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My short story, The Drive-by, originally published in the Anthology Busted: Arresting Stories from the Beat (Level Best Books 2017) is a finalist in the published short story genre category of the 2018 Royal Palm Literary Awards (RPLA) competition.

Awards are announced at the Florida Writer's Association Banquet at the FWA Conference in Altamonte Springs on October 20th. 

I'm very pleased my story placed, as my novel, The Saffron Crocus, won best YA Historical in 2015.

River of Secrets (Minotaur, Aug 28, 2018) is the second book in the mystery series that started with Roger John's award-winning Dark River Rising. The series features Wallace Hartman, a female police detective in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 

The conference we think of as "Thrillerfest" is really the end-cap of a week of varied events. It started on Monday with the ATF pre-conference.

Every year the International Thriller Writer's organization (ITW) organizes various a series of events to encourage authors who have had their first book published in the preceding twelve months. At Thrillerfest there is a dinner for the authors to meet and a Debut Author breakfast where Steve Berry introduces the authors and gives them each a minute to talk about their book. 

Spokane. Leavenworth. Bellingham. It seems that only places like that in Washington state can produce a private investigator hero named Edwina Zapata Schultz. 

The documentary, Be Natural, based in part on my bookThe Lost Visionary,