Present & Past Meeting Topics

  Scamming in the Time of Pandemic: Special Guest Speaker Matthew Schwartz Have you received a phone call promising quick access to the Covid vaccine?  All you have to do is “confirm” your social security number.  Or maybe you can just pay a hundred dollars to receive your “special vaccination ...

Saturday, March 13th, 10am MST What Writing Tools Do You Use? As writers, we’ve come a long way from rolling a blank sheet of paper into the typewriter and staring at it.  Or, for the really old-school, uncapping the fountain pen and poising it over a blank yellow pad. Today, ...

April., 2021 Mystery Writers Meeting Saturday, April 10th, 10am MST  Write What You Know—Even if it’s Murder? Local author Alice Hatcher is a literary writer with a novel and many published stories to her credit. She had trouble placing her literary story, so  she sent it to “Ellery Queen’s Mystery ...

The first line of your story is your handshake elbow-bump to the reader.  How can you make it great? At this month's meeting of the Arizona Mystery Writers, we'll try to discover the secret. Bring a couple of examples of great first lines, from your collection or from your own ...

Hi, Everybody. The Arizona Mystery Writers will not meet in person in April for public health reasons, but we will have a social hour online to keep in touch. Your Board members have been meeting online and we admit that sometimes we drift away from our official business and just chat ...

Hawai`i journalist Natalie Seachrist has unusual visions. Her viewing of war-like scenes of a family’s predawn escape from Denmark initially seem unremarkable. Soon, Natalie and her boyfriend private investigator Keoni Hewitt move into a Lanikai cottage, where their expectations for relaxed living are met with warm welcomes. Across the fence ...