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Booked in L.A. - Left Coast Crime 2010
MORGAN ST. JAMES co-authors the comical Silver
Sisters Mysteries series with her real-life sister. It began with the
award-winning “A Corpse in the Soup.” “Seven Deadly Samovars” was released in
September 2009. A third book in the series,“Vanishing Act in Vegas” is in progress. Two new
novels, “A Dream Lost” and “The Devi...l’s Due,” written under the pen name Arliss
Adams, are scheduled for 2010 publication. Morgan is a member of
Sisters in Crime/LA, Sisters in Crime/Southern Nevada. Sheis the editor of the SinC/SNV
newsletter, and is a frequent speaker and panel member.

Jennifer Moore Will send mine to the e-mail site. "Dead Air" by Deborah Shlian and Linda Reid was selected Best Thriller/Adventure in the USA Book News Best Books 2009 Competition.

Booked in L.A. - Left Coast Crime 2010 URGENT REQUEST to AUTHORS registered for LCC 20: please send a bio and publicity photo to leftcoast2010@gmail.com as soon as possible. We would like to include them in the program book as well as on the website. If you don't remember whether you've already submitted them, please email leftcoast 2010@gmail.com to ask.

Booked in L.A. - Left Coast Crime 2010
ANN PARKER lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and slings scientific and corporate verbiage
by day while writing historical mysteries at night. Her award-winning Silver
Rush mystery series, featuring saloon owner Inez Stannert, is set in the
19th-century silver mining boomtown of Leadville, Colorado. LEADEN
SKIES is t...he latest in the series, after SILVER LIES (Willa Literary Award
winner) and IRON TIES (Colorado Book Award winner).

Denise Dietz I'll be there with the latest Ellie Bernstein/Lt. Peter Miller "diet club" mystery, STRANGLE A LOAF OF ITALIAN BREAD. Also, copies of the updated, reissued THROW DARTS AT A CHEESECAKE (where dieters are killed off at goal weight, heh-heh), BEAT UP A COOKIE and CHAIN A LAMB CHOP TO THE BED...in paperback!

Booked in L.A. - Left Coast Crime 2010 CALLING ALL AUTHORS! If you're registered for LCC 20, please send your bio and publicity photo (.jpeg, please) to leftcoast2010@gmail.com.

Booked in L.A. - Left Coast Crime 2010
Former
anthropologist AARON ELKINS's novels have won an Edgar, an Agatha (with wife
Charlotte), and a Nero Wolfe Award. His
major series features forensic anthropologist-detective Gideon Oliver, "the
skeleton detective . He and Charlotte
have collaborated on five mysteries with female protagonist golfer Lee Ofsted, d...espite which
they remain (relatively) happily married. His books have been published in
over a dozen languages and have been made into a major ABC television
series. Although
now a full-time writer, he keeps his hand in by serving as forensic
anthropologist for the Olympic Peninsula Cold Case Task Force in Washington
State.

Booked in L.A. - Left Coast Crime 2010
ELIZABETH SIMS is the author of the Rita Farmer series ("The Author", "The Actress") and the Lambda Award-winning Lillian Byrd mysteries. Her formative years were spent investigating the lives
of Nancy Drew, Laura Ingalls, and Sherlock Holmes, as well as making gunpowder
in the basement with her chemistry set. Now, as... a published crime author, she's
living proof that studying literature and misbehaving with reactive compounds
can work out. She's a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in
Crime, and Mensa International.

Jane Burfield I booked into LCC and the forensics day yesterday. Sounds like another great conference.

Booked in L.A. - Left Coast Crime 2010 MARY JANE MAFFINI rides herd on three series: Charlotte Adams is a professional organizer in upstate New York, Camilla MacPhee snoops in Ottawa, and Fiona Silk may be the most reluctant sleuth in West Quebec. Before turning to crime, MJ had lots of mysterious fun as a librarian and a mystery bookseller. She lives in Ot...tawa with her long-suffering husband and two spoiled dachsunds.

Booked in L.A. - Left Coast Crime 2010 ADAM EISENBERG is the author of "A Different Shade of Blue: How Women Changed the Face of Police Work". At present, he is the Commissioner of the Seattle Municipal Court, but has been a criminal prosecutor, a civil trial attorney,an advocate on mental health & domestic violence issues, and an entertainment journalist. ... His work has appeared in magazines such as American Cinematographer, Cinefantastique and Cinefex, as well as several major national newspapers.

Booked in L.A. - Left Coast Crime 2010
MIKE BEFELERturned his attention to writing after a career in high technology
marketing. His debut novel, "Retirement Homes are Murder" was published in January 2007, and the second in the Geezer-lit series, "Living with Your Kids is Murder" was published in April. Mike is active in organizations that promote a positi...ve image of aging. He lives in Colorado with his wife.























