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, … Read more

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 … Read more

SinC on Saturdays – New Programming!

Puget Sound Sisters in Crime will launch a new program called SinC on Saturday in 2019. Modeled after the successful Mystery Writers Roundtable, SinC on Saturday will be held at libraries and other venues around the Greater Seattle area. The sessions are generally conceived as roundtable discussions on topics such as marketing and plotting, with … Read more

“Heroes, Villains, and Victims: The Eternal Triangle” a full day workshop

**SAVE THE DATE** April 27, 2019 “Heroes, Villains, and Victims: The Eternal Triangle” will be the subject of our first ever all-day workshop on Saturday, April 27th. Full details now available. The focus will be on how to develop these roles and relationships, which are central to every mystery. Nancy Martin, the award-winning author of … Read more

Jan 10th: Robert Dugoni on his writing life and recent books

Puget Sound SinC will kick off 2019 in style with best-selling and award-winning author Robert Dugoni on Thursday, January 10th at 7 pm. Bob will talk about his writing life as well as discuss his recent releases A Steep Price (book 6 in the Tracy Crosswhite series) and the coming-of-age novel The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell. He … Read more

2018 Roundup – With Gratitude to Presenters

What a wonderful year 2018 has been. We welcomed many new members, rising to a final tally of more than 35 members, with a mailing list of friends significantly longer than this. As we look forward to a terrific new year in 2019, we reflect back on all of our events from this past year. … Read more

Pens up! Flash Fiction October

For our annual flash fiction night on, write a story of no more than 300 words in the style of your favorite mystery writer. Come to the meeting, Thursday, Oct 11th at 7pm read your story out loud – but… Shhh! Don’t tell us who it is! Let us try to guess! All are welcome, … Read more

Chapter News – September 2018

SinC Puget Sound receives a grant for outreach Thanks to a grant from SinC National, the Puget Sound Sisters in Crime chapter will launch a program of outreach this fall by participating in three key events serving the Pacific Northwest writing community: the Pacific Northwest Writers Association Conference, the Write on the Sound Conference, and … Read more