February 2025
Claire Booth – My latest book, Home Fires, has been nominated for a Lefty Award for Best Novel. It’s the sixth in my Sheriff Hank Worth mystery series and is available now. The Lefties will be awarded at Left Coast Crime in Denver on March 15.
Robert Coburn – I have a new website. RobertCoburnBooks.com. It was designed by Jane Carper in Key West, FL.
I kinda like it.
Vinnie Hansen – My short story “Downward Dog” is included in the eighth Guppy anthology, Gone Fishin’: Crime Takes a Holiday, releasing in February. A yoga retreat might seem like the perfect place to bag babes and scam older women, but…
My flash story “Eavesdropper” has been accepted by Guilty Crime Story Magazine with a pub date in February. An overheard conversation could be criminal.
Ted Haynes – I have adapted my latest mystery, The Sunriver Murders, into a stage play which the Sunriver Stars Community Theater is excited to perform for the first time in June of 2026.
Laurie R. King was so happy to hear that her Russell & Holmes novel, The Lantern’s Dance, got a big cheer from the attendees of Left Coast Crime, who nominated it for a Best Historical Lefty.
Jennifer K. Morita – I was thrilled to hear that Ghosts of Waikiki has been nominated for a Lefty Award for Best Debut Mystery. I’m truly honored and touched. Congratulations to all the nominees!
Here’s my schedule:
- Saturday, Feb.1 at 2:30 PM I will be at the Yuba City Library, 750 Forbes Ave., discussing my writing journey and debut novel Ghosts of Waikiki with the Sutter County Friends of the Library. A Q&A and book signing will follow. I will be donating proceeds from the day’s book sales to the California Community Foundation/Wildfire Recovery Fund to help victims of the Southern California wildfires.
- Saturday, Feb. 15 beginning at 2 PM I will be signing copies of Ghosts of Waikiki at the Roseville Barnes & Noble, 1256 Galleria Blvd. in the Creekside Town Center.
- Monday, Feb. 17 at noon, I will be at the Alta Mira Club’s Mystery Writers Tea with authors Simon Wood and Karen A. Phillips.
- Saturday, March 1 at 2 PM I will be at the Folsom Public Library, 411 Stafford St., discussing my writing journey and Ghosts of Waikiki. as well as signing books.
Lewis Perdue – I will be presenting a Master Class called “Weapons, Warfare, and High Caliber Writing,” on Sunday, February 9, 2025, from 2-5 PM at the San Francisco Writers Conference.
Find further information and sign-up here.
Mary Rae – My co-author, Wanda Venters, MD, and I published our third book, Breaking News, in December 2024.
Breaking News is the third book in our prize-winning Finnerty-Liccione series. We were finalists for the Colorado Book Award for Break Bone Fever in 2022 and winners of the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award for best thriller for Breaking Apart in 2024.
Domenic Stansberry – My new novel, The Lizard, is coming May, 2025. New trade editions of my Hammett Prize winner, The White Devil, and also of The Confession—recipient of an Edgar—will be released to the trade at the same time.
Laura Jensen Walker – I’m thrilled to share that my historical fiction debut, Death of a Flying Nightingale, has been nominated for Best Historical at the upcoming Lefty Awards, March 15, at Left Coast Crime in Denver!
David Wolf – I recently completed audiobook production of all my novels and short stories, even including three mini-stories, some 15 in all. They can be seen here.
This website is new to me and seems to have great potential. My own website is here, where you will see my dozen novels in several different genres.