Writers' Conferences & Book Festivals, 2016

JUNE 2016

June 10-12
MYSTERY WRITERS KEY WEST FEST Key West, FL

June 11
CRIME STORY WEEKEND Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

June 22-28
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ROMAN NOIR Frontignan, France

June 23-28
AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE Orlando, FL

JULY 2016

July 5-9
THRILLERFEST New York, NY

July 15-17
PUBLIC SAFETY WRITERS CONFERENCE Las Vegas, NV

July 21-24
PULPFEST Columbus, OH

July 21-24
THEAKSTONS OLD PECULIER CRIME FESTIVAL Harrogate, UK

July 28-31
BOOK PASSAGE MYSTERY WRITERS CONFERENCE Corte Madera, CA

AUGUST 2016

August 13
SUFFOLK MYSTERY AUTHORS FESTIVAL Suffolk, VA

August 13-29
EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL Edinburgh, Scotland

August 18-21
KILLER NASHVILLE Nashville, TN

SEPTEMBER 2016

September 14-18
INTERNATIONAL AGATHA CHRISTIE FESTIVAL Torquay, Devon, UK

September 15-18
BOUCHERCON New Orleans, LA

September 24
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS BOOK FESTIVAL Washington, DC

September 25-30
FALL FOR THE BOOK George Mason University Fairfax, VA

September 30-October 2
CREATURES, CRIMES & CREATIVITY Baltimore, MD

OCTOBER 2016

October 26-30
NOIR CON Philadelphia, PA

October 28-30
MAGNA CUM MURDER Indianapolis, IN

NOVEMBER 2016

November 11-13
NEW ENGLAND CRIME BAKE Goffstown, NH

November 17-20
ICELAND NOIR Reykjavik, Iceland

Coffee Break — May 3

The new mystery series has been outlined. Characters were named and assigned a role. I’m hiring an ebook cover designer. The books won’t be available until all the stories have been written and all the covers have been made. Afterward, I’m submitting them to Amazon’s CreateSpace so I’ll also have paperback copies.

However...

I just discovered Amazon Storywriter. Right away I knew I wanted to use this free service to adapt one of my novels to a screenplay. I very much wanted to do this a couple of years ago, but I couldn’t get the hang of it. Storywriter does my thinking (and formatting) for me.

I’m anxious to begin.