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• Meet The Author with Tori Eldridge

  • When
    Tuesday, June 10, 2025
  •  
    7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Zoom

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  Meet the Author with Tori Eldridge

  
  

  Please join us on Tuesday, June 10th from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. PT as Tori talks about her newest book, KAUAʻI STORM.

  
  

  

  
  

  Returning to Kaua‘i, park ranger Makalani finds her family divided and their way of life at risk in this rich and emotional adventure by the bestselling author of the Lily Wong series.

  
  

  After ten years as a national park ranger in Oregon, Makalani Pahukula is back on Kaua‘i for her grandmother’s birthday. Having been gone for so long, Makalani finds the disconnect with her people and her struggles have never been more profound. Neither has her need to reacquaint herself with everything she left behind. When she reaches the homestead, she finds a bickering family and the disconcerting news that her cousins—a failed college football player and a rebellious teenage girl—have gone missing.

  
  

  Tori Eldridge is the bestselling author of the Lily Wong mystery thriller series, which includes The Ninja Daughter, The Ninja’s Blade, The Ninja Betrayed, and The Ninja’s Oath, as well as a two-time Anthony Award nominee, Lefty and Macavity Awards finalist, and winner of the 2021 Crimson Scribe Award for Best Book of the Year.

  Website: www.ToriEldridge.com 

  Instagram: @writer. tori 

  Facebook: @ToriEldridgeAuthor

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• Capitol Crimes Summer Mingle

  • When
    Saturday, June 14, 2025
  •  
    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    2568 Industrial Blvd. #120, West Sacramento, CA 95691

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  2568 Industrial Blvd. #120

  West Sacramento, CA 95691

  

  Please join us on Saturday, June 14 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at Dusty Baker Family Winery and Bike Dog Brewery for a casual get-together with other writers and readers.

  

  Enjoy (no-host) wine, beer and delicious food truck specialties at this handy West Sacramento location. (Both businesses are at the same address and share a large seating area.) Non-alcoholic beverages are also available for purchase.

  Please register for this event so we know how many to expect.

  Catch up with old friends and make new ones.

  No program, just a good time.

  2568 Industrial Blvd. #120, West Sacramento, CA 95691

  
  

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• Criminally Good 2025 Writers' Conference

  • When
    Saturday, October 25, 2025
  •  
    9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Rancho Cordova City Hall, 2729 Prospect Park Dr, Rancho Cordova, CA 95670
  • Spaces left
    106

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  Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025

  Our fabulous in-person workshop will feature keynote speaker Catriona McPherson, along with:

  • Best-selling authors Simon Wood and Michelle Chouinard. 

  • Developmental editor and award-winning, multi-genre author Eileen Rendahl.
  • Literary agent and former marketing agency CEO Laurie McLean of Fuse Literary Agency.
  • A U.S. Army veteran and firearms expert, a former sheriff deputy/missing persons investigator and an emergency medicine physician—all discussing how to write realistic scenes.
  • YOUNG WRITERS' TRACK: Bryan Patrick Avery, on how to get started on your mystery; and Dale Berry, comic book artist and graphic novelist.
    
  • More speakers to come!

  Lunch and snacks are included, and Face in a Book, an El Dorado Hills independent bookstore, will host an on-site bookstore at City Hall.
  

  
  

  Register now for the early bird price of:

  Capitol Crimes Members $65
  Non-members $80

  Young Writers (ages 12-20) $20

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• Young Writers' Criminally Good 2025 Conference

  • When
    Saturday, October 25, 2025
  •  
    9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Rancho Cordova City Hall, 2729 Prospect Park Dr, Rancho Cordova, CA 95670
  • Spaces left
    20

  Register

  

  Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025

  Our fabulous in-person workshop will feature keynote speaker Catriona McPherson, along with:

  • YOUNG WRITERS' TRACK: Bryan Patrick Avery, on how to get started on your mystery; Dale Berry, comic book artist and graphic novelist; and 916Ink instructor Dorothy Rice.

  Lunch will be provided, and you'll eat with the adult authors and publishing professionals.
  

  • Speakers in the adult sessions will include best-selling authors Simon Wood and Michelle Chouinard. 

  • Developmental editor and award-winning, multi-genre author Eileen Rendahl.
  • Literary agent and former marketing agency CEO Laurie McLean of Fuse Literary Agency.
  • A U.S. Army veteran and firearms expert, a former sheriff deputy/missing persons investigator and an emergency medicine physician—all discussing how to write realistic scenes.
    
  • More adult and youth speakers to come!

  Face in a Book, an El Dorado Hills independent bookstore, will host an on-site bookstore at City Hall.
  

  Register now for the early bird price of:

  Capitol Crimes Members $65
  Non-members $80

  Young Writers (ages 12-20) $20

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