Derringer Award winning author Earl Staggs has seen many of his short stories published in magazines and anthologies. He served as Managing ...

First, let me thank our lovely Kaye for asking me to join you all today. Kaye, you’re a doll. Like a cat, I believe I’m probably in life n...

Called a hard-boiled poet by NPR’s Maureen Corrigan and the noir poet laureate in the Huffington Post, Reed Farrel Coleman has published t...

Elizabeth writes the Memphis Barbeque series for Penguin/Berkley (as Riley Adams), the Southern Quilting mysteries (2012) for Penguin/NAL,...

       On the day Mike Orenduff got his drivers license, his father gave him a 1950 Oldsmobile coupe that stranded him in so many New Mexi...

In September 2009 I was doing happy dances all over Meanderings and Muses because an essay I had written was accepted for publication in t...

"We need to shift our national view of libraries not as luxuries, but as necessities. When tragedy strikes in other nations, Americans ...

Beth Groundwater writes the Claire Hanover gift basket designer mystery series ( A Real Basket Case , a 2007 Best First...

Andi Shechter is a two-time Left Coast Crime Chair ('97 and '07) and was honored ten years ago as Fan Guest of Honor at LCC in Anch...