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Only $26.00 per year: read book reviews by members; keep up-to-date; attend our bi-monthly meetings with speakers to help your writing and improve your knowledge of the crime genre. (Membership email below)
FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK.
Members will be pleased to know our profile is growing. I'm receiving phone calls and letters from people wanting to join Partners in Crime, not to mention compliments on how many enjoy our meetings.
PICS is a member of the NSW Writers Centre and copies of 'Newswrite' are distributed at meetings. Another reason to attend.
All our speakers are in place for the rest of the year so mark the dates in your diaries to hear these professionals.
Our crime writers should be mulling over ideas for their stories for this year's Queen of Crime Awards by now, so happy crime reading and writing.
If you haven't paid your 2008 subs, mail off $26 to Sue Jones, PO Box 647, Avalon Beach 2107 to ensure you receive your newsletter.
Enjoy your reading and prepare to learn more on the craft of writing in 2008.
See you all at The Hughenden.
Robyn McWilliam
QUEEN OF CRIME 2008 SPECIAL SECTION ENTRY FORM.
Competition closed September 15th, 2008.
Click on graphic above.
Competition closes 31st October, 2008.
QUEEN OF CRIME AWARDS 2007
The winners are:
1st prize $ 250.00 RON JONES
“Tea and other Solutions”
2nd prize $150.00 DAVID CAMPBELL
“Justice”
3rd prize $100.00 RAYMOND SOUTHALL
“A Corpse in the Collection”
Norm Clark Award for most unusual plot to Diana Coventry “The Time Capsule”
Margaret Probert Award to B. J. Stirling “At Peace with Picasso”
Encouragement Jo McGahey “Nightmare”
Short listed entries:
Norma Faulkner “A Sister Clara Mystery”
Alison George “Family Reunion
Robyn McWilliam “Sadistic Desire”
Anamarie Nelson “Check mate”
QOC 2006 WINNERS.
OPEN SECTION
lst prize $250.00 JO McGAHEY
Ossarium. A Noun.
2nd prize $150.00 RON JONES
“Something in the Way She Moves”
3rd prize $100.00 LAURIE FORTH
“Checkmate”
SPECIAL SECTION
MARGARET PROBERT AWARD
lst prize $125.00 CHERYL ROGERS
“Deadline”
2nd prize $75.00 SHEILA DRAKELEY
“Roses Anonymous”
3rd prize $50.00 THELMA BACKSHALL
“Blue Murder”
NORM CLARK AWARD - Most unusual plot. ELLEN ASH “Svetlana”
ENCOURAGEMENT AWARD JOE BACKSHALL “At any Price”
QOC 2005 WINNERS.
PRIZE WINNERS AND AWARDS
FIRST PRIZE. Kuli Finau Brings Home the Bacon by Kerry James.
SECOND PRIZE. Eating Nemo by Goldie Alexander.
THIRD PRIZE. Seafood, Sex and Tiny Blue Pills by Robyn McWilliam.
HIGHLY COMMENDED. Whipping Girl by Richard Young.
NORM CLARK AWARD - Most unusual plot. Death and Taxes by Ron Jones.
DEL MUTTON/MARGARET PROBERT AWARD. DNA by Anamari Nelson.
A taste.....
'The unmistakable smell of burnt flesh reminded Reeves of why he had become a vegetarian'. (In Broad Daylight)
'Next morning she turned up. Handcuffed and barefoot', (Principal Suspect)
"So now you must die. You and your daughter and the Shamus. Who wants to be first?" 'We said nothing'.(Shamus)
'He stumbled across Emily lying naked on the sand with a small rasberry tart covering each breast.'(Weight Until Death)
'We'd all thought it a cute idea that the fossil-dig would contain more bones after we'd left it than before we'd arrived.'(The Assignation)
The buzz.....
'...brings the seedy, smog-laden alley-ways of Sydney to life.' A.C.Doyle
'These guys play fast and dirty. One of them, in particular, bears watching.' R.Chandler
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Cost $10.00 plus $5.00 postage
Robyn McWilliam
P.O.Box 819, Avalon NSW. 2107
Email here..
Meeting Dates 2008.
4.00 p.m. Only $10.00 at the door, includes delicious afternoon tea.
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL.
February 3rd, Breanda Cross.Author of Shark Arm Murders
April 6th. Detective Inspector Bryne Ruse. Homicide Squad.
June 1st. June Goodall. Author.
August 3rd. Peter Rolfe. NSW Homicide Survivors Association.
October 12th. Terry Smith. PhD. Psychiatric Nurse.
December 7th. Dr. Jenny Mouzos. Australian Federal Police.
 
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Guest Speaker Highlights.
Cover by Vivienne Jones
Queen of Crime 2001 Anthology
View Anthology contentsCLICK HERE
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