2024
January 10-14, 2024, Appearances at BSI Week.
March 5, 2024 – Hounds of the Hollywood Baskervilles Book Release date!
Book Launch: Hounds of the Hollywood Baskervilles, has been postponed to April 4, 2024 at The Mysterious Bookshop, 58 Warren Street, NYC 10007 (212) 587-1011. Pre-order your signed copy!
Elizabeth Crowens – Hounds of the Hollywood Baskervilles – Preorder Signed Paperback
Five Compelling Questions podcast with Shawn Reilly Simmons 3/6
https://open.spotify.com/show/3jpoXCagZHHz8sAwXSPVGA
Author, Heather Weidner’s Blog 3/7 https://www.heatherweidner.com/blog
Sunday Tea with V, Hystery Chronicles 3/10 https://open.spotify.com/show/2aIWHeBOIhqgjjhwxiunfC
Crime Wave podcast with Bonnar Spring 3/12 https://bonnarspring.com/index.php/category/crimewave/
Blog post with Author, Lynn Slaughter 3/12 https://lynnslaughter.com/blog/
Blog Talk Radio with Fran Lewis 3/13 https://www.blogtalkradio.com/book-talk-with-fran-lewis
I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere 3/30 https://www.ihearofsherlock.com
It’s Not Always A Mystery 4/1 https://www.debrahgoldstein.com/blog/
April 10-14, 2024, Left Coast Crime, Bellevue, WA
Panel: Thursday, April 11, Noon, Ready for My Close Up: Mysteries Set in LA
April 21, 2024, LA Times Festival of Books, signing time Noon-2 pm at the Sisters in Crime – LA Chapter booth.
April 25-28, 2024, Malice Domestic, North Bethesda, MD, Panel: Clothes Make the Murderer, Saturday, 11-11:50 am.
May 1 – May 29, 2024, California Coast Book Tour & Research Trip, Starting with San Francisco, Sacramento, San Simeon, and Los Angeles. Contact me at ecrowens@yahoo.com if you want me to speak at your bookstore or book club. Los Angeles live book signing event still in the works.
May 7, 2024 – 6:00 pm. Live Event with Baker Street West at Hein & Company, Used and Rare Books, 204 N. Main St. Jackson, CA 95642. (209) 223-9076. (Sacramento area.)
May 30 – June 1, 2024, ThrillerFest, New York City
August 22-25, 2024, Killer Nashville, Nashville, TN
August 26-September 2, 2024, Bouchercon, Nashville, TN
(Tentative) September 27-29, 2024, Sleuthfest, St. Petersberg, FL
October 16-20, 2024, World Fantasy Convention, Niagara Falls, NY
(Tentative) November 1-3, 2024, New England Crime Bake, Dedham, MA
(Tentative), November 11 – December 10, 2024, Los Angeles,
Contact me at ecrowens@yahoo.com if you want me to speak at your bookstore or book club.
2023
Appearances at BSI Week, Left Coast Crime, Malice Domestic, CrimeCon, California Crime Writers Conference, Killer Nashville, Bouchercon, Brooklyn Book Festival, Sisters in Crime Reading at the Baker Street Irregulars Bar.
PUBLICATION ANNOUNCEMENT: Three-book deal with Level Best Books. Golden Age of Hollywood mystery series (soft-boiled with humor.) First of the series, Hounds of the Hollywood Baskervilles will be released on March 5, 2024.
2022
Appearances at BSI Week, Left Coast Crime, Malice Domestic, ThrillerFest, Bouchercon, New England Crime Bake and Loscon.
2021
Press Release: New York: Give Me Your Best or Your Worst
New York, NY – Writer and photographer, Elizabeth Crowens is one of 500 New York City-based artists to receive funding through the City Artist Corps Grants program, presented by The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), with support from the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) as well as Queens Theatre.
She was recognized for New York: Give Me Your Best or Your Worst, her photo-illustrated anthology, which will bring her published book along with ten other authors to Mysterious Bookshop in Lower Manhattan at 58 Warren Street on Monday, October 25, 2021 at 6:30 p.m. for an in-store event and author signing along with a simultaneous Facebook Live presentation and recording for Jim Freund’s WBAI program Hour of the Wolf (to be aired at a later date TBD). Free tickets available through Eventbrite. Author contributors include:
- Reed Farrel Coleman, New York Times bestselling author of over 31 award-winning mystery and thriller novels, including the Jesse Stone series for the estate of Robert B. Parker. Called a hard-boiled poet by NPR’s Maureen Corrigan.
- Charles Salzberg, former magazine journalist, crime novelist of the Shamus Award-nominated Henry Swann series, founding member of the New York Writers Workshop.
- Tom Straw, Emmy and WGA-nominated writer-producer, credits include Nurse Jackie, Night Court, Grace Under Fire, Whoopie, and the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Crime novelist under the pen name of Richard Castle.
- Randee Dawn, Entertainment journalist for Today.com, Variety, and the Los Angeles Times. Co-editor of Across the Universe: Tales of Alternative Beatles and The Law & Order: SUV Companion, and speculative fiction writer of the upcoming Tune in Tomorrow.
- Barbara Krasnoff, Reviews Editor at The Verge, over 45 published short stories, Nebula Award finalist, author of the “mosaic” novel The History of Soul 2065.
- Steven Van Patten, TV stage manager by day, horror writer by night. Co-host of the Beef, Wine and Shenanigans podcast, winner of several African American Literary Awards.
- Triss Stein writes mysteries that all take place in Brooklyn.
- Marco Conelli, former NYPD detective, consultant to Mary Higgins Clark, and Silver Falchion award-winner for young adult mysteries and the police procedural Cry For Help, taking place in The Bronx.
- R.J. Koreto, historical mystery writer focusing on New York during the Gilded Age.
- Richie Narvaez, award-winning mystery author of Hipster Death Rattle, Holly Hernandez and the Death of Disco, and Noiryorican.
- Elizabeth Crowens, over 25 years in the entertainment industry, member of the International Cinematographers Guild as a Still Photographer (Imdb.com credited: Sheri Lane), award-winning writer of novels in the Hollywood mystery and alternate history genres. Recipient of the Leo B. Burstein Scholarship by the NY Chapter of Mystery Writers of America. Editor and photographer for New York: Give Me Your Best or Your Worst based on her Facebook Caption Contests. www.elizabethcrowens.com @Ecrowens on Twitter. https://www.facebook.com/thereel.elizabeth.crowens
Members of the public can participate in City Artist Corps Grants programming by following the hashtag #CityArtistCorps on social media.
City Artist Corps Grants was launched in June 2021 by NYFA and DCLA with support from the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) as well as Queens Theatre. The program is funded by the $25 million New York City Artist Corps recovery initiative announced by Mayor de Blasio and DCLA earlier this year. The grants are intended to support NYC-based working artists who have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19.
2020
BSI Week, New York, January 18, 2020 Dealers Room with Dan Andriacco
NYRSF (New York Review of Science Fiction) Brooklyn, February 4, 2020. An evening of Crime, Capers and Alternate Histories of Conan Doyle with Teel James Glenn at Brooklyn Commons 388 Atlantic Avenue at 7:00 p.m.
West Hollywood/Los Angeles Book Soup 7-9 p.m.
Left Coast Crime Conference, San Diego March 12-15
Bouchercon 2020, Sacramento, CA October 13-18
World Fantasy Convention 2020, Salt Lake City, UT October 29-November 1
More to come
2019
World Fantasy Convention, Los Angeles, October/November 2019
USA Book Launch at The Mysterious Bookshop, NYC. September 26, 2019 at 6:30 p.m.
Worldcon, Dublin, August 2019
August 2019, UK Book Tour
Glasgow, Sloan’s Bar August 22
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, August 26, Arthur Conan Doyle Center
London
August 28, Westminster Reference Library
August 29, The Atlantis Bookshop
ThrillerFest, New York, July 2019
Sleuthfest, Boca Raton, March 2019
BSI Week, New York, January 2019
2018
Philcon, Philadelphia, November 2018
Bouchercon, St. Petersburg, FL, September 2018
Worldcon, San Jose, CA, August 2018
Writer’s Police Academy, August 2018
Thrillerfest, July 2018
Chanticleer Awards and Conference, April 2018
Heliosphere, March 2018
BSI Week, January 2018
2017
Philcon, November 2017
World Fantasy Convention, October 2017
Bouchercon, October 2017
Writers Digest Conference, August 2017
Readercon, July 2017
Thrillerfest, July 2017
Deadly Ink, June 2017
BEA, May/June 2017
Stokercon, April 2017
Lunacon, April 2017
Chanticleer Author’s Conference, March/April 2017
Heliosphere, March 2017
2016
Wednesday, June 8th, 2016 6:30-8:30 pm
Elizabeth Crowens will be doing her book launch for her debut novel, Silent Meridian, at The Mysterious Bookshop located a 58 Warren Street in Lower Manhattan. (212) 587-1011. Silent Meridian is an alternate history novel featuring Arthur Conan Doyle, as you’ve never seen him told from the point of view of a different type of Doctor Watson, John Patrick Scott.
Book signing, reading, broadcast interview by WBAI Radio “Hour of the Wolf” hosted by Jim Freund. Special appearance by Teal James Glenn portraying Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Sponsored by Walker’s Shortbread.
More information on Facebook here.
June 26th, Park Plaza Restaurant, Brooklyn, NY 3:00 pm
Montague Street Lodgers (Sherlockian group),
July 7-10
Readercon, Quincy Marriott, Quincy, MA. Book signing at Broaduniverse.
http://readercon.org/
Books: Larry Smith and Ian Randall Strock
July 16th
Priory Scholars (Sherlockian group) , Churchill’s on 28th Street, New York City
https://prioryscholarsnyc.wordpress.com/
August 7th
Queens Book Fair, Citifield, Greater New York City area
Marquee Stage: 11:00 A.M. The umbrella genre of speculative fiction, including science fiction and fantasy, has gained a broader popularity over the last decade and has opened the door for authors of various backgrounds to write their own stories more reflective of their worlds. In this panel, authors will discuss their visions for the future of speculative fiction, and how broadening the scope of the genre and engaging with various communities better enriches on the world. Moderated by Jennifer Marie Brissett. Panels are: Elizabeth Crowens, Carlos Hernadez, Matthew Kressel and Steve W. Vera.
August 13-14
2016 Writer’s Digest Conference, New York Hilton-Midtown, 1335 Sixth Avenue, NYC.
Book signing 8/13, Panel, 8/14, Breaking in: How I Got My Novel Published, 10:15-11:15 am. http://www.writersdigestconference.com/
Actually, I was switched and ended up speaking on the World Building for Science Fiction and Fantasy at the same time frame.
August 16-21
Worldcon, Kansas City, MO. . Broaduniverse, Larry Smith Books.
http://midamericon2.org/
Will be on the Friday, August 19th panel at 5:00 pm,
Getting Your Hands Dirty: Realism and Research in SF/F
September 2-5
Dragoncon, Atlanta, GA . Larry Smith Books.
http://dragoncon.org/
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND
September 22, 7:30 pm-10 pm
No tickets necessary. This is a free event. Just cover your own food and drink.
Young’s Interesting Books, The Sherlock Holmes Society of Scotland and the local Glasgow Doctor Who society will be hosting a reading/signing of SILENT MERIDIAN at Sloan’s Pub and Restaurant.
October 22
Priory Scholars, NYC. Churchill’s on 28th St., NYC
https://prioryscholarsnyc.wordpress.com/
October 27-30
World Fantasy Convention, Columbus, OH. Books: Larry Smith and Ian Randall Strock
http://worldfantasy2016.org/