October Readings/Signings

I will be reading from my latest novel, The Shooting Gallery, the second book in the Art Lover's Mystery Series.

I will also be signing books. Join us for any or all of these events, and please pass this info on to your mystery book loving friends!!

Saturday, October 14th, 2pm, San Francisco: Reading and Signing at: SF Mystery Bookstore, 4175 24th Street, San Francisco, CA 94123

Sunday, October 15th, 2pm, Emeryville: Reading and Signing at: Borders, Emery Bay Public Market, 5800 Shellmound St., Emeryville, CA 94608

Wednesday, October 18, 7:30 pm, Menlo Park: Reading and Signing at Keplers, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park CA, 94025

Wednesday, October 25, 7pm, Orinda: Sisters in Crime book discussion and signing at the Orinda Library, 24 Orinda Way, Orinda, CA 94563

Sunday, October 29, 7pm, Oakland: Reading with Sisters in Crime at “Ghostwalk” at the Chapel of the Chimes, 4499 Piedmont Avenue, Oakland, CA 94611

Go to Hailey's Website for more readings and signings around the Bay Area and beyond.

RELEASE PARTY TONIGHT!

Please join us for food, art, and fun at the official release of Shooting Gallery, second in the Art Lover’s Mystery Series, by Hailey Lind

When: Wednesday, October 11, from 6 to 8 pm

Where: Varnish Fine Art Gallery, 77 Natoma Street, San Francisco (between 1st and 2nd and Mission and Howard)

For more info on Hailey Lind and Shooting Gallery, please visit www.haileylind.com

A fast-paced, thoroughly enjoyable novel...a highly recommended read. —CE Japhe, Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine

Shooting Gallery

Book two in my Art Lover's Mystery Series is on shelves now!

If you want to know a little bit more about the book, you can check out my website...or read some of these reviews:

Alan Paul Curtis' review on who-dunnit.com

Deborah Hern has also posted a review.

Jennifer Monahan Winberry's review on themysteryreader.com

Julie Lewis' review on allreaders.com.

Mysterious Reviews, September 16, 2006

Let me know where you bought your copy!!

My first radio INTERVIEW

I just had my first radio interview, with Baron Von Herron at KZSB in Santa Barbara (re-broadcast all over, and on satellite too!). I tried to keep my wits about me and say something interesting and relevant—though truth to tell, I was out ‘til all hours the night before celebrating a graduation. I’m not positive I succeeded in sounding like a cool cucumber, but at least I got the “first” over with. That’s always the one that makes me nervous!In other news, the response to the portrait contest has been great, and we haven’t even announced it yet! We put a little item on the website, and people seem to be ferreting it out. One entry was from a woman living in a FEMA trailer, who lost her photographs in the Katrina flood. She asked whether I could paint a portrait from a Xeroxed copy of a picture of her mother as a young woman. One of the many great things about painting is that the imagination can fill in so many gaps—as long as there’s a likeness that can be seen by the mind’s eye, the paint can capture so much. People have asked me whether painting the portrait’s not too much work, but I’m genuinely looking forward to it. Portraits are my favorite thing to paint. At this point in my life, even if I won the lottery I would hang around writing stories and painting portraits…except that I would fit in a trip or two to Paris and Florence, maybe around the world as well. Painting and writing on a cruise ship while navigating the globe—now that has potential! Right now my sister and I are working like fiends trying to finish the manuscript for Book 3, Brush with Death, by the end of June. Yikes! It always seems to come down to the wire. But this book is set in an actual historic Oakland columbarium—a mausoleum full of urns holding ashes, or “cremains”—and it is great fun to write. The Chapel of the Chimes was designed by famed architect Julia Morgan back in the 1920’s, and is wonderfully spooky and beautiful. We’ll be posting a sneak preview of Brush with Death on the website soon.

Readings, Signing and MORE

It’s been almost six months since Feint of Art hit the shelves, and it’s been a busy half a year! My debut signing was at the home of my very gracious friends Irma and Mark, who held a release party for me with dozens of friends and neighbors in attendance. Then I spoke at Borders on Union Square, SF, followed by an appearance at our wonderful San Francisco Mystery Bookstore.My sister and I (together, we are Hailey Lind) met up in Arlington, Virginia for the convention called Malice Domestic, which brings together cozy writers and fans in a flurry of activity. It was fun to “come out” as the two of us under one name. Among so many others, we met Frank Ahearn, a skip tracer who spoke on “how to disappear” in today’s small world…that’ll get the old creative juices going.Later I went to the Los Angeles Times Book Fair at the UCLA campus…who knew there were so many readers in SoCal? (So says the native Northern Californian!) My friend Shay drove me down, insisting she would change my opinion about LA. We stayed in Manhattan Beach with her friend Kaye and had a grand old time. I didn’t see any celebrities, but I signed at the Mysterious Galaxy booth, guest of the wonderful Terri Gilman, and sold out of books…twice.After that came a trek to Seattle to sign—alongside India Ink—at the Seattle Mystery Bookshop in Pioneer Square. Lovely staff, great customers. But the best part, for me, was that sixteen or so members of my extended family showed up. Aunts, uncles, parents, cousins, their children and children’s children….amazing. My Aunt Suzy was the first actual author I ever knew, and has always been an inspiration. My Aunt Mem has always been a second mother, and my mother…what can I say? After an overnight in Seattle, we all went out to Whidbey Island for a mother’s day cook-out.Back to the Bay Area, where I’ve been trying to catch up on work, plus get Book 3 finished up (it’s due to the publisher by the end of the month!), plus starting to promote Book 2, Shooting Gallery. Last week I was on a panel at the Castro Valley Library with Camille Minichino, Louise Ure, and Mark Coggins…lively talk, and I always enjoy speaking in public libraries.
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