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Sisters love a mystery. There's a contest embedded in the website. The first SJ-SinC member to find it and follow the instructions wins a prize!

For information about The Whodunnits click on Member Author Links above.

The purpose of Sisters in Crime is to "combat discrimination against women in the mystery field, educate publishers and the general public as to inequities in the treatment of female authors, raise the level of awareness of their contribution to the field, and promote the professional advancement of women who write mysteries."

The San Joaquin Sisters in Crime chapter meets the first Saturday of the month.

Yosemite Falls Cafe

4278 W. Ashlan Ave. Fresno, CA.

Freeway close at Ashlan and SR 99

Cost: Members - $15; Non-members - $20

Lunch is included

San Joaquin Sisters in Crime

Saturday July 5, 2008 at 10:30 am

We welcome our own local Sister, Patricia Brown.

ARSONISTS NEED NOT APPLY

San Joaquin SinC sister and Clovis attorney, Patricia Brown, will be
speaking at our July meeting on all things fire. One of the first women in
the state of California to be licensed to drive a fire truck, she graduated
from the California Department of Forestry's 10-Day Fire Academy and
received a certificate from the California Arson & Bomb Squad. Besides
working as a Fire Apparatus Engineer and in fire prevention in the Santa
Cruz, San Benito and San Mateo counties, Patricia also worked two fire
seasons at the Hollister air attack base. As a result of her work on the 1977
Marble Cone fire in Big Sur, she was mentioned in "Newsweek." A writing
student of the The Cosby Show writer China Lake and Edgar and Oscar winner
Pamela Wallace, Brown has been working on a screenplay based upon her
firefighting days called "Sparks."

A recent issue of Writer's Digest broke a writer's potential subject matter
into sundy genre and the thing that they all had in common whether fiction or
non-fiction? Universally, fire could be incorporated in any one of them! So,
come and learn details about fire suppression and investigation that can
enhance your writing, and maybe even your reading. If your mystery short
story or book already has fire as character in it (have you read fellow
Sister Marilyn Meredith's Fire Judgment?), bring copies to sell!

Plan to join us!

Lunch choices are:

Patty Melt burger ~ Turkey Deluxe Sandwich ~ or Crispy Chicken Salad

Please RSVP by Wednesday, July 2, 2008

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