Part One: What happened at Malice …
…doesn’t have to stay at Malice. My panel was “International and Off the Beaten Path Settings. Here’s the low down[…]
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…doesn’t have to stay at Malice. My panel was “International and Off the Beaten Path Settings. Here’s the low down[…]
Read moreI’m talking about writers’ conferences, not relationships! Returning last week from Left Coast Crime in Bellevue, Washington, I found a flurry of comments in my inbox, addressing the question: was it worth it? It’s a good question to ask.
Read moreI’ve been addicted to short stories since reading Shirley Jackson’s, “The Lottery.” Although only 3,400 words long, that story has[…]
Read moreEarlier this month, I traveled to Dubai to teach a Novel-Writing boot camp at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature.[…]
Read moreLast year, the ten winners of the prestigious Emirate Literary Fellowship came to Gotham Writers in NYC, where I work.[…]
Read moreLast year was spectacular for crime fiction conventions. Left Coast Crime in Tuscon, Arizona, was like living in a dream state.
Read morePlease welcome Clay Stafford, the Renaissance man who has developed KILLER NASHVILLE with its Silver Falchion Award into an international[…]
Read moreThis Aug. 12-13, Gotham Writers will launch a brand new Genre Fiction Conference, which will focus on writing and selling novels[…]
Read moreMichael Connelly, author of the Harry Bosch series, spoke about his career and this protagonist in particular, at ThrillerFest earlier[…]
Read moreI just got back from the Golden Crown annual readers and writers conference where Legacy in the Blood, the fourth[…]
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