2010 APPEARANCES Saturday, April 24, Noon to 2:00 p.m. Los Angeles Times Festival of Books UCLA campus Booth 355 (across from Royce Hall) Saturday, May 22, 11:00 a.m. Law and Order: An LAPD Homicide Detetective and an L.A. County Deputy D.A. Dispel the Myths Tom Bergin's Tavern 840 S. Fairfax Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90036 (323) 936-7151 For reservations, go to www.tombergins.com Patty will moderate the panel discusion Saturday, June 5, 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Women & Words A Benefit for Childrens Hospital UCLA campus, Los Angeles, CA To register, go to www.womenandwords.com Patty will be one of the featured speakers June 24-27 Jackson Hole Writer's Conference Faculty member Jackson Hole, Wyoming To register, go to www.jacksonholewritersconference.com Monday, July 26, 7:00-8:00 p.m. Signal Hill Library Community Center 1780 E. Hill Street Signal Hill, CA Patty will moderate a crime fiction panel featuring Harley Jane Kozak, Susan Kandel, Brett Battles and Stephen Jay Schwartz Previous Appearances 2010 January 23, 11:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Mystery Writers of America/Southern California Chapter Tom Bergin's Tavern 840 S. Fairfax Avenue Los Angeles CA 90036 For reservations, go to www.socalmwa.com Patty will be interviewing Kristen Weber, former Senior Editor for NAL and Obsidian and now a freelance editor in Los Angeles January 25, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Studio City Branch Library Featured Speaker 12511 Moorpark Street Studio City CA 91604 (818) 755-7873 For more information, go to www.lapl.org January 30, 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Murder on the Menu 18025 Bloomfield Avenue Cerritos CA 90703 (562) 916-1350 Panel Moderator with Stephen Swartz, April Smith, Keith Raffel, and Dianne Emley 2009 April 22, 7:00 p.m. Manhattan Beach Library 1320 Highland Avenue Manhattan Beach CA "Girls Night Out" Panel with Patricia Smiley, Naomi Hirahara, Jeri Westerson and moderator Dianne Emley April 25-26 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books Two-day book fair on the campus of University of California Los Angeles Signing at The Mystery Bookstore (Booth 411), on Sunday, April 26 from 2-3 p.m. Book signing at Sisters in Crime/LA (Booth 355 directly in front of Royce Hall), on Sunday, April 26, from noon-2 p.m. May 19, 7:00 p.m. West Los Angeles Obedience Training Club Westside Pavilion Patty will discuss the good-dogs-bad-dogs in her books June 14 California Crime Writers Conference "Breaking In & Breaking Out: Plotting the Write Course" 2-day writer's conference organized by Sisters in Crime/L.A. and Mystery Writers of America/SoCal Sunday, June 14, 9:00 a.m. Panel #1: "Heating up Cold Cases" Patty will moderate a forensic panel with LAPD homicide detectives Sunday, June 14, 1:30 p.m. Panel #2: "Presenting Yourself to the Media " Publicist Kim-from-LA with Patty Smiley Hilton Pasadena 168 South Los Robles Avenue Pasadena, California For more information: www.socalmwa.com July 16-19 16th Annual Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference Conference Faculty 51 Tamal Vista Boulevard Corte Madera CA 94925 (800) 999-7909 X233 www.bookpassage.com July 21 Release of Two of the Deadliest: New Tales of Lust, Greed and Murder from Outstanding Women of Mystery (HarperCollins), an anthology edited by Elizabeth George. Patty has contributed a short story called "The Offer."