I attended Left Coast Crime
last week, a writers and readers conference held annually at
different locations in the Western United States. This year’s venue
was Monterey, California—famous for its squid catch—so the
conference was dubbed “Calamari Crime.”
The event consisted
primarily of panel discussions among authors discussing their own
books, the craft of writing, marketing and publicity, trends in
mysteries, what agents look for in a manuscript, and various other
issues of import to readers and writers.
