Initially, you sift through the choices and spot items that you enjoy then you buy the items that interest you. Some individuals likewise purchase due to the fact that they probably quickly require the items for a particular function.
You can choose to purchase flat pack furniture online and have it easily delivered or go to the furniture store physically, make your purchases, and bring them home in the boot of your car. If they do not fit, the flat pack business will be more than delighted to make the shipment for you.
If the orders are too huge to suit your car, most suppliers usually have a provision for sending the item to your office or home.
The only frequently tricky part sometimes is that you will be at the grace of their shipment schedule which might be agreeable to you or not. However usually, they do deliver within an affordable timespan.
The reality is, putting together flat pack furniture is really basic, but not so many individuals have the patience required to read a manual and figure out exactly what pieces go where.
For lots of people, the plot gets lost as soon as one unloads the items only to be met by all sorts of furniture pieces and a massive bag of screws, bolts, and washers plus a couple of more unidentifiable items.
If you resemble most Whirlow DIY assemblers, by the end of an hour you'll be seated in the middle of the room, cross-legged with pieces of furniture all around you while little beads of sweat trickle down your temples in utter anguish at how you have not managed to get even one single joinery done.
The good part is, you do not have to get stressed as there are experts who specialise in putting together flat pack furniture.
The difference between doing it yourself and calling the assembly pros does not happen because of the task being hard, but because you need loads of patience experience and time which many people just do not have.
With these aspects together, you will marvel at how a stack of bits and pieces of furniture apparently in disarray start coming together and taking shape with admirable rapidity.
If you've just transferred to a new home, or you just need to fix up the furniture in your home or workplace, or you require the furniture for other reasons, getting it shouldn't be a tiring procedure.
If you resemble most DIY assemblers, by the end of an hour you'll be seated in the middle of the room, cross-legged with pieces of furniture all around you while little beads of sweat trickle down your temples in utter anguish at how you have not managed to get even one single joinery done.


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HOTXSINC Meeting: December 10, 2017 at BookPeople
Posted on December 3, 2017 by HoTXSinC in Authors, Mystery, Sisters in Crime Heart of Texas Chapter, Writing
Our mission is to promote
~ SINC Mission Statement
Program: HOTXSINC Holiday Celebration
"Holly Through the Heart" ~ An Original Radio Play
Refreshments ~ Finger Foods
The Word on Our Members
Article: "Using Those Movies in Your Head to Promote Your Novel"
Report: Texas Book Festival
Nolo Contendere
It's the Season
Heart of Texas
~ Holiday Mode! ~
2:15 p.m. at Book People
*****A Radio Play by Kathy Gresham*****
Poisoned Holly"
Refreshments & Finger Foods
Come One & All
Free & Open to the Public
Celebrate the Holiday Season
Say Goodbye to 2017
Look Forward to an
Exciting New Year
Sisters in Crime Heart of Texas Chapter meets monthly on the second Sunday of the month at 2:15 p.m. at Book People, 603 North Lamar, Austin, phone 512-472-5050. Take the elevator to the third floor.
For information about the Heart of Texas Chapter, contact Joyce Arquette, Publicity (512) 266-6543, and check out our website at http://sinc-heartoftexas.com
An I had but one penny in the world,
thou shouldst have to buy gingerbread.
~ William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost
The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one.
Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea
which has been impressed on them in very tender years. ~ Agatha Christie
At the December meeting, HOTXSINC'S members will elect officers for 2018. The nominating committee presents the current members of the board, who have agreed to remain in office for 2018 if members so desire.
Nominees are the following:
Helen Currie Foster — President
Noreen Cedeno — Vice President/President Elect/Program Chair
Francine Paino — Secretary/Membership
Dave Ciambrone — Treasurer
Nominations from the floor will also be accepted.
K. P. Gresham will speak and sign copies of MURDER IN THE SECOND PEW, at BookPeople on December 8, 2017.
The Pastor Matt Hayden returns to BookPeople to solve the latest murder (or was it a missed attempt to kill him?) in MURDER IN THE SECOND PEW. I'm looking forward to seeing all of my Sisters in Crime there!
DAY OF THE DARK: STORIES OF ECLIPSE was reviewed in Mystery Scene magazine. Stories by Laura Oles and M. K. Waller appear in the anthology. Former HOTXSINC member Kaye George edited the book.
Meredith Lee's SHROUDED was reviewed in Blue Ink Reviews. Sue Cleveland and Dixie Evatt, who write under the name Meredith Lee, spoke and signed at their book launch at BookPeople on November 10.
Manning Wolfe's second novel, MUSIC NOTES: TEXAS LADY LAWYER VS L.S. BARON was released November 24.
Merit Bridges is left to sort out the truth while navigating the music business and the dark web, but she soon finds herself confronted with a web of lies so masterfully woven that she fears he may never find any answers. Merit must fight not only for justice but for her reputation, livelihood, and her life.
Members, please email links to your websites and/or blogs to kathywaller1 at gmail dot com so we can list them in our blogroll. Email your news/announcements to the same address.
When you send news, please provide working links to everything you want linked: book covers, titles, your name, your website, venues for book launches, signings, panels, preferred vendor, etc. The editor is regrets she can no longer search for them. If you don't provide a link, there won't be a link.
People walking under the Zilker Tree. Christmas in Austin, Texas. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) by That Other Paper, licensed under CC BY-SA-2,0
Using Those Movies In Your Head to Promote Your Novel
Sue Cleveland & Dixie Lee Evatt
by Sue Meredith Cleveland and Dixie Lee Evatt (aka Meredith Lee)
When you're writing do you sometimes visualize a scene as a movie in your head? Many of us do but few of us ever see our novel on the big screen.
Now there is a way you can bring a little piece of that movie to life and sell your books at the same time. For about $100 it's possible to produce videos to promote your book and book events through social media.
These video trailers can be produced using advanced Powerpoint or Keynote software and tapping into websites that sell royalty free images, stock footage and stock music. It's a four (or four and a half) step process.
Step #1: Conceptualize a simple storyboard. Ask yourself: What is my core message? (Example: "Shrouded goes on sale August 16, 2017."). Think in terms of bumper stickers and billboards not broadcasts. You have less than 10 to 12 seconds to attract potential on-line customers. Viewers will flash through the material pretty fast. What images, colors, sounds and words build tension for your key points? In Shrouded we used graveyards with weeping angels and a night view of the Paris skyline as backdrops.
Step #2 Produce your video. You do this by uploading text, images and sound to your application (Keynote, PowerPoint or similar software). Experiment with the animation tools available to you and synchronize the music for maximum impact. This is where the creative side of your brain gets to play. Select royalty-free images and music from websites that sell these:
For stock footage or stock music: https://www.pond5.com
For images: https://www.shutterstock.com
Once you have your royalty-free images and music, upload them to a template. The Keynote application on Mac is useful as are the animation options. Experiment with the tools offered for transitioning between slides, confetti, blur and many more, for building transitions between slides.
Set aside some quality time at the computer to synchronize all of this. It gets easier as you work with it.
Step #3. Post production. Pick your platform (Facebook, YouTube, Amazon, etc.). Read up on the file format required for a particular platform. Convert the now animated slide show to the format required by your online site of choice. Each website will list its specifications. For instance, Amazon will take any of several (AVI, FLV, MOV, MPG, WMV ad MP4).
We uploaded our trailer to our website, Instagram account, author's pages on Amazon and Goodreads, http://readersreviewroom.com, and to https://bookclubreading.com. We added links to the companies that carry our book.
Step #4. Distribution. Now you are ready to let the world see what you have done. You can track whether or not your video trailer is attracting attention for your book or event. When our promo trailer ran, our Amazon ranking hit a high of 47,815. Our ranking dipped as low as 945,856 when we did not run book trailers. These rankings reflect our books standing against other books in our genre, not the number of books sold.
Step #4.5. Targeting. Some platforms allow you to "boost" by targeting selected demographics. For instance, our Facebook author's page offered boosts. We purchased $35 – $50 "boosts" to run for a week. We selected our demographic. An example: Men and women between the ages of 35 – 80 living in Austin who read mysteries. The "boosts" of our trailers on our Facebook author's page reached between 4,000 to 6,000 people.
With eight million print titles on Amazon and a million ebook titles, it can be hard to get attention for your book when you have a shoestring budget. We've found that video book trailers are one more way to boost sales on a budget.
Click here to view sample trailer: https://youtu.be/T7yzZeW94oY
I have patches of insomnia,
and I'm fascinated by the otherness of the world at night.
The stillness.
Daytime preoccupations fall away, standards change, thoughts change.
It's a canvas for reinvention, I think. ~ Morag Joss
by Helen Currie Foster, HOTXSINC President
Sisters in Crime awarded HOTXSINC a grant to fund a booth and other necessities needed for participation in the Texas Book Festival November 4 and 5. Below is an excerpt of the report President Helen Currie Foster submitted to Sisters in Crime.
SUCCESSFUL USE OF SINC GRANT
Sisters in Crime, Heart of Texas Chapter (HOTXSINC) so appreciates SINC's $500 grant to us for our non-profit booth at the Texas Book Festival. The Festival is huge; it stretches from the Texas Capitol Building down Congress Avenue and this year up Colorado Street as well. Thousands of people from all over the country attend every year (we talked to visitors from Seattle, Chicago, Sicily, Turkey…). We were assigned a great location—Booth 417 in Exhibit Tent 4. I'm attaching the information for Exhibitors (you can find us listed therein). We were busy at our booth ALL DAY SATURDAY Nov. 4 and ALL DAY SUNDAY Nov. 5 until the Festival closed at 5:30.
HOTxSINC BOOK SALES! At our booth we sold books by HOTXSINC members (including Kathy Waller, Dave Ciambrone, Noreen Cedeño, Francine Paino, Kay George, Valerie Chandler, Laura Oles, Helen Currie Foster, Kathleen Phelps, Dixie Lee Evatt, Sue Cleveland, and including two anthologies including member contributions). We offered bookmarks and information on the plots and authors. The booth was staffed from time to time by Kathy Phelps, Noreen Cedeño, Fran Paino, Dave Ciambrone, Helen Currie Foster, and Dixie Lee Evatt, Sue Cleveland, Valerie Chandler and Pam Baggett-Wallis.
BANNERS: We had banners! HOTXSINC banners, our SINC banners and the giant SINC table-skirt.
SINC Brochures: We had a purchased Plexiglas table stand to hold SINC brochures, and another stand for our HOTXSINC brochure, which tells the history of our chapter. People were very interested in the history of both SINC and our organization and SINC, and by the end of the festival ALL brochures had been taken.
HOTXSINC Brochures: Fran Paino developed a brochure for the Festival recounting HOTxSINC's 27-year history—very popular.
Also, we had a HOTXSINC membership signup form with our website listed, and have only a couple left.
CONVERSATIONS! We talked to many, many people during this two-day event. We talked to Austinites, out-of-towners, foreigners, students, retirees, friends, strangers. As you might expect, a number were writers/aspiring writers. The eye-catching banners drew people who were curious about HOTxSINC and SINC and loved hearing that we were local authors who were there to sign our own books. We made some good contacts with future members and had great conversations with others about critique groups, writing processes, the supportive nature of HOTXSINC, and of course the excellent programs we've had this year.
THANK YOU AGAIN FOR THIS GRANT. We believe we're establishing a presence at the most important book festival in Texas, one heavily attended and publicized, and we think it's really important for the advancement of SINC and HOTXSINC for us to be there.
Scott Montgomery, Sue Cleveland, Dixie Evatt, & Helen Currie Foster
Dixie Evatt, 2017 Texas Book Festival
Sue Cleveland, Noreen Cedeno, Kathy Waller, & Helen Currie Foster, 2017 Texas Book Festival
Bookwoman exhibit, 2017 Texas Book Festival
Francine Paino & Noreen Cedeno, 2017 Texas Book Festival
Noreen Cedeno and shopper, 2017 Texas Book Festival
Sue Cleveland, Noreen Cedeno, Kathy Waller, & Helen Currie Foster
Dixie Evatt, Helen Currie Foster, & Kathy Gresham, 2017 Texas Book Festival
HOTXSINC books, 2017 Texas Book Festival
Noreen Cedeno & Dave Ciambrone
Exhibit, 2017 Texas Book Festival
Texas State Capitol
Dixie Evatt, Helen Currie Foster, & Kathy Gresham
Noreen Cedeno, 2017 Texas Book Festival
Sue Cleveland, Dixie Evatt, & Helen Currie Foster
Francine Paino, Helen Currie Foster, & Noreen Cedeno, 2017 Texas Book Festival
Noreen Cedeno & Dave Ciambrone, 2017 Texas Book Festival
Shoppers at HOTXSINC table, 2017 Texas Book Festival
Statue, Texas State Capitol Grounds
HOTXSINC banner, 2017 Texas Book Festival
Dixie Evatt, Helen Currie Foster ,& Kathy Gresham
Scott Montgomery, Sue Cleveland, Dixie Evatt, & Helen Currie Foster, 2017 Texas Book Festival
Exhibitor, 2017 Texas Book Festival
Exhibitor's tent,, 2017 Texas Book Festival
Exhibitor tent, 2017 Texas Book Festival
I do read P.D. James because she pays much more attention to character,
to a particular atmosphere or setting.
But most mystery writers, I think,
are controlled by the plot. ~ Martha Grimes
One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman
tries to touch something good – and fails. ~ S. J. Rozan
HOTXSINC lists the following websites for information only. Readers themselves will need to evaluate reliability and quality.
Writing Career
https://writingcareer.com/call-for-fiction-submissions/
https://levelbestbooks.wordpress.com/submissions/submissions-novels/
East of the Web
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/index.php?p=submissions/20131_3
The Short Mystery Fiction Society Blog
https://shortmystery.blogspot.com/p/markets.html
Crimewave
http://ttapress.com/crimewave/guidelines/
The Passive Voice
Mystery Writers of America
The Authors Guild
What Authors Need to Know About the New Tax Bill
N.Y. Times Scales Back Free Articles to Get More Subscribers
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-01/n-y-times-scales-back-free-articles-to-get-readers-to-subscribe
Electric Lit
A New Story by the Master of Hardboiled Detective Fiction
https://electricliterature.com/a-new-story-by-the-master-of-hardboiled-detective-fiction-1ff845e9479a
Members, when you email news to kathywaller1 at gmail dot com. Send a headshot or snapshot and titles of books and stories for inclusion in the author page. Send the URL of your website or blog so the can be included in our blogroll
Also – When you send news, please provide working links to everything you want linked: book covers, titles, your name, venues for book launches, signings, panels, etc., and make clear which link goes with each item. (The editor is a little slow on the uptake and needs help). The editor will no longer search for these. If you don't provide a link, there won't be a link.
Kathy Waller, editor
kathywaller1 at gmail dot com
Tagged crime writing, Dixie Wyatt, Helen Currie Foster, holiday celebration, K. P. Gresham, Mystery and detective fiction, MysteryPeople, radio plays, Sisters in Crime, Sisters in Crime in Austin, Sue Cleveland, The Case of the Poisoned Holly, writingLeave a comment
Sisters in Crime Heart of Texas Meeting October 8, 2017: Birthday Party!
Posted on October 2, 2017 by HoTXSinC in Authors, Mystery, Sisters in Crime Heart of Texas Chapter, Writing
~ Sisters in Crime Mission Statement
October 8, 2017 Program: Celebrate Sisters in Crime's 30th Birthday!
Computer Keys for Four Hands: Teaming Up to Write
An Afternoon with Helen Ginger
Call to Action: Review!
October 8, 2017 Program
IT'S A PARTY!
CELEBRATES ITS 30TH BIRTHDAY
Sarah Ann Robertson
READINGS FROM ORIGINAL WORKS
BY SISTERS IN CRIME ~ HEART OF TEXAS MEMBERS
WINE, CHEESE, AND CAKE
TO CELEBRATE
AND WHAT WE DO
3RD FLOOR OF BOOKPEOPLE
603 N. LAMAR
THE PUBLIC IS INVITED!
Sara Paretsky at Bouchercon 2009 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) By Mark Coggins from San Francisco (Sara Paretsky Uploaded by tripsspace) [CC BY 2.0 ] via Wikimedia Commons
It gestated at the first-ever conference on Women in the Mystery,
put together by BJ Rahn at Hunter College in March 1986.
Sara Paretsky spoke on the growing use of graphic sadism
against women in mysteries.
"Remarks I made at the conference set off a firestorm around the mystery world,"
founding mother Sara recalls.
"Women began calling me from all over the country
with their personal histories of treatment/mistreatment."
Francine Paino
Laura Oles
Sue Vertrees
Valerie Chandler
Joan Upton Hall & Jennifer Farley
Sue Cleveland & Dixie Wyatt
Terry Shames
Alex Ferraro
Meredith Lee celebrated the launch of her first book, SHROUDED, at the Writing Barn on September 9, 2017. She will speak and sign copies of SHROUDED at BookPeople on November 10. (Meredith Lee is the pen name of HOTXSINC members Sue Meredith Cleveland and Dixie Lee Wyatt.)
"I remember being scared at the start," Nancy Pickard says.
"Our very first organizing meeting, I remember Sara at the front of the room,
how brave she was, and how smart.
Elizabeth Buhmann
Joan Upton Hall & Margaret Ann Halse
Barbara Burnett Smith
W. D. Smith
Sylvia Dickey Smith
Miqui Miller
Patricia Morin
Kathy Waller
Karen MacInerney
SINC's Ongoing Pursuit of Reviews for Women Writers: 2016 Report
and HOTxSINC's Invitation
Mission Statement of the national organization Sisters in Crime (SINC): "Promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional development of women crime writers." Since 1986 SINC has pursued its goal of raising women writers' share of reviews and recognition through its Monitoring Project, monitoring the share of reviews for women crime writers. For the first 20 years of the Monitoring Project, SINC noted a long-term upward trend. But the 2016 results are stagnant in the digital category and show only statistically insignificant changes in national and local newspapers, pre-publication sources, and genre-focused magazine categories. Here are the numbers for 2007-2016:
Type of Publication Reviews of Books Reviews of Books Reviews of Books
by Women 2007 by Women 2015 by Women 2016
National newspapers 31% 42% 41%
Local newspapers 37% 46% 47%
Pre-publication sources 45% 45% 46%
Genre-focused magazines 40% 50% 52%
Born Digital Review Sources n/a 52% 52%
SINC notes that the national newspaper category continues to be the most resistant to reviewing women writers—significant because these papers (New York Times, Toronto Globe & Mail, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal) carry prestige and readership. In pre-publication review sources, Booklist (43%) and Publishers Weekly (46%) continued to favor male over female writers, but both improved by one point from 2015. Since 2011, the majority of Library Journal's reviews have been for women (but the percentage dropped from 60% in 2015 to 56% in 2016.
SINC estimates the percentage of mysteries by women by counting Edgar Award submissions (best novel, best first novel, best paperback or e-original, and submissions for the Mary Higgins Clark award). Women authors accounted for 49% of books submitted in 2016 (51% in 2015). Men continued to dominate Best Novel (57% in 2016); women dominated Best Paperback or E-Original (56% in 2016) but lost ground in Best First Novel (dropping from 52% in 2015, to 48% in 2016).
The Heart of Texas chapter of SINC, HOTXSINC, shares SINC's goal of improving women's share of reviews of crime writers by showcasing members' work, encouraging professional development and advancement, and cheering each other on. We use our website, emails, meetings, and newsletter to do so. Come join us in this effort! Encouragement…strategies…new ideas…our pursuit of excellence…that's what we're about.
The Sisters in Crime Website
Celebrating 30 Years of Sisters in Crime
We Love Short Stories
Book Publishing Glossary
Conferences, Events, and Trade Shows
Mystery Bookstores & Websites
References for Writers by Sisters in Crime Members
Sinc Up
VP Chandler reads from her story, Rota Fortunae, in the Murder On Wheels anthology
Billy Kring
Capt. Mike Winn
Helen Ginger
George Wier @ HOTXSINC, February 2015
"Several women wanted SIC, as in 'Let's sic 'em!'" Margaret says, "
but I knew we were less about hostility than about working together in sync,
so I used SinC in all my correspondence and official letters.
By the end of my term, SinC had become the standard abbreviation."
SINC Guppies Online Chapter–The Great Unpublished
"Lured by Mystery, Hooked on Writing, we are the Guppy Chapter of Sisters in Crime.
675 Members / 6 newsletters each year / 15 classes each year / Anthologies
"We may begin as 'the Great Unpublished,' but we remain as colleagues, friends, and resources in the world of crime fiction."
Gale Albright presents check for grant from the national SINC to Lake Travis Community Library Director, October 2016
N. M. Cedeno & Joyce Arquette
Joyce Arquette
Gale at the Antelope Lodge, Alpine, TX, for the Writers' League of Texas Writing Retreat, summer 2015.
Cast of "Holly Through the Heart": Alex Ferraro, Kathy Waller, Dave Ciambrone, Gale Albright, and Valerie Chandler; Book Spot, December 2014.
Elaine mentions, "Sisters in Crime was called 'ubiquitous'
by Publishers Weekly that year [1996].
I had to look that one up and found it wasn't a shooting offense
but 'that we were everywhere'—
and we were—and we were being imitated."
Hill Country Authors Series
The Friends of the Georgetown Public Library will host their 34st author event on Wednesday, November 1, 2017 at 2 PM, in the Community Rooms of the library located at 402 W. 8th St. Austinite Meg Gardiner, whose newest thriller, "UNSUB" was published in June, 2017, will be the speaker. Lawyer turned author, Ms. Gardiner is an Edgar Award-winning American crime writer who has written thirteen thrillers.
"UNSUB" (short for unknown subject) tells the tale of a young detective, determined to apprehend the serial murderer who destroyed her family and terrorized a city twenty years earlier. This riveting psychological thriller has been bought by CBS Television Studios for adaptation into a TV series.
Tickets are $15 in advance, or $18 at the door and will go on sale September 11th. They're available at the Second-Hand Prose bookstore on the second floor of the library, from the WOW!mobile (the book mobile that visits many locations in the city), online at https://folgeorgetown.org/event/hcas-meg-gardiner/ after September 11th , or by contacting Marcy Lowe at 512-868-8974. A dessert and beverage from the Red Poppy Coffee Company is included.
The event begins at 2 PM; doors open at 130 PM. Proceeds are used to fund unbudgeted items and other ongoing library projects.
For more information contact Marcy Lowe at (512) 868-8974.
"Most of all," Margaret Maron says, "
I remember the excitement and pride
of being so involved with something important—
the feeling we all had that we could make a difference,
that we could make things better for our sister writers
and strengthen the field for our sister readers."
"Sisters in Crime is committed to helping women
who write, review, buy, or sell crime fiction.
Our ultimate goal is to become a service organization
to address issues of concern
to everyone involved in the mystery field."
Photo of an old laboratory with a lot of bottles and dirt
Original Cyn
The Mysteries of London
From Writer Unboxed
How to Find the Right Developmental Editor for Your Book
Seriously Funny: 7 Ways to Add Humor to a Novel
The Hidden Dangers of Short-Form Publishing Deals
Historical Novels–Your Research To-Do List
Back to Bach
If You Write a Book That Nobody Reads, Are You Really a Writer
The Psychology Behind Good Book Cover Design
News You Can Use (and Some You Shouldn't)
Say a Little Less, Mean a Little More
Indie Authors: Your Pub Date Is Not as Important as You Think
Authentic Female Characters vs. Gender Swaps
Thanks to The Passive Voice for sharing the following sites:
The 8-Step Daily Routing That's Enabled Me to Write 100s of Articles and 3 Books
First Books: The Stories That Got Us Into Reading
I Subscribed to What? What Online Subscription-Based Marketers Need To Tell Their Consumers
The Creative Life: How We Do It (Any Way We Can)
Cover versions: why are UK and US book jackets often so different?
Authors Use Multi-tiered Strategies To Gain Max Exposure In Book Price Promotions
WHEN I'M WRITING FICTION, I CANNOT READ IT
Author Blogging 102: a Practical Guide to Developing Your Weekly or Monthly Link Post
Another Murder on the Orient Express
7 Free Online Tools for Writers and Authors
Danielle Steel's Desk Is Like Nothing You've Ever Seen
Members, please email links to your websites and/or blogs to kathywaller1 at gmail dot com so they can be listed in our blogroll. Email your news/announcements to the same address.
Member authors, please send book/story&publication titles and a headshot to kathywaller at gmail dot com. Here's a link to the Author page so you can see how your info will be displayed: https://sinc-heartoftexas.com/hotxsinc-authors/
Deputy U. S. Marshal Hector Gomez
HOTXSINC September 9, 2017
Tagged anniversary, Authors, birthday party, Books, crime writing, Hill Country Authors Series, Mystery and detective fiction, MysteryPeople, SINC Guppies, Sisters in Crime, Sisters in Crime in Austin, Writers, writingLeave a comment
HOTXSINC September 10, 2017: U.S. Marshals
Posted on September 5, 2017 September 7, 2017 by HoTXSinC in law enforcement, Mystery, programming, Sisters in Crime Heart of Texas Chapter, Sisters In Crime: Heart of Texas chapter meetings, Writing
September 10 Program: U. S. Marshals
October 8: Party! Celebrating 30 Years of Sisters in Crime
Contests and Calls for Submissions
The One Thing More
The U.S. Marshals Service is the nation's oldest and most versatile federal law enforcement agency, established in 1789. The Service holds a uniquely central position in the federal justice system and it is the enforcement arm of the federal courts, involved in virtually every federal law enforcement initiative. Presidentially appointed, U.S. Marshals direct actions in 94 districts, one for each federal judicial district and approximately 3,709 deputy marshals and criminal investigators form the backbone of the agency.
On September 10, U.S. Marshal Hector Gomez will speak to Sisters in Crime. He will cover the history of the US Marshals (1789 – present), historical and contemporary missions, establishment of the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force in Austin , and high profile local apprehensions. There will be an interactive discussion, and Q&A's.
"Hector Gomez, Supervisory Deputy US Marshal. Started my career in 1986 (31 yrs), posted in Brownsville, McAllen, Denver and Austin. Assigned to general investigations, Witness Security (WITSEC) Division, and Task Force Commander of the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force. Assigned to high threat trials in leadership and support roles involving Timothy McVeigh, Unabomber, John Gotti, Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs, White Supremacists and Narcotics Cartels."
Sisters in Crime Heart of Texas Chapter meets monthly on the second Sunday of the month at 2:15 p.m. We are now meeting at Book People, 603 North Lamar, Austin, Phone 512-472-5050. We meet on the third floor.
Sisters in Crime is an international organization of women and men whose mission is to promote the professional development and advancement of women crime writers to achieve equality in the industry. Speakers include published mystery authors and technical experts who help writers craft better mysteries and readers enjoy what they read. Meetings are free and open to all. Check out the Sisters in Crime website at http://sinc-heartoftexas.com.
For information about the Heart of Texas Chapter, contact Joyce Arquette, Publicity (512) 266-6543
Are those cat hairs on your lapel, or have you been dating a blonde with a crew cut? ~ Lilian Jackson Braun
BY SISTERS IN CRIME MEMBERS
"There's something dangerous about the boredom of teenage girls."
~ Megan Abbott, Dare Me
ThirtyNineStars will sponsor a book launch for Meredith Lee's debut mystery novel, SHROUDED, on September 9, 2017, at The Writing Barn in Austin, Texas. The event is set for 3:00 to 5:00 pm.
On November 10 at 7:00 p.m., Meredith Lee will speak and sign copies of SHROUDED at BookPeople.
About SHROUDED: "Insecure American graduate student Crispin Leads has come to the Vatican to study burial rituals and catch up with her oldest friend, Sister Lew, historian for the Shroud of Turin. Within hours of Crispin's arrival she witnesses a murder and is drawn into an investigation of multiple homicides."
A Twitter Chat Party was held for the launch of DAY OF THE DARK: Stories of Eclipse, on August 24. Stories by Laura Oles and M. K. Waller appear in the anthology.
A woman's body doesn't quit just because her heart breaks. ~ Margaret Maron
"Like accidents, marriages result because those involved
happen to arrive at what might be the wrong place,
at the same time." ~ Margaret Yorke
Contests & Calls for Submissions
Fiction Writing Contests Worth Your Time (Fall 2017 Edition)
Glimmertrain: Short Story Award for New Writers
Glimmertrain: 2017 Submission Calendar and Writing Guidelines
Music has power to create a universe or to destroy a civilization. ~ Katherine Neville
9/5/2017 MysteryPeople
Sherry Thomas: Speaking & Signing!
@ BookPeople
9/9/2017 ThirtyNineStars
Meredith Lee: Book Launch!
@ the Writing Barn
9/10/2017 HOTXSINC MEETING
Hector Gomez, U. S. Marshal
MysteryPeople
Craig Johnson: Book Launch!
9/13/2017 MysteryPeople
William Kent Krueger: Speaking & Signing!
11/10/2017 BookPeople
Meredith Lee: Speaking and Signing!
… danger was always at its most lethal when disguised as respectability. ~ Susan Moody
Do Daily Deal Services Work? One Author's Experience with 18 Promo Sites
Telling the Truth in Fiction
Weaving Backstory into Frontstory
Seven Things I Learned from Wrecking My Novel
Unspoken Dialogue
5 Creative Nonfiction Skills for Novelists
Blueprint, Territory, Language, Portal, Singular Lens: 5 Ways to Read as a Writer
Your Publicity Timeline: Is There a Best Month to Publish Your Book?
The Trouble With Action
Stealing from Aesop
Every Good Book Is a Mystery, Even When It's Not
Should You Ever Write for Free?
Hurricane Harvey: Bookstores 'Bent, Not Broken'
'Murder by the Book in Houston reported on Facebook that it "has a few damp places where water came in, but it is minimal compared to what we expected" so it plans to open today from noon to 6. "We're happy to provide anyone who comes in with free coffee, charging stations, wi-fi and restrooms," the store wrote. "Please pass this along for those who have lost electricity, or who just need a break from sitting home in the rain."
Final Chapter for Pears' Cyclopaedia after 125 Years in Print
Copyright Fable: Debunking the Seven Second Rule
Twitter Will Render Children Illiterate in 20 Years Says Jacobson
Rendezvous with le Carré
The World's 50 Largest Publishers, 2017
What If Barnes & Noble Went Bankrupt?
Information Sickness: How It Hurts Us and How to Escape
The Evolution of Female Pen Names from Currer Bell to J. K. Rowling
The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness
because they suggest a frightening truth:
that the universe does not rely on cause and effect.~S. J. Rozan
Dixie Evatt & Sue Cleveland
When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself,
you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride. ~ Patricia Wentworth
Members, send news for HOTSHOTS! to kathywaller1 at gmail.com. Member authors, send titles of your published books and stories, and a head shot, for the HOTXSINC author page, to the same address.
M. K. Waller, editor
kathywaller1 at gmail.com
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HOTXSINC July 9, 2017: Captain Mike Winn on the Military Justice System
Posted on July 3, 2017 July 3, 2017 by HoTXSinC in Authors, Mystery, Sisters in Crime Heart of Texas Chapter, Writing
Program: Captain Mike Winn on the Military Justice System
The New HOTXSINC Website
Speculating About Cremains
Captain Mike Winn: Military Justice
Captain Mike Winn
At the July 9 HOTXSINC meeting, Captain Mike Winn, Legal Officer for the Permanent Executive Secretariat of Conference of American Armies (PESCAA), will discuss the military-justice process in general, with a focus on special-victim offenses.
Captain Winn attended Texas A&M and earned a degree in Business Administration before earning his J.D. at SMU Dedman School of Law. He served as a Trial Counsel/ Military Prosecutor in the Army from 2014-15, as a Legal Assistance Attorney in 2013-14, and as a Special Victim Counsel starting in 2013. He is currently a Legal Officer for the Permanent Executive Secretariat of the Conference of American Armies (PESCAA), U.S. Army South at Fort Sam Houston, in San Antonio, Texas.
I was extraordinarily lucky.
I wrote a book because I wanted to see if I could write a mystery.
Someone nagged me into sending it to a contest, which it won,
after which I was offered a two-book contract,
thus requiring the writing of a second book. ~ Donna Leon
From Wendy Gee—
TORCHES is the story of hotshot arson investigator, Draymond Bernadino, who takes over the reins as the Charleston (SC) Fire Marshal and uncovers a ruthless web of corruption and buried secrets while probing two deadly fires thirty years apart.
I entered the Writer's League of Texas manuscript contest for the professional critique. I am honored to have my work deemed worthy of recognition in this prestigious competition. The acknowledgement motivates me to continue my writing with an eye toward publication. I am deeply grateful to members of the WLT and Sisters in Crime (Heart of Texas Chapter) for their encouragement and commitment to developing writers of all skill levels.
From Manning Wolfe—
My new Cover Reveal for MUSIC NOTES is out this week–to see, look to the left.
In addition, I'm going to ThrillerFest and would like to know if anyone else in our group is going so I can look for them–that is July 11-15th in NYC.
From Nancy G. West—
I'm thrilled to announce that Rio Magazine–premier magazine for the San Antonio River Walk–hotels, restaurants, boat rides, natives, and tourists–will feature RIVER CITY DEAD, Aggie Mundeen Mystery #4, as its recommended read in the July issue. Here's the link to the magazine: https://www.thesanantonioriverwalk.com/magazine/ Click July 2017.
From Helen Currie Foster—
GHOST CAVE and GHOST DOG are now available on Amazon in the Audible Audio Edition, with GHOST LETTER and GHOST DAGGER following hot on their heels. I narrate the books.
https://www.amazon.com/Helen-Currie-Foster/e/B00R1X9RXK
I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head. ~ Laurie R. King
The HOTXSINC blog-newsletter has expanded into a website designed to make information about the chapter easy for readers to find. The HOME page is organized in the following way:
Panel #1 displays information about the upcoming meeting; for a few days after each meeting, pictures will be displayed.
Panel #2, "About HOTXSINC" tells who we are and what our meetings are about. There's also a list of benefits of membership and a link to the Join/Renew page. The drop-down menu displays links to Officers, By-laws, and Resources.
Panel #3, "HOTSHOTS!," displays excerpts from the two most recent newsletter posts. The drop-down subhead links to back issues.
Panel #4, "Join/Renew," displays instructions for joining or renewing membership in HOTXSINC, and links to a printable form. It also links to the Sisters in Crime national membership webpage.
Panel #5, "Authors," lists HOTXSINC's member authors and provides links to their websites and blogs.
Member authors, don't forget to send head shots and a titles of publications to kathywaller1 at gmail dot com for inclusion on the Author page.
"Our system is not one of justice, but of law." ~ Edna Buchanan
The following link comes from Noreen Cedeño's "Marketing Books," part of her May 2017 HOTXSINC presentation. A link to her presentation on Power Point appears on our Resources page.
Publishing … and Other Forms of Insanity [This site contains information about contests, paying markets, writing conferences, and much more.]
The sight of one's own heart is degrading; people are not meant to look inward–
that's why they've been given bodies, to hide their souls. ~ Shirley Jackson
by Rob Robertson
I assume the disposition of human remains comes up in crime novels.
In the US, anyhow, we have burials, cremation, and probable statutory handling rules.
Related to dispositions, whether by burial or cremation, there is the subject of jewelry worn by the decedent and cremains disposition.
I have not asked around so do not know. I speak of gold, any maybe silver, teeth fillings. I wonder what happens to those?
The funeral directors want to sell expensive caskets and urns. I do not know about types of caskets and costs. With cremation, urns can be pricey. Not sure if families buy urns if the cremains will be buried.
The least costly cremains containers are rectangular boxes, usually having a plastic handle at the top. I have seen cardboard looking and shiny black containers. The weight of one person's cremains is heavier than one might think.
In the one interment of cremains I have observed, the container was lowered into an opening over an existing casketed grave. The opening was about 12 inches by 12 inches and about 18 inches deep. Water had seeped into the bottom of the opening.
I make these remarks because I speculate writers could weave the subjects into novels.
Last, I am lazy. I have not checked the Texas statutes to see if anything mentioned in this post is addressed, for example, gold teeth/fillings.
Rob Robertson practices family law, estate planning and probate, real estate, and business law in Austin.
White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America. ~ Sara Paretsky
7/9/2017 HOTXSINC Meeting
Capt. Mike Winn speaking on the military justice process
Jeff Abbott: Book Launch!
@BookPeople
Ace Atkins: Speaking and Signing
Bill Loehfelm, Rob Hart, & Jordan Harper
All of us sing more from sorrow than from joy.
It is tragedy that leaves a mark on the mind and calls for the tribute of a song.
Happiness is its own gift, and needs no other. ~ Sharon McCrumb, The Songcatchers
11 THRILLERS THAT WILL KEEP YOU AWAKE THIS SUMMER
Meg Gardiner Interview on KAZI Book Review
Negative Reviews (and Why I Don't Read Them)
Intuition & Writing: What Happens Next?
2017 Shamus Award SMFS Member Nominees
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine – May/June 2017
Guest Post: STAGES OF WRITING A SHORT STORY by Jan Christensen
Society Members' News: May 2017 (The Short Mystery Fiction Society Blog)
Thanks to The Passive Voice for the following:
When All of Your Family Heirlooms Are Stories
80 Million Prime Subscribers Ready For Amazon's Pharmacy?
Joseph Kanon: There Is No Better Place to Write Than the Library
Inside the Magic Library at the Conjuring Arts Research Center
The Disorganized Novelist's Guide to Outlines
Amazon's Move Signals End of Line for Many Cashiers
Amazon – Whole Foods Is A Game Changer
The period after the First World War was an extremely different time,
so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918
than he was during the Victorian era. ~ Laurie R. King
Members, send news for HOTSHOTS! to kathywaller1 at gmail dot com. Deadline for inclusion in the August issue is Friday, July 28.
Member authors, send head shots and titles of your publications to kathywaller1 at gmail dot com for the HOTXSINC Author page.
Even if people do wrong, we're social animals, so what can we do about stopping them doing the same things in future?
Saying people are 'bad' or 'evil' is just an unwillingness to engage; an unwillingness to try to empathise.
That sanctimonious attitude doesn't help anyone. ~ Denise Mina
Dr. Douglas Derrer on Hypnosis
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HOTXSINC Meeting: June 11, 2017: Hypnosis
Posted on June 10, 2017 June 10, 2017 by HoTXSinC in Authors, Mystery, Sisters in Crime Heart of Texas Chapter, Writing
Program: Dr. Douglas Derrer on Hypnosis
At the June 11 HOTXSINC meeting, Dr. Douglas Derrer will speak about Hypnosis: its intriguing history, bizarre mythology, interesting clinical applications, and neuroscience findings. This will include the traits needed for hypnotizability, stage vs. clinical hypnosis, as well as forensic hypnosis and its uses in memory enhancement for witnesses and victims. Dr. Derrer may also present an exercise on hypnotizability if time permits and the audience is interested.
Dr. Douglas Derrer & Sheba
Douglas Derrer, Ph. D., is a Yale-trained psychologist who served more than two decades in the United States Navy. Retired and living in Georgetown, Texas, he devotes himself to writing, nature, photography, and cycling. His writing interests are speculative fiction for children and adults. He explores several genres, including fantasy adventures, historical fiction, science fiction, steampunk, and social essays. Pirate Peril, The Sorcerer's Invasion, and Worlds in Collision comprise his mid-grade/YA fantasy-adventure trilogy. King Tut and the Plagues of Egypt and The Mysterious Death of King Tut are a two-volume historical fiction novel about the fascinating 18th Dynasty boy king. All these books are available on Amazon. Two fan-fiction, steampunk Sherlock Holmes stories "Adventure of the Surrogate Queen" and "The Baleful Beanies" are available for free download from his website, www.douglasderrer.com. A third Holmes story, "A Tunnel through Time" will be available soon. A long time member of the Speculative Fiction Writers Cooperative of Bainbridge Island, Washington, he has a short story, "Road Kill," in their anthology Penumbra. He belongs to the San Gabriel Writers League of Texas and to Coroners, a writing critique group.
You know what rumors are like–like a jar full of moths.
Once they escape, they're all over the place. ~ Rhys Bowen
June 7-13, Nancy G. West will be one of thirty-two authors offering books in Henery Press' Rafflecopter. Nancy will post links on her website and on her Facebook page.
Subscribe to Nancy's newsletter through the signup box, first page right column, on her website. Or message her on her Facebook page with your name/email address and she'll sign you up.
Dave Ciambrone's SUSPICIOUS THREADS, a new Virginia Davies Quilt Mystery came out May 23rd.
A review of Helen Currie Foster's GHOST DAGGER is featured in the May 2017 issue of Reviewer's Bookwatch: "The fourth novel in author Helen Currie Foster's simply outstanding 'Alice MacDonald Greer' mystery series, Ghost Dagger continues to document Foster's originality and complete mastery of the mystery/suspense genre. A deftly crafted and compelling read from cover to cover, Ghost Dagger is certain to be an enduringly popular addition to community library Mystery/Suspense collections."
Alexandra Burt was interviewed for Read to Write Stories. She was also interviewed on KOOP Radio's Writing on the Air on May 14. To listen to the KOOP interview, click here.
Alexandra's latest book, THE GOOD DAUGHTER, was reviewed by Michelle Newby in Lone Star Literary Life: "Well and intricately plotted, moving quickly, Burt's story spends as much time in the past as in the present. Subplots enrich and inform the main narrative, and well-placed clues (including the structure of the narratives themselves) tantalize."
The Writers' League of Texas announced winners and finalists in its 2017 Manuscript Contest. Three HOTXSINC members were named finalists:
Wendy Gee for TORCHES;
Sue Cleveland and Dixie Wyatt (writing as Meredith Lee) for SHROUDED.
ThirtyNineStars will sponsor a book launch for Meredith Lee's debut mystery novel, SHROUDED, on September 9, 2017, at The Writing Barn in Austin, Texas. The event is set for 1:30 to 4:30 pm. The first installment in the Crispin Leads Mystery Series, SHROUDED is the story of a graduate student whose trip to Rome to study burial rituals at the Vatican is derailed when she is witness to a murder. Award-winning author David Aretha calls SHROUDED "a masterfully written mystery novel, powered by well-developed characters and a sophisticated plot."
If you chomp down too hard on my work, you're going to break your teeth. ~ Patricia Cornwell
By Dixie Lee Evatt and Sue Meredith Cleveland (aka Meredith Lee)
Dixie Wyatt & Sue Cleveland
How do you write as a team? It's the question we are asked all the time. It's a good one but not exactly an easy one to answer. Team, the notion of two horses hitched to a single sled, pulling in unison through the rough, uncharted paths of imagination, character, plot and dialogue, happens occasionally but it is the exception rather than the rule. What is more likely to occur is less like synchronized playing and more like a give and take. Less like a duet and more like badminton.
The birth of an idea is the starting point. One of us has a scathingly brilliant idea for a novel, a scene or a screenplay. It might come from a news article or something that happens to one of us. It might be born out of a snippet of conversation overheard in a restaurant or while waiting in line at the grocery store. It might be inspired while watching the dogs play in the yard or listening to children argue. It might come while researching one topic and then wandering down a rabbit trail, enticed by a wholly unrelated topic.
The partner listens to the idea, laughs, pulls it apart and then, if the idea is sustainable, plotting follows. One or the other of the partners will sketch out an outline and propose characters. From there the conversations begin in earnest. Talk. Talk. Talk. Research. More talk. More talk. Finally, one or the other has to put pen to paper. Or, more accurately, fingers to keyboard. This part is identical to that of every other writer. One set of hands. One keyboard. One computer screen. One draft. Then more talking and the handoff to the partner for critique and feedback. More talking. Each partner will take a hand at rewriting, adding chapters, polishing and handing the work back as the story grows and evolves. Back and forth from one set of hands to the other.
Like a tennis match, the "ball" can only be in one court at a time. Back and forth until that first draft is a reality. The story, the plot and the characters all live in the world you have created but they are rough. There are holes and it is time for more talk. This is where that "two horses in a trace" phase is handy. This is where we'll sit together and talk through scenes and dialogue. If it is an action scene we will act it out to make sure it is practical. For instance, there is a scene in Shrouded where the female protagonist hides behind a door ready to whack someone on the head. We acted it out several times to make sure it worked. (Disclaimer: No authors were injured in the creation of this scene.)
The team of three writers (Brent Douglass, John T. Davis and James R. Dennis) who are the alter ego of Miles Arceneaux recently talked about their process at a meeting we attended and we were struck about how similar it is to ours. They wrote their first book, Thin Slide of Life, as a lark and it took years each writing a chapter in turn. Now, after four books, they more easily slip into the skin, and mind, of their phantom author and assume his voice.
Inevitably when more than one hand is writing there will be disagreements. This results in more talk. Make your case. Back off. Hold your ground. Propose solutions. A classic case is from Thin Slice of Life. Would the Texas Ranger take a swig of whisky before the gun battle? One author said, "Of course." Another said, "No way." Back and forth they went, until the third author broke the tie. Since we are just two and, therefore, don't have a tiebreaker we have to find other ways to resolve these kinds of disagreements. So far, we always have because we always go back to what our early mentor, Bill Johnson, wrote in his book A Story is a Promise, "Perceiving that a story is a promise is a cornerstone of the foundation for understanding the art of story telling." We agree with Johnson and try to honor the promise.
Is the process of writing easier with a partner? No, because writing is, by its very nature, hard and often tedious. No author can avoid the hours of outlining and revision. But if you find a trusted and admired co-conspirator to share the literary journey, to plod along next to, then, my friend, you will always have someone to cheer you on through the disappointments and the successes.
Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve. ~ Denise Mina
Helen Ginger, author of DEADPOINT, will be featured at "An Afternoon with the Author" on Sunday, June 25, 2017, from 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. at Willow Terrace, 3801 Berkman Drive, 78723, in the Terrace Room. There will be an author presentation, book signing, and complimentary light bites. RSVP BY June 20 to texnayder@gmail.com or sign-up in Wildflower Terrace Book.
Helen was President of Sisters in Crime Heart of Texas Chapter in 1997. She has been a board member and executive director of the Writers League of Texas, and a volunteer chair for the Texas Book Festival.
"About DEADPOINT: A dead maintenance supervisor and an intrusive firebrand preacher have popped up at Hart of Atlantis Park and Aquarium in the Hill Country. Although divorced from Michael Lansing, the park's security officer, Codie Hart resolves to work with him to protect her family's business. When a skilled, ritualistic killer arrives to steal newly developed technology and seek revenge on an old enemy, Michael must decide how to protect Codie and the park without reliving his past."
A pretty sight, a lady with a book. ~ Shirley Jackson
HOTXSINC's mission is to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition, and professional development of women crime writers. We meet monthly, participate in the Texas Book Festival (and, once, the Jewish Book Fair), form critique groups, share works in progress, arrange programming. We organize to help writers.
But are we forgetting something? Sisters in Crime was founded because "books by woman mystery writers also weren't being reviewed at a percentage equal to their participation in the field."
The founding Sisters were no doubt referring to reviews written by professional reviewers for larger publications. But for lesser-known authors, especially those just starting their careers, reviews posted by general readers on online review sites are important, too. Many of our member authors fall into this category.
My research, in which I examined online records of four authors, and which took about 90 seconds, showed that Stephen King's latest novel, released May 16, 2017, has garnered over 2,000 reader reviews.
Books by three newish authors I surveyed had, as much as a year following their release dates, attracted fewer than 100.
Low numbers have nothing to do with quality of writing. The books I checked are page-turners; I know because I've read them. But I knew about them because I had inside information. The thousands of potential readers out there don't know those books exist. And if they see one that has only a few reviews, or maybe none at all, they tend to move on.
Publishers–at last the major ones–send books to reviewers. I imagine Stephen King's publisher does. And Patricia Cornwell's. And Mary Higgins Clark's. Reviewers know their names and act accordingly. Newbie authors, even those with several books on the market, aren't so fortunate. Their names don't mean automatic publicity. They have to work harder, which means asking for reviews.
Many authors hate to ask readers to post reviews. It's the introvert thing. They prefer not to toot their own horns.
Still, they need REVIEWS. They need them asap–especially in the first days after a book's release. After that–they need more.
Here's where individual Sisters, even introverts, can make a difference.
When you read a Sister's (or Brother's) book and like it, post a review online. It doesn't have to be long or sound like a book report. Did you like the book? Say so. What did you like? Who else might enjoy reading it? Rate the book as required, with stars, tomatoes, whatever.
Be sincere. Don't say you like a book if you don't.
If there's something you think doesn't work so well—Is pacing a little slow at the beginning? Did Dr. Watson marry and then show up living with Holmes again without explaining what happened to his wife? Is Inspector Morse driving you to distraction by eating all those pub lunches when you've just pledged to take off ten pounds by next Thursday?–you might mention it, but be gentle and fair and professional. Your review is meant for other readers; it's not a critique directed at the author.
What if you didn't like a book? Don't review it. If you can't give it at least three stars or tomatoes, don't comment.
And never trash a book in a review. Trashing just makes the reviewer look bad. It can be devastating for an author. Nobody benefits. See Be sincere, above. Here the Golden Rule applies.*
If you have a personal relationship with the author, don't mention it. Online review sites, we've heard, look askance at reviews–even honest, balanced, unbiased reviews–that are posted by family, friends, or anyone else whose opinion they think might have been influenced by the author. They can also look askance at the author. That's not good.
Why are reviews important? Online review sites are read by thousands of potential readers. Reviews translate into sales. A book with a long string of reviews, especially soon after release date, catches the online bookseller's attention. The bookseller might even smile upon the author by handing out perks. I have no idea what perks, but I've heard they exist, and that they can boost sales. Perks are very good.
Now. I have written over 700 words. I have used review and reviews 17 times; add reviewer to that, and I've probably set a record. I've preached to the choir and told you what you already know.
But in case you've forgotten–please REVIEW!
*The Golden Rule applies to the rest, too.
Successful people are not interesting. I feel for the losers.
That's where my heart lies. ~ Karin Fossum
The Eyes of Texas
"The editor seeks private eye stories that represent the diversity of the Lone Star State. Stories may be set in West Texas, East Texas, the Mexican border, the Gulf Coast, the Panhandle, or anywhere in-between, and should represent the cultural, ethnic, gender, and political differences found throughout the state." Details at http://www.crimefictionwriter.com/TheEyesOfTexas.htm
A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight. ~ Patricia Wentworth
6/15/2017 Writers' League of Texas
Third Thursday: "Practice Makes Pitch Perfect"
6/25/2017 Book signing and author presentation
"An Afternoon with the Author" featuring Helen Ginger, author of DEADPOINT
More information, above
@ Wildflower Terrace
UNSUB Discussion and signing, hosted by Meg Gardiner
@MysteryPeople /BookPeople
I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense….
But it's unquestionably good escapist literature and I think I should rather like it
if I were sitting in an air-raid shelter or recovering from flu. ~ Georgette Heyer
10 of the Best Sherlock Holmes Stories Everyone Should Read
I'll Never Forget My First…
The Rap Sheet Intro
In Reference to Murder
Killer Characters
Proofreading Tips Part 1 of 2
What Are the Rules?
Sub-Plots and Story
Google Maps: The Best Writing Tools That No One Knows About
Thanks to Karleen Koen for sharing the following sites:
53 Ways to Improve Your Short Stories
Q&A: Brian Yansky (on tension and conflict)
How to Spot Toxic Feedback: 7 Signs That the Writing Advice You're Getting May Do More Harm Than Good
The Wartime Spies Who Used Knitting as an Espionage Tool
Women Booksellers Rule
Walmart Is Asking Employees to Deliver Packages on Their Way Home from Work
John Grisham's Do's and Don'ts for Writing Popular Fiction
Amazon's Brick-and-Mortar Bookstores Are Not Built For People Who Actually Read
When tweeters attack: why do readers send authors their bad reviews?
Exactly how I self-published my book, sold 180,000 copies, and nearly doubled my revenue
5 types of rest every creative should adopt
Nobody likes to be accused of a virtue. ~ Patricia Wentworth
I wouldn't mind being a fly on the wall in a few Victorian parlours. ~ Sarah Waters
Heroes, Villains, and Lawyers
Mark Pryor, Billy Kring, and Manning Wolfe spoke at the workshop Heroes, Villains, and Lawyers, presented by MysteryPeople and HOTXSINC Saturday, May 27. After individual presentations, they joined Scott Montgomery for a Q & A session with the audience.
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Andre Ghantous and the rest of the Trail Smoke Eaters will renew acquaintances with the Surrey Eagles on Thursday to kick off a three-games-in-three-days road trip to the Mainland.
Smoke Eaters embark on Mainland road trip
The Trail Smoke Eaters embark on a Mainland Division road trip and play Surrey, Chilliwack, and Coquitlam this weekend.
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The Trail Smoke Eaters make the long drive to Surrey today to revisit the Eagles after a dominating 19-3 victory on Saturday at the Cominco Arena.
"It will be a different team," said Smoke Eater coach and GM Cam Keith. "Trail is a different kind of arena than Surrey, from what I remember it's Olympic ice, so it will be more of a challenge for us."
While the 19 goals is undoubtedly a Smoke Eater team record for the BCHL, it is still nine goals shy of the BCHL record.
The Surrey Leader reported that in the wild, free-wheeling 1980s, 20-goal games were posted sporadically in the league, many by the powerhouse Penticton Knights, led in consecutive years by future National Hockey League stars Brett Hull and Joe Murphy.
In 1985, the Murphy-led Knights defeated the Salmon Arm Totems 28-5 in a game that according to the BCHL, is the highest one-game goal total by a team in league history.
Following a 6-3 loss to Langley on Friday, the lopsided win keeps the Smoke Eaters in the thick of a quest for second place, and a first-round bye in the playoffs, seven points back of the second-place Vernon Vipers.
Amazingly, the 14-26-3-0 Eagles are still in the hunt for a playoff berth – in the Interior Division. The fifth place-Mainland Division Eagles are five points back of the Interior's Salmon Arm Silverbacks and if they can surpass Salmon Arm, they'll cross over into the Interior Division playoffs as per the league's new postseason format.
Following the Surrey matchup tonight, the Smokies play a strong 28-9-5-0 Chilliwack Chiefs team on Friday and a not-so-strong 9-34-1-2 Coquitlam Express on Saturday.
"We have to get some of these road games done and it's good for us to do three of them in a row on the Mainland, and there's no afternoon games," said Keith. "It's the Mainland so there's not a ton of travel from rink to rink, so it's a good opportunity for us to hopefully string some wins together."
Trail beat the Chiefs at home 3-1 back on Nov. 25, but Chilliwack has been on fire since Christmas winning seven in a row, including a string of three-straight victories over the league-leading Wenatchee Wild.
Led by forward Jordan Kawaguchi, 27 goals and 57 points, and Kohen Olischefski, 49 points, the Chiefs combine a potent offence with a dependable defence. The Chiefs have scored the third most goals, 173, in the BCHL and lit up Wenatchee (the league's second best defensive team) with 17 tallies in their three wins last month, while allowing the fifth fewest goals against this season, 122.
The Express, meanwhile, have struggled this season, but have won three of their last eight games, and beat Cowichan Valley 6-3 last week, before falling 3-0 to the Wild on Saturday.
The upcoming games pose a prime opportunity for Trail to make a move on the 22-13-4-3 Vipers who play the Merritt Centennials, West Kelowna Warriors, and Powell River Kings this week.
Trail's next home game goes Jan. 28 when they host the Penticton Vees.
Beaver Valley Nitehawks down Castlegar Rebels
Trust delivers social grants, several in Trail and Rossland
Columbia Basin Trust supports 31 projects with $680,000 in social grants
Ghostly nickname haunts the stretch between rural B.C. towns
Place Names: Valley of the Ghosts
Big White to host snowboard World Cup event
Professional snowboarders will race at Big White Ski resort at the end of January
Trail police looking for tips into arson cases
Arson, altercations, and accidents included in this week's police briefs
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When straightening your teeth with an Invisalign® treatment, there is a lot of information that you are going to need. During a consultation, we will go over the details of what to expect throughout the treatment and afterward. We will also go over a factor that some do not consider: wearing a retainer after treatment.
An Invisalign® treatment typically takes anywhere from one year or two before successfully correcting the alignment. On a daily basis, patients need to wear clear aligners for 20 to 22 hours. While the aligners move the teeth into the correct position, there is a risk that the teeth will try to move back into the incorrect position. To prevent this, we will recommend a retainer.
The retainer holds the teeth in their final position. The length of time that the patient needs to wear the retainer will depend on how far the teeth move during the Invisalign® treatment. It is common for an orthodontist to recommend wearing a retainer 24 hours a day for a year. Naturally, the retainer will come out to eat and brush teeth, just like the aligners.
After the first year, most patients only need to wear their retainer at night. Some patients may continue to wear the retainer every night for life. For example, if a patient has a tongue thrust, then a retainer will the patient will need to wear the retainer indefinitely to prevent the teeth from pushing forward during sleep.
There are two types of retainers: A clear plastic one and a type of retainer that consists of plastic and metal.
Clear plastic retainers surround the teeth similar to aligners. In fact, these retainers look virtually the same. In some cases, patients even wear their last aligner as a retainer temporarily. The retainer functions in the same way by holding the teeth in place. The difference is that this retainer holds teeth in the permanent position. The individual does not need to switch it out like the aligners. This makes it important to keep good care of it and to prevent it from becoming damaged or lost.
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Learning a new language is a big challenge for most people, especially if you are never exposed to people speaking it in everyday situations. You can also lose a language slowly over time if you are never speaking it anymore. What if some of the these new technologies like virtual reality, artificial intelligence ( a.i. science) and speech recognition could make language translation smoother and learning a new language more fun?
Imagine if you could walk into a virtual world and interact with people speaking only the language that you are learning in everyday situations. What if you could visit Venice Italy in a virtual setting and try to order food at a restaurant or find your hotel? This would be both fun and effective.
Learning languages and dialects is not just difficult for people but also for machines. Natural language processing or speech recognition systems which use artificial intelligence science also must master many accents, dialects and slang. Here is a company in Hong Kong that is working to us A.I. science to deal with all of the dialects that exist in China, Fano Labs.
Fano Labs, a Hong Kong based artificial intelligence (AI) startup specializing in speech and natural language processing (NLP) technologies.
Fano Labs was co-founded in 2015 by Dr. Miles Wen, a PhD graduate from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and a former Fulbright Scholar at University of California, Berkeley and Prof. Victor O.K. Li, BBS; ScD (MIT), Chair of Information Engineering and Head of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at HKU. Prior to this round, the company has been backed by angel investors, HKU, Hong Kong Science Park (HKSTP), Innovation and Technology Commision of HKSAR, and Zeroth.ai.
With Fano Labs' technical focus in Chinese dialects processing and analysis, the funds raised will fuel the company's expansion into the billion-dollar Chinese call center industry, where Chinese consumer-facing enterprises require all calls at call centers to be recorded, but only a small percentage of these calls are reviewed. Many of these calls are in various Chinese dialects, a hugely underserved market that Fano Labs intends to serve by having its proprietary AI system listen to all these recorded phone calls, analyze them and provide managers with valueable business intelligence. This would enable companies to have better quality control over their call centers and, at the same time, save them thousands of manager hours every year.
As of today, the company has already developed speech and NLP technologies for Cantonese and Sichuanese, in addition to English and Mandarin, and signed some of Asia's largest enterprises, including property developers, utility companies and telecommunication companies.
Dr. Wen, co-founder and CEO of Fano Labs says:
We are a team of scientists and engineers. Our world-class technical expertise in speech and NLP technologies would empower us to revolutionize the way call centers operate. Our bond with HKU, one of the oldest universities in the region, brings us deep intellectual and academic resources. We aim to be the hub of AI in Asia.
Horizons Ventures' Phil Chen says
Horizons has a heritage of investing in industry-shaping speech and NLP technologies starting from Siri, Viv, and now Fano Labs. We love deep-tech companies that apply this AI power to improve critical human communications problems. Fano Labs' solution for multiple dialects allows for this rewind of the Tower of Babel story.
"Fano Labs was named in memory of Prof. Robert Fano, a pioneer in AI, who invented Shannon-Fano coding, Fano Inequality and founded MIT's CSAIL. My co-founder, Prof. Li, was my PhD advisor and Prof. Fano was Prof Li's PhD advisor's PhD advisor. This heritage of innovation is what moves our team forward.", Dr. Wen adds.
About Fano Labs Limited
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Our assembly has seen many members come and go, but we keep a special place in our hearts for those Sir Knights who have moved from this world to the next.
Brother SK Stephen George Riley Jr
A Knight of the 4th Degree
Born: 14 August 1929
Deceased: 24 December 2020
Stephen George Riley, Jr. 91, passed away in Norfolk, VA on Thursday, December 24, 2020.
Stephen was born in Rochester, New York to the late Stephen G. and Harriette Riley. He is predeceased by his first wife, Mary; daughter, Margaret Riley; sons, Stephen G. Riley, III, and Christopher S. Riley; daughter-in-law Mary Gatti Riley; son-in-law, C. Patrick Pitchford; grandson, Sean P. Riley; and brother, John M. Riley. Stephen was a 30-year US Navy veteran; he was a member of the Holy Family Catholic Church and the Knights of Columbus Chapter 4632.
He is survived by his wife, Jacqueline Capetanakis Riley, son, Kevin M. Riley, Sr (Stacie), and daughters, Eileen P. MacDougall (Robert) and Kathleen R. Pitchford, stepchildren, Angela Phillips (Tench), Toni Sires, Nicholas Capetanakis (Christine), thirteen grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren, sisters Patricia Noce and Stephanie Riley and numerous nieces and nephews.
As a result of COVID, a Memorial Mass and internment in Arlington National Cemetery will be held at a later date.
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Was a member of St. Benedict Council and an Honorary Life Member of Fr. Habets Assembly.
Brother Sir Knight Joe Cosetllo
With much regret I must inform you that Sir Knight Joseph F. Costello passed away on Christmas Day, the 25th of December.
Joe was an Honorary Life Member of Assembly 1505 and active member of Council 4632. He moved out West to California to be close to his children. A Funeral Mass for Joe will be held at 1100 (11 AM) on January 6th at the Ascension Catholic Church in San Diego. Sir Knight Costello will be interned at Miramar National Cemetery with full military honors between 2:30 and 3:00 PM on January 7th.
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OBETZ, Ohio -- There was a buzz at the Crew's training session Monday, but it had nothing to do with the team's renewed spirit following an extended break.
Forward Steven Lenhart returned from California minus his famous golden afro that had morphed into a tangled mess by the time the Crew last played on June 5.
"It was gumming me up a little bit. It feels good," he said of his close-cropped look.
He went to the shears two years ago in a similar fashion after scoring his first goal against Los Angeles in the middle of his rookie season.
This time his friend, Keith Holmes, and Lenhart's brother, Daniel, did the cutting.
"I feel sleek, agile. I feel I have better dance moves now," Lenhart joked.
He said he's not trying to change his luck —he only has one goal— along with his hairstyle, but it might help.
Lenhart's new look was symbolic of the fresh start the Crew hopes to achieve by the time it takes to the field against D.C. United on June 26.
The Crew is bothered by the three-game winless streak it carried into the World Cup break.
"We set a high standard for ourselves [going] undefeated for so long then, in the last three games, take two losses and a tie," defender Frankie Hejduk said. "It was a couple of mistakes. We're not down. We know what we're capable of.
The Crew started 6-0-2 on the season before losing 2-0 at home to Los Angeles, tying 2-2 at San Jose and dropping a 1-0 decision at Colorado. The Crew and New York are tied for first in the Eastern Conference.
While the players scattered around the country, coach Robert Warzycha and his staff studied videos. He was not pleased that in the last two matches the Crew conceded late goals off set pieces.
The team will get a boost with the expected return of injured defenders Frankie Hejduk (hamstring) and Danny O'Rourke (quadriceps). Their absences were noticeable on the recent trip, but both trained on Monday.
The extra time before the D.C. United match will also give newcomer Leandre Griffit a chance to win a spot in the midfield. The creative French player was signed May 13 but has yet to appear in a match as he worked on getting fit. That's no longer an excuse.


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Dhaka, Sep 20 : At least six people were killed on Wednesday in a fire that broke out in a textile factory near the Bangladeshi capital.
More than 300 workers were present in the factory at the time of the incident. "We found six bodies in two floors of the factory (…) We don't have information of anyone missing," Deputy Director of Munshiganj Fire Service Farid Uddin told Efe news.
The fire broke out at around 10 a.m., during peak working hours at the Ideal Textile Mills factory in Munshiganj, a town close to Dhaka.
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Five people, including the Director General of the company, were being currently interrogated, police said.
In July, 13 people were killed when a boiler exploded in another Bangladeshi factory.
Bangladesh's textile sector has been under scrutiny for years owing to poor working conditions, especially after the collapse of the Rana Plaza complex in 2013, which killed 1,100 workers and injured 2,500.
In August, a Dhaka court sentenced the owner of the Rana Plaza textile complex to three years in prison, in the first judicial sentence related to what was Bangladesh's greatest textile tragedy.
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Q: How to not add certain files in git I cloned a repo and made few changes to the files that belong only to my dev environment. So, I don't want these files to ever be added or pushed. I will be making several changes to various other files that I do want to be pushed.
How should I handle this case?
Should I add these files in gitignore? Usually I create a new branch for all my changes and then do git add .. But in this case that would mean that all files would get checked in.

A: I see 2 options to this scenario
Option 1 - Hide your changes by using .gitignore
I would use this option if you don't have too many changes to make, but even then you may need to deal with the issue of not changing the repo's .gitignore file, as discussed here: How to ignore files only locally in git?
Option 2 - create a 2nd, local, "pristine" repo
If you are working on a non-trivial app, (involving a DB connections, passwords, debugging etc) and want to work freely without worrying about sending extraneous code to the upstream repo, you can create a 2nd local repo, whose only purpose will be to hold the commit snapshots you want to send to the main repo.
create 2nd "pristine" local repo
git clone https://github.com/user_name/project_name.git pristine/

Once you are ready to send work to the main upstream or origin, you can add the development/dirty repo as a remote to the pristine and fetch work from it.
git cherrypick could be useful to help get things organised.
(From the pristine repo folder) add the "dirty" repo as a remote:
git remote add dirty file:///path/to/your/repo

fetch the work you want to push
git fetch dirty/<branch>

(Once you are happy with changes) push to main upstream
git push origin

A: Yup you can add these files to your .gitignore. That's pretty straightforward, you just add the filename/path in the .gitignore and it will be handled for you.
The other thing you can do is instead of doing git add -A or git add . is that you can do git add -i.
This useful command gives you a menu that specifically lets you tailor what you want to push to git/track before adding any files. More information on how to do that is available here under "interactive mode": http://git-scm.com/docs/git-add
But if you never want to track those files, it's better to put them in your .gitignore than having to check what you are/aren't tracking each time you commit.

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