Sunday, February 5, 2023, 2 p.m.
Hollywood Women’s Club
1749 N. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90046
Networking 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Meeting 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Speaker: Naomi Hirahara – Strategies to Make Your Historical Mystery Stand Out
Naomi Hirahara is an Edgar Award-winning author of multiple traditional mystery series and noir short stories. Her Mas Arai mysteries, which have been published in Japanese, Korean and French, feature a Los Angeles gardener and Hiroshima survivor who solves crimes. The seventh and final Mas Arai mystery is Hiroshima Boy, which was nominated for an Edgar Award for best paperback original. Her first historical mystery is Clark and Division, which follows a Japanese American family’s move to Chicago in 1944 after being released from a California wartime detention center. Her second Leilani Santiago Hawai‘i mystery, An Eternal Lei, is scheduled to be released in 2022. A former journalist with The Rafu Shimpo newspaper, Naomi has also written numerous non-fiction history books and curated exhibitions. She has also written a middle-grade novel, 1001 Cranes.
Linda O. Johnston, a former lawyer who is now a full-time writer, has published 57 books so far, including mysteries and romantic suspense. More than twenty-five of them are romances for Harlequin, including Harlequin Romantic Suspense and Harlequin Nocturne. Her latest release is Shielding Colton’s Witness for Harlequin Romantic Suspense. She has also written several mystery series including the Barkery & Biscuits Mysteries and Superstition Mysteries for Midnight Ink, and the Kendra Ballantyne, Pet-Sitter Mysteries and Pet Rescue Mysteries for Berkley Prime Crime, and her current mystery series is the Alaska Untamed Mysteries for Crooked Lane under the pseudonym Lark O. Jensen. Nearly all Linda’s current stories involve dogs!
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Parking: The club has its own parking lot, which we are welcome to use.
Enter using the driveway just South of the building.
Entry: The club does not use the front entrance. Please enter the side door from the driveway.
Covid Precautions
Covid case rates are way down and the new boosters for the B4 and B5 variants are available. We hope you’ve gotten yours. Mask wearing is optional. If you are immune compromised or have medical conditions that increase your risk, by all means wear one. Make your own judgment. We want everyone to feel safe and no one to get sick. Please be considerate of others, and do not attend if you have any symptoms suspicious for a respiratory infection, join us on Zoom instead.
Meeting dates for the first half of 2023 are: Jan 8, Feb 5, March 5, April 2, May 7.