Our August Meeting -- Firearms 101 with Gordon Rayner

If you're writing a mystery, chances are good a character is going to pull a gun at some point. And that is a moment every writer wants to get right.

Luckily for Low Country Sisters in Crime, we have an opportunity to learn how to do that.

Please join us on Saturday, August 8th from 10-12 noon at Southwest Chatham Public Library's Activity Room as we welcome Gordon Rayner, author and former DEA agent, who will share everything a mystery writer needs to know about guns, bullets, and all the trouble that characters can get into involving them. You don't want to miss this valuable Q&A session!

For more information, contact Tina Whittle at lowcountrysinc at gmail.com.

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Gordon and Ella Mae Rayner were high school sweethearts. Ella Mae became an RN and Gordon did a three year stint in the Marine Corps before he joined the Border Patrol and later became a Narcotics Agent with the DEA. These years provided him with many war stories to be told and retold, including their first work,  Foreign Service Family Style.
 
Foreign Service Family Style is now available in print on Amazon and Kindle and also as an e-book on Smashwords.com. It is a true story of a DEA agent and his family who travel with him to Paraguay where he sets up a new office in the American Embassy. The book is written by both the agent and his wife who tell separate stories of their experiences while in this foreign land. The Rayners are currently working on a novel -- Taurus, Taurus, Taurus.

Summer Meeting Hiatus

It's summertime, and the living is . . . busy.

With all the family visiting and visiting family, writing conferences and retreats, plus the usual schools-out catch-as-catch-can scheduling, your Low Country Sisters in Crime will not be having regular meetings until the second Saturday in August -- August 8th.

We'll be checking in during the summer as we make some field trips to fellow Sisters in Crime chapters, visit points of writerly interest, and have officer's meetings. Plus we've got some meet-ups in the works to share as we get the information.

Enjoy your summer! And we'll see you August 8th at the Southwest Chatham Library!

Our May Meeting: Writing Conferences 101

When: Saturday, May 9th from 10:00 AM to 12:00 Noon

Where: Southwest Chatham Public Library Activity Room

So many choices! What's an aspiring writer to do? The same thing professional writers do: make informed choices about which writing conferences best serve your needs at whatever stage of your writing career you happen to be at.

Please join Low Country Sisters in Crime for our May meeting, where we'll be discussing writing conferences, from the big convention-style events to the smaller regional festivals. We'll cover mystery-specific conferences, writer's conferences for all genres, and research events like Writers' Police Academy.

Join Tina Whittle and Donna Kortes as they lead this round-table discussion. We'll be heading to lunch afterwards for more conversation if anyone is interested.

For more information, contact Tina Whittle at lowcountrysinc at gmail.com.

Our April 11th Meeting -- Plotting and Pantsing and Every Point In Between

The Things We Do To Make The Words Happen

When: Saturday, April 11th, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 Noon

Where: Southwest Chatham Public Library Activity Room

Please join Low Country Sisters in Crime for our April meeting, where we'll be discussing the writing process: plotting and pantsing, perils and product, pre-writing and post-writing and all the tips and tricks and weird little work-arounds that get the words from your head to the page.

Join Tina Whittle and Donna Kortes as they lead this round-table discussion. We'll be heading to lunch afterwards for more conversation if anyone is interested.

For more information, contact Tina Whittle at lowcountrysinc at gmail.com.