Saturday, September 19
Find and USE your ME Factor: An Author Branding Workshop
Lisa Towles, Facilitator
London Nelson Community Center
301 Center Street
Santa Cruz
10 AM-4 PM (doors open at 9:30 AM for coffee and pastries)
Align your professional author brand with your personal creative purpose and the power of your craft at this all-day workshop, which includes brunch. Lisa Towles is an award-winning crime novelist and nonfiction writer and a book coach.
Register by emailing Glenda Carroll: ggcarroll43@gmail.com
Saturday, October 3
How to Craft the Beginning of a Short Story
Art Taylor
On Zoom at 10 AM (Pacific)
How does the central situation form the foundation for further troubles? How does crafting character—desires, dread, determination, decisions—lend urgency? How does laying lines of action help set the stage for suspense across the full plot? And does everything need to be so alliterative?
Art Taylor is the Edgar Award-winning author of two short story collections—The Adventure of the Castle Thief and Other Expeditions and Indiscretions (2023) and The Boy Detective & The Summer of ’74 and Other Tales of Suspense (2020)—and of the novel in stories On the Road with Del & Louise (2015), winner of the Agatha Award for Best First Novel. He has won three additional Agatha Awards, an Anthony Award, four Macavity Awards, and four Derringer Awards for his short fiction, and he was the 2025 recipient of the Short Mystery Fiction Society’s Golden Derringer for Lifetime Achievement.
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://sistersincrime-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/8UrQ-XEIR6WVMcKGGpxTYA
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Sunday, November 8
Fall Author Showcase
The Best Bookstore on Union Square
226 Powell St.
San Francisco
1-3 PM
MC Lisa Towles. Limited to 10 readers. Sign up between Aug. 1-Sept. 15 to present your new book. One book launch per year. anamanwaring@gmail.com
Saturday, December 5
Save the date for our Annual Holiday Party with MWA NorCal!