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Program: Mark Pryor on the Intersection
Between His Job as a Prosecutor
and Crime Fiction Writing
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Mark Pryor

on

The Intersection Between His Job as a Prosecutor

and

Crime Fiction Writing

Mark Pryor is a former newspaper reporter from England, and now a prosecutor with the Travis County District Attorney’s Office, in Austin, Texas.

He is the author of the Hugo Marston mystery series, set in Paris, London, and Barcelona.

The most recent is THE SORBONNE AFFAIR, a “flawlessly constructed whodunit,” according to Booklist. His previous novel in the series was THE PARIS LIBRARIAN, which the Toronto Globe & Mail says “has it all . . . a finely structured plot that’s one of Pryor’s best books yet.” The first Hugo Marston novel, THE BOOKSELLER, was a Library Journal Debut of the Month, and called “unputdownable” by Oprah.com, and the series has been featured in the New York Times.

Mark is also the author of the psychological thriller, HOLLOW MAN, and its sequel, DOMINIC, published in January of 2018. He also created the nationally-recognized true-crime blog ‘D.A. Confidential.’ As a prosecutor, he has appeared on CBS News’s 48 Hours and Discovery Channel’s Discovery ID: Cold Blood.

Mark will have copies of his books to sell by credit card only.

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Sisters in Crime Heart of Texas Chapter meets monthly on the second Sunday of the month at 2:15 p.m. We meet at the IHOP at 1101 South MOPAC.

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Sisters in Crime is an international organization of women and men whose mission is to promote the professional development and advancement of women crime writers to achieve equality in the industry. Speakers include published mystery authors and technical experts who help writers craft better mysteries and readers enjoy what they read. Meetings are free and open to all. For more information, check out the Sisters in Crime website at https://sinc-heartoftexas.com.

For information contact Joyce Arquette, Publicity (512) 266-6543

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I thought I could never write a proper book; I’d never done it before.
But I thought I could write a sequence. Then I had a chapter.
The next thing I knew I was turning acting down. ~ Tana French

Upcoming Programs

December: Party and Showcase of Members’ Writing

And for 2019:

February: Jan Burke, Guest Speaker from SinC National Speaker’s Bureau

If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible,
that’s fine; you only need to get it right once. ~ Tana French

The Word on Our Members: HoTXSinC @ Novel Night

Manning Wolfe, Billy Kring, and Mark Pryor will appear at Malvern Books’ Novel Night on Thursday, November 8, 2018, starting at 7:00 p.m.

Malvern Books is located at 613 West 29th Street, Austin, TX 78705.

If you’re writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way,
you still need to show how that character is absolutely justified
in his or her own mind,
or the scene will come across as being
about the author’s views
rather than about the character’s. ~ Tana French

Texas Book Festival: HoTXSinC Was There!

Details in next month’s HOTSHOTS!

HoTXSinC’s TBF Coordinator K.P. Gresham setting up booth in Tent 4

HoTXSinC authors at Texas Book Festival, November 2018

I like writing about big turning points,
where professional and personal lives coalesce,
where the boundaries are coming down,
and you’re faced with a set of choices
which will change life forever. ~ Tana French