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JUNE MINUTES
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1. VIDEO: Building a Mystery: Four Writers on Crafting Crime Fiction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rk2c353o3I
2. A BIG THANK YOU TO ROSE: WOO HOO! She asked a friend to post something suggesting that locals support local authors and gave her our names. It appeared in NEXTDOOR WAIKIKI NORTH
3. GOOD NEWS: Barnes & Noble is opening a new location in Sarasota. https://www.businessobserverfl.com/article/barnes-and-noble-opens-new-store-in-area
The store, as designed by the bookseller's CEO James Daunt, will open in University Town Center with safety precautions in place as well as curbside and cafe pickup, according to a press release.
4. NEW SCAMS: These are variations on scams involving treasurers/book keepers of companies/organizations and false invoices/vendors/suppliers. The fraudster hopes the bookkeeper/treasurer just pays what looks like a valid outstanding invoice. The invoice might well purport to be from an actual vendor, but with a different account or address. This is just one version (there are many more). If you want to know more about these and other scams, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has loads of info on all types of schemes and how to identify and protect yourself, friends, family as well as your company/organization against them. Here are a couple of links that may prove helpful in this instance: https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/scams-your-small-business-guide-business AND https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/business-blog/2017/07/billed-office-supplies-you-didnt-order-dont-pay
5. SINC NATIONAL ON COVID: This is a further update on the Sisters in Crime response to the threat of COVID-19. As a community based in gathering to share stories, Sisters in Crime takes very seriously the threat of the COVID-19 virus to our members and readers. To continue our effort to help flatten the curve of coronavirus outbreak in the United States and Canada, we are continuing and expanding the following measures: A full suspension of all in-person events originating from Sisters in Crime, Inc., until 2021. Our Speakers Bureau program has been paused until at least 2021, though we have made efforts to make our speakers available for virtual events. The suggestion that chapters and members cancel all in-person events through the end of the calendar year. If chapters or members begin in-person meetings or sponsor or attend events still on the fall calendar, they should follow the strictest local, state, and federal guidelines. The extension of our Chapter Event Grants allowances for virtual technology. The allowance for SinC Chapters to apply for an Event Grant to fund audio-visual equipment and/or virtual meeting subscriptions remains open until October 1.. The deadline for use of 2020 Education Grants has been extended through 2021.
6. UPCOMING WEBINARS SINC NATIONAL:
Tuesday • June 23 • 7:00 to 7:30 p.m. EDT - Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Agents, But Were Afraid to Ask Terrie Wolf (AKA Literary Management), Nicki Terpilowski (Holloway Literary Agency), & Peter Rubie (FinePrint Literary Management)– In today’s world, publishing has changed — but there’s one constant: The agent, who is in the business of selling books they love written by writers like you. This is your opportunity to draw on the insights and knowledge of three of the best.
Tuesday. • July 14 • 3:00 – 4:0 p.m. EDT Suspense Essentials: Keys to Creating and Maintaining Suspense Steven James Thriller writing? Mystery writing? Literary fiction? It’s all the same: Building apprehension in the minds of your readers is one of the most effective keys to engaging them early in your novel and keeping them flipping pages late into the night. Steven James is a master of suspense.
Tuesday. • July 28 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. EDT Finding, Working with, and Keeping an Agent Abby Saul, Agent A good agent is a true partner for your writing career: helping you to get published, write well, and maximize your author brand. So how do you get and work with one, and what, exactly, can an agent do for you? This talk will discuss finding an agent (including the art of the query letter), the winding way of the publishing path (and how an agent guides you along it), and what to expect of your agent partnership (including business management, contracts, and editorial processes).
Tuesday. • August 11 • 8:00 – 9:30 p.m. EDT Law Enforcement: Fact and Fiction Bruce Coffin and Isabella Maldonado Want to learn how to add realism to your mystery novel? Come listen to two accomplished former law enforcers turned crime writers discuss the art of writing realistic crime fiction. Bruce Robert Coffin is a retired detective sergeant with more than twenty-seven years in law enforcement. Isabella Maldonado is a retired police captain and regular law enforcement expert for Phoenix’s Channel 12 NBC affiliate. Together, they are going to help you separate fact from fiction.
7. SINC QUARTERLY: Great articles
AUTHOR MILLS AND WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW. Check it out. PAGE 23
HOW LIBRARIES SELL BOOKS PAGE 34
