Events
The Quiet
The streets of the world are still, other than the occasional idiot who decides that the chance of driving 95 mph down the center of New York is just too good to pass up. Citizens look out their windows, astonished, as distant hills come into view, the waters of Venice and Paris are looking weirdly…
Read MoreJoin Russell & Holmes…
The auction to name a character in the next Russell & Holmes story closes Wednesday. I would so love to give Second Harvest a nice big sum for their drive-by groceries program, which feeds workers left hungry by the quarantine. And frankly, going strictly by past auctions at BoucherCon and the like (rather than my…
Read MoreViolence & Women, in Crime Fiction
Tonight’s my online conversation with Charlaine Harris and Dana Cameron, a fundraiser for the Pixels Project that fights violence against women. We’ll be talking about—well, knowing us, we’ll talk about all kinds of things, but mainly about women and violence in crime fiction. As part of the Pixels fundraiser, they’ve put bundles up for sale…
Read MoreVideo meetup
Well, it’s been an… interesting month, hasn’t it? Two weeks ago, I was in San Diego for a conference. Today, I’m not sure any of us will ever travel again… So, in that spirit, we’re embracing the virtual reach-out. Yesterday I spent a very brisk hour of keyboarding with a chat with the Beekeeper’s Apprentices FB…
Read MoreYou, Too, Can Become a Beekeeper’s Apprentice!
The next Russell & Holmes book (Riviera Gold) will be out June 9, five months from today! So to mark the occasion, today the Community of the Like-Minded Reader is branching out into a new Facebook group we’re calling The Beekeeper’s Apprentices: It’ll be a free-ranging group, discussing and posting and gossiping about, well, pretty much…
Read MoreBoucherCon, LRK-style
The panel schedule is out for Bouchercon (here) so I thought I’d let you know where I’ll be. You can find me wandering the hallways, always willing to chat with fans-and-friends and I’ll be dropping in at the Mystery Writers of America table, but more formally, I’ll be at— Thursday morning, in the book room…
Read MoreFun with adverts
One of the fun things we do here in Team LRK is put together ads and images for various projects. I toss down some words and ideas, then Robert the Photoshop King tries to make sense of them. We always go back and forth a hundred times, but we always end up with something I…
Read MoreYoung Writers event
Join us for a fun time Friday–
Read MoreMystery Week events!
It’s MYSTERY WEEK …for Mystery Writers of America, NorCal. And as it happens, I’ve been roped into three of the events: Saturday 20, 6:30: San Francisco I‘ll be moderatingNoir at the Bar for Litquake/SF at what looks like an amazing venue: Amnesia beer hall, at 853 Valencia. Come and raise a glass (they also have…
Read MoreSaturday in Victoria BC!
Anyone out there live in the vicinity of Victoria, Canada? If so, come around for this great panel-and-chat at Bolen Books this Saturday night. And if you know anyone there, let them know!
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