Lisa has finished her cross-country book tour. However, you'll be able to find her at these upcoming events.

Booksmith
Wednesday, April 8th - 7:30 p.m.
1644 Haight Street
San Francisco, CA
More details

Friends of the San Francisco Public Library Laureates Dinner
Friday, April 17th
More details

San Francisco Mystery Bookstore
Noe Valley Celebrates the Book
Monday, April 20th - 7:00 p.m.
4175 24th Street, between Castro and Diamond

LA Times Festival of Books
Saturday and Sunday, April 25th - 26th
Panel, Sunday April 26th (1:30 p.m.) with Cara Black and Harley Jane Kozak
More details

Stay tuned for more!

Lisa arrived in Seattle today, and was greeted at the Seattle Mystery Bookshop with cake, in honor of Izzy's birthday (April 1st). Lisa blogged about it on their blog. You can read: Lisa is tired.

Tonight, Lisa will be reading at the University Bookstore so come on down in honor of Izzy. Hope to see you there!

If you're interested in more tidbits from Lisa check out January Magazine's Author Snapshot (just online today). Lisa was interviewed by Linda L. Richards who is the editor of January Magazine and the author of five books including her most recent Death Was in the Picture.

Also, if you're in the Bay Area, we hope to see you at one of the book readings this week. You have the choice between tonight at M is for Mystery in San Mateo (but you better hurry, as she's talking at 7pm)! Tomorrow night she'll be at A Great Good Place for Books in Oakland (this will be a fun one for sure!), Thursday night at Barnes & Noble in El Cerrito, and (whew!) Friday back in San Francisco at Book Passage at the Ferry Building. Come to one or all....

For those not in the Bay Area, you can check out all her tour dates here.

We have a new Lutzletter that our faithful subscribers will have received (or will be receiving) in their email boxes. For those of you who are not subscribed, you can subscribe here. It's a quarterly newsletter filled with interesting tidbits. (And if you'd like to read the latest newsletter, you can read it here.)

Also a reminder, if you haven't already, be sure to check out Lisa's Tour Dates to find when she'll be in your area on her book tour (starting very very soon).

Lisa will be doing book readings and signings for Revenge of the Spellmans. Stay tuned for more updates.

Tuesday, March 10
M IS FOR MYSTERY
86 East Third Ave
San Mateo, CA 94401
7:00 PM

Wednesday, March 11
A GREAT GOOD PLACE FOR BOOKS
6120 LaSalle Avenue
Oakland, CA 94611
7:00 PM

Thursday, March 12
BARNES & NOBLE EL CERRITO
6050 El Cerrito Plaza
El Cerrito, CA 94530
7:00 PM

Friday, March 13
BOOK PASSAGE
1 Ferry Building, #42
San Francisco, CA 94111
6:00 PM

Monday, March 16
MCNALLY JACKSON BOOKS
52 Prince Street
New York, NY 10012
7:00 PM

Tuesday, March 17
CHESTER COUNTY BOOKS
975 Paoli Pike
West Goshen Center
West Chester, PA 19380
7:30 PM

Wednesday, March 18
JOSEPH-BETH BOOKSELLERS
2692 Madison Road
Cincinnati, OH 45208
7:00 PM

Thursday, March 19
TATTERED COVER HIGHLANDS RANCH
9315 Dorchester Street
Highlands Ranch, CO 80129
7:30 PM

Friday, March 20
BARNES & NOBLE EVANSTON
1630 Sherman Avenue
Evanston, IL 60201
7:00 PM

Monday, March 23
MURDER BY THE BOOK
2342 Bissonnet Street
Houston, TX 77005
6:30 PM

Tuesday, March 24
BORDERS PRESTON ROAD
10720 Preston Road, Suite 1018
Dallas, TX 75230
7:00 PM

Wednesday, March 25
POISONED PEN
4014 N Goldwater Blvd, Suite 101
Scottsdale, AZ 85251
7:00 PM

Friday, March 27
MYSTERIOUS GALAXY
7051 Clairemont Mesa Boulevard, Suite 302
San Diego, CA 92111
7:00 PM

Saturday, March 28
MYSTERIES TO DIE FOR
2940 Thousand Oaks Boulevard
Thousand Oaks, CA 91362
1:00 PM

Sunday, March 29
MYSTERY BOOKSTORE
1036 Broxton Avenue, Suite C
Los Angeles, CA 90024
3:00 PM

Monday, March 30
BORDERS CENTURY CITY
10250 Santa Monica Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90067
7:00 PM

Tuesday, March 31
VROMAN'S BOOKSTORE
695 E. Colorado Blvd
Pasadena, CA 91101
7:00 PM

Wednesday, April 1
SEATTLE MYSTERY BOOKSHOP
117 Cherry Street
Seattle, WA 98104
12:00 PM

Wednesday, April 1
UNIVERSITY BOOKSTORE
4326 University Way N.E
Seattle, WA 98105
7:00 PM

Thursday, April 2
BALLARD PUBLIC LIBRARY
5614 22nd Ave NW
Seattle, WA 98107
6:30 PM

Wednesday, April 8
BOOKSMITH
1644 Haight Street
San Francisco, CA
7:30 PM

Curse of the Spellmans has been nominated for an Edgar Award for Best Novel. Shocked? Believe me, you are not alone.

Here's the complete list of nominees:

• Missing by Karin Alvtegen (Felony & Mayhem Press)
• Blue Heaven by C.J. Box (St. Martin's Minotaur)
• Sins of the Assassin by Robert Ferrigno (Simon & Schuster – Scribner)
• The Price of Blood by Declan Hughes (HarperCollins – William Morrow)
• The Night Following by Morag Joss (Random House – Delacorte Press)
• Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz (Simon & Schuster)

My flabbergasted thanks go out to the Mystery Writers of America and all my readers. If anyone knows where I should send the “gift baskets”, please pass that information along.

(P.S. If you’re new to me and my books, I still say you should read them in order, which means starting with the non-Edgar-nominated, inferior Spellman Files.)

Lisa was interviewed last March by Ed Goldberg for KBOO FM's "Between the Covers" program. You can listen online to the interview.

KBOO is a non-commercial radio station for Portland: 90.7 FM, Corvallis: 100.7 FM, and Columbia Gorge: 91.9 FM and streaming online at http://kboo.fm/.

If you ever have a chance to go to the Vancouver International Writers’ Festival, do it. It was great. I also recommend going to Vancouver even without any festival. But I was there for a festival, so I’ll talk about that.

I was on two panels with Linda L. Richards, author of Death Was the Other Woman and the editor of January Magazine, a great online books-and-authors ezine. Anyway, I was going to blog about the events, but Linda has already done it better than I could, so I’m just going to be lazy and link to her post, High Class Complaints.

Also, I did one more event in Vancouver, called the Literary Cabaret, featuring Sal Ferreras and his band. The actor and author Stephen E. Miller was kind enough to perform with me. Here's a picture:

The other highlight of the weekend was chatting with the widely acclaimed author Amitav Ghosh, whose novel Sea of Poppies was shortlisted for the 2008 Booker Prize. We discussed intricate literary matters such as our mutual affection for the film “What About Bob?”

Need unprofessional advice?

Check out the new site at www.asklutz.com, and don't forget to send your questions to lisa@asklutz.com.

Lisa will be at the La Jolla Writers Conference November 7-9, 2008. This three-day event, now in its 8th year, will be held at the beautiful Paradise Point Resort & Spa. The event features exciting, interactive workshops, lectures, and presentations by a faculty comprised of best-selling authors, editors from major publishing houses, and literary agents.