Seattle Shakedown

Left Coast Crime is Here!

It’s here! It’s here! It’s here!

Did I grab your attention? Tomorrow kicks off the first day of Left Coast Crime 2024: Seattle Shakedown! I’ll be at the conference as an attendee. There will be many guest speakers, panels of intrigue, and there’s always mystery book goodies! Registration is closed … BUT, there are still DAY PASSES available!

As per their website:
Individual Day Passes for Thursday ($75), Friday ($95), and Saturday ($95) are now available.
(Day Passes are sold separately and do not include admission to any food events.)
Purchase Day Passes Online

Sorry I haven’t been posting monthly. I think I need to stop committing to it. I hate disappointing anyone, especially you, Precious Reader. This has been a season of extreme strain on relationships (Pilot and I are fine) within my personal circle, and it emotionally drained me.

I’ve also been busy launching a new business! In my day-to-day life, I have always enjoyed creating art ever since I was a child It’s an inherent part of me. I’m a visual learning and planner, and my “murder board” (my board used to plot out my books) often has hand drawn maps and hand drawn “sets” for when I’m visualizing a scene in my books. It helps me make sense of where my characters are located, how they are in relation to each other, and how placement of furniture and characters will affect their movements, senses, and speech.

My new business is doing digital illustrations! There’s no theme other than I draw what I like. What I like tends to be cute things. Sometimes it falls under other stuff as well, but mostly cute things.

If you’re attending Left Coast Crime, look me up! I’d love to chat with you. I’ll be passing out business cards at the event, which will include my new digital illustration business as well.

See you there! If not, I’ll be writing about my experience at LCC when the conference is over. (I’ll do my best to take as many pictures as possible!)

– KB

Left Coast Crime 2024: Seattle Shakedown

Hello Precious Readers!

I will be attending Left Coast Crime 2024: Seattle Shakedown from April 11-14, 2024! I’ll be hanging out as an attendee, but if you happen to see me, feel free to say hello.

My peeps, I am so excited. This will be my second LCC. (I forgot I attended Whale of a Crime awhile back), I’m really looking forward to the guest speakers.

Be warned, although this says it’s in “Seattle” it’s actually going to be in Bellevue, WA. It’s a completely different city, it’s further east from the water, and it’s super… “uptown” vibe. If you’re within the main part of Bellevue, it’s walkable, but Seattle is 20 minutes west on a good traffic day.

I haven’t decided if I’ll be staying at the hotel, staying nearby, or just driving down each morning instead. Since many things start at 9 AM, I may just drive down and grit my teeth for dealing with traffic.

From their website:

“What is Left Coast Crime? Left Coast Crime is an annual mystery convention sponsored by mystery fans, both readers and authors. LCC is held during the first third of the year in Western North America. Conventions have been held from Anchorage to El Paso, from Boulder to Hawaii, and various locations in between.

Our purpose is to host an event where readers, authors, critics, librarians, publishers, and other fans can gather in convivial surroundings to pursue their mutual interests.

Left Coast Crime is an all-volunteer organization — neither the members of the Standing Committee nor members of each annual convention committee are paid for their time. LCC is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt non-profit organization. Each Left Coast Crime Convention raises money to support a local literacy organization with funds collected through silent and live auctions, and the annual Quilt Raffle.

Will I see you there?

KB