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Priscilla Royal is finally reaching the end of the Great Bathroom Demolition Project. She thinks... She hopes....Meanwhile....

• On Saturday, Feb 11, from noon to one, she will be at the Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale AZ for a signing. Her 13th medieval mystery, The Proud Sinner, will be "official" on the 7th as well as a special reissue of her first book, Wine of Violence, which features a new introduction by Sharon Kay Penman. 

Jean Rabe wrote a scenario and an essay about writing game adventures "that don't suck." It's part of a big Kickstarter project currently running by Goodman Games.Here's the link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1409961192/how-to-write-adventure-modules-that-dont-suck?ref=project_link

Ellen Kirschman is heading to Oregon to co-lead a workshop for the International Council of Police Chaplains.

Michael Black busy teaching his Creative Writing Class at a local junior college and busy working on projects. He's also writing the program for the Public Safety Writers Association conference, which will be in Las Vegas, Nevada, on July 13-16 at the Orleans Hotel and Casino. It's open to anyone who likes to write, and offers a variety of panels on writing as well as lots of information on police, fire, and military subjects. It's a great place to research your next novel.

LadyKiller alumna Rita Lakin, awakening from a long snooze, is writing a new novel for the Gladdy Gold Getting Old is Murder series. Since she thought the last one was the very last, she entitled it, Getting Old Can Kill You. So now she has to work backward: Getting Old Can Hurt You.

NEXT WEEK, "Read All About It" and something special on Wednesday....

The topic next week is "Read All About It: Plots from the News." But then, on Wednesday, we've got something special planned....

On Wednesday, LadyKiller extraordinaire Camille Minichino will have a special blog post on "irritating reads," in other words, those things some authors do (! no names !) that just plain "tick her off." The LadyKillers as a whole will chime in in the Comments section with their own pet peeves, and we encourage you to drop on by and do the same!