GOT NEWS? Please send it to pugetsound.sinc@gmail.com and/or post it to our Facebook page. Peggy Barnet, Alice K. Boatwright, Rachel Bukey, Waverly Fitzgerald, Christine Hoffman, Jeanne Matthews, Candace Robb, Laurie Rockenbeck, and Marty Wingate all turned out for the SinC “We Love Bookstores” check presentation at BookTree in Kirkland on Sat. Mar 23rd. We were …
Chapter News – 2018 Annual Report
It is important for our chapter officers that the business of the executive committee and the chapter as a whole remain transparent. Here is our 2018 Annual Report. In summary, 2018 was a busy year with work toward building membership, connecting with other organizations in the region, and formalizing our non-profit organizational status. This is …
Celebrating Nan Robkin
There once was lady named Nan Thanks to whom SinC always ran With programs galore It was never a bore Neither for writer nor fan Nan Robkin served the Puget Sound Sisters in Crime chapter since its inception in 1989, creating our newsletter from the beginning until her retirement at the end of 2018, and …
Recap: 20 Ways to Market a Mystery
At our March meeting, we tackled the array of options for marketing books in a 60-minute blitz! One thing that became abundantly clear is that authors need to make choices about where to focus their time, energy – and budget. Two overarching themes were that first, you need to write the best book you can, …
20 Ways to Market a Mystery
What can writers do to increase sales of their mysteries? Three members of the Puget Sound Chapter of Sisters in Crime describe 20 strategies they have used to find readers including press releases, book launches, blog tours, review copies, discounts, freebies, newsletters, tweets, Instagram posts, Facebook groups, Facebook author pages, Goodreads reviews, Amazon ads, BookBub …
Member news: March 2019
CATRIONA MCPHERSON, our former president of SinC national, will read from her latest book, Scot and Soda, at Third Place Books/Lake Forest Park on Sunday, March 24th, at 6 pm. She’s looking forward to meeting Puget Sound SinC members, so please come! PS-SinC at Left Coast Crime: ALICE K. BOATWRIGHT, WAVERLY FITZGERALD, LAURIE ROCKENBECK, MARTY …
Puget Sound SinC to present We Love Bookstores Award in Kirkland
Kirkland’s popular indie bookstore BookTree is the latest recipient of a We Love Bookstores award from Sisters in Crime. The $500 award from SinC national is designed to support the bookstore’s marketing activities, including author events. On Saturday, March 23rd, at 4 p.m., several authors from Puget Sound SinC will go to BookTree to present …
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