Back from Left Coast Crime!

The blog was more silent than usual last week; I was finishing up a project and out of town for the Left Coast Crime conference – a fantastic West Coast mystery convention, organized by volunteers, that takes place in a different location every year. This year’s conference, “Honolulu Havoc” — took place at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Resort in Waikiki (O’ahu, Hawaii) Later that morning, I spoke on the Historical Mystery panel with Rebecca Cantrell, Ovidia Yu, Ann Parker, and fantastic moderator Noel Hynd: Later in the weekend, I moderated a panel on Religion in Crime Fiction, attended even more

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Hackers, Rabbis and Ninjas, OH MY! (Left Coast Crime, Day 1)

I’m at the Left Coast Crime conference in Monterey, CA, this weekend, and having a wonderful time. My wrap-up posts are running a day behind, mostly due to an excess of activity, a load of fun, and a lack of sleep.  Thursday, I spoke on a panel called “Unusual Sleuths: Your Day Job is WHAT?” The panel read like the start of a joke: a hacker, a rabbi, a ninja, a race car driver and a scuba photographer walk into a bar… Our moderator, Ray Daniel, prepared a fabulous list of questions which turned the panel into an ongoing conversation

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