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SUMMARY:Sisters in Crime Mystery Writers Panel
LOCATION:Virtual\n<p>Register in advance for this meeting:<br /><a href="h
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DESCRIPTION:Join mystery authors Kathleen Barber\, Mark Bergin\, Tara Lask
 owski\, Patrick Hyde and Grace Topping as they discuss how they became fir
 st- time published novelists! Moderated by Cathy Wiley..\nhttps://alexandr
 ia.libnet.info/event/4347801
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>First-time mystery novelists talk about ho
 w they got published (good\, bad\, and amusing stories about the road to p
 ublication)\, how the experience differs from what they expected\, and the
  most startling or amusing reviews.&nbsp\; Panelists include Kathleen Barb
 er (<em>Follow Me\, Are You Sleeping</em>)\, Mark Bergin (<em>Apprehension
 </em>)\, Tara Laskowski (<em>One Night Gone</em>)\, Patrick Hyde (<em>The 
 Only Pure Thing</em>)\, and Grace Topping (<em>Staging Wars\, Staging is M
 urder</em>).</p>\n<p>Registration required.&nbsp\; After you register you 
 will receive a confirmation email with meeting details.</p>\n<p>For more i
 nformation contact <a href="mailto:awilliams@alexlibraryva.org">awilliams@
 alexlibraryva.org</a></p>\n<h3>PANELISTS &amp\; MODERATOR</h3>\n<p><strong
 >KATHLEEN BARBER</strong> is a former attorney\, incurable wanderer\, and 
 yoga enthusiast. Originally from Galesburg\, Illinois\, she is a graduate 
 of the University of Illinois and Northwestern University School of Law. H
 er first novel\, Truth Be Told (originally published as Are You Sleeping)\
 , has been adapted as a series starring Octavia Spencer for Apple TV+ by R
 eese Witherspoon&rsquo\;s Hello Sunshine media company. Follow Me is her s
 econd novel.<br />&nbsp\;<br /><strong>MARK BERGIN</strong> retired from t
 he Alexandria\, Virginia Police Department as a Lieutenant in 2014 after 2
 8 years and\, in the end\, two heart attacks.&nbsp\; He was twice named Po
 lice Officer of the year\, for drug and robbery investigations.&nbsp\; Pri
 or to police service he was a newspaper reporter in suburban Philadelphia\
 , Pennsylvania\, and in Northern Virginia where he earned the Virginia Pre
 ss Association Award for General News Reporting.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;<br />&nbsp\
 ;<br /><strong>PATRICK HYDE</strong> worked for 25 years as an attorney at
  the U.S. Department of Labor with several years in the Solicitor&rsquo\;s
  Special Litigation Division in a Las Vegas case against figures with orga
 nized crime ties who received huge illegal pension fund loans.&nbsp\; Also
 \, as a private criminal attorney\, he litigated hundreds of cases and ser
 ved as the President of the D.C. Superior Court Trial Lawyers Association.
 &nbsp\; Michael Connelly endorsed Patrick&rsquo\;s debut novel THE ONLY PU
 RE THING as &ldquo\;a legal thriller full of grit and charm and telling de
 tails from every link in the justice system food chain.&rdquo\; Patrick is
  also the winner of the ITW&rsquo\;s 2016 Best First Sentence Contest&mdas
 h\;which is the first sentence of his second novel.<br />&nbsp\;<br /><str
 ong>TARA LASKOWSKI</strong> is the author of One Night Gone\, which won th
 e 2019 Agatha Award for Best First Mystery Novel and was a finalist for th
 e Lefty Award and the Mary Higgins Clark Award. She also wrote two short s
 tory collections\, Modern Manners for Your Inner Demons and Bystanders\, w
 hich The Guardian named a best book of 2017. Her Alfred Hitchcock&rsquo\;s
  Mystery Magazine story\, &ldquo\;The Case of the Vanishing Professor\,&rd
 quo\; won the 2019 Agatha Award and her Ellery Queen&rsquo\;s Mystery Maga
 zine story\, &ldquo\;The Long-Term Tenant\,&rdquo\; is a finalist for the 
 2020 Thriller Award. Visit her website at <a href="https://TaraLaskowski.c
 om" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TaraLaskowski.com</a> or on Twitter\, @
 TaraLWrites.&nbsp\;<br />&nbsp\;<br /><strong>GRACE TOPPING</strong> is a 
 USA Today bestselling author and Agatha nominee. A recovering technical wr
 iter and IT project manager\, she was accustomed to writing lean\, boring 
 documents. Let loose to write fiction\, she is now creating murder mysteri
 es and killing off characters who remind her of some of the people she dea
 lt with during her career. Fictional revenge is sweet. Grace is the former
  vice president of the Chesapeake Chapter of Sisters in Crime (SINC)\, and
  a member of the SINC Guppies and Mystery Writers of America.</p>\n<p><br 
 /><strong>CATHY WILEY</strong> is a member of Sisters in Crime\, Mystery W
 riters of America\, and Short Mystery Fiction Society. She&rsquo\;s writte
 n two mystery novels set in Baltimore\, Maryland\, and has had several sho
 rt stories included in anthologies\, one of which was a finalist for a Der
 ringer Award. She lives outside of Baltimore\, Maryland\, with one spoiled
  cat and an equally spoiled husband. For more information\, visit <a href=
 "https://cathywileyauthor.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cathywileya
 uthor.com</a>.</p>\n<p></p>\nhttps://alexandria.libnet.info/event/4347801
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