Hooray for Hollywood and for Left Coast Crime 2020

The annual mystery convention Left Coast Crime 2020: Murder’s a Beach will get underway later this week in San Diego. Yours Truly will be among the attendees – and will be a panelist. I’ll join authors Rosemary Lord (who’ll moderate), Kellye Garrett, Lee Goldberg and Sherri Leigh James in discussing Hollywood as a setting for crime fiction.

I always look forward to Left Coast Crime, which brings together readers and writers (along with critics, librarians and publishers). But this year’s event, like so many others from coast to coast, has been overshadowed by the COVID-19 situation (understandably, some folks who were scheduled to attend have opted to cancel). My participation doesn’t require any airline travel, just a couple hours on the freeway. Hey, if there’s any group that can come up with an antidote to a mysterious virus, it’s a myriad of mystery writers.