February 19, 2019

: Rosemary and Larry Mild, Lizbeth Hartz, Jenny Delos Santos, Laurie Hanan, Carol Catanzariti, Vicki White. NEW ATTENDEE from MeetUp App:Shari Koseki-Welcome!

1. SPEAKER: Video of Larry McEnerney from the University of Chicago Writing Program on the The Craft of Effective Writing. This video addresses the effectiveness of your writing style looking at it from the top down rather than the bottom (basics) up-as done in most classes.

2. JOIN US ON THE MEET UP APP – it will have a list of the upcoming speakers and will even add our meetings to your calendar. There is no charge to join, only to post meetings. It is an app for your phone as well as your pc. https://www.meetup.com/

3. UPCOMING SPEAKING EVENT REMINDER: at the OSHER LIFELONG LEARNING INSTITUTE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT MANOA: Registration has begun. Post on your social media-maybe we can generate more students.

https://online.uhfoundation.org/memberships/OLLI.aspx

olliuhm@hawaii.edu [We will not input registrations before TOMORROW!]

5) - Complete your membership enrollment form (attached to this email and available in the office and to be used only by those registering by mail). Make your check out to and the form and check to Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, PMB #460, 2440 Campus Road, Honolulu, HI 96822.

AJ Llewellyn - What is Your Core Story?

Sunday, March 3 2-3

Gail Baugniet - The Story Behind the Story

Sunday, March 3 3-4

Laurie Hanan - Writing with Aloha

Sunday, March 10 2-3

Katharine Nohr - The Making of a Honolulu legal mystery novel

Sunday, March 10 3-4

Kent Reinker - Making Writing Relevant to the Reader

Sunday, March 24 2-3

Jenny DelosSantos -Falling Perfectly Without Trying –Emerging from Domestic Abuse

Sunday, March 24 3-4

Vicki White- Onions in My Ice Cream – Inspiration for difficult issues

Sunday, March 31 2-3

Lizbeth Hartz-Writing as a Form of Activism

Sunday, March 31 3-4

1. OLLIITES: Offering a series of four NASA GLOBE Observer Citizen Science workshops. Participants will learn how to make environmental observations that complement NASA satellite data to help scientists studying Earth and the global environment by downloading the free GLOBE Observer app and submitting cloud, mosquito habitat, and land cover observations.

2. BOOK CLUB CENTRAL REMINDER: March 6 stories about Pets on the Case. –Katharine, your cat should be featured her!

3. HAWAII BOOK AND MUSIC FESTIVAL: May 4 and 5 from 10 am – 5 pm each day on the Frank Fasi Civic Center Grounds. Need volunteers to help set up booth and be there at 9am. $20 each to participate. Getting grant from National to help pay for booth and registration and insurance.

4. NATIONAL SINC UPCOMING VIDEO PRESENTATION: Launch Your Own PR Campaign” presented by Dana Kaye / Tuesday, March 12, 2019 3:00-4:00 pm EST / Online Registration is available until: 3/10/2019 Education@sistersincrime.org.

5. LAURIE HANAN-MEET THE AUTHOR: Laurie how did your event go.?

6. KAUAI WRITERS CONFERENCE: Kurt Indvik reaching out to us to let us know about the next event- November 4-10, 2019. They are offering Sisters in Crime a 20% discount for the upcoming conference and would like to have a Skype session with us in one of our meetings. Greg Iles and Anne Perry speaking at the 2019 conference. Greg is well known for his Natchez Burning trilogy and Anne is a New York TiOutreachmes best-seller and was named by that newspaper as one of "100 Masters of Crime". We will offer Sisters in Crime members a 25% discount if they take both classes.

7. SINC WEBSITE: We have a new page to our website that has our upcoming meetings and speakers for March, April and June of this year. Visit it to see whose speaking when.

8. KAPOLEI READING EVENT: This Saturday Feb 23. Readers will be Larry and Rosemary Mild, Gail Baugniet, Carol Catanzariti and Michael Little.