Huge thanks to RT Book Review and their reviewers, for nominating CITY OF DRAGONS for a 2010 Reviewers Choice Award in Historical Mystery ! I'm honored to be in the company of Jeri Westerson, ...
In just three short weeks the city of San Francisco will be overrun by people thinking about murder. In a good way! ;) Bouchercon , the world's largest crime fiction event, is coming to Hamme...
http://kellistanley.blogspot.com/2010/09/bouchercon-comes-to-san-francisco.html
It's funny how time works. The whole relativity thing may be provable mathematically, but I'm more interested in the emotional effects of how time feels ... you know, how it speeds up and slow...
http://kellistanley.blogspot.com/2010/09/springing-forward-in-fall.html
You know, I think Washington Irving was on to something about Rip Van Winkle. Except in my version of the story, I fly to New York in April to attend my first Edgar Awards Banquet (it was ama...
T.S. Eliot may have characterized April as the cruelest month, but personally, I think he just needed a vacation. Such a pessimist ... without even the excuse of an IRS deadline. ;) So ... I c...
http://kellistanley.blogspot.com/2010/04/springing-forward.html
So last we met, I was in San Diego. Now I'm about to leave for Los Angeles and Left Coast Crime. What happened?? Well, I've discovered a new law of physics. Time bends when you're on the road, ...
http://kellistanley.blogspot.com/2010/03/city-of-dragons-tour-on-way-to-lcc.html
Today I'm blogging from San Diego, where I'm looking forward to a signing at the fabulous Mysterious Galaxy ! Time is whizzing by, calendar pages flipping in a black and white montage ... it s...
http://kellistanley.blogspot.com/2010/02/city-of-dragons-city-of-angels-tour.html
So for the first leg of the tour, we flew to Seattle the morning after the M is for Mystery launch party, and relished being in my home state at Seattle's finest bookstore, Seattle Mystery Boo...
http://kellistanley.blogspot.com/2010/02/city-of-dragons-tour-great-northwest.html
Last Tuesday, February 2nd, was one of the most amazing moments of my life. City of Dragons launched, released into bookstores and libraries and readers' hands ... despite the fact that at th...
http://kellistanley.blogspot.com/2010/02/city-of-dragons-launch.html
I looked around and it was January. Not New Year's Day, mind you, I remember that, even with the champagne. And I started the New Year off like everyone does ... full of plans and resolutions,...
http://kellistanley.blogspot.com/2010/01/one-week-countdown.html
I know San Francisco is supposed to be perennially shrouded in fog--and we do get quite a bit of the atmospheric pea soup variety--but sometimes it's just plain mild and sunny, even in December...
http://kellistanley.blogspot.com/2009/12/bay-city-holiday.html
I seem to be posting from holiday to holiday these days. Partially from being behind (thanks to the flu) partially because life is whizzing by in a blur and there's a lot on all my myriad to-do l...
As I write this, my neighborhood is full of ghoulies and ghosties and short-leggedy beasties, all scrambling for candy. Dressed in hodge-podge homemade costumes and store-bought accessories, ki...
http://kellistanley.blogspot.com/2009/10/all-hallows-eve.html
In about three weeks I'll be on the way to Indianapolis and my third Bouchercon . I can't wait! CITY OF DRAGONS got the push off from goal to paper after my first Bouchercon in Anchorage , in...
http://kellistanley.blogspot.com/2009/09/bouchercon-countdown.html
Can you believe August is over, pfft, gone? Here we are, September 1st, suffering all the endless and aged puns on back to school. Back to Cool? School Daze? Ouch. Where's Lulu when you need he...
http://kellistanley.blogspot.com/2009/09/time-is-relative.html
It's been crazier than usual--and it's usually crazy! :) All good stuff--just a lot of it! We have so many cool plans for the website that require a certain mastery of technology and video soft...
http://kellistanley.blogspot.com/2009/08/back-to-future.html
Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme; Back in high school when I first read these lines I was struck by the poet's confidence in words. His cocky...
http://kellistanley.blogspot.com/2009/07/happy-birthday.html
It's been an adventurous week! No time to write about Vertigo, unfortunately--gotta save it for next time. I haven't had much time to do anything but work on some deadlines for the website re...
http://kellistanley.blogspot.com/2009/07/new-york-new-york.html
I'm a big believer in serendipity. You know, those chance encounters and opportunities that come your way and (as long as you're not actually starring in a noir) can lead to fabulous fun. As a...
http://kellistanley.blogspot.com/2009/06/for-love-of-chrysler.html
It's been an eventful few days! Ever feel like the days pass too quickly for you to grab--that they blend and weave, and before you know it a week has gone ahead of you? Yup. Just happened to m...
This is late and will be briefer than normal ... especially for me ... but for all good reasons! I'm on several deadlines at the moment, leading up to Thrillerfest in New York. I've been runn...
It's been an eventful few days! Last week I received my ISBN number for CITY OF DRAGONS, an occasion for much celebration--which I did as a guest blogger on Working Stiffs , through the genero...
http://kellistanley.blogspot.com/2009/05/liberty-for-all.html
"Murder! Infidelity! Brain damage!" That could've been the tagline for the MGM (yes, they made dark stuff too, not just glossy musicals) noir High Wall (1947). Y'see, High Wall is a terrific ...
http://kellistanley.blogspot.com/2009/05/climbing-noir-walls.html
Before I talk about Cornered, a little-known Dick Powell noir, I need to confess. I'm not in a very noirish mood. NOX DORMIENDA was just nominated for a Macavity Award--the Sue Feder Memorial ...
http://kellistanley.blogspot.com/2009/05/forgotten-corner.html
I love L.A. I know as a San Francisco resident I'm not supposed to express my deep enthusiasm for our warm, sunny, and friendly neighbor to the south, but really ... the Bay Area needs to get ov...
http://kellistanley.blogspot.com/2009/04/city-of-angels-city-of-books.html