#INWED19 Selfie Competition
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Take part in our 2019 #ExpressYourSelfie INWED competition to win a copy of the Chemical Detective, an exciting first book from Chemical Engineer turned author, Fiona Erskine (a message from the talented Fiona can be found at the bottom of this page).
Taking part is easy, you just need to follow the instructions below using our selfie card and post on social media to be in with a chance. |
How to take part
First, download the #ExpressYourSelfie card by clicking on the image below and print it off.
Next, take a selfie of yourself holding the card or ask someone to take a selfie of you holding it
Finally, post your entry on social media on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook (or all of them!) with the following message for your chance to win a copy of The Chemical Detective (you can copy and paste to save time):
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I'm entering the #INWED19 competition this year to win a copy of the amazing book #TheChemicalDetective by @erskine_fiona. Together we can #TransformTheFuture #WE50 @inwed1919 @wes1919
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Winners will be announced on Friday 28 June on the INWED Twitter account @inwed1919
To let your friends and contacts know about the competition, please share the poster on the right on your social media
Remember to include our official hashtags in all your social media posts! #INWED19 #TransformTheFuture *If you don't have access to a printer you can still enter by posting the social media message without a picture.
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Author of The Chemical Detective - Fiona Erskine
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Transform the Future
In 2019, forty years after starting my career in Chemical Engineering, my first thriller was published.
In The Chemical Detective, Dr Jaqueline Silver blows things up to keep people safe. Working in avalanche control, she stumbles across a something fishy in a consignment of explosives but is disbelieved, suspended, threatened and imprisoned. Escaping to follow a chemical trail across Eastern Europe, pursued by assassins, she uncovers a chemical weapons factory in the Chernobyl exclusion zone and brings the criminals to justice. Why would a full-time professional engineer moonlight as a writer? |
Well, I love a good thriller, but I got tired of the portrayal of women as victims or sexy lamps (a refinement of the Bechdel-Wallace test – check if the female character can be replaced by a sexy lamp without affecting the plot). Where was the female Bond, Bourne, McGuyver, Reacher? Why weren’t women in fiction shown solving mysteries, saving the world and transforming the future as they do in real life? I decided to write the stories I wanted to read.
International Women in Engineering Day is a great day to remember that real life is rarely binary: Male or Female. Arts or Science; Career or Family; Having it All or Losing it All.
Real life is a continuum, most choices are about balance, and no one is better at optimising multiple conflicting demands than a professional engineer.
Lean in and have fun.
The Chemical Detective by Fiona Erskine is out now from Point Blank, the crime imprint of Oneworld, hardback.
www.thechemicaldetective.com
International Women in Engineering Day is a great day to remember that real life is rarely binary: Male or Female. Arts or Science; Career or Family; Having it All or Losing it All.
Real life is a continuum, most choices are about balance, and no one is better at optimising multiple conflicting demands than a professional engineer.
Lean in and have fun.
The Chemical Detective by Fiona Erskine is out now from Point Blank, the crime imprint of Oneworld, hardback.
www.thechemicaldetective.com
