Dallas Mystery Writers
All writers welcome
Join when you're ready
Fun mix of beginner to professional

Dallas Mystery Writers
A group of friendly writers enjoying a program at every meeting. Sometimes about writing, sometimes about criming (descriptions, not instructions).
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 necessary — there’s always room for another writer. Stay after the program and break bread(sticks) with your fellow writers.
Contact James with questions
Program for July 5, 2025
Writing Technology Update:
AI Slop to Software to Security and More AI
Taming the Tools to Help You Write Better and Faster
This is your yearly update on all the good and bad parts of technology for writers, with special attention to AI and AI slop and how to use AI to brainstorm, outline, edit, and polish.
Bring your questions, concerns, worries, hopes, and fears to James to answer, validate, console, verify, and banish (in order). In other words, free tech support for the price of breadsticks and spaghetti.
FREE BOOKS!
Want a free copy of The July Fourth Murders, an anthology with four murders during four wars on the Fourth of July by four authors (Susan, Sandy, James, and Penny Richards)? Now's your chance, all for the promise of posting reviews. Seven copies available, and they'll go to the ones most earnest with their review promises.
James Gaskin writes books, articles, and jokes about technology, and consults for those who don't read his books (15 technical and one technical humor) and articles (30+ years of columns, reviews, how-to articles, and gripes about misbehaving vendors). Since technology goes out of date so quickly, he now writes fiction about fun subjects like telepathic teenagers and sentient AI computers, because good stories last forever.
AI Slop to Software to Security and More AI
Taming the Tools to Help You Write Better and Faster
This is your yearly update on all the good and bad parts of technology for writers, with special attention to AI and AI slop and how to use AI to brainstorm, outline, edit, and polish.
Bring your questions, concerns, worries, hopes, and fears to James to answer, validate, console, verify, and banish (in order). In other words, free tech support for the price of breadsticks and spaghetti.
FREE BOOKS!
Want a free copy of The July Fourth Murders, an anthology with four murders during four wars on the Fourth of July by four authors (Susan, Sandy, James, and Penny Richards)? Now's your chance, all for the promise of posting reviews. Seven copies available, and they'll go to the ones most earnest with their review promises.
James Gaskin writes books, articles, and jokes about technology, and consults for those who don't read his books (15 technical and one technical humor) and articles (30+ years of columns, reviews, how-to articles, and gripes about misbehaving vendors). Since technology goes out of date so quickly, he now writes fiction about fun subjects like telepathic teenagers and sentient AI computers, because good stories last forever.
Membership Details
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 (although we’ll miss you).
MEMBERSHIP
BENEFITS:
•No door fee
at meetings
•Zoom link
provided for every meeting.
