Saturday, April 14, 2007

InkSpot News - April 14, 2007


JOANNA CAMPBELL SLAN will appear on the SleuthFest panel "The Road to Publication -- Advice from Recent Travelers," at 9 a.m., Sunday, April 22. Her article Ten "Things" I Learned at Love Is Murder appeared in the Love Is Murder online magazine and will be republished in her Monday (April 16) blog.

On April 21 at noon, BILL CAMERON will be signing copies of Lost Dog at Seattle Mystery Bookshop, 117 Cherry Street in Pioneer Square, Seattle, WA 98104.

ANN BURGESS has joined the faculty of Forensic University of St. Louis: 50 Ways to Catch a Killer, Nov. 1-4, 2007. The two-and-a-half day conference will be held at the Hilton St. Louis Airport (St. Louis, Missouri). Other headliners are Jan Burke, Dr. D. P. Lyle, Eileen Dreyer, and Detective Lee Lofland (retired).

Burgess is world-renowned in forensic science. Not only was she one of the authors of Sexual Homicide: Patterns and Motives (with the FBI's John Douglas and Robert Ressler -- an extremely important book, this was one of the first scientific studies of serial killers)  and the Crime Classification Manual, Sexual Assault of Children and Adolescents. She’s also the author of more than 21 books and 135 articles) that are in use by those in medicine, psychology, criminology, forensic science, criminal justice -- everywhere. She's also published studies on trauma, violence against women, domestic violence, infant abductions, elder abuse and other important subjects. She founded one of the first hospital-based rape crisis intervention programs in Boston in 1972.

For more information go to: http:///www.sistersincrime.org/ForensicU or for updated information about programs & faculty: http://forustl.blogspot.com.

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