Years ago a group of spiritually-minded forest lovers began hanging mementos of personal significance on the branches of a semi-circle of pines high on the side of a mountain here in California. The site looked onto a distant mountain which, according to the legends...
For more coverage and photos of the conference see ashedit.wordpress.com See also http://www.spinetinglermag.com/ 2011/09/26/more-bouchercon-2011/ Everyone in the mystery and thriller world goes to Bouchercon, named after Anthony Bouchercon the first literary critic...
I’m a real straight-arrow so I never get to meet the “nose-pickin’, booger-eatin’ morons” that Sgt Derek Pacifico talked about in his Homicide Investigation school for Crime Writers last weekend in Covina, California. For a long time...
A California Environmental Protection Agency and California Department of Public Health report has exonerated pesticides and herbicides, the contaminated water, fumes from diesel trucks, and most of all the huge solid waste disposal facility just outside town from...
