We're trying something different.
At our 4th March meeting it was suggested we trial holding our meeting after
the Sunday Police Museum lectures, so our many Sisters who are from outside
Brisbane have a double reason to travel in.
We'll also try a new restaurant for our meeting, and we have a discussion to
continue, which those unable to attend are encouraged to make comments online.
Details of our next Meeting and Police Museum Lecture
What: Queensland Police Museum lecture - COMFIT, Computer Facial Identification
Techniques
When: Sunday 26 March, 2017
Time: 11:00am-12:30pm
Cost: Free
Where: Queensland Police Museum
Address: ground floor Police Headquarters, 200 Roma Street, Brisbane.
(Directly across the road from the Roma Street Transit Centre NB carparking at
the Transit Centre is extortionate. If you're driving, try finding a street
park or park at the King George Square carpark for $5)
Then, for those Sisters who have attended the lecture, or those who just want
to come for the meeting:
What: Sisters in Crime meeting
When: Sunday, 26March, 2017
Time: 12:45pm-2:45pm
Where: 'Nest Bar'
Address: Hotel Jen, 2, 159 Roma St, Brisbane (beside the Roma St Transit Centre
http://www.nestrestaurant.com.au/
Who: Sisters in Crime, and all interested crime writers and readers.
Cost: Free - if you don't have a coffee, wine, snack or lunch NB Sunday has a
limited menu but offers a number of mains, snacks and desserts to choose
between
Topic: 'Facial recognition'
Please note, we want everyone to take part talking about crime in some way at
our meetings. Please bring 1000 words you've written to read out, whether just
penned on the train or something published last century, or come prepared to
discuss a crime book you've read, or an author, or an interesting crime article
found in the news.
We also want to continue with the discussion begun at our lasts meeting - What
elements are necessary to label a book crime?
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Murder and Misconduct
Caboolture Library, Thursday 20 April, 10.30am-11.30am
Redcliffe Library, Friday 5 May, 6.00pm-7.00pm
Explore history and solve mysteries with local authors Cheryl Fagan, Jodie
Lane and Debbie Terranova.
. Cheryl Fagan's Murder and Misconduct, is an exploration of the Gatton Murders
of the late 1800s, and the murder of a policeman and a station owner near
Carnarvon in 1902.
. Jodie Lane's second novel is Transylvanian Knight, a timeslip adventure
featuring Vlad Dracula and Sultan Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire.
. Debbie Terranova's new adventure, The Scarlet Key, features a cast of
unforgettable characters including reporter Seth VerBeek, a greyhound trainer,
a psychic tattooist, a retired art teacher with a shocking plan, and a handyman
who specialises in matters of the heart.
Register Now:
https://www.moretonbay.qld.gov.au/subsite.aspx?id=158360&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eNewsletter&utm_campaign=Writers+Update&utm_content=March+2017
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For any Sisters interested in a (free) online criminal psychology course, the
University of Queensland is offering one through edX:
https://www.edx.org/course/psychology-criminal-justice-uqx-crime101x-1
There are lots of other crime and writing courses for free on edX, so whether
you want to learn basic grammar or the latest forensics techniques, there are
courses being offered!
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We now have over 200 facebook crime friends! If you haven't done it already,
click 'like' on the Queensland Sisters in Crime facebook page to ask crime
questions, share your crime cases and for up-to-date events and information:
http://tinyurl.com/sisters-in-crime-qld
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For all new members of Sisters in Crime Queensland, please either subscribe to
our google group list - which is for discussions and sharing of information:
sincqld+subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
or our 'notices only' list for SinCQld members with freelists. Join by email
with 'subscribe' in the Subject field to:
sistersincrimeq-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
OR by visiting the Sisters in Crime Qld list page at
//www.freelists.org/list/sistersincrimeq
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Please note, there is no requirement for members of Sisters in Crime Queensland
to become members of sisters in Crime Australia. However, our national
organisation runs The Davitt Awards plus the Scarlet Stiletto competition each
year plus a whole range of other events acknowledging and honouring our many
awesome female crime writers. The annual membership of $20 concession and $30
isn't worth committing a crime over in order to be part of a worldwide network
of female crime writers. Most of our Queensland Sisters are not current members
or have lapsed memberships. Paying your membership is now easy, just go to
EventBrite (and in case you're confused, this is a site normally used for
ticket purchases - in this case, it is a ticket for an annual membership):
http://sistersincrimeannualmembership.eventbrite.com
"There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face." - William
Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act I, scene 4, line 11.
