This book is a zinger! Police Procedure & Investigation is packed with all-you-need-to-know detail, yet it reads like a best-selling thriller. I know it’s a “Guide for Writers,” but I think anyone interested in the world of law enforcement should get a copy. Read it on the beach, read it on the train, read it on your way to a murder scene.
—Jeffery Deaver, author of The Bone Collector and The Sleeping Doll
Read an Excerpt!
Police Procedure & Investigation won’t hit store shelves for a few more weeks, but you can read an excerpt today! Click here to view or download an excerpt from Chapter 7: Crime Scene Investigation.
Meet the Author
Don’t miss out on your chance to hear author Lee Lofland speak. A nationally acclaimed expert on police procedures and crime scene investigations who consults regularly with best-selling authors and television producers, Lee Lofland will appear at these upcoming events:
August 24-25, 2007
Columbus Writers Conference
Columbus, Ohio
http://www.creativevista.com
October 26-28, 2007
South Carolina Writers Workshop
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
www.myscww.org
November 1-4, 2007
Forensics University, 50 Ways To Catch a Killer
featuring D.P. Lyle, Jan Burke, Eileen Dreyer, and Lee Lofland
Presented by Sisters in Crime
St. Louis, Missouri
http://www.sistersincrime.org/ForensicU/
November 9-11, 2007
New England Crime Bake
Featuring the mock trial of Jack Reacher with Lee Child, Lee Lofland, Michele Martinez, Hank Phillippi Ryan, and Julia Spencer-Fleming.
http://crimebake.org/index.htm
Presented by Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime
Dedham, Massachusetts
This weekend, the Poetry Society of Oklahoma hosts the 2007 National Federation of State Poetry Societies National Convention at the Oklahoma City Marriott. Our very own Nancy Breen, editor of Poet’s Market, makes an appearance.
Read an article about the event over at The Oklahoman.
The BEA/WDB Conference, which took place on May 30, was covered by Reuters and picked up by the New York Times. Our very own Lauren Mosko was quoted in the article.
Here’s a little of what they reported:
Several dozen agents and editors were taking pitches at Wednesday’s “pitch-slam” at the end of a one-day seminar that also included workshops on writing the perfect book proposal.
“Don’t feel like you’re a failure if you don’t come out of here with a contract,” Lauren Mosko, editor of writers’ guide “Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market,” told her workshop.
Analyzing a pitch for a book of women’s letters about lessons learned in adversity, she said: “It sounds like a really ‘nice’ book but there’s nothing that really grabs me emotionally.”
Among the other pitches were a memoir of raising kids in the “hotbed of commercial sex” that is Bangkok, a novel about Internet geeks, a memoir of police corruption, an expose of the adoption system and a parody of Fox cable show “The O’Reilly Factor.”
Read the full Reuters piece.
Our very own Cap’n George Choundas, author of The Pirate Primer, was one of the featured speakers at the first annual PyrateCon in New Orleans over the weekend. Cap’n Choundas offered these words and photos to recap his fantastic experience in The Big Easy:
“I had a great time. The presentation I gave was on five or six topics in the book, selected more for their proximity to entertaining anecdotes and riffs (of which there were many) than anything else. Definitely a discussion of ‘arrgh.’ You can’t leave that out, of course. I also threw in three foreign words every pirate should know. The talk I gave–along, of course, with the slot occupied by the founders of Talk Like a Pirate Day themselves–were by far the two best-attended talks during Friday and Saturday of the conference. The Barnes & Noble on-site vendor reported that the Primer had been their best seller, and they sold out by Saturday mid-afternoon. The conference director advised that next year’s event would be twice as big and held in the heart of the French Quarter, so that should be even more heavily attended. He invited me to come to next year’s event as well, after mentioning that he had heard from attendees that my presentation was ‘amazing,’ which was nice to hear. And New Orleans is still the most beautiful place on earth, flood or no flood.
I had an interview chat on Thursday, such that we caught the following excellent coverage, which was picked up by both CNN and MSN, at least.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/21/pirate.convention.ap/index.html
Also gave a radio interview to BilgeMonkey, which will be airing both excerpts from the interview and excerpts/highlights from the presentation itself from time to time.
Finally, attached are a couple of photos from the presentation. (Apologies for the blurriness of the crowd photo!)”
Mewlin fer yer copy of The Pirate Primer, ye vile cur? Hold your tongue and your whinin’ for them that’s at your beck and call, because I ain’t.
But I’ll take pity and toss ye a scrap. Click here to view or download Chapter 8: Insults before the book hits stores next month.
Be sure to catch author (Cap’n) George Choundas at PyrateCon 2007 in New Orleans April 20-22. For more information, visit www.pyratecon.com.
We’ve just now finalized the schedule for our BEA/WDB Writers Conference, in New York City, on May 30, 2007. We hope you can join us! Click here to view the schedule and details on how to register!
