Thank you Kelli! I will check that out.

Thanks Kelli- I'll get your book also, going to your website.
My book is based on Dante's Purgatorio- so as a classicist, you'll enjoy it. Just to let you know, I found another good community on the web, eons.com - there's lots of reading groups there. It's for over 50 year olds, so they have more time to read and read more than most groups. It's a good place to talk your book up if you haven't already. Warm wishes, Lyn

Hi Kelli,
where do you for reserach. Ideally I would want to know what a Pvt Det. did in the 1940s, what cases he handled, what constraints he had, that sort of thing. can you help at all?

Glad you are going to Bouchercon 2007. You will be such an inspiration. And it's a good thing Jordan got you here.

hi Kelli,

Luv what you've done with your Crime Space, and in such a short amount of time!

To answer your question about the time period of my historical mysteries, that's my problem. Too many. I never met a historical time period I didn't like. I am a trained historian with a concentration in medieval history, but I write medieval, 18th century, the Depression, World War II, etc. I have a story set among the 17th century Mohawk forthcoming in the anthology Adirondack Noir.

Hi Kelli, I wasn't able to make it in June, but perhaps I've seen you at other meetings or a conference? The SinC LA chapter is wonderful!

Hi Kelli and thank you for much for the invite!

i'm hoping i'm ready...

Good meeting ya, recently...

Kelli--I'm so sorry for your loss. I cried three days when my dog, Sammy, was hit by a car. Pete and Tigger were the ones I lost this summer--both around 15 years old but it was so sudden and happened so close together. I'm the same way. I get upset just thinking about it. One thing, though, that was really strange. Right after we lost them, a beautiful little stray white cat showed up with her two baby kittens. We adopted them, of course, for our outside pets. I think it was God's way of giving us back our lost two, with a spare. : ) But it doesn't stop my missing the ones who are gone.

Double bummer now that Carsons on State Street is also closed.
Have fun at your conference.
Morgan

What conference are you going to in January?
I'm going to Love is Murder at the beginning of February.
Morgan

Howdy back!

Your book sounds like fun--and I was a medievalist once upon a time, in a universe far far away, so I love things academic. I'll watch for it!

Sheila

Hi Kelli--Good to hear from another Five Star author--and if you novel is half as good as your story Convivium, it's going to be a knockout!

Thanks for the advice on *Cottage at Dartmore.* I'll be on the lookout for it. The Dennis Lahane movie is supposed to open Thanksgiving Weekend. Obviously, there expecting bit things from it.

I'm going to look for your books, sounds good. I think Chandler was great and doing a homage was very nice.
all the best.

Yeah, looking at your choices of writers and movies, we seem to be admiring a particular wave. Yep, Shakespeare--who wrote his own plays, by the way. Will there ever be another like him?

Romans with fedoras ... got it ... Shadow of the Dahlia is about crimes that take place during the physical time period of the original Black Dahlia murder ... As for movies, have you seen the trailer to Dennis Lahane's *Gone, Baby, Gone*?