Some More Events from 2003

• MWA HONORS BLAKE EDWARDS
• CRIME LAB TOUR
• EDGAR AWARDS 2003
• LEFT COAST CRIME
• SHORT STORY EXTRA: HAS ANYBODY HERE SEEN RAYMOND?  
  LIGHTS! CAMERA! MURDER! , what they were calling the program book planned for Left Coast Crime 2003 in Pasadena, CA, Feb. 27-March 2. I was invited by the editorial committee to contribute "an article or, maybe even a short story, something tied to this area." Here's the result. The piece contains several Alfred Hitchcock-related references that movie buffs attending LCC found and sought me out to comment about. You?

Bob and Martha Lawrence were among authors participating on workshop panels at the Sisters in Crime (Los Angeles) No Crime Unpublished conference in June.

A SoCal chapter of Mystery Writers of America panel on writing the short story featured (seated, from left) Nathan Walpow, Bob, Michael Mallory; (standing, from left) James Lincoln Warren, Jan Burke, moderator Jon Breen.