What Mystery Conventions Are You Going To in 2023?
2023 Mystery Convention Round-up. Can’t wait to see real people!
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Publishing roulette
I spent last weekend at the NY Pitch Conference, working with authors who were pitching their books to publishing agents[…]
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3 Lessons from the NY Pitch Conference
I’ve been a workshop leader at the NY Pitch Conference for more than a decade. That means that four times[…]
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We’re All In This Together
Last Sunday I returned from New England Crime Bake, my first in-person writers’ conference since the start of the pandemic. Gathering together with fellow authors was a joy. As wonderful as social media is, as wonderful as Zoom can be, we crave face-to-face with other human beings. That’s how we’re built.
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Locked Room Mysteries
Locked room mysteries are awesome because they usually present the environment as an oppositional adversary. It’s easy to imagine oneself trapped with a killer, and how delicious to burrow under a blanket and know you’re safe, while reading about people who most certainly aren’t.
So, here are three locked room mysteries I’ve read lately that are chilling, thrilling, and all around awesome.
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Can we talk about shoes?
A few years ago, I went to the Boucheron World Mystery Convention, when it was in Toronto. One thing led[…]
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I Came, I Hosted, I Laughed
Thanks to ProWritingAid’s Crime Writers’ Week conference, I can check panel moderator off the list of things I’ve never done. I hosted a Thriller Panel Discussion with Karin Slaughter, Jennifer Hillier, Lisa Gardner, Ian Rankin, and Steve Berry. Was I nervous? Heck, yeah. Should I have been? Nope. All of the panelists were charming and witty and graceful, and a fabulous time was had by all.
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Agatha nominations
It’s Agatha Award nominating time, which means that people in the cozy mystery community are going through the books and stories we’ve read this year and cogitating over which ones we’d like to nominate. (Ballots are due in electronically by March 6.)
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To Conference or Not To Conference
Book conferences – should I stay or should I go?
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