Tucson, MIE's On Its Way.

 

Saturday–Jeff

 

Next Thursday I’ll be in Tucson for Left Coast Crime, a conference I love, and not just because it once honored me as a nominee for Best Mystery in a Foreign Setting.  As an aside, when you’re nominated in the same category as Louise Penny (or William Kent Krueger) you soon learn to appreciate just the honor of the nomination. 

 

Left Coast Crime simply is one of those gems of a conference that always seems to pick just the right place to be, and the perfect folk to honor.  In this year selecting our own Sujata Massey as a Guest of Honor, LCC continues a tradition of conferring well-deserved praise upon our MIE contributors. In 2014 LCC Monterey chose Cara Black as a Guest of Honor, and in 2015 LCC Portland selected Tim Hallinan.

 

How can you not love a conference that shows such terrific taste in choosing its Guests of Honor?  By the way, each year’s LCC picks a catchy name for itself, and Tucson’s is “Trouble in Tucson.”  Here’s a link to all the info on next week’s conference.

 

I’m looking forward to breaking my three-year-long Covid induced absence from the US mystery conference circuit with this trip to Arizona––land of the Saguaro and other prickly things.

 

I’ll be participating in two panels, one as a panelist on Friday and the other as a moderator on Saturday, each kicks off at 9AM Pacific Time. I think I pulled that time slot because I’ll still be functioning on Eastern Time aka 12 noon.

 

Here are the details on my appearances:

 

Friday, March 17 @ 9:00AM

Left Coast Crime

Tucson, AZ – El Conquistador, Turquoise 1

Participating in Panel moderated by Alice Volpe titled, “Crimes Around the World,” with co-panelists Connie Berry, Juliet Grames, Carlene O’Connor.

 

Saturday, March 18 @ 9:00AM

Left Coast Crime

Tucson, AZ – El Conquistador, Presidio 1-2

Moderating Panel titled, “Both Sides of the Law,” with panelists Curtis Ippolito, Margaret Morse, Karen Odden, Michael Sears

 

And here are some photos from a past LCC conference in Hawaii.  I’ll have new ones for you next week.

 

––Jeff

 

The view from our hotel room of the complex hosting the conference:

Our Murder is Everywhere blogmates hard at work...on the right:

Sujata

Susan

Faces in the crowd:

Maryglenn McCombs, Ovida Yu, Dru Ann Love,  Anonymous Photobomber

Robert Rosenwald, Barbara Peters, Interloper

Ragnar Jonasson, Barry Lancet