Criminally Good 2025 Writers' Conference

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.
• U.S. Army veteran and firearms expert, Karl Henwood; 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; Dale Berry, comic book artist and graphic novelist; Dorothy Rice from creative writing non-profit 916 Ink; and YA author Shea Robinson.

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 until Aug. 31 for the early bird price of:

Capitol Crimes Members $65
Non-members $80

Young Writers (ages 12-20) $20 no matter what the date