Southwest Sleuths Co-Chairs: Lucinda
Surber & Stan Ulrich
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 Lucinda & Stan
joined the LCC family
with Left Coast Crime 2011: The Big Chile in Santa Fe, and were co-chairs (with Bill & Toby Gottfried) for 2014: Calamari Crime in Monterey. They serve
as the Awards Co-Chairs for LCC, and Stan, a retired
lawyer, is President of Left Coast Crime Conference,
Inc. Their first mystery convention was Bouchercon
2007 in Alaska, and they’ve
enjoyed exploring new places and meeting fellow mystery
enthusiasts at Bouchercon and Left Coast Crime ever
since. Lucinda & Stan were the Fan Guests of Honor at Bouchercon 2015 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Together Lucinda and Stan are Stop,
You’re
Killing Me!, an Anthony award-winning web resource
for lovers of mystery, crime, thriller, spy, and suspense
books. A former elementary school teacher, Lucinda created Bookworm
for Kids—a
resource for teachers, parents, grandparents, and all
others interested in encouraging children to love reading.
Lucinda and Stan try to give away as many books as they
can, but still seem to have piles everywhere.
Meet-the-New-Authors Breakfast Chair: Mike Befeler
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Mike hosts the annual Meet-the-New Authors Breakfast at Left Coast Crime when everyone is invited to have breakfast with the new authors and hear a bit about their books. Mike is the author of fifteen books including six novels in the Paul Jacobson Geezer-lit Mystery Series and recent standalones: Unstuff Your Stuff; Court Trouble: A Platform Tennis Mystery; an international thriller, The Tesla Legacy; and Death of a Scam Artist. Mike is past-president of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of Mystery Writers of America. After a thirty-nine year business career, he retired into writing. He grew up in Hawaii, spent many years in Boulder, Colorado, and currently lives in Lakewood, California, with his wife Wendy. In addition to mystery writing, Mike is a professional grandpa, being entertained daily by his young grandson. [website]
Awards Co-Chairs
Lucinda Surber & Stan Ulrich serve as the Left Coast Crime Awards Co-Chairs. Email them at Awards@LeftCoastCrime.org with questions about the Lefty Awards.
Publisher Liaison: Lucinda Surber
We are happy to accept crime fiction and non-fiction for distribution in the book bags. There is no charge, but you will need to ship the books to the event to arrive by mid-March. Any quantity is accepted. We prefer not to have more than 200 copies of a single title; multiple titles are recommended if you would like to place a book in every bag. In order to make book distribution work for both the participants (who will love receiving your books) and the booksellers (who will plan to bring different books to sell) we ask that you provide our Publisher Liason with the title(s) and number of current releases you would like to donate. If interested in donating books, please email Lucinda Surber.
National
Publicity Chair: Janet Rudolph
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Janet Rudolph
 Janet Rudolph is known as “The
Mistress of Mystery.” She
is the writer/producer for Murder on the Menu®,
director of Mystery
Readers International, editor of
the Mystery Readers Journal, a teacher of mystery fiction,
and has been a columnist for most of the mystery periodicals.
She is a member of Mystery Writers of America, the
International Association of Crime Writers, the British
Crime Writers Association, Sisters in Crime, and the
American Crime Writers League. She has been on panels
at Bouchercon (the World Mystery Convention), Left
Coast Crime, and several other mystery conventions.
Janet was Fan Guest of Honor at Malice Domestic in
Washington, DC, and an invited participant in international
writing conferences in Spain, England, and Cuba. She
blogs at Mystery
Fanfare and Dying
for Chocolate.
Advisors: Bill and Toby Gottfried
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 Bill & Toby were on the initial LCC Committee in San Francisco and have participated ever since. Toby retired from her position at Calypte Biomedical in 2009 and Bill is a pediatrician who currently works with the State Medical society as a surveyor of Quality Medical Practices. Both were formally introduced to the mystery convention in 1985 at Bouchercon in San Francisco and have attended almost all Bouchercons since. They received the Don Sandstrom Memorial Award for Lifetime Achievement in Mystery Fandom in 2008 and the David Thompson Memorial Special Service Award at Bouchercon Raleigh in 2015. Bill and Toby were the program chairs for Bouchercon 1997 in Monterey; and were chairs of the Left Coast Crime conventions in 2004 (Monterey) and 2009 (Hawaii) and co-chairs (with Lucinda Surber & Stan Ulrich) in 2014 (Monterey). They have attended all but one of the LCC conventions. Bill and Toby were Fan Guests of Honor at the first CrimeFest in Bristol, England, and have been participants in Janet Rudolph’s Mystery Readers International reading group since 1985. They also have “chaired” their own summer reading group, Mystery Addicts, for over 20 years. Bill and Toby presently own about 16,000 mysteries, some of which they have even read.
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