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The San Juan Islands are a perfect location in which to set a mystery full of gorgeous scenery, interesting history, intriguing islands, coves, channels, and beaches, and  a variety of communities that practically beg to be included in what could be modern or historic plots.  With three days to appreciate all this, you can learn how to incorporate it into the beginnings of a compelling tale, and how better to do that than aboard the Schooner Zodiac?  This 3 day San Juan Island Cruise is a perfect summer getaway whether you are interested in writing or along for some sailing. 

Instructor: Sue Henry 

Sue Henry is the author of award winning, internationally published mysteries, a past president of Sisters in Crime, a former administrator for Alaskan Adult Basic Education, and an instructor of writing for the University of Alaska Anchorage.  Her teaching credits include a variety of classes and workshops in scene and structure, character building, point of view, dialogue, plot--even autobiography.  Whether you are a beginner or an experienced writer, she can help you decide what kind of book or story you'd like to write and how to get started.

Having lived in Fairbanks, Juneau, and Anchorage (where she currently resides), she has traveled widely in Alaska and western Canada, and has used many of the places she visited and people she has met as settings and characters for her books.  
 

Murder on the Iditarod Trail was the first of her Alaskan Jessie Arnold mysteries, followed by eleven more.  Three of these have ties to the Inside Passage: Termination Dust and Death Takes Passage (both based around the Klondike Gold Rush, the latter taking place on the 1998 Centennial run from Skagway to Seattle), and Murder at Five Finger Light (set on an island lighthouse in Frederick Sound between Juneau and Petersburg).

Sue also writes a second spin-off series of mysteries featuring Alaskan senior citizen, Maxie McNabb, who travels in a Winnebago motor home with her mini-dachshund, Stretch, to places used as settings for mysteries. Three of the Maxie and Stretch mysteries (The Serptents Tail, The Tooth of Time, and efuThe Refuge) have been published and a fourth (The End of the Road) will be released in the spring of 2009.

Where to find Sue Henry's Books:

All books listed are still in print and available at, or can be ordered from, most local bookstores.  We will have some available to purchase on this cruise.  

Seattle Mystery Books

 117 Cherry St.

Seattle, WA 98104-2205

Phone: 206-587-5737

www.seattlemystery.com