Upcoming Meetings
December 8th – Join us for Mystery and Mistletoe!
Kick off your holiday season with RMMWA’s annual holiday party, Mystery and Mistletoe, on December 8th from 6-9 pm MST! The in-person party will be held at the Colorado Automobile Dealers Association at 290 Speer Boulevard in Denver, and we’ll also broadcast a live, interactive hybrid meeting via Zoom. The party will feature a special dinner menu, and swag bags given out featuring books and other fun items from our chapter authors.
Festivities will feature announcement of the finalists and winners of our Sixth Annual Six-Word Mystery Contest, plus a performance of Dancing Dan’s Christmas, a holiday play featuring our extremely talented RMMWA members.
To attend in person, please register using the link below. No registration is needed to attend via Zoom. Members will receive the meeting link via email; non-members, please contact chapterpres@rmmwa.org to request access.
Dancing Dan’s Christmas
Dancing Dan is quite the dapper man. That is until he is wanted for dancing with the wrong doll. Evading his troubles by going to a bar, Dan joins some friends for a night of Tom and Jerry’s. But can Dan escape the villain after him? Will he find his Christmas spirit when he steals Santa’s identity and goes from naughty to nice? Join your fellow members for this fun Christmas play and find out if the ending to Dancing Dan’s Christmas is a stocking full of candy…or coal.
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Special Announcements
2022 Six-Word Mystery Contest is Closed
The RMMWA’s annual Six-Word Mystery contest for 2022 is now closed. Thank you to all who entered!
Next, finalists in each category will be selected by our judges. Final voting to determine the winners will take place during our annual Mystery and Mistletoe party in December. Please watch for details here at RMMWA.org.
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News and Notes
What Rocky Mountain MWA Means to Me
by Stephanie Kane
A place to be myself. Where I don’t have to explain why I write crime books or took a break only to pick back up again. Where grey hair and fresh faces are welcome and respected. Where tales of the publishing wars are freely shared, victories are applauded and tips about everything from crafting villains to querying agents are generously exchanged. Where decent folks talk about indecent things and I can connect with old and new friends. read more…
November 2022 Mystery Minute
by ZJ Czupor
She Won the Edgar and Didn’t Know What it Was
1946 was a seminal year.
It was the beginning of the Baby Boomer Generation.
Harry Truman was our president.
Not unlike today, people worried about major shortages in jobs and shortages in housing, especially for those returning from WWII.
Winston Churchill gave his famous “Iron Curtain” speech in Fulton, MO.
Cher and Jimmy Buffet were born, along with Ted Bundy, Freddie Mercury, Dolly Parton, Steven Spielberg, Sylvester Stallone, George W. Bush, and Donald J. Trump.
The ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was unveiled at the Univ. of Pennsylvania as the first general-purpose electronic computer. It ran on 18,000 vacuum tubes and several miles of wiring. It took up 1,800 square feet and weighed 27 tons.
AT&T announced the first car phones. They weighed 80 pounds and were marketed to companies rather than individuals.
Tupperware was sold in department stores and hardware stores and the bikini went on sale July 5th in Paris. The risqué two-piece swimming suit took its name from the recent atomic testing done by the U.S. at Bikini Atoll, a coral reef in the Marshall Islands.
Also, in late 1946, in New York City, The Edgar was born. read more…