Join Us
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2025
8:00 AM to 2:30 PM
THE GRAND
Long Beach, CA
for Our 25th Anniversary
OUR 2025 HEADLINERS
Craig Johnson
Craig Johnson is the New York Times bestselling author of the Walt Longmire mystery novels, which are the basis for Longmire, the hit Netflix original drama. Craig recently attended Bouchercon 2025 as a Guest of Honor and received the prodigious Lifetime Achievement Award. His books have won numerous awards: Le Prix du Polar Nouvel Observateur/Bibliobs, the Wyoming Historical Association’s Book of the Year, Le Prix 813, the Western Writers of America’s Owen Wister Award and multiple Spur Awards, the Mountains & Plains Book of the Year, the SNCF Prix de Polar, Publishers Weekly’s Best Book of the Year, Library Journal's Best Mystery of the Year, and multiple Will Rogers Medallion Awards. Spirit of Steamboat was selected by the Wyoming State Library as the inaugural One Book Wyoming. Johnson lives in Ucross, Wyoming, population twenty-six. craigallenjohnson.com
walter mosley
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in conversation with
leslie s. klinger
Walter Mosley is one of America’s most celebrated writers. He was given the 2020 National Book Award’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, named a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America, and honored with the Anisfield-Wolf Award, a Grammy, a PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award, the Robert Kirsch Award, numerous Edgars, and several NAACP Image Awards. His work is translated into 25 languages. He has published fiction and nonfiction in The New Yorker, Playboy, and The Nation. As an executive producer, he adapted his novel, The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, for AppleTV+ and serves as a writer and executive producer for FX’s “Snowfall.” Walter has written more than sixty books, often publishing two books a year. His Easy Rawkins novels total 18, with the most current being Gray Dawn (2025) and Farewell, Amethystine (2024); as well as his latest King Oliver series book: Been Wrong So Long It Feel Like Right (2025.) Born and raised in Los Angeles, he lives in Brooklyn and Santa Monica. waltermosley.com
Leslie S. Klinger is considered to be one of the world’s foremost authorities on Sherlock Holmes, Dracula, Frankenstein, and H. P. Lovecraft. He is the New York Times–bestselling editor of the Edgar®-winning New Annotated Sherlock Holmes and Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s. He currently edits the Library of Congress Crime Classics series with twenty volumes to date, and, with Laurie R. King, has edited five anthologies of Sherlock Holmes–inspired short stories. Klinger is currently president of the Southern California chapter of the Mystery Writers of America. He lives in Malibu, California.
lesliesklinger.com
Please check back in early July for updates on registration for our 2025 event