Looking for some dog day reads? Here are some recent offerings from authors listed in the CaliforniaAuthors Directory:
The Natural Selection by Ona Russell. From the author’s web site: See Darwin’s theory of evolution come alive in this murder mystery set against the backdrop of the 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial.
Compulsion: An Alex Delaware Novel [...]
Stories in Mystery/crime:
Author directory release notes: 2008 fiction
They’re California authors, too.
They’re not famous for it, but they are famous, and they’ve got books out this month.
Speaker of the US House of Representatives California Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi will celebrate the launch of her book Know Your Power: A Message to America’s Daughters with three TV appearances on Monday (NBC’s “Today,” ABC’s “The View” and Comedy [...]
A surf thriller for summer reading
Among this summer’s wave of surf books, crime novelist Don Winslow’s new thriller, The Dawn Patrol, careens along the San Diego coast and attracts fans all over.
The story revolves around five friends — among them an ex-cop-turned-private-eye — who meet at sunrise each morning to take the early waves as the Dawn Patrol. “With [...]
SoCal thriller debut
Today is pub day for T. Jefferson Parker’s new novel, L.A. Outlaws, and you can read about Jeff’s inspiration for the story here at CaliforniaAuthors.
On top of the pile: We also can’t wait to dive into two new California collections: Where the Light Takes its Color From the Sea: A California Notebook by James D. [...]
Cruising the `suitcase city’
NPR’s Mandalit del Barco rides along with crime-reporter-turned-bestselling-author Michael Connelly, who’s written eighteen novels exploring the world of the Los Angeles Police Department. He’s behind the wheel. She’s soaking up the scene. From Venice Beach to downtown LA, with a detour through Hollywood, too.
Says del Barco: “This is Michael Connelly’s Los Angeles: Beautiful and damaged, [...]
Scary movies & other stray notes
• LaObserved reports today that Heritage Book Shop, LA’s rare book store, has been sold.
• LAO also notes that Kristin Gore is now an LA writer. “The 30-year-old daughter of former VP Al Gore lives near downtown with husband Paul Cusack, writes for ‘Saturday Night Live’ and ‘Futurama’ and has a new novel, Sammy’s House, [...]
Contemporary crime fiction
Daniel Olivas reviews the Los Angeles Noir anthology, edited by Denise Hamilton with stories by seventeen SoCal writers, for the Elegant Variation. Olivas loves the book (”the authors featured in Los Angeles Noir have big gumshoes to fill. And fill them they do”) and shares some choice tidbits.
Like this one:
Some of the stories take place [...]
Cruising LA’s mean streets
Check out the Christian Science Monitor’s travel feature on a Saturday crime tour exploring Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles and “full of mystery-loving, novel-toting, passage-quoting noir junkies.” The idea: a rolling homage to both the author and the city he loved, then hated, and immortalized in his writings.
Daniel B. Wood’s story includes comments from [...]
Author directory release notes: 2008 fiction
They’re California authors, too.
They’re not famous for it, but they are famous, and they’ve got books out this month.
Speaker of the US House of Representatives California Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi will celebrate the launch of her book Know Your Power: A Message to America’s Daughters with three TV appearances on Monday (NBC’s “Today,” ABC’s “The View” and Comedy [...]
A surf thriller for summer reading
Among this summer’s wave of surf books, crime novelist Don Winslow’s new thriller, The Dawn Patrol, careens along the San Diego coast and attracts fans all over.
The story revolves around five friends — among them an ex-cop-turned-private-eye — who meet at sunrise each morning to take the early waves as the Dawn Patrol. “With [...]
SoCal thriller debut
Today is pub day for T. Jefferson Parker’s new novel, L.A. Outlaws, and you can read about Jeff’s inspiration for the story here at CaliforniaAuthors.
On top of the pile: We also can’t wait to dive into two new California collections: Where the Light Takes its Color From the Sea: A California Notebook by James D. [...]
Cruising the `suitcase city’
NPR’s Mandalit del Barco rides along with crime-reporter-turned-bestselling-author Michael Connelly, who’s written eighteen novels exploring the world of the Los Angeles Police Department. He’s behind the wheel. She’s soaking up the scene. From Venice Beach to downtown LA, with a detour through Hollywood, too.
Says del Barco: “This is Michael Connelly’s Los Angeles: Beautiful and damaged, [...]
Scary movies & other stray notes
• LaObserved reports today that Heritage Book Shop, LA’s rare book store, has been sold.
• LAO also notes that Kristin Gore is now an LA writer. “The 30-year-old daughter of former VP Al Gore lives near downtown with husband Paul Cusack, writes for ‘Saturday Night Live’ and ‘Futurama’ and has a new novel, Sammy’s House, [...]
Contemporary crime fiction
Daniel Olivas reviews the Los Angeles Noir anthology, edited by Denise Hamilton with stories by seventeen SoCal writers, for the Elegant Variation. Olivas loves the book (”the authors featured in Los Angeles Noir have big gumshoes to fill. And fill them they do”) and shares some choice tidbits.
Like this one:
Some of the stories take place [...]
Cruising LA’s mean streets
Check out the Christian Science Monitor’s travel feature on a Saturday crime tour exploring Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles and “full of mystery-loving, novel-toting, passage-quoting noir junkies.” The idea: a rolling homage to both the author and the city he loved, then hated, and immortalized in his writings.
Daniel B. Wood’s story includes comments from [...]
Meet the authors of the California Authors Directory. Visit the directory to discover writers like Christina Meldrum, a Bay Area attorney whose book Madapple was just released this month. “In debut novelist Christina Meldrum's mesmerizing literary mystery, 
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