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Sisters in Crime Celebrates 30 Years

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EILEEN HAAVIK MCINTIRE

Author of Shadow and the Rock, The 90s Club and the Hidden Staircase, and The 90s Club and the Whispering Statue

17 AUGUST 2017 Sisters in Crime Celebrates 30 Years

What do mystery authors Sara Paretsky, Margaret Maron, Nancy Pickard, and Dorothy Salisbury Davis have in common? They saw that women authors often missed out on publishing contracts, promotional dollars, and review opportunities in a publishing world weighted in favor of male authors. They decided to even the playing field and, in 1987, founded Sisters in Crime, an association of mystery authors and fans with the clear mission to help women who write, review, buy, or sell crime fiction or as its official

Marcia Talley, mystery author

Author Marcia Talley speaks at anniversary event.

mission statement says, “to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition and professional of women crime writers.”

I joined the organization several years ago and can attest to the benefits of membership. SinC arranged a visit to the Maryland Medical Examiner’s Office in Baltimore where I learned the difference between a medical examiner and a coroner and watched an autopsy under way. The SinC chapter programs have been equally informative with speakers on medical serial killers, poison control centers, and other topics of intense interest to me and other mystery writers.

SinC also arranges speaking and exhibiting opportunities for members and produces other events to further the mystery-writing careers of all of its members.

As Sisters in Crime celebrates its 30th year, local chapters are joining in with birthday celebrations around the country. I attended the Chesapeake Chapter event on August 5 in Bethesda, MD. Guest speakers were chapter members and well-known authors Elaine Raco Chase and Marcia Talley who have served as national presidents, and Sarah Weinman, editor of the anthologies Women Crime Writers and Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives, who spoke on the beginnings of the genre of domestic suspense.

Sisters in Crime now has more than 3600 members in 50 chapters across the country and beyond. In 2016 Mystery Writers of America honored the organization with the Raven Award for “outstanding contribution to the mystery field.” Writing mysteries is still a tough field, but the efforts, contributions, and support of Sisters in Crime has made it a friendlier one.

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Eileen McIntire

Eileen has ridden a camel in the Moroccan Sahara, fished for piranhas on the Amazon, sailed in a felucca on the Nile, and lived for three years on a motorsailer, exploring the coast from Annapolis to Key West.  Eileen has many years experience writing, editing and designing all manner of publications for nonprofits and professional associations. She is now co-owner of Summit Crossroads Press, which publishes books for parents, and its fiction imprint, Amanita Books.  The inspiration for her 90s Club mystery series springs from meeting a slim, attractive woman at a pool party who was the only one actually in the pool swimming laps, and she was 91 years old. Since then, Eileen has collected articles about people in their 90s—and 100s—who are still active, alert and on the job. She often speaks at retirement villages on “Old Dogs, New Tricks.”

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