by Paula Gail Benson
Question: Where do you have the opportunity to spend 4 and ½ hours with award- winning mystery and suspense novelists all for the cost of a single e-book or paperback?
Answer: Mystery in the Midlands (hosted by Palmetto Chapter of Sisters in Crime and Southeastern Chapter of Mystery Writers of America), which began as a mid-summer conference in “Famously Hot” Columbia, S.C. For the third year, this is a virtual event through Crowdcast.
Date: Saturday, July 16, 2022
Cost: $8 (to defray event costs)
Link to register: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/mystery-in-the-midlands-3/register
Books will be available through our virtual bookstore, Fiction Addiction, based in Greenville, S.C. (bookseller: Jill Hendrix).
If you are not able to attend virtually on the day of the event, by registering, you can access the recorded panels at your leisure.
Here’s the schedule and a little about the participants:
Raise the Temperatures with a Warm Welcome
10:30-10:45 am ET/9:30-9:45 am CT/8:30-8:45 pm MT/7:30-7:45 pm PT
Dana Kaye, Lynn C. Willis President of SEMWA, and Carla Damron President of Palmetto Chapter SinC
11:00-11:45 am ET/10:00-10:45 am
CT/9:00-9:45 am MT/8:00-8:45 am PT
Alan Orloff, Shawn Reilly Simmons, and Joseph S. Walker
Alan Orloff has written more than 35 short stories and his YA novel I Play One on TV won this year’s Agatha
and is nominated for an Anthony.
Shawn Reilly Simmons is Managing Editor at Level Best Books and has
won the Agatha for her short stories and the Anthony for an anthology she
edited.
Joseph S. Walker is the winner of the Bill Crider Award, given at the Dallas
Bouchercon, and has published more than 50 short mystery stories.
Sizzling Keynote
12:00-12:45 pm ET/11:00-11:45 am CT/10:00-10:45
am MT/9:00-9:45 am PT
David Heska Wanbli Weiden interviewed
by Hank Phillippi Ryan
Our keynote is David Heska Wanbli Weiden, an enrolled citizen of the Sicangu
Lakota Nation, and the author of Winter Counts, which was nominated
for an Edgar Award, and won the Anthony, Thriller, Lefty, Barry, Macavity,
Spur, High Plains, Electa Quinney, Tillie Olsen, CrimeFest (UK) and Crime
Fiction Lover (UK) Awards. He will be interviewed by the wonderful Hank Phillippi Ryan, USA Today bestselling and five-time Agatha
Award-winning author of 13 thrillers, and winner of 37 Emmys for investigative
reporting in Boston.
Served Piping Hot: Cozies with Recipes
1:00-1:45 pm ET/12:00-12:45 pm CT/11:00-11:45 am MT/10:00-10:45 am PT
Daryl Wood Gerber, Raquel V. Reyes, and Abby L. Vandiver
Daryl Wood Gerber is the Agatha Award-winning, nationally bestselling author of The Fairy Garden Mysteries, The French Bistro Mysteries, and The Cookbook Nook Mysteries. As Avery Aames, she writes the Agatha Award-winning, nationally bestselling Cheese Shop Mysteries.
Raquel V. Reyes writes Latina protagonists. Her Cuban-American heritage, Miami, and Spanglish feature prominently in her work. Mango, Mambo, and Murder, the first in the Caribbean Kitchen Mystery series, won a Lefty for Best Humorous Mystery and was nominated for an Agatha award.
Abby L. Vandiver, also writing as Abby Collette and Cade Bentley, is a hybrid author who has penned more than thirty books and short stories. She has hit both the Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller lists.
2:00-2:45 pm ET/1:00-1:45 pm CT/12:00-12:45 pm MT/11:00-11:45 am PT
Hallie Ephron, John Hart, and Hank Phillippi Ryan
New York Times bestselling author Hallie
Ephron has been an Edgar Award
finalist and five-time
finalist for the Mary Higgins Clark Award.
John Hart is the author of six New York Times bestsellers and the only
author in history to win the best novel Edgar Award for consecutive novels.
Hank Phillippi
Ryan is the USA Today bestselling and five-time Agatha
Award-winning author of 13 thrillers, and winner of 37 Emmys for investigative
reporting in Boston.
Final Comments Before Cooling Off in the Pool
3:00-3:15 pm ET/2:00-2:15 pm CT/1:00-1:15 pm MT/12:00-12:15 pm PT
Dana Kaye, Lynn C. Willis President of SEMWA, and Carla Damron
President of Palmetto Chapter SinC
Sounds great, Paula. I'm sure everyone will have a terrific time and learn a bunch.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Jim. We’re so appreciative of all the authors participating.
ReplyDeleteGreat line up, Paula.
ReplyDeleteGreat line-up and a huge bargain!
ReplyDeleteGoing to be a fantastic program and you can't beat the price!
ReplyDeleteOne of the very few good things to come out of the pandemic is the wonderful array of "virtual" conferences available to all of us at moderate prices!
ReplyDeleteMolly, Margaret, Kait, and Kathleen, I agree. We are absolutely delighted to have the authors we have appearing this year. They are phenomenal!
ReplyDeleteDebra, thank you for being on the organizing committee. And, yes, you can't beat the price!