Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Author SASSCER HILL on February 6!

Meeting cancelled due to bad weather

Sasscer Hill
We are delighted to have award-winning mystery writer Sasscer Hill as our guest speaker on Thursday, February 6th. Ms. Hill will talk to us about her latest book, Travels of Quinn, and provide some insight into the research that went into this first book in her new Quinn O'Neill Mystery Series
Sasscer Hill has been involved in horse racing as an amateur jockey and racehorse breeder for much of her life and sets many of her novels against a background of big money, gambling, and horse racing. Her novel, Flamingo Road, won the $10,000 Dr. Tony Ryan Best in Racing Literature award for 2018. Her other novels have garnered a Carrie McCray award and nominations for Agatha, Macavity, and Claymore awards.

Travels of Quinn

Abandoned by her mother, Quinn is raised into a life of crime by her father and the gypsy con artists known as Irish American Travelers.
 Though Quinn can con with the best of them, she is conflicted about her crimes. Travelers leave school by the fifth or sixth grade and many resent that Quinn has educated herself with books. Erroneously, they believe she’s a snob, like her beautiful, educated mother, who they despised.
Arrested and jailed for theft, Quinn pays restitution by working on a horse farm. Unfamiliar with horses, her love for them surprises her. They make her hope for a better world. But the farm’s owner is brutally murdered and Quinn becomes the prime suspect.
 On the run, Quinn uses every scam and con she knows to save herself. Can she find the real killer before she’s imprisoned for life or murdered because she knows too much?  A mystery-thriller of deceit, murder, greed and hope, by multiple award-winning author, Sasscer Hill.

MEETING DETAILS

Our monthly meeting will take place on Thursday, February 6th at The Runway Café, 21 Airport Rd, Greenville, SC.  Be there at 6:15 p.m. to meet Sasscer Hill and enjoy chapter fellowship. Supper should be served at 6:30. Our speaker will begin after new and old business at about 7 p.m. Both dinner and the meeting are open to the public.
In order for the Runway Café to speed service, dinner orders must be emailed by 10:00 AM the day of the meeting. If you can't dine with us, we would still like to know you plan to attend so we can be sure you have a seat. If possible, please join us for dinner as our dinner orders help to ensure we can book our meeting room for free.
To see the special menu for our group, go to the Advance Order Menu on our blogspot page, make your selection and e-mail your order to Ellis Vidler no later than 10:00 am on February 6th.
If you place an order and do not attend or fail to cancel by noon, you will be charged for the meal. And like always, we'll enjoy it. Look forward to seeing you.

SCHEDULE

January 2 – Ann Middleton, former FBI Special Agent
February 6 – Sasscer Hill, Author Travels of Quinn
March 5 – Mike O’Shea, Forensic Accountant
March 28 - Author Hank Philippi Ryan, investigative reporter and award-winning mystery author at Greenville Co. Main Library
April  – No Meeting
May 7 – Amy Staton, a DNR Law Enforcement Officer

Saturday, January 11, 2020

AN AFTERNOON MOST MYSTERIOUS!


AN AFTERNOON MOST MYSTERIOUS!
March 28, 2020
1:00 to 5:00 PM
Hughes Main Library
25 Heritage Green Place, Greenville, SC 29601



If you love mysteries, please join us as the Upstate Chapter of Sisters in Crime presents Emmy-award winning journalist and mystery writer Hank Phillippi Ryan.

FEATURED PRESENTATION:
An Inside Look at Fiction, Journalism, and the Mysteries of Both!

How does an Emmy winning reporter become a best-selling author of fast-paced murder mysteries? And how does a just-the-facts journalist add mystery fiction to her resume and juggle being a reporter, an author, a wife and a grandmother? Ms. Ryan has managed to mix the worlds of fact and fiction in an amazing career from radio reporter, to Rolling Stone Magazine, to undercover investigations at Boston's WHDH-TV. She’ll discuss the obstacles and challenges of a newbie in 1971, as well as the risks and rewards of an experienced senior reporter—the craziness, the fun, the stress, and how she ended up where she is at age 69.  
Winner of five Agathas, three Anthonys, two Macavitys, the Daphne, and Mary Higgins Clark Award, Ms. Ryan will also reveal how she made a major career move at mid-life. Now an author of 11 novels, national reviews have called her “a superb and gifted storyteller.” Ms. Ryan’s novels have been named Library Journal Best Thrillers of 2014, 2015 and 2016. Her current book is the acclaimed standalone psychological suspense thriller THE MURDER LIST. She’ll give a behind-the-scenes look at how she develops her twisty and controversial plots.  
How can you follow your dreams? A highly sought-after inspirational speaker, Ms. Ryan will have the scoop on mysteries, journalism, the mystery of television, and the mysteries of both. And who knows? It may change the plot of your life! 
PANEL DISCUSSION:  What I Wish Someone Had Told Me—How to Follow Your Writing Dreams and Conquer Your Writing Life Realities. 
Geared to writers, but open to everyone, this panel will include Hank Phillippi Ryan and local mystery authors Cindy Blackburn, Polly Iyer, Linda Lovely and Ellis Vidler as they discuss their writing journeys. Howard Lewis, past president of Sisters in Crime, will moderate.