Retrain Your Brain: Story Surprises Using the Y Factor

Details: The Florida Gulf Coast Chapter of Sisters in Crime is pleased to announce the featured speaker at the January 11, 2025, meeting will be Martha Reed.

Location: In Person at the Fruitville Library 100 Apex Dr, Sarasota, FL and via Zoom https://sistersincrime-org.zoom.us/j/92024856842

Description: Our brains are hardwired to consider unseen possibilities as a survival mechanism. It's the modern reason mystery reading fans love solving puzzles and whodunnits. But if telling tales is as old as humanity, how is it we're still surprised by anything? Join award-winning crime fiction author and fellow SinC member Martha Reed as she shares story construction insights in her Retrain Your Brain: Y Factor presentation and workshop.

Bio:
Martha Reed is a multi-award-winning crime fiction author. Her story, “The Honor Thief,” was included in This Time For Sure, the Anthony Award-winning Bouchercon 2021 anthology. Her first Crescent City NOLA Mystery, Love Power won a 2021 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award and features Gigi Pascoe, a transgender sleuth. Up Jumped the Devil, the second NOLA Mystery was released in December 2023. Martha is also the author of the Independent Publisher IPPY Book Award-winning John and Sarah Jarad Nantucket Mystery series. Her short stories and articles have appeared in Pearl, Suspense Magazine, Spinetingler, Mystery Readers Journal, Kings River Life Magazine, Mysterical-e, and in two Sisters in Crime anthologies. Lucky Charms - 12 Crime Tales and Paradise is Deadly - Gripping Tales from Florida Gulf Coast Sisters in Crime.

Social Media Links
Website: www.reedmenow.com
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