Author Archives: Kelli
Left Coast Crime Family
Left Coast Crime in Sacramento was such a special event in my life that it’s taken me a few weeks to process everything. Despite an injured leg that kept me limping around the hotel (and resulted in a wonderfully fun … Continue reading
Miranda’s Back!
Today is the day! CITY OF SECRETS is now on sale. This long-awaited sequel to CITY OF DRAGONS is a deeply felt, personal book, and it deals with themes that have haunted me for a long time. Themes of man’s … Continue reading
Shaken, Secrets and a Very Special Cat
I received some wonderful news yesterday—CITY OF DRAGONS has been nominated for a Macavity, specifically the Sue Feder Memorial Historical Mystery Award! The Macavity is as wonderful as it gets, a recognition of your work from some of the most … Continue reading
North by Northwest
THE CURSE-MAKER has been out for a little over a week, (yay!) and now I start the out-of-state leg of my tour … back to my home state, Washington. I admit it: I get a little choked up when I … Continue reading
An Epiphany of Noir
Today marks Epiphany, the day after Twelfth Night, and in the words of the immortal Bard, “If Twitter be the food of writing, tweet on!” January dawns in 2011, and it truly is a brave new world of social networking. … Continue reading
New Year, New Book, New Virtual Home
2010 is nearly over … and it’s been quite a year! The Year of the Tiger is transitioning to the Year of the Rabbit (a good luck year) and my calendar for the next twelve months is already booking up! … Continue reading
The Big Thank You!
Huge thanks to RT Book Review and their reviewers, for nominating CITY OF DRAGONS for a 2010 Reviewers Choice Award in Historical Mystery! I’m honored to be in the company of Jeri Westerson, Rhys Bowen, Charles Todd, and Deanne Raybourn, … Continue reading
Bouchercon Comes to San Francisco!
In just three short weeks the city of San Francisco will be overrun by people thinking about murder. In a good way! Bouchercon, the world’s largest crime fiction event, is coming to Hammett’s city. Writers, readers, editors, agents, librarians, book … Continue reading
Springing Forward in the Fall
It’s funny how time works. The whole relativity thing may be provable mathematically, but I’m more interested in the emotional effects of how time feels … you know, how it speeds up and slows down all at once, depending on … Continue reading
Rip van Who?
You know, I think Washington Irving was on to something about Rip Van Winkle. Except in my version of the story, I fly to New York in April to attend my first Edgar Awards Banquet (it was amazing); catch a … Continue reading
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