I have the honor of hosting the Meet the New Authors Breakfast at the Left Coast Crime Conference on Friday, March 17, in Tucson. Sisters in Crime is sponsoring the breakfast.
We have 17 new mystery authors whose books run
from cozy to suspense to thriller and take place in California, Arizona, New
Mexico, Washington, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Minnesota, England, and on an
Atlantic cruise ship. The criterion is
that their first mystery/crime/thriller must be published within 2022 and up to
March 19, 2023.
Why do we have this program? To pay tribute to
new authors who have run the gauntlet of rejection, agents, editors or
self-publishing to get books into the hands of loyal fans.
A little history. The first Meet the New Authors
Breakfast was at LCC2008 in Denver. The minimum number of new authors was 2009
on the Big Island of Hawaii at 12. The maximum was 2014 at 44. Originally, we
called it the New Authors Breakfast, but people thought it was only for new
authors to come to breakfast.
Each new author will have up to 1 minute to tell
the attendees the most important thing they should know about the debut novel.
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