PANELS, INTERVIEWS, & SUCH
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- Sleuthsayers (Mar. ’23): “Decoding The Big Lebowski“
- Sleuthsayers (Feb. ’23): “I Am Digging Poker Face“
- Sleuthsayers (Jan. ’23): “Consider the Rabbit: Resolution Do-Overs”
AROUND THE CORNER
- Apr. ’23: Sleuthsayers, “What Is Up with That, Anyway?”
- May ’23: Sleuthsayers, “The Woman Who Taught Me Sam Spade”
- Aug. ’23: Killer Nashville 2023
- To be rescheduled, 2023: Short fiction workshop, Sisters in Crime Middle Tennessee
YONDER BACK
- Sleuthsayers (Dec. ’22): “One-fers and Zero-fers and Damned Statistics”
- Sleuthsayers (Nov. ’22): “I Confess: The New Fletch Is a Big Improvement”
- Sleuthsayers (Oct. ’22): “Haunted Hearts: Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle”
- Sleuthsayers (Sep. ’22): “Cool Writing Sites I Learned About and Why I Probably Won’t Use Them”
- Killer Nashville (Aug. ’22): Workshop: Writing the Short Story
- Sleuthsayers (Aug. ’22): “There Will Be Math (Story Statistics)”
- Sleuthsayers (Jul. ’22): “The Big Mo”
- Sleuthsayers (Jun. ’22): “Don’t Pluck a Star From the Sky”
- Sleuthsayers (May ’22): “Your Word of the Day Is Panglossian”
- Sleuthsayers (Apr. ’22): “Splat (Or, How They Do It in Buñol”
- Trace Evidence (Mar. ’22): “The Great Catamaran Hijacking and Other Happy Accidents”
- Sleuthsayers (Mar. ’22): “Perfect Spy ‘o the Time: The Macbeth Murder Mystery”
- Writing the Short Story workshop, Sisters in Crime Smoking Guns Chapter (Feb. ’22)
- Sleuthsayers (Feb. ’22): “Ten Years of Writing Stories”
- Sleuthsayers (Jan. ’22): “First Things First: On Opening a Short Story”
- Sleuthsayers (Dec. ’21): “Shelf Inspirations”
- Sleuthsayers (Nov. ’21): “The Writer as Necromancer” (Behind “Pandora, Haunted” in Die Laughing)
- Sleuthsayers (Oct. ’21): “So Good, She’s Scary,” on Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House“
- Sleuthsayers (Sep. ’21), “Remembering 9/11, Twenty Years Later”
- Killer Nashville 2021 (Aug. 19-22), panelist and workshop instructor, “Writing the Short Story”
- Clarksville Writers Conference (Aug. ’21), workshop instructor “You’re Not Done Yet” and “As Old as Campfires”
- Sleuthsayers (Aug. ’21), “I’ve Watched The Long Goodbye 3 Times Now”
- Killer Nashville Magazine (Jul. ’21), on Raymond Chandler’s “The Long Goodbye”
- Sleuthsayers (Jul. ’21), “Have a Neat Summer”
THE BACK FORTY
- Sleuthsayers (Jun. ’21), “Walk It Off”
- Sleuthsayers (May ’21), “Devil at the Crossroads Got on Wet Socks” (Behind “Scratch” in AHMM)
- Sleuthsayers (Apr. ’21), “How It Happened in Tennessee: The 19th Amendment”
- Sleuthsayers (Mar. ’21), “Don’t Make Me Turn This Car Around”
- Sleuthsayers (Feb. ’21), “How It’s Done These Days”
- Sleuthsayers (Jan. ’21), “Nashville Strong”
- Sleuthsayers (Dec. ’20 ), “Inspiration Isn’t Everywhere”
- Trace Evidence (Nov. ’20), “Unhappy Place, Unhappy Story”
- Sleuthsayers (Nov. ’20), “It’s Not Funny to Them”
- Sleuthsayers (Oct. ’20), “Kyle in Payables Has Been Binge Watching, and Now You Need to Worry About Zettabytes”
- Killer Nashville (May ’20), “I Have Become the Timebound”
- Sisters In Crime Middle Tennessee Workshop Series (Feb. ’20), “The Short End of the Shtick,” Richland Park Library
- Sleuthsayers with Rob Lopresti (Dec. ’19), 2020 predictions
- SMFS Short Story Saturday (Nov. ’19), “First Rodeo”
- Southern Festival of Books (Oct. ’19), SEMWA panel moderator “Mysterious Ways”
- Killer Nashville 2019: Panel leader, “Finding Your Voice”
- Southern Festival of Books (Oct. ’18), SinC panel moderator “Misadventures in Mystery”
- The Forge Literary Magazine (Sep. ’18), Q&A: “Snap Bam Boom”
- InSinC (Aug. ’18): Contributor, “Getting into Queen and Hitchcock”
- Mystery Readers Journal, Aug. ’18: On Our Man in Havana
- Killer Nashville 2018: Panelist, “Short Stories,” “Getting Involved,” and “Writing Humor”
- Murder in the Midlands (Jul. ’18, Columbia SC): Panelist, “Hot Shorts”
- First Two Pages (Jul. ’18): On “Book of Hours”
- Killer Nashville Blog (Jun. ’18): “No Fear-ish”
- Killer Nashville 2017: Panelist, “Short Stories” and “Keeping Perspective in Writing”
- Sisters in Crime 30th Anniversary Celebration host (Jul. ’17), Parnassus Books
- So You Want to Chat (Apr. ’17), the Derringer Finalist Q&A
- Southern Festival of Books (Oct. ’16, Nashville): Moderator, “Crimes, Cons, and Capers: The Many Faces of Crime Fiction”
- Short Story Workshop, (Oct. ’16, Decatur GA): co-instructor
- Killer Nashville 2016: Panelist, “Using Humor in Your Writing” and “Writing the Short Story”
- Killer Nashville Blog (Mar. ’16): “Honk If You Love Stories”
- Mobile Writers Guild (Feb. ’16, Mobile): SinC presentation panel
- Killer Nashville 2015: Moderator, “Sherlock Holmes: New Visions of an Old Favorite” and Panelist, “How to Write Short”
- Bouchercon, (Oct. ’15, Raleigh NC): Panelist, Murder Under the Oaks launch
- SinC Middle TN Showcase (Sep. ’15): Moderator, “Cozies, Cops and Conspiracies”
- B.K. Stevens’ The First Two Pages (Jul. ’15): “Hook, Line and Winker”
- Nashville Writers Meetup (Jun. & Aug. ’15): “The Short End of the Shtick”
- “The Method and the Muse” podcast (Jun. ’15)
- Carnegie Writers & NWMG (Apr. ’15): Speaker, “My Writer’s Journey”
- SinC Middle TN (Mar. ’15): Speaker, “The Short End of the Shtick”
- Murder on the Menu (Feb. ’15, Wetumpka AL): Panelist, “Motivation for Murder”
- Murder in the Magic City (Feb. ’15, Birmingham AL): Panelist, “Murder! It Comes in Many Forms”
- Killer Nashville blog: “On Short Fiction and Evil Masterminds.” Reprinted in KN Magazine, Feb. ’15).
- Southern Festival of Books (Oct. ’14): Moderator, “Changing the World One Mystery at a Time”
- MWA Launch Party, Ice Cold (Apr. ’14, NYC’s Mysterious Books)
- Killer Nashville 2013: Panelist, Small Packages: Crafting Short Crime Fiction
- PURE SLUSH (Jun. ’13): Interview, the Hue Questionnaire