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Welcome to the Triangle, North Carolina Chapter of Sisters In Crime
The mission of Sisters in Crime is to promote the ongoing advancement, recognition, and professional development of women crime writers. UPCOMING MEETINGS 
Saturday, June 13, 2026, at 1:30 pm (EST): Marketing Jumpstart with Jessica Barna
Register here. Jessica Barna is an Author Success Coach and the founder of Author Achievement. Her company is dedicated to providing strategy, community, and accountability to help authors build successful careers... whatever that means to them. With an Executive MBA and over a decade of coaching experience, Jessica empowers authors to achieve their goals with clarity, focus and sustainable marketing. Based in the Chicago suburbs, she enjoys exploring new places, antiquing, and spending time with her senior chihuahua, Tortilla. Marketing Jumpstart is designed to help you demystify the marketing and sales cycle, prioritize what matters most, and take actionable steps to grow your audience and sell more books. You’ll leave with a clear focus, tailored strategies, and a plan you can confidently execute in the next 30, 60, or 90 days. So let’s say goodbye to marketing overwhelm and start building the momentum your books deserve! Saturday, August 8, 2026, at 1:30 pm (EST): Writing Outside Your Lived Experiences with P.M. Raymond and Ashley-Ruth Bernier
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Saturday, September 12, 2026, at 1:30 pm (EST): Killing Me Softly: Writing the Cozy Mystery with Lynn Cahoon
Is writing the cozy mystery in your wheelhouse? Anthony nominated, New York Times, and USA Today bestselling author of several cozy mystery series, Lynn Cahoon, will walk you through the cozy promise to the reader so you can determine if writing a cozy mystery is for you. Participants will learn the requirements of a cozy mystery –a story low on gore, low on sex, and high on fun. Think David Addison and Maddie Hayes in Moonlighting, Remington Steele and Laura Holt, or Richard Castle and Kate Beckett in Castle (before the last season). The importance of a cozy setting, the cast of quirky secondary characters, and, most importantly, the why behind a good series. Finally, we’ll answer the most important question haunting the cozy mystery world today. How can so many dead bodies show up in one little town? We may also learn how many licks it takes to get to the middle of that famous sucker or maybe the world may never know. BIO - NYT and USA Today bestselling author, Lynn Cahoon is a multi-published writer with years of experience training and presenting to groups in various day jobs. An Idaho native, her stories focus on the depth and experience of small-town life, including the required murder. Currently, she’s living in a small Eastern Tennessee town where her imagination tends to wander. In 2013, she published her first cozy mysteries for Kensington Publishing and has continued developing cozy worlds, including the Tourist Trap series, the Cat Latimer series, the Farm to Fork series, the Kitchen Witch series, and the Survivors’ Book Club series. She recently released a new series set in Bainbridge and is writing a new series set deep in the North Carolina mountains. She’s now a hybrid author, self-publishing another fun paranormal cozy and taking back the Cat Latimer series to keep the books flowing. A fifteen-plus-year breast cancer survivor, she blames her love of cozy mysteries on the extensive waiting time in doctors’ offices. Register here. Saturday, October 10, 2026, at 1:30 pm (EST): Triangle Sisters in Crime Author's Panel
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