Several CCW members found that they were nominated for Arthur Ellis Awards on April 23.
BEST NOVEL:
Brenda Chapman for COLD MOURNING, Dundurn Press.
Barbara Fradkin for NONE SO BLIND, Dundurn Press.
BEST NOVELLA:
Vicki Delany for JUBA GOOD, Orca Book Publishers
BEST SHORT STORY:
Madonna Skaff for FIRST IMPRESSIONS, in THE WHOLE SHE-BANG 2, Sisters in Crime
The complete list of moninees may be found at www.crimewriterscanada.com
A Murder Mystery Dinner Play
By Maggie Taylor
Britannia United Church, 985 Pinecrest Road
Friday, May 1st and Saturday May 2nd, 2015
ONLY 100 TICKETS FOR EACH NIGHT $30.00 per person
The Play and Meal start at 6:00 p.m.
Featuring: Rev. Jim Baldwin, Rev. Debbie Roi, Dori Jensen, Scott Hughes,
Jennifer Trewartha, Chuck Trewartha, Elaine McClausland, Myles Frosst
Menu: Apple or Tomato Juice, Caesar or Garden Salad, Pork Loin or Chicken Breast (both in gluten free gravy), Potatoes, Vegetables, Dessert, Tea and Coffee
The tables are made up of groups of eight or nine people, so get a party together and purchase your tickets early.
You can obtain your tickets from: Church Office (613-828-6018)
Email: brituc.office@magma.ca
Verne or Marilyn Bruce (613-828-0704)
Email: verne.bruce@sympatico.ca or
Visit our website: www.britanniaunitedchurch.ca
The cut-off date is April 27,2015
Additional Performance: Parkdale United Church on April 26, 2015
429 Parkdale Avenue, Ottawa (613-728-8656)
You’re invited to a criminally exciting evening on Thurs. April 23, 7-9 p.m. at Chapters Rideau, starting with Interrogating the Authors — top crime writers Brenda Chapman, Barbara Fradkin, Eva Gates/Vicki Delany, R.J. Robin Harlick, MaryJane MaffiniVictoria Abbott, and Mike Martin put each other on the hot seat. MC is Erika Chase/Linda Sundman Wiken. Followed by the big reveal of the Crime Writers of Crime Writers Canada Arthur Ellis shortlist, and the Capital Crime Writers’ Audrey Award shortlist.
Topic: Canada’s Security and Intelligence Community: Responding to Terrorist Threats
Speaker: Dr. Martin Rudner
When: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 at 7:00 pm
Location: Honeywell Room, Ottawa City Hall
The focus of this month’s presentation is the contemporary terrorist threat environment facing Canada, including religious extremism, violent secessionist movements, state-sponsored terrorism and domestic extremism. Dr. Martin Rudner, professor emeritus at Carleton University will examine Canada’s national security strategy, outlining the statutory framework, the architecture of the Security and Intelligence system, policy mechanisms, and operational activities. These will cover intelligence collection, analysis, policy coordination, law enforcement, threat disruption, and international liaison. Attention will be paid to accountability and oversight mechanisms. The talk will conclude with a review of lessons that need to be learned.
Martin Rudner is Professor Emeritus and a distinguished professor at Carleton University in Ottawa. Before his retirement from Carleton in 2007, he was a professor in the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs and a founding director of the Canadian Centre of Intelligence and Security Affairs. His article “Intelligence-Led Air Transport Security: Pre-Screening for Watch-Lists, No-Fly Lists to Forestall Terrorists Threats” was recently published in the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence. Dr. Rudner is the author of over one hundred books and scholarly articles. He is also an associate editor of Frontline Security. While supposedly retired, he attends and organizes conferences and seminars and is frequently consulted for his ideas and opinions on security and intelligence issues. Dr. Rudner has also served as an expert witness at the behest of the Crown in national security cases before the Federal Court.
Got a taste for blood (and pizza)? Feeling bloody-minded? Then why not join us!
Our next meeting is on Wednesday April 8, 2015 in the Honeywell Room at Ottawa City Hall. It begins at 6:45. Pizza will be served. The 2015-2016 election for the CCW Executive will then take place. PLEASE COME TO THIS MEETING IF YOU ARE FREE. If you are interested in putting your name forward for any of the executive positions, please email Michael Murphy president@capitalcrimewriters.com. The CCW executive needs new blood. We welcome fresh blood to the executive.
Our yearly book exchange also takes place. Bring a couple of mysteries you have read to the meeting, leave them on the table and go home with something new to read.
Time permitting, we will have a round the table discussion of what we are currently reading. Go home with suggestions from CCW members of what to read next, from Ottawa’s most discerning mystery readers
IF YOU ARE COMING TO THIS MEETING, PLEASE REPLY TO Michael Murphy
president@capitalcrimewriters.com so he knows how much pizza to bring.
FINAL REMINDER: Entries for the “Audrey” short story contest close on April 1st. No fooling.
Bitten by Books is running a live, world-wide Q and A chat with Brenda Chapman on Tuesday, March 17 beginning at noon Mountain time. Pre-register and get points for draws – a $25 Amazon gift card or copies of Butterfly Kills. On the day, you just need to check in, and take part if only for a question or comment or two, from anywhere in the world.
http://bittenbybooks.com/author-brenda-chapman-interview-and-amazon-gift-card-contest-317-rsvp-here/
Brenda Chapman will be signing her books Cold Mourning and Butterfly Kills at Perfect Books, 258 Elgin Street (at Somerset West) on Saturday, March 7th from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Come and meet Brenda at one of Ottawa’s remaining independent bookstores! Here’s a link to their site: http://perfectbooks.ca/PB/
CCW MONTHLY MEETING
March 11, 2015, Honeywell Room, (2nd floor) Ottawa City Hall, 7 pm
Jon Willing & Tony Spears, both of the OTTAWA SUN.
TOPIC: Police beat & Court Reporting
Jon will speak about police reporting & Tony will speak about court reporting
Jon Willing spoke briefly at ‘Capital Mayhem’ (organized by CCW & OPL) last year. That limited his time to provide insights into courtroom procedures and action. He is currently the City Hall reporter for the OTTAWA SUN, but before that was their police beat reporter. Jon did his undergraduate work at the University of Waterloo then obtained his Masters in Journalism from the University of Western Ontario in 2003. Before coming to Ottawa in 2006, he worked at the WOODSTOCK SENTINEL-REVIEW and the GUELPH MERCURY.
Tony Spears is the OTTAWA SUN courts reporter, providing vivid sketches of fraudsters and murders to the delight of a tabloid readership. He’s covered three federal budgets, which caused him to consider taking up murder himself. He has also worked as a general assignment reporter for the OTTAWA SUN & OTTAWA CITIZEN
GOAL! MOTIVATION AND CONFLICT: THE FOUNDATION OF COMMERCIAL FICTION
Next meeting, February 11th, 2014, Ottawa City Hall, Honeywell Room.
Madeline McBride will present this workshop. Writers , are your characters’ goals and conflict strong enough to carry the story? This interactive craft workshop will help you describe what your characters want, the stakes, and what’s stopping them from reaching their goals.
In an exercise using a simple template, you’ll identify your hero/heroine’s internal and external goals, motivations, consequences/stakes and conflict (GMCC). Those willing to share will have the opportunity to get feedback on their work-in-progress GMCC’s. The resulting comprehensive GMCC sentences, one for each character can be key elements of pitches
This workshop is based on Debra Dixon’s GMC: Goal, Motivation & Conflict, arguably an essential craft resource for writers of commercial fiction genres such as mysteries, thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy, romance etc.
Madeline McBride (Presenter) is currently President of Ottawa Romance Writers Association, writes as Madelle Morgan. She’s completed six books, although three were for practice as she honed her craft! She won or placed in several writing contests.
Plan to help Brenda Chapman celebrate the launch of Butterfly Kills on Sunday, February 8th from 2-4 pm at Whispers pub in Westboro. This is the 2nd in the Stonechild and Rouleau police procedural series – Books on Beechwood will be on hand to sell copies. All are welcome.
