Fiction

Got to meet her after a panel on "Why aren't there more leftist thriller writers" or something like that--the panel's general topic was politics and mysteries. She was on it with three other left-leaning writers, Barry Eisler, SJ Rosen, and Mark Billingham. A pretty interesting hour in all.

She was gracious and friendly (but then all the authors at B'Con tend to be--bad for business if you aren't, I suppose--or else killing people for fun and profit on the page help make them a pretty grounded group). The thing that struck me most, though, was that she exuded an air of competence and "this is what I do, how I think about things, how I fit things together, how I evaluate things." Of course any successful author has that in them, but I'm not sure whether that would be the strongest impression.