conferences
Seattle! and Sherlock!
Tonight: Portland. Friday night: Seattle. And also all weekend, because I’m the Guest of Honor at Seattle Sherlock! This Con is going to be more fun than Holmes could imagine, and there are still a few daily passes available, here. For details of Portland, Seattle, and beyond (Columbus, Ohio! San Francisco!) check out the events…
Read MoreMalice!
I write from the fabulous Malice Domestic in Bethesda, MD, where readers devoted to the “traditional mystery”gather to share joys, appreciations, newly discovered passions, and glasses of various beverages. Malice Domestic chose me as their 2013 Guest of Honor, the Silver Anniversary (25 years!) and an honor it is indeed. I arrived yesterday by that…
Read MoreBoucherCon listening
If you’d like to listen in on some of the BoucherCon panels, they’re over here. I moderated #36, with a fabulous quintet of panelists (including Zoe Sharp in the role of an eye-patched and temporarily absent Sean Chercover) and was one of the Sherlockians on Les Klinger’s panel, #54. You can also listen to Deb…
Read MoreA post-BCon post
I had a perfectly grand time at BoucherCon, an event Meg Gardiner calls summer camp for mystery lovers. (Next year it’s in Albany, New York, just in time for the trees turning color–you can register now, here.) Breakfasts with buddies, lunches with friends, dinner with the ragtag gang that call themselves the Friends of Laurie; panels…
Read MoreLet the wild BoucherCon begin!
So, a couple thousand crime writers and fans have descended upon the unsuspecting town of Cleveland, the better to reflect on matters criminous and ever-cleverer ways of committing artistic homicide. And we look so ordinary! BoucherCon is the annual conference of crime writing here in the US, the place where My People hang out, the…
Read MoreMalic-ious Laurie!
Malice Domestic is an annual conference held in Bethesda, MD, dedicated to the traditional mystery, gentle on its surface but roiling with deadly currents beneath. And guess who’s just been named next year’s guest of honor? Guest of Honor: Laurie R. King Toastmaster: Laura Lippman Lifetime Achievement: Aaron Elkins Malice Remembers: Dick Francis International Guest…
Read MoreSt Louis, Denver, & New York (Times)
Since Thursday, I’ve been in St Louis for BoucherCon, the World Mystery Conference, along with 1600 or so other writers, editors, publicists, future writers, and just plain fans. BoucherCon is a mixed conference, as much for fans as for people looking to learn something about the craft and the industry, and it’s often the only…
Read MoreWriting (or not) on the road
Today’s Wednesday on Writing will be brief, since I am in New York for The Edgars, and not only is writing on the iPad a laborious process, I also hit the ground running and have little time for a leisurely reflection on the writing process. Today I will be on a panel in the Edgars…
Read MoreThe conference as tool
Wednesdays here on Mutterings are about the writing process, from nouns to e-readers. Today, since I’m in Santa Fe for Left Coast Crime, I thought I’d talk about the conference as part of a writer’s life. We’re a solitary species, we writers. Except for a few of us who work in tandem, and for those…
Read MoreBoucherCon 2010 (4)
I always begin BoucherCon with the best of intentions when it comes to panels. I search the schedule before I make lunch dates and appointments, because I really do enjoy listening to my fellow writers speak, and after 23 years of writing, I still have a lot to learn. So I go through the preliminary…
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