Malice After the Fact
Posted by ascamacho on April 28, 2008
The Malice Domestic conference is always a great time. I see a lot of old friends on panels and in the hospitality room. It’s great to see who wins an Agatha Award. It fun to attend a high tea, renew acquaintances with whom I share a publisher or agent, and meet fans from as far away as Canada. It’s fun to see who is most creative in the hat contest – That would be Elizabeth Zelvin in her charming chapeau. It was actually a chap-Poe with a bobble head of Edgar Allen lashed to the back.
The biggest surprise was learning that some of my favorite authors - Dan Stashower, Lindsey Davis, and Peter Lovesey - are also flat out hilarious if you let them near a microphone! It’s also quite a kick to have an editor from a major publisher tell you that she is following your career and wants to know what you’re working on. That kind of thing can make an already great event truly memorable.
