Quarterly Chapter Meeting/Event: November 6, 2021

Lone Tree Library, 10055 Library Way, Lone Tree, Colorado 80124 (303-791-READ)

Also Via Zoom; (Information on how to join the presentation will be posted in the Sisters in Crime-Colorado Groups.io members listserv.)

Please note: Chapter meetings are a member only benefit. You can learn more about us and our chapter here: https://sistersincrimecolorado.org/join/

To request more information, please use our contact form: https://sistersincrimecolorado.org/connect/

PROGRAM/SCHEDULE

9:30 am – 10:00 am
Welcome, Announcements

10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Setting – Alexia Gordon

A presentation regarding using setting in your stories and novels.

12:00pm – 1:00 pm
Lunch (brown bag or visit nearby restaurants)

1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Writing the Law: A Guide to Avoiding Landmines – Mandy Miller

The course is intended as a primer on the law and the legal process. Legal issues are often key to plotting and character arcs, especially in mysteries, thrillers, and suspense. In the hands of a lay person, the law can be an impenetrable thicket mined with potential for errors which diminish author credibility and distract from even a tightly crafted story.

Please feel free to come to either the morning or afternoon session if you cannot attend both.

Please note: Chapter meetings are a member only benefit. You can learn more about us and our chapter here: https://sistersincrimecolorado.org/join/

To request more information, please use our contact form: https://sistersincrimecolorado.org/connect/

Please RSVP at our Meetup Page: https://www.meetup.com/Sisters-in-Crime-Colorado/events/281820547/

The Zoom login information will be posted in the chapter’s groups.io listserv.

About the Presenters:

Alexia Gordon is the award-winning author of the Gethsemane Brown mysteries, paranormal cozies set in Ireland. She is also a physician, a blogger—and since June 2019, host of “The Cozy Corner with Alexia Gordon,” a biweekly podcast that features interviews with authors of cozy and traditional mysteries. Her short story, “Love’s Labor,” in the most recent Bouchercon anthology, This Time for Real, is all about a podcast episode that takes an unexpected turn . . . Alexia’s most recent novel is Execution in E, available wherever books are sold.

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Mandy Miller is an attorney and holds a J.D. from Northwestern University, as well as a PhD degree in Psychology. She specializes in the representation of the mentally ill and criminally insane, and has spent three decades arguing for a living in courtrooms and board rooms across the country and overseas. The first half of her career was spent as a mergers and acquisitions attorney on Wall Street and with Fortune 500 companies where the clientele was better dressed than her criminal clients, but, frequently, equally devious. She is also an editor at Literary Wanderlust and, independently, at Worddog LLC. In her spare time, she indulges her reading vice and participates in ultramarathons, a sport much like writing a novel in that the journey is long and requires dedication, not to mention a dash of madness. Her debut novel is States of Grace, the first in her Grace Locke legal mystery series, was published on April 1, 2021. She is at work on a sequel as well as a novel of historical fiction.

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This event is funded and presented by Sisters in Crime-Colorado and is not sponsored by Douglas County Libraries.

To request more information, please use our contact form.