June 9th, 2013
10-11:45
David Walker
Jack Fredrickson
Robert Goldsborough
Susanna Calkins
Clare O’Donohue
Erin Hart
Libby Hellmann
Noon-1:45
Julie Hyzy
Michael Black
Diane Piron-Gelman
Tim Chapman
Frances McNamara
J. Michael Major
Molly MacRae
2-3:45
Helen Osterman
Lydia Ponczak
Laura Caldwell
Susan Froetschel
Nancy J Parra
Raymond Benson
Luisa Buehler
4-5:45
Michele May
Luisa Buehler
Diane Piron-Gelman
Susan Froetschel
Clare O’Donohue
Helen Osterman
Lydia Ponczak
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June 9th, 2013
Saturday signing schedule
10-11:45
David Walker
Erin Hart
Frances McNamara
Jack Fredrickson
Jennie Spallone
Helen Osterman
Lydia Ponczak
Noon-1:45
Joelle Charbonneau
Diane Piron-Gelman
J. Michael Major
Linda Tsoutsouris (Kate Collins)
Susan Froetschel
Luisa Buehler
Molly MacRae
2-3:45
Clare O’Donohue
Brian D’Amato
Julie Hyzy
Michael Black
Libby Hellmann
Robert Goldsborough
Bryan Gruley
4-5:45
Raymond Benson
Barbara D’Amato
Sara Paretsky
Joelle Charbonneau
Susanna Calkins
Tim Chapman
Nancy J Parra
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May 20th, 2013
Making QR codes
When scanned by smart phones or tablets equipped with cameras and the proper app, these handy little images can connect people immediately with any webpage.
You can have one for your website. If you have a free story to give away, you can send people right to the page that they can download it from. If you have ebooks, send them to the page they can purchase it.
Let’s say we want to make a QR code for the MWAmidwest.com website.
Open a new browser window or tab, and go to the webpage you want to make a QR code for, in this case it’s http://mwamidwest.com
Select that URL from the browser window and copy it. This will make sure you don’t make a mistake typing the URL.
Go to https://bitly.com/
Where it says “Paste a link to shorten it,” paste the link.
It will return a link, something like this: http://bit.ly/fL7z7A
Now here’s the tricky part. Copy that link – all of it – and paste it into the location bar (this is the place where you see URLs displayed, like “https://bitly.com/shorten/” which is what your browser should be showing you now)
Don’t hit return or enter just yet. You need to edit the URL to ad “.qr” to the end.
So it reads http://bit.ly/fL7z7A.qr
That should load in a page that displays the QR code associated with the bitly url for your webpage. Go ahead and click that link and you’ll see the QR code for MWAmidwest.com
And that’s it. Right click on the image or click-and-drag it to your desktop and you have an image that’s ready to go on business cards, postcards or even book covers.
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June 7th, 2012
Come join us at Printers Row Lit Fest!
Our tent is located steps north from Dearborn and Polk, and we’ll have more than 30 mystery authors reading signing their latest books.
Plus, our popular Flash Fiction contest returns, but this time on the Center Stage starting at 2 pm!
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June 4th, 2011
Tasha Alexander and Diane Piron-Gelman signing at Printers Row.
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June 4th, 2011
Jack Fredrickson reading at Printers Row
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May 30th, 2011
When: 4 pm to about 6 pm, Saturday June 4
Where: The Midwest Chapter of the Mystery Writers of America tent at the Printers Row Lit Fest. We’re in tent V, near the intersection of Dearborn and Polk.
Who can participate? Anyone – you don’t have to be an MWA member.
How does it work?
Take one of five opening sentences and come up with a short story – so short that you can read it in five minutes or less. We’ll be timing you, but if the story is good enough we just forget to look at the clock.
Here’s the opening sentences, you can make them any gender you want:
1) He wasn’t going to make it.
2) It was the smell that got to her.
3) Digging a hole six-feet deep was harder than he thought.
4) He’d have done it different if he’d known how much weight she’d gained.
5) They say a goldfish will eat anything.
Judging will be completely arbitrary and potentially quite unfair. But regardless it’ll be awesome because we have two of the most distinguished authors in Chicago history, Barbara D’Amato and Sara Paretsky, judging. So no, no pressure here. Nope, none at all.
What can you win? All participants will likely win prizes and there will be one grand prize awarded – a $25 Starbucks gift card.
Anything else? We’re limited to at most 12 participants due to time. There will be a sign-up sheet at the tent, but first come, first served.
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June 1st, 2010
We have a terrific lineup planned for Printer’s Row this year:
SATURDAY
Signings 10:00 am – Noon
Clare O’Donohue
John McEvoy
Jess Lourey
Betty Hechtman
Erin Hart
Michael Wiley
Workshop 10:30 am -11:30 am
Michael A. Black “Plotting murder”
Signing 10:30 am – 11:30 am
Henry Perez
Workshop 11:30 am -12:30 pm
Michael Wiley “Plotting your novel”
Signing 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Michael A. Black
Signings Noon – 2 pm
Luisa Buehler
Craig McDonald
Laura DiSilverio
Dirk Robertson
Wendy Lyn Watson
Helen Osterman
David Walker
Workshop 12:30 pm -1:30 pm
Libby Hellmann “Building suspense”
Signing 12:30 pm -2:30 pm
Michael Wiley
Workshop 1:30 pm -2:30 pm
Erin Hart “Writing the literary crime novel”
Signing 1:30:00 pm -2:30 pm
Libby Hellmann
Signings 2 pm – 4 pm
Sharon Fiffer (until 3:30)
Michael A. Black
Clare O’Donohue
Jack Fredrickson (until 4:30)
Raymond Benson
Mary Gruner
Workshop 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Michael Dymmoch “The importance of point-of-view in Crime fiction”
Signing 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Erin Hart
Workshop 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Luisa Buehler “Fact, Fiction, Fantasy – How real does fiction need to be?”
Signing 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Gail Lukasik (until 4:30)
Michael Dymmoch
Workshop 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Gail Lukasik “Creating characters”
Signings 4:30 pm – 6 pm
Luisa Buehler
Bob Goldsborough
Libby Hellmann
Signing 5:30 pm – 6 pm
Gall Lukasik
SUNDAY
Workshop 10 am -11 am
Dirk Robertson “Characterization in storytelling”
Signings 10:00 am – Noon
Michael Dymmoch
Sam Reeves
Michael Wiley
Bob Goldsborough
Erin Hart
Libby Hellmann
Tony Perona (until 11 am)
Signing 11 am – 1 pm
Dirk Robertson
Workshop Noon -1 pm
Bob Goldsborough “Writing the historical mystery”
Signings Noon – 2 pm
Michael Black
David Walker
Clare O’Donohue
Sam Reeves
Tony Perona (Starting at 1 pm)
Workshop 1 pm – 2 pm
Wendy Lyn Watson “Write naked”
Signing 1 pm – 3 pm
Bob Goldsborough
2 PM – 3 PM
MWA MEETING OPEN TO ALL
Signings 2 pm – 4 pm
Wendy Lyn Watson
Maggie Sefton (until 5 pm)
Sam Reeves (until 3 pm)
Sharon Fiffer
Tony Perona
Workshop 3 pm – 4 pm
Sam Reeves “Writing dialogue”
Signing 3 pm – 5 pm
Helen Osterman
Workshop 4 pm – 5 pm
Raymond Benson “Suspense in Crime Fiction”
Signings 4 pm – 6 pm
Sam Reeves
Todd Allen
Michael Dymmoch
Tony Perona
Raymond Benson (starting at 5 pm)
Workshop 5 pm – 6 pm
Sharon Fiffer “The accidental author”
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June 14th, 2009
For the second year, the Midwest Chapter had a presence at Chicago’s Printers Row Lit Festival. This time, we were joined by MWA’s Margery Flax who “enjoyed” the French folk music from a nearby stage. For two days. MWMWA president Julie Hyzy has a report with photos up at her blog.
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