Authors Jeri Westerson, Eric Stone and I, your faithful SinC/LA prez, will be live on TV, Pasadena/Los Angeles local access, today @ 9 pm talking about Sisters in Crime. You can catch a live stream on “The Arroyo Channel” 32 link on www.pasadenacommunitynetwork.com

The following is my President’s Notes column for the Sisters in Crime newsletter. After it ran, two women came up to me and told me how much they appreciated my mother’s advice. One of them taped it to her computer. See? My ma is a life coach, and she didn’t even know it. Hitch ‘em…

You thought I was dead didn’t you? You called the morgues and the hospitals to check, right? Right? Oh, come on. If you didn’t show up here forever, I’d at least file a missing person’s report, if for no other reason than to deflect suspicion. And don’t think that hasn’t occurred to me. We mystery…

My step-grandmother went into cardiac arrest. Brain death is possible. We’re still waiting. I accidentally ate lunch in the basement of a Hare Krishna temple. My agent wrote to say that even with her undeniable brilliance she can’t sell the paparazza book, and maybe I should write something else. Something she can, you know, sell.…