Minutes for February and March 2018 meetings
Your delinquent secretary is catching up! Here goes:
28 people attended our meeting on February 1, 2018 at our
usual spot, the Runway Café. The only new business was our president Sally
Handley explaining the benefits of becoming a member of Sisters in Crime
national organization. Then our super duper guests took the stage. Jane Tucker,
retired funeral director at Stribling Funeral Home in Duncan, SC, discussed a
lot of very interesting aspects of her career as a funeral director, and then
her husband Don Tucker discussed his 20-year career with the NYC Department of
Corrections as a prison guard on Riker’s Island. Boy, this couple must have interesting
dinnertime conversations!
We enjoyed what must have been a record turn out of 35 on
March 1, 2018, when retired FBI special agent in charge, Charles Middleton,
joined us at the Runway Café. But first our President Sally Handley discussed
some old business—namely a promise to help facilitate critique groups for those
of our members who are interested. (Sally has since sent out an e-mail on this
topic) Sally also mentioned that the Guppies group does some critique group
partnering up on line. Check it out!
In new business Linda Lovely reminded us registration for
this years Writer’s Police Academy is now open! And the Writer’s Police Academy’s
annual short story contest, The Golden Donut, is now accepting submissions of short
stories of EXACTLY 200 words. (See WPA website for further details and the photo
your story should be based on.) Good luck to all those who give this one a try!
Linda also mentioned she has contacted Jill Hendrix, owner of local bookstore
Fiction Addiction, who will be spearheading a Mystery Book Club at the store.
Linda has volunteered to lead the new club for the first three months, and we
hope other members of our SinC group will also volunteer for a 3-month stint
leading the club. Sounds like a fun way to read and talk about mysteries!
And last but certainly not least, Charles Middleton took the
podium and offered MANY fascinating and intriguing tales of his days in the
FBI. Wow! I can see why we invited him back to talk to us and hope he joins us
again. A great speaker!
Be sure to join us every 1st Thursday of the
month at the Runway Café for dinner and discussion of all things mystery and
more!
Respectfully (and belatedly) Submitted,
Cindy Blackburn
Upstate SinC Secretary
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