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The Pocket Program Left Coast Crime 2017 • HONOLULU HAVOC Contents Book Exchange Table: Please use only the Convention Schedule ............. 2 designated table in the Lobby. Alpha Index of Panelists .......... 11 Promotional Materials: Please use swag table for bookmarks, pens, and other promotional Don’t Forget To Vote! Your Lefty Awards materials. Ballot came in your registration packet. The ballot box is at the Registration Table. Voting Shipping Services: Xerox Business Services ends at 1:30 PM Saturday. Four awards will be Center with US Post Office, UPS & FedEx presented at the Banquet Saturday night. options onsite in the Diamond Head Tower. Hours: 6 AM – 10 PM daily. (Note: Xerox adds Book Room: Iolani 5-7, open Thursday 9 AM – fees for shipping; USPS hours differ.) 5:30 PM, Friday & Saturday 9 AM – 6 PM, Sunday 9 AM – 1 PM. Name tags with Leis identify LCC Committee members. Feel free to ask for help. Silent Auction & Hospitality: Iolani 1-4, with snacks, coffee, tea, etc. Hours: Thursday 11 AM – 4 PM, Friday & Saturday 10 AM – [name] 4 PM, Sunday 8:30 – 10:30 AM. Get your LCC …belongs to this Pocket Program. If we have become Quilt raffle tickets in the Hospitality Room! separated, please leave me at the Registration Table. – 1 – Schedule of Panels, Interviews, and Events Panels and Interviews are in the three Tapa rooms and two Honolulu rooms. Other events as indicated. See the Program Book for more details. Latest Info & Changes will be posed on the bulletin board near Registraion. Book signings follow immediately after all panels (except Sunday’s closing panel) and interviews in the Palace Lounge (see map on back cover). Panel moderators* are indicated by an asterisk. Thursday, March 16 Time Tapa 1 Tapa 2 Tapa 3 Honolulu 1 Honolulu 2 9:00- Author Speed-Dating 11:00 Hosts Les & Leslie Blatt 11:15- Left Coast Crime 101: 11:45 First-timer Panel Primer Lucinda Surber* Gay Coburn Gale Bill Gottfried Toby Gottfried Janet Rudolph Lunch Break (on your own) – 2 – Thursday continued… Time Tapa 1 Tapa 2 Tapa 3 Honolulu 1 Honolulu 2 Noon- British Sleuths: Their cup of Writing About Hawaii: Horror & Sci-Fi: You give Independent Authors: 12:45 deadly tea Surf's up. A crime wave? me chicken skin! Going it alone Catriona McPherson* Terry Ambrose* Jacque Ben-Zekry* J.J. Lamb* Rhys Bowen Laurie Hanan Daniel Boucher Gail M Baugniet Susanna Calkins Leslie Karst A K Gunn Lorna Collins Anne Cleeland Katharine M. Nohr John Hegenberger Michael J. Cooper Leo McNeir Mark Troy Jonathan Moore Angie Fox 1:15- Crime in Exotic Places: Amateur Female Sleuths: Wined & Dined To Death: Real-Life Experience: 2:00 Murder on tour Tough & terrific Ooh! Did that taste funny? Authors tell all Barry Lancet* Laurie Fagen* Denise (Deni) Dietz* Brian Thornton* Don Bruns Marla Cooper Catherine Bruns Annie Hogsett Colin Cotterill Sujata Massey Sarah M. Chen James M. Jackson Matt Iden Nancy Cole Silverman Maya Corrigan Terry Odell Gigi Pandian James W. Ziskin Nadine Nettman Robin Templeton 2:30- The Innocence Project: Historical Mysteries: The Traditional Cozy: Marketing Challenges: 3:15 Freeing the wrongly Centuries of secrets Coffee & dunnits Book’s done, what now? convicted Noel Hynd* Cathy Ace* Susan Lynn Kingsbury* Leslie S. Klinger* Rebecca Cantrell Julie Chase Jacque Ben-Zekry Laurie R. King Ann Parker Janet Finsilver Kris Calvin Virginia (Ginny) Hench Susan Spann Tonya Plank Denise Grover Swank Ovidia Yu Diane Vallere Morgan H. MacDonald – 3 – Thursday continued… 3:45- Lifetime Achievement Honorees Faye & Jonathan Kellerman 4:30 interviewed by Jesse Kellerman • Tapa 1 5:30- Welcome Reception & Opening Ceremony on the Great Lawn (by Duke Kahanamoku Lagoon) 7:00 Light snacks, cash bar, Lefty Award nominees introduced … and more Dinner Break (on your own) 8:00- Charlie Chan Movie Night: The Black Camel (1931, 71 min.) & Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938, 67 min.) 10:30 with hosts Les Blatt & Rochelle Staab • Tapa 1 Friday, March 17 Time Tapa 1 Tapa 2 Tapa 3 Honolulu 1 Honolulu 2 7:30- Meet the New Authors Breakfast, with Mike Befeler & Rochelle Staab (Emcees) 9:00 LCC registrants welcome, seating limited, program runs 7:45 – 8:45 AM • Tapa 1 9:15- YA & Mid-Grade Novels: Lefty Award Nominees: Criminal Side of Religion: Short Stories: Compact & 10:00 The young and the restless Best Historical Mystery The holy vs. the unholy powerful Leslie Blatt* Bill Gottfried* Susan Spann* Mysti Berry* Kelley Armstrong Rhys Bowen Michael J. Cooper Jane Petersen Burfield Pamela Beason Susanna Calkins Jesse Kellerman Sarah M. Chen Catherine Paul Laurie R. King Sharan Newman Eleanor Cawood Jones Penny Warner Catriona McPherson Kenneth Wishnia Travis Richardson Ann Parker – 4 – Friday continued… Time Tapa 1 Tapa 2 Tapa 3 Honolulu 1 Honolulu 2 10:30- Lefty Award Nominees: Sustaining Life in a Series: Reviewers & Critics: Are Society’s Shame: In Other Languages: Do 11:15 Best Humorous Mystery Shot of penicillin between books authors at their mercy? The underserved public translators get it right? Todd Borg* Anne Cleeland* Jen Forbus* Robert Rosenwald* Ragnar Jonasson* Donna Andrews Mary Feliz Les Blatt Terry Ambrose Jeannette Bauroth Ellen Byron J.J. Lamb Daniel Boucher Merrilee Robson R.E. Donald Heather Haven Melissa F. Olson Dru Ann Love Mark Wheaton Denise Grover Swank Diane Vallere Rochelle Staab Jane Stillwater Ovidia Yu Jeffrey Siger 11:45- Toastmaster Laurie R. King interviewed by Catriona McPherson • Tapa 1 12:30 Lunch Break (on your own) 1:45- Lefty Award Nominees: Thrillers & Killers: Criminal Justice: Private Investigators: Romance & Crime Collide: 2:30 Best Debut Mystery A murderous world The FBI & other Feds Eye to eye with the P.I. Desire, dread & hot sex Lucinda Surber* Kathryn Johnson* Martin Edwards* Allen Eskens* Ellen Byron* Sarah M. Chen William C. Gordon Joel Fox Maia Chance Laura Baumbach Marla Cooper Dennis Keating Kimberley Howe Vinnie Hansen Lizbeth Hartz Alexia Gordon Jonathan Moore Arthur Kerns John Hegenberger A.J. Llewellyn Nadine Nettmann Reavis Z. Wortham David Putnam Susan Lynn Kingsbury Tonya Plank – 5 – Friday continued… Time Tapa 1 Tapa 2 Tapa 3 Honolulu 1 Honolulu 2 3:00- Lefty Award Nominees: Riveting Suspense: Tales to Drama & Comedy: A funny Professional Lady Sleuths: Specialized Police Work: A 3:45 Best Mystery keep us up at night thing happened… Don’t mess wit dese dames different kind of cop Janet Rudolph* Larry Mild* Heather Haven* Robin Templeton* Gail M Baugniet* Matt Coyle Colin Cotterill Parnell Hall D.V. Berkom Ellen Kirschman Gigi Pandian Harry Hunsicker Jeanette Hubbard Corey Lynn Fayman Doc Macomber Terry Shames Sheldon Siegel Cindy Sample Nancy Cole Silverman Lisa Preston James W. Ziskin Dana Stabenow Brian Thornton Linda Townsdin Patricia Smiley 4:15- Guest of Honor Colin Cotterill interviewed by interviewed by Toastmaster Laurie R. King • Tapa 1 5:00 Dinner Break (on your own) 7:45 Hilton Hawaiian Village Fireworks 8:00- Hibiscus & Homicide: A Mystery Fundraiser 9:15 Original Charlie Chan story by Linda Griffiths-Gish (Cordelia Smythe Mysteries) to benefit Read Aloud America, suggested donation $10 • Special Event in Honolulu 3 – 6 – Saturday, March 18 Time Tapa 1 Tapa 2 Tapa 3 Honolulu 1 Honolulu 2 7:30- Continental Breakfast sponsored by Penguin Random House in honor of Jonathan Kellerman 9:00 LCC registrants welcome, seating limited • Tapa 1 9:15- Performing Sleuths: Sinister Criminals: Dark Hawaii's Own Authors: Coauthors: Lovey-dovey or 10:00 Standing ovations (noir) and devastating Creating havoc in paradise strictly business? Corey Lynn Fayman* Kenneth Wishnia* A.J. Llewellyn* R. Franklin James* Stephen W. Buehler Matt Coyle Rebecca Cantrell Waverly Fitzgerald Joseph Clifford Laurie R. King Dawn Casey Patricia Gussin Alexia Gordon Terry Shames Lizbeth Hartz Rosemary Mild D.R. Ransdell Mark Troy Jane Lasswell Hoff D.V. Whytes 10:30- Media Madness: Hawaii Crime Series: Paranormal & Super- Police Procedurals: You Publishers: 11:15 TV, radio & stage History of the Opium Trade natural: Unearthly people have the right to remain silent The changing scene Diana R. Chambers* John Madinger, US Margaret C. Morse* Terry Odell* Barbara Peters* Ellen Byron Treasury Agent (Ret.), Margaret Lucke R.E. Donald Robert Gussin Laurie Fagen Presenter Melissa F. Olson Allen Eskens Mary Jane Haake Lee Goldberg Catherine Paul J.L. Hughes Baird Nuckolls Elena Hartwell Emma Raveling Patricia Smiley Robert Rosenwald – 7 – Saturday continued… Time Tapa 1 Tapa 2 Tapa 3 Honolulu 1 Honolulu 2 11:45- The Gorgeous Outdoors: Hawaii Crime Series: Attorneys & Crime: Mouth- Medicine: Take two crimes Golden Age Mysteries: 12:30 Rugged & dangerous Policing in Hawaii from piece to mouthpiece and call me in the morning Are they still pertinent? Frankie Bow* Kamehameha I to today resuscitation Lisa Preston* Maryglenn McCombs* Christine Carbo Eddie Croom, Retired Charles Rosenberg* John Burley Martin Edwards Madeleine Harris-Callway Officer (Presenter) Warren C. Easley A K Gunn Kathryn Johnson Ann Parker William C. Gordon Ellen Kirschman Ragnar Jonasson Dana Stabenow Katharine M. Nohr Bette Golden Lamb Steve Steinbock Jeffrey Siger D.P. Lyle Lunch Break (on your own) 1:30 Lefty Award Ballots deadline — Ballot Box at Registration Table 1:45- Liars Panel: Hawaii Crime Series: Sidekick Pets & Foreign Intrigue: Spies, Millennials into Fantasy: 2:30 Authors’ secret lives The Real Hawaii Five-O Wild Animals counterterrorism… Can we woo them back? Rhys Bowen* David Putnam (Presenter) James M. Jackson* Kimberley Howe* Lourdes Venard* Donna Andrews Sparkle Abbey Todd