Previous Guests of Honor

2013 Guest of Honor D.P. Lyle

D. P. Lyle, MD is the Macavity Award winning and Edgar, Agatha, Scribe, and USA Best Book Award nominated author of many non-fiction books as well as numerous works of fiction, including the SAMANTHA CODY and DUB WALKER thriller series and the ROYAL PAINS media tie-in novels. His essay on Jules Verne’s THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND…

2013 Guest of Honor Anne Perry

Anne Perry is the award-winning, bestselling author of two acclaimed series set in Victorian England: the William Monk novels, including A Sunless Sea, Dark Assassin and The Shifting Tide, and the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels, including The Cater Street Hangman, Callander Square, Buckingham Palace Gardens and Long Spoon Lane. She is also the author of the…

2012 Guest of Honor Peter Straub

Peter Straub is the author of more than 17 novels, several poetry and short story collections, seven novellas, and a collection of nonfiction essays. Although he is most famous for his work in the horror genre, he has also received acclaim for his poems, literary novels, and thrillers. As one of the century’s most honored horror…

2012 Guest of Honor Heywood Gould

Bestselling Author and Screenwriter Heywood Gould got his start as reporter for the NY Post. Later he financed years of rejection with the usual colorful jobs – cabdriver, mortician’s assistant, bartender. Gould is the author of thirteen books and nine screenplays, including Fort Apache – the Bronx, Boys From Brazil, Cocktail, and Rolling Thunder. He has directed four features, One Good Cop,…

2012 Guest of Honor C.J. Box

C. J. Box is the New York Times bestselling author of fifteen novels including the Joe Pickett series. He won the Edgar Alan Poe Award for Best Novel (Blue Heaven, 2009) as well as the Anthony Award, Prix Calibre 38 (France), the Macavity Award, the Gumshoe Award, the Barry Award, and the 2010 Mountains & Plains Independent…

2011 Guest of Honor Donald Bain

Donald Bain is the author of more than 100 books, many of them bestsellers. He currently writes the USA Today bestselling series of 37+ original novels based upon the television series, Murder, She Wrote.  They’re published by Obsidian, a new imprint from Penguin (NAL/​Dutton), and are written “in collaboration” with TV’s most famous mystery writer,…

2011 Guest of Honor Robert Dugoni

New York Times Bestselling Author Robert Dugoni was born in Pocatello, Idaho and raised in Burlingame, California. Growing up the middle child in a family of ten siblings, Robert jokes that he didn’t get much of a chance to talk, so he wrote. By the seventh grade he knew he wanted to be a writer.…

2010 Guest of Honor Jeffery Deaver

  Jeffery Deaver is a former journalist, folksinger and attorney, Jeffery Deaver is an international number-one bestselling author. His novels have appeared on bestseller lists around the world, including the New York Times, the Times of London, Italy’s Corriere della Sera, theSydney Morning Herald and the Los Angeles Times. His books are sold in 150 countries and have been translated into…

2009 Guest of Honor J.A. Jance

  J.A. Jance was introduced to Frank Baum’s Wizard of Oz series in the second grade.  She read the first one and was hooked and knew, from that moment on, that she wanted to be a writer. The first book Jance wrote, a slightly fictionalized version of a series of murders that happened in Tucson…

2008 Guest of Honor Dr. Bill Bass (Jefferson Bass)

  Dr. Bill Bass is a world-renowned Forensic Anthropologist.  He is the author or co-author of more than two hundred scientific publications, as well as a critically acclaimed memoir about his career, Death’s Acre.  He is also a dedicated teacher, honored as National Professor of the Year by the Council for Advancement and Support of…

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