It's fall festival time again. This month, Centuries and Sleuths bookstore turns 20, and to celebrate, they've scheduled over 42 authors on various panels. Coming up on September 11 are Libby Fischer Hellmann, Stephanie Kuehnert, William Kent Krueger, Shane Gericke and Tony Perona, with more panels on September 18, 19, 25 and 26.
Across the Pond the Reading Festival of Crime Writing is holding its third event September 16-19 featuring the likes of Val McDermid, Christopher Brookmyre, Lindsey Davis, Paul Doherty, Nicci French, Sophie Hannah and Andrew Taylor.
The George Mason University Fall for the Book in Fairfax, Virginia, is coming up September 19-25. The lineup includes the mother-and-son mystery team Charles and Caroline Todd, as well as crime fiction authors Megan Abbott and Ellen Crosby.
It's also time for the annual Library of Congress National Book Festival held on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Stop by the fiction and mystery booths on September 25th and catch readings and signings by Ken Follett, Martha Grimes, Karin Slaughter and Scott Turow.
The Mystery, Suspense and Thriller Pavilion at the West Hollywood Book Fair in California has six back-to-back panels on September 26th with a stellar group of authors.
And not so much a festival as a writers' conference, the Writers' Police Academy offers a great opportunity for crime fiction writers to get hands-on experience with police investigation and forensics, as well as hear from such notable speakers as Jeffery Deaver.
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