Posts Tagged ‘conferences’
BoucherCon Revisited (V)
…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…
Read MoreBoucherCon Revisited (IV)
(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…
Read MoreBoucherCon Revisited (III)
(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…
Read MoreBoucherCon Revisited (II)
(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,…
Read MoreBoucherCon revisited (I)
(BoucherCon starts Thursday in San Francisco—you can still register, or get day passes, including for Friday when I am grilled—er, interviewed by Dana Stabenow. I’ll post in the days leading up to BCon with memories about BCons past.) “Are you a writer?” Um, well. This was 1990, in London, and although I had been writing…
Read MoreBoucherMania!
Three weeks from today, BoucherCon starts. BoucherCon is the annual conference of crime writers, readers, and professionals, a four day combination family reunion, frat party, business meeting, and master class in writing. It’s a hell of a lot of fun, a year’s worth of mental stimulation, and a chance to see those friends you see,…
Read MoreThe happening place
I’m in Los Angeles for Left Coast Crime, the mystery conference for the country’s looser nuts. It doesn’t begin until this afternoon, which leaves me a few hours to frantically catch up on work. And to write a blog telling about how I’m frantically catching up on work, which seems like cheating, somehow. In any…
Read MoreThe world-wide convention
Yesterday all over the world, people went to a conference. I took place on two panels, one with Lee Child and our editor Kate Miciak (who were in New Jersey and Long Island, respectively,) the other with Nevada Barr (in New Orleans.) Since then I’ve listened to various other panels, including a conversation between the…
Read MoreFab Friday at BCon
Friday in Indy, lots of business gets done. People who come to BoucherCon primarily as readers (the “fans”) may not be aware that the Con is also a trade show, with writers as the manufacturers of product. My morning began with a long breakfast meeting with my editor, Kate Miciak, during which we covered everything…
Read MoreBoucherCon ’09 Thursday
The problem with filling BoucherCons with meetings is that there is no time to listen to panels, which I enjoy doing. And yesterday I was in two panels, plus half an hour sitting the Mystery News desk, and a meeting with a nice gent from the Lilly library who are collecting papers for their archives…
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