2019 Events:
Event: Left Coast Crime 2019 – Whale of a Crime
Date: March 28-31, 2019.
Location: Vancouver, BC
Address: Hyatt Regency, 655 Burrard St.
Doc Macomber will be one of of the many talented panel guests.
For More Event Info: visits:
http://www.leftcoastcrime.org/2019/Attendees.html
2017 Events:
Event: Left Coast Crime 2017 – Honolulu Havoc
Date: March 16-19, 2017.
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii
Address: Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort
Doc Macomber will be one of of the many talented panel guests.
For More Event Info: visits:
http://http://www.leftcoastcrime.org/2017/Attendees.html
2016 Events:
Event: Tattoo and Blues and Book signing Cruise
Date: Sept 18, 2016 Time: 1pm to 5pm
Location: Aboard the Famed Portland Spirit, Portland, OR.
Address: 110 SE Caruthers St, Portland, Oregon (at OMSI)
Drop by @ 1pm and talk with the author about his new upcoming novel, River Rat, and/or sample some other authors and art, sample some tasty treats – or – sail all afternoon on the Willamette River. Boat leaves the dock at 2pm and returns at 5pm.
For More Event Info: www.floatingwordpress.com
Event: AAUW & Sisters in Crime Present Mystery Authors Panel
Date: March 13, 2016. Time: 2 – 4 pm — Free to the Public
Location: Clark Public Utilities
Address: 1200 Fort Vancouver Way, Vancouver, WA
Doc Macomber will be one of ten talented panel guests.
For More Event Info: visits:
http://vancouver-wa.aauw.net/
2015 Previous Events:
Event: Tattoo and Blues Book signing Cruise & Book Launch Party
Date: May 17, 2015 Time: 1pm to 5pm
Location: Aboard the Famed Portland Spirit, Portland, OR.
Address: 110 SE Caruthers St, Portland, Oregon (at OMSI)
Drop by @ 1pm and talk with the author about his new upcoming novel, River Rat, and/or sample some other authors and art, sample some tasty treats – or – sail all afternoon on the Willamette River. Boat leaves the dock at 2pm and returns at 5pm.
For More Event Info: www.floatingwordpress.com
Event: Band Girls Book Club (BG2) Dinner & Book Discussion
Date: March 25, 2015 Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Location: Private
The Band Girls Book Club (BG2) is hosting a private event for the author to have a discussion about his latest release, River City. This is a private event for book group members only.
Left Coast Crime 2015, (Crimelandia) Portland, OR
Dates: March 12-15, 2015
Panel: Oregon State of Mind: Crime in the Beaver State
Time: SATURDAY, March 14th, 1:30-2:15 pm
Panel Guests include: Mysti Berry (M), Bill Cameron, Dana Haynes, Kristelle James, Doc Macomber
Location: DoubleTree Hotel, 1000 NE Multnomah St (Lloyd Center)
For More Event Info: www.leftcoastcrime2015.com
2014 Events:
Event: Tattoo and Blues Book signing Cruise & Book Launch Party
Date: April 27, 2014 Time: 1pm to 5pm
Location: Aboard the Famed Portland Spirit, Portland, OR.
Address: 110 SE Caruthers St, Portland, Oregon (at OMSI)
Drop by @ 1pm and pick up my latest release, River City, and/or sample some other authors and art, sample some tasty treats – or – sail all afternoon on the Willamette River. Boat leaves the dock at 2pm and returns at 5pm.
For More Event Info: www.floatingwordpress.com
Left Coast Crime 2014, (Calamari Crime) Monterey, CA
Dates: March 19-23, 2014
Panel: Tough on Crime, Friday March 20th
Time: 1:30 – 2:15
Panel Guests include: Robert Downs (M), Philip Donlay, Doc Macomber,
Leo J. Maloney, Paul D. Marks
Location: Portola Hotel & Spa, Monterey, CA.
For More Event Info: www.leftcoastcrime2014.com
**Special News and Events From the Past**
Special News Announcement:
2015 Benjamin Franklin Award Nomination
River City, and its publisher Floating Word Press, were nominated for this prestigious award today under the Mystery and Suspense Category. The IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards, which include fifty-five categories recognizing excellence in book editorial and design, are regarded as one of the highest national honors for independent publishers. For more info: www.ibpa-online.org
**It was announced that River City was the winner of the coveted Silver Metal Award in the Category of Best Suspense and Mystery for 2015.**
2012-2013 Award Nominations
Doc Macomber was featured as one of the contributing authors for the new book titled: Now Write! Mysteries: Suspense, Crime, and Thriller Fiction Exercises from Today’s Best Writers and Teachers. Look for his section in the book: Finding the Key Strengths and Weaknesses of Your Detective Character. Released in 2012 by Tarcher, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. For more information visit: http://www.nowwrite.net
Doc Macomber’s latest novel, Riff Raff, was selected as one of the Top Ten Finalists for the Killer Nashville Claymore Award for the first 50 pages of an unpublished novel not currently under contract. The winner of the prestigious award was announced on August 27th at the Tennessee conference.
2012 Events: Book Signing Party, Sellwood Amusement Park, Sellwood, OR. 2012
Date: Sunday, July 22, 2012 at 1-6pm.
Location: Sellwood Amusement Park, Sellwood Park, Portland, Oregon.
For More Event Info: www.floatingwordpress.com
Event: The Dark and Stormy Mystery Author Series. Doc Macomber will be one of the featured writers during the month of October, discussing “The Art of Writing Mysteries.”
Date: Thursday, October 6, 2011 at 4pm.
Location: Driftwood Public Library, 801 S.W. Highway 101, Suite 201, Lincoln City, Oregon
For More Event Info: http://www.driftwoodlib.org/stormy_series.htm
Event: Spirits of St. Louis, Bouchercon 2011
Dates: September 15 -18, 2011
Location: Renaissance St. Louis Grand Hotel, 800 Washington Avenue, St Louis, MO.
For More Event Info: www.bouchercon2011.com
Doc Macomber was featured as one of the contributing authors for the upcoming new book titled: Now Write! Mysteries: Suspense, Crime, and Thriller Fiction Exercises from Today’s Best Writers and Teachers. Look for his section in the book: Finding the Key Strengths and Weaknesses of Your Detective Character. Released in 2012 by Tarcher, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. For more information visit: www.nowwrite.net
Doc Macomber will be one of the featured panelist at the upcoming Mystery Writer’s Conference, Murder by the Bay, Bouchercon 2010
Event: Bouchercon By The Bay, San Francisco, CA. 2010
Date: October 14th-17th, 2010
Panel: ACT OF DUTY–Sense of Honor. Hilary Davidson(M) Lou Allin, Mike Black, Mike Lawson, Doc Macomber, L.J. Sellers.
Location: Hyatt Regency Hotel, San Francisco, CA
For more event Info: click here: www.bcon2010.com
Portland’s Wordstock opens a new chapter, heavy on local writers. The book festival still has its literary fiction and poetry, now mixed in with mysteries and graphic novels. Sunday, November 09, 2008 Wordstock Doc and ElvisJEFF BAKER, The Oregonian Staff, Mark Hammond, “the only bearded Elvis in Portland”, sang and handed scarves to anyone within reach. Hammond, the Elvis impersonator, complained that “the powers that be” made him turn the volume down on his 30-watt amp. He was helping promote his friend Doc Macomber’s novel “Snip” and said, “Portland is an Elvis town.”
And it is a reading town.
New Release!
The long awaited audio version of “The Killer Coin” in a 5 CD audio set by Jerry Lyden and Giz Coughlin is here!