March 22-25, 2018
If you’re heading to Left Coast Crime this year, please say hello! I’ll be on the “Lefty Award Nominees: Best Humorous Mystery” panel with Donna Andrews, Ellen Byron, Marla Cooper, and Janet Rudolph on Friday (2:45 pm) and “The Door is Still Open: Academic & Bookstore Mysteries” panel with Bourne Morris, Vinnie Hansen, Maggie Topkis, and Randal Brandt on Sunday (9 am). Hope to see you in Reno!
March 3, 2018
Denver Central Library
10:30 am – 4 pm
The Colorado Book Festival will offer a full day of panels, tours, signings, and conversations.
If you love reading and writing, check out this free event! For more information, please visit www.cobookfestival.com.
February 9-12, 2018
Sisters in Crime-Colorado will be at the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting and Exhibits.
Please visit our booth in the Exhibit Hall and say hello!
| Shifts | Authors |
| Friday 2/9 5:30-7 | Becky Clark, Cynthia Kuhn, Peg Brantley |
| Saturday 2/10 9-11 | Leeann Betts, Fleur Bradley |
| Saturday 2/10 11-1 | Elizabeth Richards, Theresa Crater |
| Saturday 2/10 1-3 | Rhonda Blackhurst, Naomi Hirahara |
| Saturday 2/10 3-5 | Karen (K.L.) Docter, Margaret Mizushima, Terrie Wolf |
| Sunday 2/11 9-11 | Catherine Dilts, Sue Hinkin, Cordia Booth |
| Sunday 2/11 11-1 | Jennifer Kincheloe, Nora Page |
| Sunday 2/11 1-3 | Chris Goff, Mary Birk |
| Sunday 2/11 3-5 | Ann Dominguez, Shawn McGuire |
| Monday 2/12 9-11:30 | Rosemary Berry, Sandra Murphy |
| Monday 2/12 11:30-2 | Karen Whalen, Francelia Belton |
Left Coast Crime has just released the 2018 Lefty Award nominations, and The Art of Vanishing (Lila Maclean Academic Mystery #2) has been nominated in the “Best Humorous Mystery” category!
Very honored to be included and so grateful to everyone who nominated it–thank you.
Congratulations to all of the nominees!
Lefty for Best Humorous Mystery Novel
• Donna Andrews, Gone Gull (Minotaur Books)
• Ellen Byron, A Cajun Christmas Killing (Crooked Lane Books)
• Marla Cooper, Dying on the Vine (Minotaur Books)
• Cynthia Kuhn, The Art of Vanishing (Henery Press)
• Cindy Sample, Dying for a Diamond (Cindy Sample Books)
Lefty for Best Historical Mystery Novel (Bruce Alexander Memorial)
for books covering events before 1960
• Rhys Bowen, In Farleigh Field (Lake Union Publishing)
• Jennifer Kincheloe, The Woman in the Camphor Trunk (Seventh Street Books)
• Renee Patrick, Dangerous To Know (Forge)
• Priscilla Royal, The Proud Sinner (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Jeri Westerson, Season of Blood (Severn House Publishers)
Lefty for Best Debut Mystery Novel
• Susan Alice Bickford, A Short Time To Die (Kensington)
• Kellye Garrett, Hollywood Homicide (Midnight Ink)
• Wendall Thomas, Lost Luggage (Poisoned Pen Press)
• Nancy Tingley, A Head in Cambodia (Swallow Press)
• Kathleen Valenti, Protocol (Henery Press)
Lefty for Best Mystery Novel
• Matt Coyle, Blood Truth (Oceanview Publishing)
• William Kent Krueger, Sulfur Springs (Atria Books)
• Louise Penny, Glass Houses (Minotaur Books)
• Terry Shames, An Unsettling Crime for Samuel Craddock (Seventh Street Books)
• James Ziskin, Cast the First Stone (Seventh Street Books)
Mystery & Mistletoe
December 13, 2017
You’re invited! Tickets are just $10 and can be purchased in advance at www.rmmwa.org.
Mystery Writers of America members scheduled to read excerpts of their works include Carter Wilson, Catherine Dilts, Shannon Baker, co-authors Carl and Jane Bock, Christine Goff, Jennifer Kincheloe, Kevin Wolf. Francine Mathews, Margaret Mizushima, Sue Hinkin, Jeffrey Alan Lockwood, Barbara Nickless, Charlotte Hinger, Twist Phelan, J.L. Abramo and Cynthia Kuhn.
The Indies First Celebration will take place on Small Business Saturday: November 25, 2017. Authors will be at Tattered Cover Book Stores throughout the day; I’ll be at Aspen Grove (7301 S. Santa Fe Drive, Littleton, CO 80120) from 10 am – 12 pm.
From the Tattered Cover:
Indies First is a national campaign of activities and events in support of independent bookstores, first envisioned by Sherman Alexie in 2013. Jason Reynolds, the bestselling author of All American Boys and Long Way Down, is the 2017 official spokesperson for Indies First.
The campaign kicks off each November, on Small Business Saturday, which is also the first day of Local First Week!, when independent bookstores host local authors as booksellers throughout the day to help sell and recommend books, and sign stock. We’re delighted to welcome these Colorado authors to help us celebrate this special day:
Mark Stevens; Jennifer Kincheloe; Tiffany Quay Tyson; Dian Curtis Regan; Phil Goodstein; Mario Acevedo; Todd Fahnestock; Travis Heermann; Betsy Dornbusch; Scott Bergstrom; BK Loren; Barbara Nickless; Christine Goff; Cynthia Kuhn; Stel Pavlou; Brenna Yovanoff; Sandhya Menon; Katie Cross; Danica Favorite; Eleanor Brown; and more!
For more information, click here.
November 18, 2017
Parker Library
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Event Hall A/B ~ RSVP here
Enjoy light refreshments as you listen to 15 local authors talk about their books! Each author will spend 5 minutes discussing their work; a book sale and signing will follow.
November 14, 2017 ~ Tattered Cover Bookstore (Colfax) ~ 7 pm
Jennifer Kincheloe, author of the Colorado Gold Award-winning The Secret Life of Anna Blanc, will discuss and sign The Woman in the Camphor Trunk: An Anna Blanc Mystery ($15.95 Seventh Street Books). In Chinatown, the body of a white woman is discovered in a trunk in the apartment of her Chinese lover. Police matron Anna Blanc and Detective Joe Singer attempt to quietly solve this crime in order to prevent violent backlash against the Chinese.
Barbara Nickless, author of the Colorado Book Award-winning Blood on the Tracks, will discuss and sign Dead Stop ($15.95 Thomas & Mercer), about the search for a missing child that leads Special Agent Sydney Parnell and her K9 partner Clyde down a twisted trail of murder that stretches back thirty years.
Cynthia Kuhn, author of the Agatha Award-winning The Semester of Our Discontent, will present and sign The Art of Vanishing ($15.95 Henery Press), the second installment of her Lila Maclean Academic Mystery series. Professor Lila Maclean is sent to interview celebrated author and notorious cad Damon Von Tussel…but he disappears.
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You are invited to Cozy Tea Time with local authors on Saturday, November 11, 2017 from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. at Welcome to the Bookstore (1300 E Bridge Street, Brighton, Colorado 80601). There will be readings, games, prizes, and refreshments. Hope to see you there! 
October 28, 2017
Looking forward to participating on the “Writing Compelling Characters” panel with Peg Brantley and Margaret Mizushima! The afternoon panel is “Private Eye Stories and Secrets” with JA Kazimer, Andrea Orozco, and Tan Smyth. The event will be held at the Lone Tree Library. For more information, please visit the SinC-CO website.
Cynthia Kuhn 
