2024 C3

The Creatures, Crimes & Creativity Con Author Reunion

14 C3 attendees will join in a massive book signing at The Ivy Bookshop, 5928 Falls Rd, Baltimore, MD on Saturday March 30th from 3pm to 5pm. 

Welcome to the Creatures, Crimes & Creativity Con

September 13-15, 2024

Our purpose is to gather readers and writers of genre fiction–mystery, suspense, thriller, horror, sci-fi, fantasy, and paranormal – to meet in an informal atmosphere so that everyone can have fun connecting, and learning about writing, the authors and their books. The conference offers panels on the craft and business of writing as well as panels tailored to engage and entertain fans. The registration fee includes Friday’s dinner, 3 meals Saturday and Sunday breakfast, so readers and writers dine side-by-side.  Plus: keynote addresses, author interviews, an onsite bookstore, two giant book signings and readings open to the public.

2024 Keynotes

Lee Goldberg may be known for his bestselling novels Lost Hills and True Fiction but he is also a screenwriter, publisher and producer. He worked on many TV series including Diagnosis: Murder, A Nero Wolfe Mystery, Hunter, Spenser: For Hire, SeaQuest, The Glades and Monk. he wrote several original tie-in novels based on Monk and Diagnosis Murder, plus numerous original crime novels and non-fiction books including Unsold Television Pilots and Successful Television Writing. The Heist started a series written with Janet Evanovich. He launched Brash Books publishing crime fiction and Cutting Edge Books to release vintage fiction.

New York Times bestselling author Jack Campbell (AKA retired US Navy officer John G. Hemry), writes modern space opera, science fiction, military science fiction and fantasy, and science fantasy. His forty-plus novels include The Empress of the Endless Sea series, the Genesis Fleet series, The Legacy of Dragons series, the Lost Stars series, the Pillars of Reality series, the JAG in space series, the Stark’s War Series, and most recently two different series about the Lost Fleet – plus a half dozen nonfiction books, many anthologies, graphic novels and too many short stories to count.

Local Guest Author

Sujata Massey is the author of fourteen novels, two novellas and numerous short stories that have been published in eighteen countries. She writes mystery and suspense fiction set in pre-Independence India about Bombay’s only female solicitor, Perveen Mistry. She also writes a modern mystery series set in Japan. Her novels have won the Agatha, Lefty, Macavity and Mary Higgins Clark prizes and been finalists for the Edgar, Anthony, and Harper Lee literary awards.  

Publishing Industry Guest

Emily Hockaday is the Senior Managing Editor for both Analog Science Fiction & Fact and Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazines. As an author she has two poetry collections: In a Body and Naming the Ghost. She is also the author of six poetry chapbooks, most recently Beach Vocabulary and Name this Body. Her poems have appeared in print and online journals. She has received several grants including from the New York City Artist Corps.

Local Guest Author

Carolyn Ives Gilman is a Nebula and Hugo Award-nominated writer of science fiction and fantasy. Her science fiction ranges from the far-future Twenty Planets universe to the present-day American Midwest, and places in between. Her fantasy focuses on culture clash and revolution in a magic-haunted island nation. Her short fiction has appeared in many Best of the Year collections. She is also a historian and museum exhibit developer specializing in frontier and Native history.