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In the band at Heather Graham's 2007 New Orleans Writers Conference.
F. Paul Wilson on drums in the background.
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The Mystery Bookstore, Los Angeles, January 2007: performance and
booksigning
by A Merry Band of Murderers
authors. More photos here. That's the 1954
Gibson ES-125 my father bought me when I was nine or so.
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With fellow Merry Band members Don Bruns (l) and Jim Fusilli (r).
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NW performs "Be My Poodle," from A Merry Band of Murderers,
at Bouchercon 2006 in Madison, WI. More photos here.
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Jessica Kaye and Richard Brewer (editors of Meeting Across the River)
spotted this at Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon.
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NW, wife Andrea Cohen, Mikhail Gorbachev.
April 3, 2006, at a reception honoring Mr. G.
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The return of the COPS hat: with my coworkers at my day job.
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While in Chicago for Bouchercon 2005, I visited Willie Dixon's
Blues Heaven Foundation, in the old Chess Records building
at 2120 South Michigan Avenue. Here I am on the stairway
countless blues icons climbed on the way to record their classics.
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Presenting the MWA Southern California chapter's Marlowe Award
for lifetime achievement to Stephen J. Cannell. August 7, 2005.
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Hot off the presses! Signing the first copies of The Manipulated
on June 4, 2005 at BookExpo America in New York.
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Mystery author Charles Benoit displays The Cactus Club Killings in
Fatehpur Sikri, India, February 2005. Photo: Chuck Murrman.
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Catching some local color at Left Coast Crime 2005 in El Paso.
I'm lying. This was taken when my coworkers dragged me
to lunch to celebrate my birthday in November 2004.
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Meeting of the Southern California chapter of Mystery Writers of America. (l-r) NW,
John Morgan Wilson, James Lincoln Warren, speaker John Langley
(producer of COPS), Taylor Smith, Paul Guyot.
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At Bouchercon 2004 in Toronto, I accepted the American Crime Writers
League's Ellen Nehr award for mystery reviewing on behalf of Robert
Wade of the San Diego Union-Tribune. Bob received it at the October
2004 MWA meeting in San Diego from Carolyn Wheat, ACWL President.
(l-r) NW, Bob, Carolyn, Gene Riehl (speaker at the meeting).
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Jerrilyn Farmer, Gary Phillips, NW at the 2004 West Hollywood Book Fair.
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At Jim Pascoe's wedding with a slew of UglyTown authors and their
significant others. Jim and new bride Gabrielle can be glimpsed
making out behind the railing in the background.
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MWA's Southern California chapter gave its fourth annual Marlowe Award for lifetime achievement to Sue Grafton in June 2004. (l-r) Kelly Lange, Mimi Latt, Gayle Lynds, Jan Burke, NW, Sue Grafton, Dennis Lynds, Taylor Smith.
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At Left Coast Crime 2003 with Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, one of my favorite authors. Photo: Cara Black.
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At Mystery Bookshop in L.A. with Jon Breen,
Mark Haskell Smith, and Taffy Cannon.
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Also at Mystery Bookshop, with the late William Relling Jr. Bill was my first
writing teacher and the man who convinced me to try my hand at a mystery.
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Bouchercon 2000 in Denver: John Morgan Wilson,
Robert S. Levinson, Robin Burcell, NW.
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A clutch of ecstatic Cactus Club Killings fans in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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Hard at work at my day job. Note the headgear.
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