I am very excited [and fortunate] to be attending Bouchercon 2014 hosted in Long Beach
California under Chair Ingrid Willis, and her team. It’s a long journey from
London to the West Coast of America - made exciting and amusing by my wonderful
friends and travel companions Mike
Stotter and Roger Ellory.
I am very proud to be a member of the Bouchercon Board, putting something back
into the genre that I love; as experience has shown me that viewing
reality through the parallax prism that is Crime, Mystery and Thriller fiction, a most enlightening experience.
So after Long Beach, next year Bouchercon is being hosted
in Raleigh, North Carolina – with novelist and academic Stacey Cochran Charing the team, with
me helping on the Programming.
2015 Raleigh, NC 8/10 –
11/10* > www.bouchercon2015.org
2017 Toronto, Canada 12/10 – 15/10 >
web page to follow
*Raleigh, North Carolina is named
after the famous British Explorer Sir Walter Raleigh who amongst other matters is
credited in being the bloke responsible for bringing Tobacco to Europe
So as we board that West Bound 747 next week, we are
delighted to see that The Blouchercon Long Beach have developed a wonderful app
for Iphone
and Android.
I’ve tested it today, and it is really superb, like having the Bouchercon
Website in your palm, but with relational databases, making searching for
authors, colleagues, panels, information fast and easy. Janet of Mystery
Readers has more
information here, with download links.
If you are coming, say hello to Mike, Roger and I.
I am
moderating two panels that might be of interest, so please look us up.
And finally, here’s some music that I’m listening to as I
pack for the Journey West, and get my frame of mind sorted.
LA
Woman by The Doors
It Never Rains In Southern
California by Albert Hammond
Hollywood Nights by Bob
Seger and The Silver Bullet Band
Say
Goodbye to Hollywood by Billy Joel
Hotel
California by The Eagles
Carmelita
by Warren Zevon
Lodi
by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Macarthur
Park by Donna Summer
Little
Wine Drinker, Me by Dean Martin
Come
a Long Way by Michelle Shocked
from Paul Hamilton on Vimeo.
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