HoTXSinC will meet on
Sunday, October 14, 2018
@ the Yarborough Branch Library
2200 Hancock Drive, Austin.
Our mission is to promote
the ongoing advancement, recognition,
and professional development of women crime writers.
~ SINC Mission Statement
@ the Yarborough Branch of Austin Public Library
Program: Robert Ansley on Paranormal Research
New Venue for October 14: Yarborough Branch Library
Upcoming Programs
Texas Book Festival: It’s Time to Bring Your Books!
HoTXSinC Authors @ Boerne Book and Arts Fest
The Word on Our Members
Who’s Blogging?
Opportunities
HOTSHOTS! Wants You
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Nolo Contendere
Robert Ansley
on
Paranormal Research
Robert Ansley is an actor, director, and producer of short films that have screened at many film festivals including SXSW, Tribeca, and Cannes. He started his crime fighting career in 1979 with the Austin Police Dept, and was promoted to Sgt. just three years later. Austin author Bruce Sterling noted in his book “Hacker Crackdown – Law and 
Disorder on the Electronic Frontier” that Robert was one of the first police officers in the nation to set up a sting operation to catch hackers committing computer crimes. In 1989 Robert was lured away by a small computer company called “Dell” to provide executive protection for Michael and his new wife Susan. In addition he eventually traveled the globe designing security systems and practices for Dell facilities worldwide. After suffering a serious spinal injury Robert retired and once he was on the mend he began pursuing his fascination for paranormal investigations. His company, Imagine Your Dreams LLC had been producing short films for festivals and now produces paranormal films for his new organization Austin Paranormal Research. Together with his business partner, Elizabeth Lloyd they investigate client claims of hauntings and Poltergeist activity in the greater Austin area. Their work has appeared in the prestigious magazine Paranormal Review, published by the Society for Psychical Research in London, UK.
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Plus the winner of the HoTXSinC Ghost Story Contest will be announced.
Sisters in Crime Heart of Texas Chapter meets monthly on the second Sunday of the month at 2:15 p.m.
New Venue: The October 14 meeting will be held at the Yarborough Branch of Austin Public Library, 2200 Hancock Drive.
Future venues will be announced in next month’s HOTSHOTS!
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
Check out our blog/newsletter, HOTSHOTS!, at https://sinc-heartoftexas.com/posts/
New Venue: October 14, HoTXSinC Meets @ the Yarborough
On October 14, HoTXSinC will meet at the Yarborough Branch of Austin Public Library, 2200 Hancock Drive, from 2:15 – 4:00 p.m.
Why are we moving? Cafe Express has closed.
We’re not sure yet where the November and December meetings will be held, but word will go out as soon as a venue is confirmed. Watch this space.
Upcoming Programs.
November: Mark Pryor, District Attorney and Author
December: Party and Showcase of Members’ Writing
And for 2019:
February: Jan Burke, Guest Speaker from SinC National Speaker’s Bureau
Texas Book Festival: It’s Time to Bring Your Books!!!
To those members who want their books sold at this year’s Texas Book Festival, you need to bring your books to our next meeting!
BE ADVISED: THE OCTOBER 14 SinC MEETING IS AT THE RALPH YARBOROUGH LIBRARY, 2200 Hancock Dr., Austin, TX 78756.
We need the following information to accompany your books.
-No more than ten copies of EACH title.
-A brief synopsis of each title.
-A brief author bio.
Unless you are signed up to man the booth, we do not need an 8 x 10 photo of you.
If you can’t get your books to me at the October 14 meeting, text me at kpgresham (at) aol (dot) com or call me on my cell at 713-962-9992.
As a reminder, the 2018 Texas Book Festival is October 27 & 28 on the Capitol Grounds. We have been assigned Booth #413, so stop on by and visit us!
Please folks, let’s make this a hard deadline! Your cooperation will be greatly appreciated! ~ K.P.Gresham
HoTXSinC Authors at Boerne Book & Arts Fest
HoTXSinC Authors will sell books at the Boerne Book & Arts Fest this Saturday, October 6, from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
For more information, see the
- BBAF Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/BoerneBookFestival/
- BBAF Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/241815899958676/
- Hill Country Mile Map: https://www.visitboerne.org/sites/default/files/HILLOUNTRYMILEMAP%20final.pdf
- BBAF Poster / Schedule: 2018_BBAF Poster_PRESS READY
Ghost Story Winner to Be Announced
HoTXSinC’s Short Ghost Story Contest winner will be announced at the meeting on October 14.
The Word on Our Members
Four HoTXSinC members read from their works at Malvern Books on Novel Night, September 13. N. M. Cedeno read from THE WALLS CAN TALK; Laura Oles read from DAUGHTERS OF BAD MEN; and Sue Cleveland and Dixie Evatt, aka Meredith Lee, read from DIGGING UP THE DEAD and SHROUDED.
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Alexandra Burt, Valerie Chandler, Laura Oles, MK Waller, George Wier, and Scott Montgomery appeared on a panel discussing Austin Mystery Writers’ second crime fiction anthology, LONE STAR LAWLESS, at Tim Bryant’s Bosslight Books, in Nacogdoches, Texas, on September 20.
On September 19, Alexandra, Valerie, Laura, and MK attended Scott Montgomery’s interview with Craig Johnson, author of the LONGMIRE series, at Murder by the Book in Houston.
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GHOST NEXT DOOR IS OUT!
GHOST NEXT DOOR, by Helen Currie Foster, was published September 22, 2018. Now available on Amazon and at independent bookstores, this is the fifth novel in the Alice MacDonald Greer Mystery Series. During night-time fireworks at Coffee Creek’s first official barbecue cook-off, deep in Texas Hill Country, lawyer Alice MacDonald Greer trips over the body of a sharp-tongued food writer. The hotly competitive grill-masters all possess well-honed knives and stout alibis. With local law enforcement baffled, the mystery darkens when a malevolent stalker pursues Alice and her engaging but secretive client using arson, assault and highway terror. Alice finds herself needing far more than her legal skills to survive.
An Alice MacDonald Greer legal thriller, full of smoke, music, mayhem and suspense.
A “simply outstanding mystery series.” Midwest Book Review.
Find her online: www.helencurriefoster.com
https://www.facebook.com/helencurriefoster/
https://www.amazon.com/Helen-Currie-Foster/e/B00R1X9RXK
Who’s Blogging?
N. M. Cedeño
KP Gresham
M. K. Waller
Opportunities
“Hi there! Hallmark Publishing is open to unagented submissions of completed full-length novels through Labor Day (Monday, Sept. 3), 2018. We will also have an open reading period in February 2019. Follow us on Twitter, @HallmarkPublish, to be the first to learn about future calls for submissions.”
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HOTSHOTS! welcomes reviews and articles written by members. Email hotx2014 (at) gmail (dot) com.
Geographic profiling is a criminal investigative methodology for analyzing the locations of a connected series of crime to determine the most probable area of offender residence. Its major function is suspect prioritization in serial murder, rape, and similar investigations. Such cases are difficult to solve because they involve stranger offenders. These “whodunit” investigations can involve thousands of suspects and often suffer from problems of information overload. In such situations, geographic profiling can assist in case information management. Crime locations are not distributed randomly in space but rather are influenced by the road networks and features of the physical environment. Consequently, when properly interpreted, crime sites can function as spatial clues. A focus on the crime setting – the “where and when” of the criminal act – offers a conceptual framework for determining the most probable area of offender residence. The area of research known as environmental criminology studies the interactions between people and their surroundings, and views crime as the product of offenders, victims, and their setting. The three theories underlying geographic profiling – crime pattern, routine activity, and rational choice – provide the foundation for understanding the target patterns and hunting behavior of criminal predators.
by K. P. Gresham
Manning Wolfe
All who are interested in writing a ghost story, please submit no later than 
Dr. David Ciambrone is a retired aerospace and defense company executive, scientist, professor of engineering, and a forensics consultant and is now a best-selling, award-winning author living in Georgetown, Texas with his wife Kathy. He has published twenty-one books, four non-fiction, two (2) textbooks for a California university, and fifteen mysteries and has new mysteries in work.
If you don’t already know, you can deduce from my opening that I (again like many other writers) am insecure in the profession. We feel like frauds. We wrote a book and got it published, but maybe it was a fluke. Can we ever do it again? I’ve written and gotten ten of them published, but I always wonder if I can do it again. A conference is a chance to be with other people who are just like me. People who write and wonder if we’re real writers. Neurotic, interesting people.
Kaye George, national-bestselling and multiple award-winning author, writes several mystery series: Imogene Duckworthy humorous mysteries, Cressa Carraway musical mysteries (Barking Rain Press), People of the Wind Neanderthal mysteries (Untreed Reads), and, as Janet Cantrell, Fat Cat (Berkley Prime Crime cozies). The third cozy, Fat Cat Takes the Cake, and the second Cressa Carraway novel, Requiem in Red, were published in April, 2016. The second People of the Wind, Death on the Trek, came out in June, 2016. Her short stories appear in anthologies, magazines, and her own collection, A Patchwork of Stories. The anthology, Murder on Wheels, with the Austin Mystery Writers, recently became a Silver Falchion Winner. She now lives in Knoxville, TN, where she also reviews for Suspense Magazine. 
Dixie Evatt will represent author Meredith Lee in a panel discussion, “Marketing, Schmoozing, and Building Connections as a Writer,” at the Writers’ League of Texas’ Third Thursday meeting, on July 19, 2018. The meeting will begin at 7:00 p.m.
Manning Wolfe’s 
Meredith Lee (aka Sue Meredith Cleveland and Dixie Lee Evatt) will be at The Twig Book Shop in San Antonio (
GREEN FEES, the third in my Texas Lady Lawyer legal thriller series, will be published on June 21, 2018.
