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Garden City Noir at the Bar | Augusta, GA | December 2025
Yonder - Noir at the Bar | Hillsborough, NC | December, 2025
Back Roads Noir Festival | Greensboro Library | July 2026
Juniper Bends Reading Series | June 2025
Amesville Writers' Workshop | June 2025
Yonder Noir at the Bar - April 2025, Photo by Eric L. Woods
With Dan Leach and Brian Panowich at Dahlonega Lit Fest, March 2025
In Conversation with Katy Goforth at Hub City Bookstore, February 2025
My last appearance at Robert Morris University as Faculty – December 2024
With Dan Leach and Kyler Campbell at Charleston Southern U.
With Andrew K. Clark and Nathan Ballingrud at Barnes and Noble – Biltmore Park
With Andrew K. Clark at his Book Launch for WHERE DARK THINGS GROW
With Andrew K. Clark at his Book Launch for WHERE DARK THINGS GROW
BOUCHERCON 2024
with Rob D. Smith
BOUCHERCON 2024
with Brian Panowich
BOUCHERCON 2024
with Mike McCrary and S.A. Cosby
BOUCHERCON 2024
with Heather Levy
BOUCHERCON 2024
with Brian Panowich
BOUCHERCON 2024
Me (moderating) Brian Panowich, Mary Dutta, Don Bruns, Eleanor Caywood Jones, and Joseph S. Walker
BOUCHERCON 2024
Is It Over Panel Crew
BOUCHERCON 2024
with Brian Panowich and Eric Beetner
BOUCHERCON 2024
at the Reckon Review/Rock and a Hard Place Mixer
with Rob D. Smith, Beau Johnson, S.A. Cosby, James D.F. Hannah, and Paul Garth
BOUCHERCON 2024
BOUCHERCON 2024
BOUCHERCON 2024
BOUCHERCON 2024
Panel: Live Like You Were Dying
Moderator Eliza Nellums, Panelists: Claire M. Johnson, Me, Reavis Z. Wortham, JL HIll,
and S.A. Cosby
BOUCHERCON 2024
BOUCHERCON 2024
with C.W. Blackwell & Heather Levy
BOUCHERCON 2024
Downtown Nashville
BOUCHERCON 2024
Rob D. Smith and I
BOUCHERCON 2024
Thriller Panel: Trisha Slay Moderating
Panelists: Sarah Langan, Me, Rob D. Smith and Curtis Ippolito
Amesville Writers’ Workshop 2024
Amesville Writers’ Workshop 2024
Amesville Writers’ Workshop 2024
I got nominated for an Anthony, y’all!!
Spartanburg Public Library
with Brian Panowich
Robert Morris University – April 2024 – Expanding the Circle, on Literary Community
With Brian Panowich and William Rawlings | Dahlonega Lit Fest 2024
B’ham N@tB – 2/24/24
Birmingham Noir at the Bar – 2/24/24
With Pete Farris and Brian Panowich | Birmingham Noir at the Bar – 2/24/24
Reading at Noir at the Bar, Yonder Bar, Hillsborough, NC (Photo Credit: Eryk Pruitt)
With S.A. Cosby and Eryk Pruitt at Noir at the Bar, Yonder Bar, Hillsborough, NC
Reading at “In the Company of Writer” at the Brandy Bar, Hendersonville, NC
With my Robert Morris University Writing Students
With Caleb Johnson and M.O. Walsh at Louisiana Book Festival
With Frank Bill and Daren Dean at Louisiana Book Festival
With Frank Bill and Daren Dean at Louisiana Book Festival
Best American Mystery and Suspense 2023
With Ed Karshner, Sarah Rose, and Natalie Sypolt at Lit Youngstown
At Lit Youngstown
Readers at Robert Morris University, including Jolene McIlwain and Jody DiPerna
Reading at Robert Morris University
At Tombolo Books with Steph Post
Reading at Tombolo Books with Steph Post
Shout out in WNC Magazine
Carolina Mountain Lit Fest
Carolina Mountain Lit Fest
Teaching at Carolina Mountain Lit Fest
Presenting at Carolina Mountain Lit Fest
At Bouchercon, with Sadie Hartmann and Kasey Lansdale
At Bouchercon, after our panel.
Bouchercon 2023 panel
With Mandi Sheffel and Laurel Hightower at Read Spotted Newt
At Read Spotted Newt with Laurel Hightower
At Carmichael’s Books with J. Todd Scott and Frank Bill
At Carmichael’s Books with J. Todd Scott and Frank Bill
At Carmichael’s Books with J. Todd Scott and Frank Bill
At Union Ave Books, Knoxville, TN
At Union Ave Books, Knoxville, TN
With author Charles Dodd White, at Union Ave. Books, Knoxville, TN
With author Brian Panowich and David Hutchinson (owner) at The Book Tavern, Augusta, GA
At The Book Tavern, Augusta, GA
With author Laura Leigh Morris, and reader Annissa, at M. Judson Books, Greenville, SC
With author Laura Leigh Morris at M. Judson Books, Greenville, SC
Reading at Scuppernong Books with Sara Johnson Allen
With the delightful Nathan Ballingrud at Malaprop’s
Signing books at Malaprop’s during HERE IN THE DARK’s Launch Party
Launch Party for HERE IN THE DARK at Malaprop’s with Nathan Ballingrud
Launch Party for HERE IN THE DARK at Malaprop’s with Nathan Ballingrud
With authors Heather Bell Adams and Gina Heron at Noir at the Bar
Noir at the Bar – Yonder Bar – Hillsborough, NC
Release Day for HERE IN THE DARK
Papercuts Cover Reveal of HERE IN THE DARK
Amesville Writers’ Workshop 2023
Amesville Writers’ Workshop 2023
With Ohio Poet Laureate Kari Gunter Seymour at AWW ’23
Amesville Writers’ Workshop ’23
With Ed Karshner and Robert Gipe – planning for Amesville Writers’ Workshop ’23
With Robert Gipe, Karen Salyer McElmurray, and Chris McGinley at ASA 2023
With AWW Founder George Wood at Appalachian Studies Association Conference 2023
With Ace Bogess, Pauletta Hansel, and Marc Harshman at ASA ’23
Reading at ASA ’23
With Wiley Cash at Hub City Delicious Reads 2023
With Pete Farris and Brian Panowich at Dahlonega Lit Fest 2023
Professor Lucas
Shotgun Honey bought my short story collection, HERE IN THE DARK
Fantastic reading with William R. Soldan at RMU
Inaugural Roger Gillan Visiting Writer
Look familiar?
Look at that pretty sticker!
Won Best Debut Novel at the 2020 Indie Book Awards
Signing books in my Canadian hometown!
Book event in my Canadian hometown!
On Wordplay Radio
At City Lights with Andrew Clark and Ben Cutler
At the launch party for SONGBIRDS AND STRAY DOGS
Ma, I’m on NPR!
Maybe my first public reading?