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Tactical Decision Making: How the Sheriffs Do It

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January 2025 Meeting Announcement
January 11th at 10:00 AM
LT Patrick Hilliker on Tactical Decision Making

One of our most popular speakers returns this month to test our decision-making skills. Lt. Patrick Hilliker of the Pima County Sheriff’s Office will speak on Tactical Decision Making. First, we will be taught police tactical decision making and how it is accomplished based on Safety Priorities. Then we will get involved with Decision Making Exercises (DME’s). Basically, we will be given a quick paragraph about an event and asked “what would you do” based on the tactical decision making process.

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Let’s Celebrate – December 14th at 10:00 AM

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It’s officially a tradition! Again this year we’ll meet LIVE at Reid Park to celebrate the holidays.

We’ll have coffee, water, other treats, (and plates & utensils)! Plus hot chocolate.

Come on down to Reid Park and celebrate the season. See long-time friends and get to know new ones. If you wish, bring a check with your $45 dues for 2025. And we’ll announce the winners of our Adult Short Story Contest! 

For a larger map, Google “Reid Park Ramada map” and look for #31.

The image below should guide you to the ramada where the partying begins at 10:00 a.m. The usual charge doesn’t apply to this meeting.  Just come on down and join us!

(Note: No Zooming for this meeting. We’ll miss our long-distance members and wish everyone happy holidays.)

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Practical Promotions
Five Free, Efficient & Effective Ways to Market Your Books: from an Expert!

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November 9, 10:00 a.m.   at the “L” Offices River & Campbell

Next Saturday we’ll meet live–and via Zoom–and learn effective ways to market and promote ourselves and our books. Author–and AMW member–Laurie Fagen uses a variety of free promotional techniques to market herself and her books online, on her website and in the media. She’ll talk about five ways authors can get free publicity that use their time efficiently and are doable for everyone.

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Taming Your Inner Critic with Judith Balian

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September Workshop
Sept 14 at 10:00 a.m.
L Offices River & Campbell
Contrary to popular belief, your inner critic does not exist just to make you miserable. Then what is its mission? In this entertaining, informative and interactive talk, you’ll learn the secret your inner critic has been hiding from you as well as ways you can transform it into an ally rather than an enemy. Prepare for an empowering shift in thinking!

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From Poker to Pages: Writing the Life of a Gambler

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July 13th, 10:00 a.m. : The “L” Offices River & Campbell

Sure Bet: Fascinating Meeting + Potluck

Next Saturday we’ll meet live–and via Zoom–and find out about the gambling life and how to write about those who live it.

We’re sweetening the pot with an invitation to bring–and enjoy–your choice of potluck food after the meeting.

AMW President Jake Jacobs has been a member of Arizona Mystery Writers since 2002, not long after he moved to Tucson the first time. His story “Killing Grandpa” was included in AMW’s anthology, A Way With Murder. A native of the Chicago suburbs, he began his writing career with articles and stories about backgammon. By now he has written two books and over four hundred articles on the game. He also co-wrote the screenplay for a kickboxing movie, “Ring of Fire.” He joined the Midwest Chapter of the Mystery Writers of America during the 1990s, and after moving to Tucson wrote his mystery novel, The Battered Butterfly.

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Perspectives of the Formerly Incarcerated

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Saturday, June 8th at 10:00 am we welcome Two Formerly Incarcerated Persons from Second Chance Tucson Share Their Stories.
Second Chance Tucson was co-founded in 2014 by former Mayor Jonathan Rothschild and retired US Magistrate Judge Charles Pyle. The mission of Second Chance Tucson is to break the cycle of recidivism and intergenerational harm by facilitating connections for justice system-involved people through employment, housing, volunteerism, and referrals, while educating the community in order to reduce stigma and unfairness. Learn more at www.secondchancetucson.org.

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