SleuthFest

SleuthFest 2012 is over. It was a good event though some of the South Florida people complained of the drive. I drive to the monthly luncheon meetings once a month and it's a four-hour drive. I don't complain because, to me, the time is well spent once I am there. I also use the drive time to work through my story. I spent the seven-hour drive to Orlando and seven-hour drive back to Key West, putting chapter ideas together in my head. Once at the hotel I wrote them down. It was a great help in getting me started and I am done with three chapters. I was chosen by the women at SleuthFest as one of six most watchable men, I think it's called. The women over heard the men, years ago, rating the women in the bar (where else?) and decided to turn the lot. Since then they've been doing this and if called up to the stage you are draped in a pink boa and ogled by the crowd at the cocktail party. The winner gets a bottle of Jack Daniels and paraded around the room! I didn't win, but it was an honored being named along with Reed Farrel Coleman. Also in the group were past winners like Don Bruns and Jerry Healy. Well, they save a photo is worth a thousand words, so I'll add a photo and shut up. Make plans for next year's SleuthFest, it's well worth the time. As soon as I know where it'll be held, I'll post.

Free Way Institution, the second in my Mick Murphy Key West Mystery series that came out from a traditional publisher, is now available as a trade paperback on Amazon.com.

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