPP since the series' inception in 2008. “Bigger
isn't always better,” Webb explains. “And I'm not willing to give up Barbara Peters as my editor.
A mystery writer couldn't ask for a better mentor.” Info: www.bettywebb-mystery.com
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MEMBER NEWS, ANNOUNCEMENTS
Desert Sleuths member Clark Lohr’s second crime novel, The Devil on Eighty-five, went live
on Kindle in December and is expected in paperback soon with this logline: Romance goes on a
date with crime fiction in The Devil on Eighty-five, the second in the Manny Aguilar series.
Manny is a hard-nosed Arizona PI with a redheaded pagan girlfriend he can’t do without. When
an Indian cowboy is accused of murdering his own wife, Manny follows a trail out the back end
of the Tohono O’odham reservation to Ajo, Arizona, and to Arizona State Route 85, a
smuggling corridor where guns and money go south and drugs and border crossers go north.
Evil loves darkness on Highway 85 and the desert is the deadliest player in the game.
“I am grateful to Desert Sleuths for introducing me, via club presentation, to Dennis Palumbo,
psych doc, television writer, crime novelist, and Sisters in Crime presenter, who asserted that
crime fiction has a solid and serious place in our society— because, when it’s at its best, it tells
the truth,” Lohr says.
His “mission” in The Devil on Eighty-five, aside from producing “a sexy and entertaining
mystery,” is to tell some truths about a complex societal problem, a national problem with
international connections and consequences.
“We call this problem ‘the drug wars,’” he explains. “Wars don’t make social calls. Wars take
your life, or a piece of your body, or people you love, or your freedom, or your mind, or, at the
very least, your pocketbook—and we’re all involved in the drug wars, whether we know it or
not, at least at the level of our pocketbooks.”
His book refers to Arizona State Route 85, which leaves Phoenix at
Buckeye and I-10 and runs to the US-Mexico border at Lukeville,
and then to Rocky Point, Mexico, the location of lengthy urban
firefight as of late, featuring automatic weapons, helicopters, and
casualties, the combatants being the Mexican military and the drug
cartels.
On a lighter note, he adds: “So hey, how many noir crime writers
does it take to screw in a light bulb? None. We like it dark. But I can’t
help but go for the laughs when I write novels, and Manny and Reina
and their boss, Jeff Goldman, are three of the funniest people I know
in that private world of the sisters and misters—the writer’s world.”
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MEMBER NEWS, ANNOUNCEMENTS
Desert Sleuths member Connie Flynn has a new novel out, her first original “in a long time.”
She says Know When To Run was written over a number of years, has had several titles, some
major story adjustments and even multiple changes to the heroine’s name. But Ky Taylor she is
and the man who will torment and delight her over the course of the story is Gabe McGregor.
Flynn says: “Ky woke up one morning on a Mississippi riverboat with a
huge headache and no idea of who she was. Nearly two years later, Gabe
came after her, claiming she killed her own father. She says he's got the
wrong woman. He says she's guilty as sin. One of them is right …”
Flynn says to look for a Facebook event in mid-January, a blog-hop later
that month, and a two-week blog tour beginning Feb. 10 with prizes, free
eBooks, bookstore gift cards, and possibly a special surprise giveaway for
those who attend all three events. More info: www.connieflynn.com
WRITING NEWS, OPPORTUNITIES
New group formed for authors
A new group, called League of Local Authors, has recently been formed to provide signing and
selling opportunities for published Arizona authors of all genres. Annual membership is $25 a
year, which gives unlimited access to various events. Two upcoming events have been arranged,
where a tent and tables will be provided, and authors handle their own sales:
The Farmer’s Market at Cross Roads United Methodist Church
7901 N. Central Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85020
11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on last Saturday of every month
The Esplanade Farmer’s Market
2425 E Camelback Rd.
Phoenix, AZ 85016
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on second Friday of every month
The Esplanade is going to promote the authors with press releases and advertising.
Authors interested can contact Elaine Mays at [email protected].
Desert Rose conference coming in April
The 2014 Desert Dreams Writer’s Conference, “Turn Your Dreams to Reality,” will be held
April 4-6 at Tempe Mission Palms Resort in Tempe. The conference provides authors of all skill
levels – from beginner to multi-published – with the tools necessary to take their writing to the
next level. Sessions included general writing, career development, genre-specific, agent/
publisher spotlights as well as an agent/editor panel.
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WRITING NEWS, OPPORTUNITIES
Speakers include: NY Times best-selling author Christie Craig giving the keynote address; NY
Times best-selling author Sylvia Day; award-winning author and speaker Mary Buckham; NY
Times best-selling author Allison Brennan; NY Times best-selling author Karin Tabke and
more.
This national bi-annual conference gives writers a chance to ready their manuscripts and pitch
to sell them to editors and agents. Editors and senior editors from Grand Central Publishing,
Random House, Decadent Publishing and Boroughs Publishing, as well as agents from The
Kristin Nelson Literary Agency, The Nancy Yost Literary Agency and The Bradford Literary
Agency, will be on hand to give advice and present workshops.
“Agents and editors visiting the conference actively seek the high caliber of talent found among
those who come to Desert Dreams,” says Desert Sleuths member Kris Tualla, who created the
annual reader conference, Arizona Dreamin’, held on the weekend after Memorial Day, which
complements Desert Dreams, which she helps organize.
In addition to workshops and opportunities to mingle and meet authors, Desert Dreams’
attendees are given a one-on-one appointment with an agent or editor of their choice free of
charge. Every attendee is offered this option, but attendees must sign up early for their choice
since agents and editors are scheduled on a first-come, first-served basis. Attendees can enter an
unpublished, non-contracted manuscript in the REALIZING THE DREAM contest, and there
are also author promotion opportunities available.
Desert Dreams also offers a book-signing open to the public from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Sat., April 5 in
the Mission Palms Ballroom.
Registration for Desert Rose Romance Writers of America members is $205, and $235 for nonmembers. Non-conference attendees can attend guest meals for $75.
Full details and online registration is available at www.desertroserwa.org, and more information
is on Facebook, Twitter and the Desert Dreams Blog.
Music, mystery lunch, memoirs to Cave Creek library
Learn about the origins of war tunes from 10:30 a.m. to noon, Tue., Feb. 25 at the Desert
Foothills Library, 38443 N. Schoolhouse Rd. in Cave Creek.
“The Music of World War II: War Songs and Their Stories” by Dr. Sheldon Winkler tells the
stories behind the origins of many of these patriotic musical compositions about heroes, love,
remembrance, reflection and introspection. Signed books will be available for purchase for $15
cash by Winkler. Seating is limited. To register, call 480-488-2286.
Adult Services Librarian Dereth DeHaan says coming in March, it’s a bring-your-own Mystery
Lunch & Book Signing with popular, award-winning mystery authors Libby Hellman and Cara
Black. It will be from noon to 2 p.m. Mon., March 17.
Meanwhile, the Memoir Writing Group meets from 4:30 to 6 p.m. on the first Monday of the
month. Details: www.dfla.org
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MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: KRIS TUALLA
Writer bridges mystery,
romance genres
By Laurie Fagen
Nancy Drew series, saying
“she transported me to
another world.”
Also a romance writer and
Writers typically strive to
active member of Romance
develop unusual, interesting
Writers of America, she
heroes for their stories, and
created Arizona’s first
Kris Tualla has landed on a
romance-reader event called
very original character for
“Arizona Dreamin’” which is
her mystery series, A
slated for May 30 to June 1
Discreet Gentleman.
at Chandler’s The Windmill
Initially wanting to create a
Inn & Suites.
historical deaf hero, she
Tualla has also written two
made him a private
Kindle books for writers: A
investigator in early 1700s
Primer for Beginning
Norway who lost his
Authors and Becoming an
hearing at age seven. So, in addition to creating
Authorpreneur, both available through her
believable dialogue, she also includes some
website or on Amazon.com. Often heard
sign language descriptions.
exclaiming her tagline “Norway is the new
Her five-book series with Desert Breeze
Scotland!” Tualla is an enthusiastic speaker
Publishing includes A Discreet Gentleman of
and teacher who talks to groups about book
Discovery, about a serial killer; A Discreet
promotion, branding, book trailers, adding
Gentleman of Matrimony, detailing a murder
humor and more.
behind locked doors, which also received
She’s currently working on a new Renaissance
Coffee Time Romance's highest award; A
trilogy, but says crimes might “pop up” in them
Discreet Gentleman of Consequence that
as well, and turn them into mysteries.
includes a Ponzi-type scheme; A Discreet
Gentleman of Intrique about international
She shares a writing tip with Desert Sleuths’
politics; A Discreet Gentleman of Mystery
members about encouraging beta or first
complete with a Hansen Manor Floorplan,
readers for your manuscripts.
Royal Family Tree of Characters and Stefan's
“Have several people read your work and give
Journey Map on her website. It includes a
blurb for A Woman of Choice from Scottsdale’s you honest feedback before you submit or
publish. Too many aspiring authors are
Diana Gabaldon, best-selling author of the
skipping that important step, and selfhighly acclaimed Outlander series.
publishing bad manuscripts,” she explains.
This Jill of many trades - former high school
special education teacher, fast-food server and This busy author and mother of four can be
found at a number of book-signing events this
travel agent among them - grew up on the
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MEMBER SPOTLIGHT (CONT’D)
spring: She’ll be at the Chocolate Affaire in
Glendale from Feb. 7-9, with info at
www.eventcrazy.com/Glendale-AZ/events/
details/51260-Glendale-Chocolate-Affaire;
Tucson Festival of Books March 15-16,
www.tucsonfestivalofbooks.org and Desert
Dreams book signing at Tempe Mission
Palms in Tempe from 7 to 8:30 p.m. April 5,
www.desertroserwa.org/conferences/
Phoenix-Romance-Writers-BookSigning.php.
Laurie Fagen, 2014 president of Desert
Sleuths/SinC, has her second short story
published in SoWest: Crime Time, and is
working on a crime fiction manuscript with
a young radio reporter protagonist. An
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
honorable mention winner and former
community newspaper publisher, Fagen is
also an artist, art promoter and jazz singer.
Above all, she leaves us with this advice:
“Write what you read, write what you love,
and write what you can be proud of.”
LARCENOUS LINKS
Best Crime Fiction of 2013 by Oline
Cogdill-McClatchy
http://bit.ly/19QilSZ
New Regional Dictionary
http://bit.ly/1cdEMXJ
100 Notable Books of 2013
http://nyti.ms/1f3EIbK
Dead Men's (and Women's) Pens … and
Desks
http://on.ft.com/1ddTx9p
Banning the Negative Book Review
http://nyti.ms/1ji4bkd
Perfect Mysteries
http://bit.ly/1clsyXD
Here's a Worthy Place for Any Extra
Books
http://booksforsoldiers.com/
R&R … and R: Hotels House Libraries
http://nyti.ms/19FhhqB
E-Reader or Big Brother?
http://nyti.ms/1izyxAb
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ROGUE’S GALLERY
Photos courtesy
Tim Moore
HAPPY PARTIERS:
Attendees at the Desert
Sleuths’ holiday event
included, from left, Judith
Starkston, Virginia Nosky,
Karen and Pascal Marco
and Kris Tualla.
JOINING
THE FUN:
Kate Herbert,
Roni Olson and
Kastle Olson
smile for the
camera.
DÉCOR DIVAS: The
decorations in the
party room at 5th &
Wine for the Desert
Sleuths’ holiday party
were thanks to the
efforts of, from right,
Merle McCann and
Martina Cartwright,
here with Laurie Fagen
and Don McCann.
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ROGUE’S GALLERY
MISTERS, TOO:
Pascal Marco and
Clark Lohr are just
two of the many
“misters” who are
members of Sisters in
Crime Desert Sleuths.
Photos courtesy
Tim Moore
OUT JUST IN
TIME: In thanks
for her service to
the organization,
outgoing Desert
Sleuths President
Deborah J Ledford
receives a wall quilt
entitled “Brush
with Death”
created by 2014
President Laurie
Fagen at the Desert
Sleuths holiday
party in December
at 5th & Wine in
Scottsdale.
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CRIME CORNER: AN ARTICLE BY A DESERT SLEUTH
LET’S TALK ABOUT TV CRIME:
Rumpole of the Bailey
by Howard (Doc) Carron
greater need than those of the Crown. Leo
McKern, who played “Rumpole,” shared
the same perfection as Raymond Burr’s
“Perry Mason,” John Thaw’s “Inspector
Morse” or Sean Connery’s “James Bond.”
McKern was born in Australia in 1920 and
came to England in 1946. His first film
appearance was in Murder in the Cathedral
in 1952. He also distinguished himself in A
Man For All Seasons and diversely in Help.
The very clever script, produced by
Mortimer, and McKern’s rather sympathetic
but gruff portrayal, was quickly accepted by
the public, resulting in additional episodes.
“It’s not the frivolity of women that makes
them so intolerable. It’s their ghastly
enthusiasm.”
This statement was attributed to lawyer/
barrister “Horace Rumpole,” who, when not
holding forth at Jack Pommeroy’s Wine Bar
drinking claret, defends the accused in
London’s Old Bailey, London's Central
Criminal Court, in the British television
series Rumpole of the Bailey.
The TV show was the creation of former
barrister and writer John Mortimer, twice
divorced—which might explain
“Rumpole’s” comment—who, unlike other
barristers, worked only for the defense.
“Rumpole” shares that role, along with his
belief that the rights of the accused had a
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Part of the 1980 PBS Mystery, it was hosted
first by Gene Shalit and more ably by
Vincent Price later on. Not really a
whodunit, since it was rarely difficult to
figure out the plot, it was more like a case
study of the amusing character and his
interactions with clients, co-workers and his
wife, “Hilda,” played by Peggy Thorpe
Bates, who he referred to in voiceovers as
“She Who Must Be Obeyed,” a reference to
the fearsome queen in the adventure novel
She by H. Rider Haggard.
In the greater scheme of things, “Rumpole”
falls far short of the finest barrister to walk
the halls of Old Bailey—not exactly the
picture of Savile Row, with rumpled old
hat, ashes on his vest from his smelly
cheroots and a fondness for cheap wine.
The accused, however, could not find a
harder working defense counsel, who,
armed with his Oxford Book of English
Verse, a fondness for Wordsworth and an
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CRIME CORNER: AN ARTICLE BY A DESERT SLEUTH (CONT’D)
uncanny knowledge of bloodstains, proves
the innocence of his clients. He has a
serious lack of respect for authority,
especially in the personage of “Judge
Bullingham,” whom he often refers to as
“The Mad Bull.”
A two-hour special, Rumpole's Return, was
aired in 1980, between the second and third
episodes of the new series.
The second television series was adapted
for BBC Radio 4 in 1980 along with seven
new stories. Rumpole: The Splendours and
Miseries of an Old Bailey Hack starred
Maurice Denham as “Rumpole” and
Margot Boyd as “Hilda.” Denham had
played “Rumpole” from 1994 to 1999 in
Rumpole: The Splendours and Miseries of
an Old Bailey Hack. This changed when
Leo McKern and Maurice Denham died
one day apart: McKern on July 23 and
Denham on July 24 in 2002. When four
new 45-minute plays were broadcast by
BBC Radio 4 in the autumn of 2003, the
lead role went to Timothy West. Rumpole
and the Primrose Path also starred West's
wife, Prunella Scales, as “Hilda.”
Star. “When Perry Mason prevailed, it was
a victory for law and order. When Rumpole
concludes, it’s a victory for the common
man.”
All 44 episodes are available on DVD in
both Region 1 and Region 2 formats.
Writer, musician, artist and actor, Howard
“Doc” Carron is a retired reference
librarian who enjoys writing short
mysteries and sharing his interest in that
genre.
“The stories are very literary, almost like
chess problems, because each one has a
theme-and very few stories on TV are
thematic,” according to Donald Westlake of
Mystery Writer.
“What makes ‘Rumpole of the Bailey’ so
enjoyable is the mildly eccentric, yet
lovable qualities of its hero, Leo McKern,”
writes Barry Garron of the Kansas City
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CAUGHT IN THE ACT: LOCAL AND INDUSTRY NEWS
IndieReaders: Best Indie Books of 2013
http://bit.ly/192ygT8
Mysteries & Thrillers were 11 of Top 20
Amazon Best-Sellers in 2013
http://bit.ly/JOlF9Z
A Selection of 2013 Favorite YA/
Children’s Books
http://bit.ly/1d68KgD
Smashwords Grows in 2013
http://bit.ly/1kh0caE
The Crossword Puzzle Turns 100
http://bit.ly/KnwEbM
Record Profits for S&S?
http://bit.ly/19Fgi9G
DailyLit Releases First Short Story
Bundle
http://bit.ly/KnwWzn
Reading Novels Thought to Boost Brain
Function
http://ind.pn/KlEmmA
Writing Routines of Famous Authors
http://bit.ly/19Fgdmw
Is Crowdfunding a Viable Alternative to
Traditional Publishing Models?
http://tcrn.ch/1kh1678
Do You Buy Too Many Books?
http://bit.ly/1l7yZFx
Recent U.S. Writing and Publishing Stats
http://bit.ly/KnwlgX
New Global Deal Between Scrib,
Smashwords
http://bit.ly/KnwQrn
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DESERT SLEUTHS ANTHOLOGY
Ever been in the wrong place, at the wrong time? Feel safe where you are now?
In this volume from the Sisters in Crime Desert Sleuths Chapter, 20 authors show why you
need to keep your guard up. Be ready to react.
In the desert, in the mountains, in the Valley towns of Arizona, when you least expect it...
It’s CRIME TIME.
PRAISE FOR DESERT SLEUTHS ANTHOLOGY
“Suspenseful, surprising and sometimes even
hilarious! This twisty and entertaining collection of
revenge, retaliation, and diabolical deeds not only
showcases the gorgeous and unique southwest—
but also the skill and originality of these incredibly
talented sisters in crime. Loved it!”
--Hank Phillippi Ryan, Agatha, Anthony, Macavity and Mary
Higgins Clark award winning
author
***
“A southwest crime
wave of bad men, strong
gals, and one cool cat in
a delicious collection of
tales infused with
passion, revenge,
trickery, greed, and
deceit. Spicy and tasty
as a crisp chimichanga!”
--Rochelle Staab, author of
the award-winning Mind for
Murder mysteries.
***
“From the desert to the
mountains, from the
grungiest cabin to
the swankiest mansion,
from the oldest native
traditions to streets in
Scottsdale where the
stucco isn’t dry—these
stories bring the
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southwest to exuberant life. Heartswelling
hero(in)es, dastardly villains, and a glorious,
rabblesome chorus of authentic folks jump off the
pages. What a box of delights!”
--Catriona McPherson, Agatha, Macavity, and Left Coast
Crime award-winning author of the Dandy Gilver series and
As She Left It.
***
“In the way Craig
Johnson’s Walt
Longmire Mysteries
introduced readers to
Wyoming, SoWest:
Crime Time reveals
greater Arizona’s wild
and independent spirit,
the collision of the
urbane, urban and
untamed nature.
Beautifully curated and
edited, SoWest: Crime
Time will drive readers
to search for more
works written by the
authors in this
collection. Suspense on
every page!”
--Naomi Hirahara, Edgar
Award-winning author of the
Mas Arai mystery series and
Murder on Bamboo Lane:
An Officer Ellie Rush
Mystery
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JANUARY 2014
BECOME A MEMBER
Don’t miss out on all the benefits Sisters in Crime Desert Sleuths Chapter has to offer. If you
haven’t renewed your membership, please go to the Membership page on the Desert Sleuths
website.
BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP:
Monthly meetings with writing and crime-fighting industry professionals.
Monthly e-newsletter highlighting valuable news articles, updates on
publishing information, links to sites for research, member spotlight, and
much more.
Support for your writing endeavors.
Networking opportunities with other writers and published authors.
Opportunity to submit a short story for consideration to the Desert Sleuths Chapter
anthologies, a perk available only to members.
Opportunity to showcase your books at monthly DS meetings, events and
appearances. Signing opportunities at events such as the Tucson Festival of Books.
Discounted member rates at annual conference and other events.
We’ve made renewing your $20 annual membership or becoming a new member easy with three
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1) Via PayPal at the website: http://desertsleuths.com/?page_id=19
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P.O. Box 9352
Phoenix , AZ 85068
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Grimaldi’s Pizzeria - Wall Street Room
4000 N Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, AZ 85251
480-994-1100
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