One
of my favorite mystery conferences is Men of Mystery, which was held Saturday,
November 17, in Irvine, California. Joan Hansen puts on a wonderful day-long
conference with fifty male mystery writers and over 400 fans. The morning
keynote speaker, Joseph Finder, described the opportunity he’s found to get “people
to say indiscreet things and then write novels about it.” He mentioned with
Hollywood options on novels, “You can die of encouragement.” His novel High
Crimes was made into a movie, and he had a chance to play an extra in the film.
At Men of Mystery, Joan carried a microphone around, and each of us had one
minute to give a pitch to the attendees. After a late morning break to sign
books, we reconvened at tables to have lunch and speak with the fans sitting
with each of us. Three high school writers were honored (see picture with
Joseph Finder) and the afternoon keynotes were given by John Lescroart and
James Rollins. All in all and enjoyable day.
I also had a chance to visit my kids and grandkids who live in the Los Angeles area. Here's my granddaughter wearing my Geezer-lit Mysteries hat.
2 comments:
I just saw your interview at Patricia Stoltey's blog. I'm glad I did. I love crime fiction, and "geezer lit" intrigues me as I'm on the short end of life that's getting shorter too quickly :)
I just read the beginning of Retirement Homes are Murder and bookmarked it to buy with my "book money" in January. Beginning of a new year. What better time than this to discover a new (to me) writer?
Ann Best’s Blog
Ann,
Thanks for starting Retirement Homes Are Murder. If you get a kick out of the series, the fifth book, Care Homes Are Murder, will be published in June, 2013.
Mike
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