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Take a look at the rogues in my Gallery
The Marathon Murders Launch Party, February 16, 2008
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The book launch party for The Marathon Murders was held in the old showroom of the restored Marathon Motor Works administration building in Nashville. Standing with me at right, holding his copy of the book, is Barry Walker, owner and renovator of the defunct company's plant and offices, now called Marathon Village. Sitting with me at left is Kathleen Mays, the neighbor who suggested I use the Marathon company in a book. Her father worked at the plant in 1914, the year my fictional victim was murdered. My wife, Sarah, stands in front of a restored 1914 Marathon touring car. Party attendants enjoyed browsing around the old cars. |
Mayhem in the Midlands/Wedding on the Beach, May 2007
 The "60 Is the New 30: Senior Sleuths" panel at Mayhem included, from left, Moderator Doris Ann Norris, Radine Trees Nehring, Mary Saums, Chester Campbell and Camille Minichino. At right: four generations of wife Sarah's family at granddaughter Brandy's Florida beachside wedding May 18. From Sarah at right, great-granddaughter Taylor, granddaughter Tina, the bride, and daughter Judy. Subtitle: Barefoot Babes. |
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Midwest MysteryFest, St. Louis, Sept. 16/Bouchercon, Sept. 30, Madison, WI
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 Shown at my Midwest MystertyFest panel (left photo) are, from left, Lonnie Cruse, Katie Compton and me. My panel at Bouchercon (above photo) included, from left, Simon Wood, Julia Pomeroy, Chester Campbell, Mike Abrams and Barbara Fradkin. Both panels brought lively discussions from the audience. |
MWA Skill Build, Nashville, TN, Aug. 5, 2006
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Presenters at the MWA Southeast Chapter Skill Build in Nashville were, from left, Chester Campbell, Courtney Mroch, Beth Terrell, Chris Roerden, J.B. Thompson, Kelly Nichols (a.k.a. P.J. Parrish), J.T. Ellison and Clay Stafford. |
ConMisterio Conference, Austin, TX July 14-16, 2006
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We shot these panels at the ConMisterio Conference in red-hot Austin, TX. At upper left, Pari Noskin Taichert (center) and Mark Troy listen while Libby Fischer Hellman makes a point about the difference between thrillers, suspense and mysteries. Upper right shows Radine Trees Nehring (left) and Margaret Maron at a panel I moderated on writing as a second career. At lower left, cowboy-hatted Randy Rawls discusses timing and location with Radine Trees Nehring and me. Lower right shows a panel on setting with (from left) JF Margos, Keith Raffel, Margaret Maron, Pari Noskin Taichert and Libby Fischer Hellman.
