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Join Partners in Crime, the San Diego Chapter of Sisters in Crime for a day filled with free mystery writing workshops, readings and book signings by bestselling and award-winning mystery authors. Learn how authors keep their readers turning the page until the mystery is solved! Join us for all or part of the day.
All writers will have their books available for sale and signing at the Library Shop independent bookstore located at the Central Library.
All writers and readers of mysteries, suspense, thrillers, or crime are welcome! Registration encouraged. Please scroll down.
10:00 am - 10:50 am | Morning Keynote Speaker: Terry Shames Terry Shames is the author of the Macavity Award-winning A Killing at Cotton Hill, The Last Death of Jack Harbin, Dead Broke in Jarrett Creek, A Deadly Affair at Bobtail Ridge, The Necessary Murder of Nonie Blake, and An Unsettling Crime for Samuel Craddock. 11:00 am - 11:50 am | Panel: You Can’t Kill Me: Why The PI Novel Won’t Die | Panelists: Joe Ide, G.M. Ford, Martin Roy Hill (Moderator: Matt Coyle) 12:00 - 1:00 pm | Lunch on your own (or pre-order on Partners in Crime website) 1:00 pm - 1:50 pm | Panel: Mischief and Mayhem: Middle Grade and Young Adult Mysteries | Panelists: Gretchen McNeil, Barrie Summy, Kiersten Kittscher (Moderator: Kathy Krevat) 2:00 pm - 2:50 pm | Panel: Mysteries with a Supernatural Twist | Panelists: Marcia Buompensiero, Cornelia Feye, April Baldrich (Moderator: Nicole Larson) 3:00 pm - 3:50 pm | fternoon Keynote Speaker: Gretchen McNeil Gretchen McNeil is the author of several young adult horror/suspense novels including Possess, 3:59, Relic, Get Even, Get Dirty, and the award-winning Ten whose film adaptation premiered on Lifetime in 2017 In 2016, she published her first YA comedy I’m Not Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl. Her next novel will be the horror-comedy #Murdertrending. |