Sheila Lowe's blog

If you weren't there, you missed a great event. The excitement crackled! More than 30 vendors, great hors d'oeuvres, a whole lot of guests.
Big thanks to our fabulous special events team: Tony Mitchell, Mary Gabriels, Jeanne Laureen Lazarro, Linda McCarthy, Jeanne Haines for making this such a wonderful evening.

The November meeting will feature our Silent Auction--time to start shopping for the holidays! If you have something you'd like to contribute, send an email to info@vcpwn.org.

Carol Leish will be appearing on KKZZ 1400 radio on October 15th at 4:00 p.m. The show will be about heroes, and Carol is one! Tune in, call in.

On October 8, VCPWN will provide a showcase for our members and an opportunity for non-members to experience the warmth and hospitality that we share.

We've got some great vendors lined up to display and sell their goods and services at this event. Now we need people to attend and see what's available! Tell everyone who you think would benefit from the Mixer/Expo and who might be interested in joining one of Ventura County's premiere professional women's organizations.

Where: The Wedgewood at 5880 Olivas Park, Ventura
When: October 8, 5:30-8:00 p.m.

On Tuesday, August 4, Martha Jaffe hosted a fabulous party at her home in the Keys to celebrate the release of my new mystery novel, Dead Write. About 75 friends and other readers showed up to enjoy good food, good company, and good bevs poured by Jim (Diego de bartendre) Nicoll. One couple came from Pahrump, NV!

I've posted most of the photos on my Facebook page, but here's one of Nancy Gregg-Keller and me, taken by Tessa Weeks.

Application for a table to showcase your services and goods:
VCPWN Table-Top Mixer and Bus Expo Application

The one thing better than having my first two forensic handwriting mystery novels released last year is having the third one come out on August 4! In DEAD WRITE, handwriting expert Claudia Rose goes to the Big Apple...

Dating can be dangerous, so clients who can afford the services of eccentric Russian "baroness", Grusha Olinetsky, are willing to pay the hundred thousand dollar fee she charges for an introduction to their perfect mate.

A few weeks ago, I was interviewed by Dateline NBC in the Clark Rockefeller case, but if you blinked, you might have missed it. I knew the 30 minutes or so interview would be cut down, but I never expected it to end up being about 90 seconds! The day before the episode aired, they were able to interview some of the jurors, so most of my part was cut. Oh well.
I've posted the slides I made for the show, which we discussed during the interview: http://sheilalowe.com/documents/rockefeller.pdf

Over the weekend I lectured at a conference in Las Vegas given by the Public Safety Writers Association. Most of the attendees were in law enforcement who have written books or articles. I was there to talk about how handwriting analysis could help them understand their characters better by looking at what motivates them.
The hotel was off the Strip, my room was fantastic (and very inexpensive!). One entire wall was glass, looking out over a golf course and in the distance, the mountains.

Come to the June 11 general meeting for the installation of the new Leadership Team. As announced last month, the structure of the Board of Directors has changed to an executive board made up of 7 members, and committees to handle all the other jobs. The LT met for the first time on May 30 for a Team Retreat, where we got to know each other better and brainstormed ideas for growing VCPWN (Minutes of the meeting are posted on this site: http://vcpwn.org/node/24).

Handwriting analysts Sheila Lowe and Linda Larson were guests on the Dr. Bunny Show on KKZZ 1400 AM radio. They discussed how depression and anxiety can be seen in handwriting, and they gave some graphotherapy exercises to help alleviate stress.
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