The Dallas Mystery Writers

We are open to writers of all genres from mystery to romance to speculative fiction and all points in between. If you want to write, or write better, you are welcome to attend any of our regular workshops. Zoom Access, onsite prepayments, and support for the group’s continuing efforts (dues, kinda) are $50 per year. Members attend in-person meetings for free, and get the Zoom link for meetings they prefer to attend remotely. MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS: • No door fee at meetings • Zoom link provided for every meeting • NEW! Free 30 minute one-on-one session with one professional writer member (LaRee, Sandy, Susan, or James) each year.

PAY DUES HERE

LOCATION:

The Dallas Mystery Writers meets the first Saturday of each month (except January) at the Olive Garden, 4240 Belt Line (at Midway), Addison, TX, 75001. Meeting time is 10:15 AM – Noon, followed by lunch. There is a $10 fee for non-members (cash only) for the program and drinks-only attendees when we meet in person (members get in automatically). No reservations are necessary there’s always room for another writer. All who attend are encouraged to remain and break bread(sticks) with your fellow writers. Contact info: james@gaskin.com

Dallas Mystery Writer Events:

Saturday, May 4, 2024

10:15 AM - Meeting in Person

(And on Zoom! for members)

The Second Time Around

OR

The Truth About

Re-publishing Your Backlist

Janis Susan May Patterson

One person, many authors

In 2023 our own Susan Patterson (writing as Janis Susan May in romance and other things, Janis Patterson in traditional mysteries, Janis Susan Patterson in childrens, J. S. May in horror, and J. S. M. Patterson in non-fiction, scholarly and Egyptology) re- published 23 of her backlist novels. She’s going to tell us how she did it and share some tips on how to make re-releasing your backlist as easy and painless as possible. Janis Susan May Patterson is a seventh-generation Texan and a third-generation wordsmith who writes mysteries as Janis Patterson, romances and other things as Janis Susan May, children’s books as Janis Susan Patterson, horror as J.S. May, and scholarly works as J.S.M. Patterson. Formerly an actress and singer, a talent agent and Supervisor of Accessioning for a bio-genetic DNA testing lab, Janis has also been editor-in-chief of two multi-magazine publishing groups. She founded and was the original editor of The Newsletter of the North Texas Chapter of the American Research Center in Egypt, which for the nine years of her reign was the international organization’s only monthly publication. Long interested in Egyptology, she was one of the founders of the North Texas chapter and was the closing speaker for the ARCE International Conference in Boston in 2005. Janis married for the first time when most of her contemporaries were becoming grandmothers. Her husband, a handsome Navy Captain several years younger than she, even proposed in a moonlit garden in Egypt. Janis and her husband live in Texas with an assortment of rescued furbabies.

The Dallas

Mystery Writers

We are open to writers of all genres from mystery to romance to speculative fiction and all points in between. If you want to write, or write better, you are welcome to attend any of our regular workshops. Zoom Access, onsite prepayments, and support for the group’s continuing efforts (dues, kinda) are $50 per year. Members attend in-person meetings for free, and get the Zoom link for meetings they prefer to attend remotely. MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS: • No door fee at meetings • Zoom link provided for every meeting • NEW! Free 30 minute one- on-one session with one professional writer member (LaRee, Sandy, Susan, or James) each year.

PAY DUES HERE

LOCATION:

The Dallas Mystery Writers meets the first Saturday of each month (except January) at the Olive Garden, 4240 Belt Line (at Midway), Addison, TX, 75001. Meeting time is 10:15 AM – Noon, followed by lunch. There is a $10 fee for non- members (cash only) for the program and drinks-only attendees when we meet in person (members get in automatically). No reservations are necessary there’s always room for another writer. All who attend are encouraged to remain and break bread(sticks) with your fellow writers. Contact info: james@gaskin.com

Dallas Mystery

Writer Events:

Saturday, May 4,

2024

10:15 AM -

Meeting in Person

(And on Zoom! for

members)

The Second Time

Around

OR

The Truth About

Re-publishing

Your Backlist

Janis Susan May

Patterson

One person, many

authors

In 2023 our own Susan Patterson (writing as Janis Susan May in romance and other things, Janis Patterson in traditional mysteries, Janis Susan Patterson in childrens, J. S. May in horror, and J. S. M. Patterson in non-fiction, scholarly and Egyptology) re- published 23 of her backlist novels. She’s going to tell us how she did it and share some tips on how to make re-releasing your backlist as easy and painless as possible. Janis Susan May Patterson is a seventh-generation Texan and a third-generation wordsmith who writes mysteries as Janis Patterson, romances and other things as Janis Susan May, children’s books as Janis Susan Patterson, horror as J.S. May, and scholarly works as J.S.M. Patterson. Formerly an actress and singer, a talent agent and Supervisor of Accessioning for a bio-genetic DNA testing lab, Janis has also been editor-in-chief of two multi- magazine publishing groups. She founded and was the original editor of The Newsletter of the North Texas Chapter of the American Research Center in Egypt, which for the nine years of her reign was the international organization’s only monthly publication. Long interested in Egyptology, she was one of the founders of the North Texas chapter and was the closing speaker for the ARCE International Conference in Boston in 2005. Janis married for the first time when most of her contemporaries were becoming grandmothers. Her husband, a handsome Navy Captain several years younger than she, even proposed in a moonlit garden in Egypt. Janis and her husband live in Texas with an assortment of rescued furbabies.