Lifelines Launch and Thrilling Panels at LCC

Denver is hosting Left Coast Crime this year, and ITW Debut Authors and advisors are getting ready for "Murder onthe Rocks!"

CJ Lyons, already a star in the Centennial state from her keynote speaker gig at the Rocky Mountain Fiction

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Writers' Conference, will be launching LIFELINES at LCC. CJ's signing schedule includes two events on March 5th--a 5 PM signing at Denver's Murder by the Book, and a 7 PM launch at High Crimes in Boulder--and a March 6th signing at the famous Tattered Cover bookstore in the historic LoDo section of Denver.

At the conference itself, CJ will be participating in a "Writers on Writing" segment with a class on how to write thrillers Thursday afternoon (12:30-1:15); moderating a hardboiled panel on Friday morning (8:30-9:15), and talking about the art of the thriller on Friday afternoon (3:45-4:30) with fellow ITW members Jeff Buick, Laura Caldwell, Linda Richards and Theresa Schwegel.


Bill Cameron, ITW Debut Author advisor and Killer Year member, has been nominated for a Rocky for his debutlostdog_sm2.gif novel, LOST DOG. Bill will be moderating the juicy panel "Sex and Violence: Is too much ever enough?" on Friday morning (11 - 11:45) with fellow Killer Year author Marcus Sakey and writers Tasha Alexander, David Corbett, and Eric Stone. He'll also be pondering the thin line between truth and fiction on a panel Sunday morning (8:45-9:30).

J.T. Ellison, another Killer year member and author of the scintillating ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS, will be delving into Forensics on a Friday afternoon panel with Julie Hyzy, Neil Plakcy and Chris Grabenstein (3:45-4:30), as well as answering "Where Do These People Come From?" on Saturday morning (9:45-10:30).

Laura Benedict, whose paranormal thriller ISABELLA MOON debuted in September to great acclaim, will be participating in "Mind Games and Manhunts: Psychological Thrillers" on Thursday afternoon (3:45-4:30).

Kelli Stanley, whose debut Roman noir NOX DORMIENDA will be out in July, will be discussing history at the MWA Past Perfect panel Friday morning (11-11:45) and answering questions about noir (and giving away chap books at both events) at "Shades of Black: Noir at 50 Paces" Saturday afternoon (3:45-4:30) with Jason Starr, Con Lehane, Cornelia Read and Ken Kuhlken.

In addition to all this, you can come schmooze with  ITW debut writers CJ, Bill, Laura and JT, at the New Author Continental Breakfast on Friday morning from 7:30-8:30, and come hear them natter on in Endless Conversation with other authors and the audience at various times on Friday and Saturday (Kelli: Friday 1:45-2:15; Bill: Saturday 1:15-1:45; JT: Saturday 2:15-2:45).

We hope you'll come out to support these Thrill Begins authors if you're heading for "Murder on the Rocks"!

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Debut Authors

Lee Child, ITW Board Member Sponsor

Advisor: Bill Cameron - LOST DOG (Midnight Ink) Available Now!

Class Liaison: CJ Lyons - LIFELINES (Berkley) March 4, 2008

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Current Members:

2008

Julie Compton - TELL NO LIES (St. Martin's Minotaur) May 13

Jordan Dane - NO ONE HEARD HER SCREAM (April), NO ONE LEFT TO TELL (May) , NO ONE LIVES FOREVER (June) (Avon Harpercollins)

Marc Paoletti SCORCH (Five Star) May, THE LAST VAMPIRE, co-authored with Patricia Rosemoor (Del Rey) June, THE DARK AGENT(sequel to THE LAST VAMPIRE) (Del Rey) November

Kelli Stanley - NOX DORMIENDA (Five Star) July 18

Julie Kramer - STALKING SUSAN (Doubleday) July 15

Sibylle Barrasso - DARK WATERS (Five Star) August

Megan Kelley Hall - SISTERS OF MISERY (Kensington) August

Andrew Peterson - FIRST TO KILL (Leisure Books) September

Karen Dionne - FREEZING POINT (Berkley) October

Stacy Dittrich - THE DEVIL'S CLOSET(Leisure Books, Dorchester) October

Grant McKenzie - SWITCH (Bantam Transworld UK) October

Jennie Bentley- FATAL FIXER-UPPER (Berkley) November

2009

Don Helin - THY KINGDOM COME (Medallion Press) March

Rhodi Hawk - A TWISTED LADDER (Tor/St. Martin's) April

Rebecca Cantrell - A TRACE OF SMOKE (Tor Forge Books) May

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CJ Lyons - LIFELINES (Berkley) March

Michael Haskins - CHASIN' THE WIND (Five Star) March

Will Lavender - OBEDIENCE (Shaye Areheart Books) February

Leighton Gage - BLOOD OF THE WICKED (Soho Crime) January

David Isaak - SHOCK AND AWE (Macmillan New Writing)

Rip Gerber - PHARMA (Random House)

Joe Kolman - NAKED OPTION (Harriman House) In the US and the UK

Laura Benedict - ISABELLA MOON (Ballantine)

Chris Beakey - DOUBLE ABDUCTION (J. Boylston & Co./ibooks, Inc.)

Jeffrey S. Stephens - THE PORTOFINO CONSPIRACY (iBooks, Inc)

Andy Harp - A NORTHERN THUNDER (Bancroft Press)

Gerry Doyle - FROM THE DEPTHS (McBooks Press)

Theo Gangi - BANG BANG (Kensington)

JT Ellison - ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS (Mira)

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