October 19 launch!
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Women of a Certain Age Launch!
On October 19th at 5:30 pm Pacific, Sisters in Crime Canada West is launching our second anthology, Women of a Certain Age—AND YOU’RE ALL INVITED! The indefatigable Charlotte Morganti created a series of book trailers / invitations that I’ll be sharing here in the next couple of weeks. Here’s the first one: https://youtu.be/kWTlkExcYG0
The launch event is free, of course but you need to register: https://sinc-cw.ca/upcoming-events/
Look what came in the mail this week…
My award for winning the 2021 Crime Writers of Canada Short Story Award of Excellence. I think CWC was hoping to hand the awards out at this year’s in-person ceremony, which turned out to be online again. So they mailed out the awards at the same time as the 2022 awards. Ain’t she purty?
WHEN WORDS COLLIDE 2022
This summer, not only am I attending When Words Collide, I’m participating on two crime fiction panels:
Friday, August 12 at 5 p.m. Mountain time, I’ll be a panelist on Western Voices Hitting the Shelves.
Saturday, August 13 at 3 p.m. Mountain time, I’ll be chatting with other panelists about Running the Obstacle Course–all about the external and internal obstacles that keep us from writing.
Do join us. It’s free but you must register. Go to www.whenwordscollide.org/ for information on how to register, programming, merchants table, etc. It’s going to be a blast!
Here’s how the organizers describe WWC: “The festival is designed to bring readers and writers together in a celebration of the written word. Up to 10 tracks of programming, beginning at 1 PM on Friday and running through 5 PM Sunday, offer informational, educational, and social activities covering a wide spectrum of literature including Mystery, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Romance, Historical, Literary, Script-writing, Poetry, Comics, and Non-fiction.”
Road Trip
I’m very pleased that my story, “Road Trip,” is in this month’s Mystery Magazine. In “Road Trip,” Cass is driving like a madwoman from Whitehorse to Calgary to be with her daughter who is in labour. Along the way, she comes across a young woman running from her abusive boyfriend. “Road Trip” is based on a true story. Well, partly.
This month’s magazine features cover art by Robin Grenville Evans and stories by: Kelsey Hutton, Jackie Sherbow, George Guthridge, Melodie Desmond, Mark Thielman, Hunter Liguore, Edward Lodi, and John H. Dromey. I look forward to reading them all!