With Luis Rosas

With Luis Rosas, author of military thriller A SAVAGE JOY

With Dr. Katherine Hutchinson-Hayes

With writer and podcaster Dr. Katherine Hutchinson-Hayes

Display during J.Jill’s 2019 celebration of female authors. Of course I was dressed head to toe in J.Jill fashion for the occasion!

With my Career Intelligence Medal on the Great Seal, shortly before Christmas 2016

I kept this news story for years, knowing it was a story I would someday tell.

Above it all, in a promotional photo.

Inducted into the Class of 2019, Rome NY Arts Hall of Fame. Plaque is on display in the Capital Theater.

Authors on the Air

After taping an episode of Authors on the Air with hosts Nola Nash and Laura Kemp, flanked by Mike Faricy (L) and Bruce Robert Coffin (R)

With author Mike Faricy at the 2018 Killer Nashville conference.

Blast from the Past – Killer Nashville 2019: R.G. Belsky, Carmen Amato, and conference founder Clay Stafford

The lostest I’ve ever been, on a dirt and gravel track surrounded by sugar cane.

Fun times with my favorite Italian leather handbag.

Final outline for RUSSIAN MOJITO

Casco Viejo, Panama. My Furla bag is better travelled than I am.

From the F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference: Francisco Goldman (seated), along with Amalia Melis (far left), founder of the Aegean Arts Circle writing workshops in Greece, and myself (in teal) with several alumni of Aegean Arts workshops.

With author Jim Nesbitt at the 2018 Killer Nashville conference.

Hazel, who is bigger than she looks. I give thanks for Dyson vacuum cleaners every day.

When writing THE HIDDEN LIGHT OF MEXICO CITY, I taped pesos coins to the cover of my notebooks for luck.

Carmen Amato books on store shelf

All my books on display at Harper’s Books, Lebanon, TN.

With Bruce Robert Coffin

With Bruce Robert Coffin, author of the Detective Byron series

Dutch. I think his breed is “attention hound.”

With Mike Faricy

The annual snapshot with Mike Faricy, author of the Dev Haskell series

With host of NPR’s ALT.Latino program, July 2016, after recording a segment for the show.

Carmen Amato at CIA HQ

By the Memorial Wall at CIA Headquarters, Nov 2016. Each star represents an officer who died in the line of duty.

I still write some scenes longhand. Preferably in a coffee shop.

With Bradley Harper

Bradley Harper comes closest to being a Renaissance Man of anyone I know

I hate getting my Italian leather wet. The sign says “:No diving.”

A gorgeous painted bench in Panama. I think this was a bus stop.

With authors Vee James (left) and Jodi Roosenraad (right), toasting the launch of RUSSIAN MOJITO with–what else–a mojito!

The giant Poison Cup award for Outstanding Series from CrimeMasters of America.