"I would love to find a super cozy and quirky mystery."
<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qglhfpy2bj5tkgpnsq6blpex" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@clgslr.bsky.social‬ #MSWL

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✨ We've got a killer listy list of all the Desert Sleuths 2025 WriteNOW! Conference faculty who are on Bluesky. Give them a follow or save the list in your feeds. ✨

#DSWN25 #DesertSleuths #SINC #AmWriting #CrimeWriters #MysteryWriters #ThrillerWriters #WritingCommunity

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Sisters in Crime celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month! Celebrated annually from 9/15-10/15, the 2025 campaign is Honoring the Past, Inspiring the Future, and represents heritage, resilience, and the continuing good works of our Hispanic communities.

#WritingCommunity #StandWithSinC
#EveryFifthBook

It's Banned Books Week - Oct 5 - 11, 2025.
This year's theme is: Censorship Is So 1984. Read for Your Rights. It highlights that the right to read belongs to us all, censorship has no place in contemporary society, and we must defend our rights.

#bannedbookweek #SinC #BookSky #Writingcommunity

Yesterday morning on the Lost Goldmine trail.

Authors, you can now search an official database to see if your books are part of the Anthropic settlement.

My book is in there, and I just filed my claim. 💸

Search here: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

The Mesa Book Festival 2025 Registration is OPEN! Spots will fill up fast, so if you are an independent author or small press, be sure to get your registration is as soon as possible:
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#bookfest #MesaAZ #readmore

A beautiful sunrise run in the Superstitions!

This book will tide you over until Bad Bunny’s halftime. Set in Puerto Rico with a Latina MC, it is cozy with decolonized vibes. bookshop.org/p/books/barb...

Another milestone in my writer's journey. The Gardener's Plot is available in paperback today. Whatever type of book you prefer--paperback, hardcover, e-book, or audiobook--The Gardener's Plot is there.

If you want to catch the replay, check out one of these links.

Youtube - www.youtube.com/@ThePoisoned...

Facebook - www.facebook.com/thepoisonedp...

Thanks to everyone who attended our SOWEST: DANGER AWAITS! anthology book launch at the @poisonedpen.bsky.social on Friday. We had such a great time!

Eight anthology authors were able to attend in person (pictured) and another six attended virtually.

After the Great Depression, a girl desperate to find her mother gambles that a dangerous cross-country journey to the west will bring her home.

"Hard Times" by Meg E. Dobson, from the Desert Sleuths Anthology, SOWEST: DANGER AWAITS!

Pick up a copy: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FNS2H162

#SinC #AmReading

This is going to be us tonight! We can't wait to get a copy of our newest anthology, SoWest: Danger Awaits! Join us and we can giddily bounce around the @poisonedpen.bsky.social together.

**TONIGHT**
The SOWEST: DANGER AWAITS! Anthology Launch Party at The Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale, AZ, 6-7:30 p.m AZ time.

Meet some of the authors in person and/or virtually. The Pen will also be Live Streaming on Facebook & Youtube. Can't wait to see you there!

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A private detective goes undercover to investigate the suspicious death of an office bookkeeper in a flash flood.

“Come Hell or High Water" by Claire A. Murray, from the Desert Sleuths Anthology, SOWEST: DANGER AWAITS!

Pick up a copy: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FNS2H162

#SinC #AmReading #Mystery

A college student spends his summers digging for gold in a secret mine until his boss mysteriously disappears.

"Herman Pines and Archie" by Bill Butler, from the Desert Sleuths Anthology, SOWEST: DANGER AWAITS!

Pick up a copy: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FNS2H162

#SinC #AmReading #Mystery #Suspense

I'm giving a webinar on Saturday, Sept 27 at 10 am (AZ time) on Query Letters for the Arizona Authors Association - free and open to all writers! Info here: us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

"Send in your stylish mysteries and thrillers. I want bold, fun, and clever takes on the genre’s common tropes like KNIVES OUT, KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE, and WHITE COLLAR. I'm looking for the next THE BIG SLEEP by Raymond Chandler."
<a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sxifn5ckgc2bghswuzh2mwfs" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@mariavicente.com #MSWL

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Smitten w/ an old copper-mining town, a genealogist buys a fixer upper Victorian, but is it haunted w/ more than boom time memories & sagging eaves?

"Echoes of the Past" by @annabartkowski.bsky.social , Desert Sleuths Anthology, SOWEST: DANGER AWAITS!

Pick up a copy: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FNS2H162

When Ezra turns up dead after a frat party, it takes some ingenuity & determination to figure out who was responsible.

"Ezra & the Frat Boys" by Debra H. Goldstein, from the Desert Sleuths Anthology, SOWEST: DANGER AWAITS!

Pick up a copy: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FNS2H162
@debrahgoldstein.bsky.social

Use this link to stream the SoWest: Danger Awaits! Launch Party via The Poisoned Pen Facebook Page- www.facebook.com/thepoisonedp...

Friday, Sept 26, from 6-7:30 p.m. Arizona time

Use this link to stream the SoWest: Danger Awaits! Launch Party via Youtube - www.youtube.com/@ThePoisoned...

Friday, Sept 26, from 6-7:30 p.m. Arizona time

Ot if you'd like to be a virtual guest at our SOWEST: DANGER AWAITS! anthology launch party, tune into The Poisoned Pen Bookstore's Live Streams on Youtube or Facebook.

If you miss it live, the Pen keeps event recordings on their website for you to watch later.

However you do it, we hope you join!

Come to the @poisonedpen.bsky.social in Scottsdale, AZ, Friday, Sept 26, from 6-7:30 p.m. Arizona time, for the launch of SOWEST: DANGER AWAITS! an anthology of short stories by authors from the Desert Sleuths Chapter of @sincworldwide.bsky.social.

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#SinC #AmReading #Mystery