UPCOMING CONFERENCES:
2024
All Year Fall for the Book, Fairfax, VA
Oct 11-13 RWA Conference, Austin, TX
Oct 17-20 Murder One, Dun Laoghaire, IE
Oct 19 West Virginia Book Festival, Charleston, WV
Nov 8-10 New England Crime Bake, Boston/Dedham, MA
Nov 20-23 Iceland Noir, Reykjavík, IS
2025
Feb TBA Granite Noir, Aberdeen, UK
Feb 1 Murder in the Magic City, Birmingham, AL
Feb 6-9 Savannah Book Festival, Savannah, GA
Feb 22 Amelia Island Book Festival, Amelia Island, FL
Mar TBA CityLit Festival, Baltimore, MD
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 27-29 New Orleans Book Festival, New Orleans, LA
Apr 25-27 Malice Domestic, North Bethesda, MD
Apr 26-27 LA Times Festival of Books, USC, Los Angeles, CA
May TBA U S Book Show, New York City, NY
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 Shetland Noir, Lerwick, UK
Jun TBA Writer’s Police Academy/Killer Con, Green Bay, WI
Jun TBA Maine Crime Wave, Portland, ME
Jun 7-8 CrimeCon UK, London, UK
Jun 13-14 Capital Crime, London, UK
Jul 17-20 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, Harrogate, 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 19-21 Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference, Corte Madera, CA
Aug TBA National Book Festival, Washington, DC
Aug TBA Edinburgh International Book Festival, Edinburgh, UK
Aug 7-10 PulpFest, Pittsburgh, PA
Aug 21-24 Killer Nashville, Franklin, TN
Sep 3-7 Bouchercon, New Orleans, LA
Sep 5-7 CrimeCon, Denver, CO
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 TBA Murder One, Dublin, IE
Oct TBA Chiltern Kills, Gerrards Cross, UK
Nov TBA New England Crime Bake, Boston/Dedham, MA
Nov TBA Iceland Noir, Reykjavík, IS
2026
Feb 26-Mar 1 Left Coast Crime, San Francisco, CA
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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