UPCOMING CONFERENCES:
2025
Mar 13-16 Left Coast Crime, Denver, CO
Mar 15 Suffolk Mystery Authors Festival, Suffolk, VA
Mar 20-23 Virginia Festival of the Book, Charlottesville, VA
Mar 22-23 Maine Crime Wave, Portland, ME
Mar 27-29 New Orleans Book Festival, New Orleans, LA
Apr 5 CityLit Festival, Baltimore, MD
Apr 25-27 Malice Domestic, North Bethesda, MD
Apr 26-27 LA Times Festival of Books, USC, Los Angeles, CA
May 3 Annapolis Book Festival, Annapolis, MD
May 3-5 Crime and Thriller Weekend, Cromarty, UK
May 14-18 Sleuthfest, St. Petersburg, FL
May 15-18 CrimeFest, Bristol, UK
May 17 Gaithersburg Book Festival, Gaithersburg, MD
May 22-Jun 1 Hay Festival, Hay, UK
May 27- 31 ThrillerFest, New York, NY
Jun TBA Writer’s Police Academy/Killer Con, Green Bay, WI
Jun 3 U S Book Show, New York City, NY
Jun 7-8 CrimeCon UK, London, UK
Jun 13-14 Capital Crime, London, UK
Jun 17-21 ThrillerFest, New York, NY
Jun 18-22 Space Coast Book Lovers Event, Cape Canaveral, FL
Jun 20-22 Lyme Crime, Lyme Regis, UK
Jul 16-19 RWA Conference, Philadelphia, PA
Jul 17-20 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Harrogate, UK
Jul 19-21 Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference, Corte Madera, CA
Aug 7-10 PulpFest, Pittsburgh, PA
Aug 9-24 Edinburgh International Book Festival, Edinburgh, UK
Aug 21-24 Killer Nashville, Franklin, TN
Sep 3-7 Bouchercon, New Orleans, LA
Sep 5-7 CrimeCon, Denver, CO
Sep 6 National Book Festival, Washington, DC
Sep 12-14 Bloody Scotland, Stirling, UK
Sep 13-21 The Agatha Christie Festival, Torbay & South Devon, UK
Sep 19-21 Creatures, Crimes & Creativity, Columbia, MD
Oct 4 Chiltern Kills, Gerrards Cross, UK
Oct 16-19 Murder One, Dublin, IE
Nov 7-9 New England Crime Bake, Boston/Dedham, MA
Nov 12-15 Iceland Noir, Reykjavík, IS
2026
Feb TBA Granite Noir, Aberdeen, UK
Feb TBA Murder in the Magic City, Birmingham, AL
Feb 5-8 Savannah Book Festival, Savannah, GA
Feb 26-Mar 1 Left Coast Crime, San Francisco, CA
Mar TBA Amelia Island Book Festival, Amelia Island, FL
Mar TBA Suffolk Mystery Authors Festival, Suffolk, VA
Mar TBA Virginia Festival of the Book, Charlottesville, VA
Mar 27-29 New Orleans Book Festival, New Orleans, LA
Aug 20-23 Killer Nashville, Franklin, TN
Reference Sites:
American Independent Writers
Finding an Agent:
Two sites that you should bookmark if you’re looking for a literary agent to represent your work:
Writer Beware
Has excellent information on how to avoid being scammed by dishonest or unethical people who present themselves as agents or book doctors.
Agent Query
Largest searchable online database of agents.
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