SinC Puget Sound

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

Renee Patrick: Mixing murder and marriage with Hollywood glamour 9/13/18

Meet Renee Patrick – author of the successful Lillian Frost & Edith Head novels, Design for Dying and Dangerous to Know – at our September 13th meeting. They – and it is “they” because Renee Patrick is the pseudonym for married authors Rosemarie and Vince Keenan – will read from their work, which combines historical … Read more

First Page Workshop

You are cordially invited to bring the first 300 words of your manuscript or book to this session. Please bring 3 copies of your page one without your name on them (but the title is helpful). The text should be 12-pt type, double-spaced. First pages will be collected at the beginning of the session and … Read more

Meet the Editor – Thomas & Mercer: Amazon’s Mystery/Thriller/True-Crime Imprint, May 10, 2018

Thomas & Mercer’s Grace Doyle — Thursday, May 10th, 2018 We are pleased to welcome Grace Doyle, editorial director of Thomas & Mercer, the mystery, thriller, and true crime imprint from Amazon. Gracie, a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, has an impressive history in publishing, having started at Houghton Mifflin, where her projects included … Read more

Historical Mystery as Cultural Lens

The Mean Streets of Medieval York: the Historical Mystery as Cultural Lens with Candace Robb Researching your historical mystery and working those evocative details into your story means more than just avoiding anachronisms – your words giving readers a view to and understanding of another world. At our April meeting, author and historian Candace Robb … Read more