{"id":761,"date":"2013-03-19T13:31:34","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T20:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/?p=761"},"modified":"2013-03-19T13:46:20","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T20:46:20","slug":"no-rest-for-the-weary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/?p=761","title":{"rendered":"No Rest for the Weary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_763\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/TFOB3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-763\" data-attachment-id=\"763\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/?attachment_id=763\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/TFOB3.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.1&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;FE-140,X-725&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;-62169984000&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Naomi Hirahara, Myself, Kate Mathis, moderator Patti O&amp;#8217;Brien. The Reluctant Detectives Panel at TFoB&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/TFOB3.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-763\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/TFOB3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/TFOB3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/TFOB3.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-763\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naomi Hirahara, Myself, Kate Mathis, moderator Patti O&#8217;Brien. The Reluctant Detectives Panel at TFoB<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Tucson Festival of Books was amazing, as usual. \u00a0Don and I went down early on Saturday morning, March 9, and didn&#8217;t stop going until Sunday evening. \u00a0I did a little emergency panel moderation when the scheduled moderator got diverted to Portland Oregon, did several book signings, went out to dinner with several members of the Clues Unlimited family and author John Verdon and his wife Naomi, gave a workshop on everything you wanted to know about writing a Historical Mystery novel, and ended the weekend by participating on a panel about reluctant with Kate Mathis and Naomi Hirahara. \u00a0Am I more famous for the exposure than I was before I went? \u00a0Who knows. I was one little bush among a forest of mighty oaks. \u00a0But it was fun, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_762\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/TFOB1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-762\" data-attachment-id=\"762\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/?attachment_id=762\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/TFOB1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.1&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;FE-140,X-725&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;-62169984000&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6.3&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Elizabeth Gunn, Hilary Davidson, Yours Truly, signing at the Clues Unlimited Booth&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/TFOB1.jpg\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-762\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/TFOB1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/TFOB1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/TFOB1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-762\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elizabeth Gunn, Hilary Davidson, Yours Truly, signing at the Clues Unlimited Booth<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bunch of stuff coming\u00a0up this spring. \u00a0On March 28 at 1:00 I&#8217;ll be speaking at the Wickenburg Public Library, then on April 5 I&#8217;ll be at Desert Foothills Library in Cave Creek, AZ, for their Writer&#8217;s Connection Program. \u00a0If you&#8217;re interested in writing and getting published, that program is for you.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s something interesting: \u00a0On April 18, I&#8217;ll be doing a Skype talk with the Adult Book Club at the Coalgate Public Library in Coalgate, OK. \u00a0I am quite looking forward to talking with readers from the Home Country. \u00a0I&#8217;ll let you know how that goes. \u00a0If your book club would like to talk to an author face-to-face, Skyping sounds like a great idea to me. \u00a0You don&#8217;t even have to reimburse their milage!<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m ending the season with a trip to Bethesda, MD, to attend my first Malice Domestic conference on May 3-5. \u00a0Malice Domestic is the annual conference of Sisters in Crime, which is a\u00a03600 member group offering networking, advice and support to mystery authors. The group consists of authors, readers, publishers, agents, booksellers and librarians bound by their affection for the mystery genre and their support of women who write mysteries. Sisters in Crime was founded by Sara Paretsky and a group of women at the 1986 Bouchercon in Baltimore.\u00a0The mission of Sisters in Crime is to promote the professional development and advancement of women crime writers to achieve equality in the industry. \u00a0This year Sisters in Crime is honoring my friend Carolyn Hart with the Amelia Award for contributions to the mystery community.<\/p>\n<p>And believe me, no one has contributed more to the mystery community than Carolyn Hart.<\/p>\n<p>And last but absolutely not least, I&#8217;m going to be participating in a Literary Salon with Elizabeth Gunn, Susan Cummins Miller, and Judith Starkson on April 27 at 5:30 in Awatukee, Arizona. \u00a0If you&#8217;d like to join us for an informal, guided conversation, books to buy, good food and wine, please RSVP: judithstarkston@gmail.com<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Tucson Festival of Books was amazing, as usual. \u00a0Don and I went down early on Saturday morning, March 9, and didn&#8217;t stop going until Sunday evening. \u00a0I did a little emergency panel moderation when the scheduled moderator got diverted to Portland Oregon, did several book signings, went out to dinner with several members [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[32,33,24,28,26,35,25,34,20,30,21,31,23,36,9,29,27],"class_list":["post-761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-amelia-award","tag-carolyn-hart","tag-clues-unlimited","tag-coalgate-ok-public-library","tag-desert-foothills-library","tag-elizabeth-gunn","tag-john-verdon","tag-judith-starkson","tag-kate-mathis","tag-malice-domestic-conference","tag-naomi-hirahara","tag-sara-paretsky","tag-sisters-in-crime","tag-susan-cummins-miller","tag-tucson-festival-of-books","tag-wickenburg-az-public-library","tag-writers-connection-program"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2H58s-ch","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769,"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions\/769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.doniscasey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}