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If you’re going to be anywhere remotely near Southern California this weekend, it’ll be more than worth your while to swing by the UCLA campus for the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Whatever your biblio-fetish, they can tickle it. Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, current events, mystery, romance, children’s literature, cookbooks, pop-up books, books about books. If you can think of it, they’ve got a lecture, demonstration or event about it. And it is all absolutely, positively free.

You can check out the details online. Advanced “tickets” are required for the indoor lectures. Tickets are free and available until Thursday. Think of it as making a reservation. (Although, there are “stand-by” lines for those without tickets.) All lectures, speakers, concerts, demonstrations, etc. held on the outdoor stages are open to anyone, no ticket required.

There will be hundreds of authors and “celebrity authors” there to speak, chat and sign books, including Mitch Albom, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Julie Andrews, David Baldacci, Jan Burke, T.C. Boyle, Mary and Carol Higgins Clark, James Ellroy, Tim Gunn, Lee Iacocca, Walter Mosley, Frank McCourt, Ralph Nader, Gore Vidal...

...and ME!

I’ll be signing copies of the oh-so-deviously-delicious “LANDMARKED FOR MURDER,” an anthology of Los Angeles crime fiction. Each story revolves around a famous Southern California landmark, making for one devilish travelogue.

Come see me Saturday the 28th from 2 – 4 p.m. at the Sisters in Crime booth just in front of Royce Hall.

It’ll be a murderously good time!

ahream Dispatches from the City of Angels I'm a mystery writer living in and writing about Los Angeles. You can catch my short story, "Running Venice," in the new anthology LAndmarked for Murder. Look for it in bookstores and on Amazon.com now. In the meantime, feel free to poke around. Over at my website you can find even more blog entries than I could fit here, as well as a few other ramblings. Enjoy and come back often.
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