It takes a village to put on a BoucherCon. One of the early conversations we had about BoucherCon concerned coffee, specifically, the need for copious quantities of good coffee.  And tea.  Since two of the three author guests of honor are published by Random House, that house generously stepped up and offered to sponsor the…

It takes a village to run a BoucherCon. Rae Helmsworth, blessed be her name, asked me (back when BCon-San Francisco was but a twinkle in her mischief-filled eye) if I would consider being the US guest of honor.  I had to think about it, for about a thousandth of a second, before I said yes. …

Now, don’t these ladies look as if they’re having a good time?

BoucherCon is underway! We started with a meeting over coffee and fruit with a dozen or so Friends of Laurie, went on to a quick round of handshakes at the newbies’ breakfast (those new to BoucherCon’, not new to LRK) and then got waylaid by the popping up of friends–Val McDermid and Meg Gardiner and…

…but of all the BoucherCons up to 2010, my favorite has to be Monterey, in 1997.  Because it was in my backyard, and I had a new house, I held a housewarming party, for 100 good friends, with beer and burritos.  People drove up, people stopped off on their way down the coast, people came…

(BoucherCon San Francisco starts in three days—take a look at the schedule, and you can always get day passes.  Here’s another memory from a BoucherCon past.) Seattle, BoucherCon 1994, had some sun.  Not LA-in-summer type sun, but still—I’ve lived in the Pacific Northwest, and I know what a treasure blue skies are in October.  I…

(BoucherCon 2010 starts in San Francisco four days from now—you can still register, or get day passes.  In the meantime, I’m posting a handful of memories from BoucherCons [BouchersCon?] past.) I’m a third generation Californian—northern Californian.  I have never been closer to Disneyland than the drop-off outside, I have only been to Yosemite twice, and…

(BoucherCon 2010 starts Thursday in San Francisco—you can still register, or get day passes, including for Saturday when I am on a panel talking about that Holmes fellow.  In the meantime, I’m posting a few BCon memories.) BoucherCon 2001 took place in Washington, DC.  A city reeling from the September 11 attack on the Pentagon,…