[Sisters in Crime qld sisters in Crime Qld - March notice

From: "Janelle Colquhoun" <jc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Sisters in Crime" <sincqld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <sistersincrimeq@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 02:06:03 +1000
March meeting:

When: Saturday, 7 March 2015 

Time: 12:30pm - 2:30pm. (room booked until 3:00pm)

Where: State Library of Queensland 

Address: Cultural Centre, Stanley Place, South Bank, South Brisbane 

Meeting Room 4.D, level 4.
Who: Sisters in Crime and any females interested in crime reading or writing. 

Cost: free!!! 

Topic: "What are you working on?" - come along and tell us what you're working 
on, or read a passage from your book, or ask questions, or for feedback, or 
title suggestions - it's a "Whatever!" meeting. 

 

March it in your diaries: Big news for April!

We're trying something new. To give our many Sisters who are unable to attend 
the Saturday monthly meeting, or who are looking for something else in our 
Sisters in Crime group, On Wednesday April 22, (proposed 6pm) we will hold a 
get-together in one of the upper-level rooms at the Plough Inn at South Bank. 
Sisters (and Brothers-in-Law) are invited to come along to meet with other 
like-minded criminal minds, or chat over coffee and cake, or share a wine and 
cheese platter while discussing the serial poisoner VR, or promote their latest 
novel, or join in a fun writing game or two - or whatever you'd like to do for 
this proposed bimonthly mid-week evening alternative to the Saturday monthly 
meetings.  

Watch this space for more details!

 

Proposed beta reading group

As it's often so hard for us as authors to see the flaws in our work, how about 
we form a beta reading group of people writing the same genre? A beta reader 
would not edit or proofread your work but rather read it to check for flow, 
consistency, reader interest, character development, plot development etc.  The 
idea is not to be harsh or discouraging in your critique, but rather to be 
encouraging to your fellow writer while picking out errors that might mar an 
otherwise excellent book. The typical report will only be one to two pages long 
and the reading should not take more than a few weeks, if that. Of course, if 
you notice typos or clichés or missing words, you could point these out, but 
the idea of the beta reader is not to do the grunt work. If anyone is 
interested, please contact Kathy Stewart at kathystewart640@xxxxxxxxx.

 



We now have over 150 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:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sisters-in-Crime-Queensland/100819836673697 

 

The Sisters in Crime Queensland Twitter handle is @SinC_QLD. 

 

Our 'notices only' list for SinCQld members has been set up with freelists. If 
people wish to receive the Sisters in Crime Qld notices, they can subscribe by 
sending an email to: sistersincrimeq-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in 
the Subject field OR by visiting the Sisters in Crime Qld list page at 
//www.freelists.org/list/sistersincrimeq
[Sisters in Crime qld sisters in Crime Qld - March notice

Other related posts:
