Looking Forward To . . . Events

by Posted on

This month the Wickeds are starting the year off right.

Wickeds, are there events you’re looking forward to this year? A vacation? A milestone? A play or concert? A conference?

Sherry: We are looking forward to a trip to Australia to visit our friend Christine and her boys. I met Christine along with Edith, Barb, Liz and other friends at the Seascape Writers Retreat in 2009. Christine thought she had a single room, but lo and behold, I was her roommate. It turned out quite good as my Aussie (pronounced Ozzie) friend would say or not bad.

Jessie: That sounds like a dream trip, Sherry! As for me, I am looking forward to being at the beach this summer. We missed all of this past one because of the renovation project we decided to take on so it will be especially pleasant to be back at the seaside with the salty breezes and pounding surf! I cannot wait to enjoy the changes to the house and to set about rehabilitating the garden which took a terrible beating during the construction project.

Edith/Maddie: Sherry, how fun to visit Christine where she lives! And the beach is always fabulous, Jessie. I’m looking forward to two-hour car trips to visit my granddaughter. Plus I’m making an exciting trip in April to a take cruise around Japan and pay a visit to the town I lived in while teaching conversational English to Japanese businessmen. I haven’t been back since I left in 1977 and can’t wait.

Liz: I’m looking forward to heading to Seattle for Left Coast Crime this year. I’ve never been, to either that conference OR Seattle, so I’m excited! I have a friend who lives out there who I haven’t seen in a long time, so hoping to get a visit in. Also because Seattle has so much good coffee 🙂

Barb: We had such a busy 2023, there are no big trips or events planned for 2024. Not an “event,” but I’m looking forward to a quiet spring-summer-fall in Maine. Though I’m sure it won’t turn out quite that way!

Julie: What wonderful plans! I look forward to conferences this year. My niece and I are going to Montreal in March, which will be a first for me. Nuts, since I live in New England. And my traveling friends and I are hatching plans for a possible trip. So far no plays or concerts planned, but this post makes me think I should hatch a plan.

Readers, what events/plans are you looking forward to this year?

Unknown's avatar

Published by J.A. Hennrikus

One woman, three names, many books. As Julia Henry I wrote the Garden Squad series for Kensington. As J.A. Hennrikus I wrote the Theater Cop series, and as Julianne Holmes I wrote the Clock Shop series. I've been an arts administrator for my entire career, mostly in the performing arts. Currently I'm the ED of Sisters in Crime, a wonderful organization that promotes and supports crime writers. www.sistersincrime.org Connect with me on Facebook and Instagram! @JHAuthors

24 Thoughts

  1. Other than Malice Domestic in April and the Pennwriters Conference in May, I have no travel plans this year. With my husband retiring this summer, I’m not sure how our finances are going to shake out. Plus, Kensi Kitty needs her heart meds twice a day, so one of us has to stay home with her.

    Like

  2. My event “schedule” will almost certainly not allow for any book conference trips. Unless I hit that never going to happen big lottery jackpot.

    But I do have some smaller scale events that I’m looking forward to.

    So far this year, there’s only one book signing but for me it is a big one with thriller writer Terry Hayes who has finally written a second book and two days before it is officially released he’ll be in Plainville, MA and I have a ticket.

    Concerts so far this year: Holy Dio, Metal Church, Queensryche/Armored Saint, Blind Guardian and U.D.O. There are a couple other ones I want to go to but ticket prices for even the worst seats in the house are outrageous. The one concert I’ve “gone” to so far this year was actually a livestream from Greece as the band Illusory celebrated the 10th anniversary of their debut album with a special hometown concert this past Saturday. It was pretty cool!

    I’m sure there will be a few more events, whether it be for books or shows, added over the course of the year.

    Like

  3. Edith, we’ll just miss you in Japan: we leave a month from today and will be there for almost five weeks. I’d love to make it to LCC this year, but I’ll be ik Aruba with my daughter on our annual spring-break trip. I’ll be at Edgars, Malice, and Bouchercon, though!

    Like

  4. For us, it’s the much awaited for trip to Alaska. Praying medical issues and world concerns don’t cause us to change out plans.
    2clowns at arkansas dot net

    Like

  5. Events! Looking forward to playing tons of acoustic music shows here in CT and Western Mass, lots of tabletop gaming, and fire pits near the pool this summer!

    Like

  7. I am going to Seattle Left Coast Crime in April. Love visiting Seattle, first time back since a 2011 work trip. Five days later, I am leaving home again for my dream trip to Singapore & Malaysia for 11 days. A few days adjusting to the jet lag in Vancouver before flying home to Ottawa. A first time Mystery fiction festival in Montreal in late May. And then Nashville Bouchercon in August. It will be my first time in TN and August is supposed to really hot & humid.

    Like

      1. I am also not a fan of oppressive heat & humidity. But I figure if I can survive the heat & humidity in Singapore, I can do 1 week in Nashville. It will also be a much shorter trip, (direct flight from Ottawa-Nashville) which was another plus for me.

        Like

      1. Looking forward to seeing you in April, JULIE! Too bad that Bellevue is about 9 miles from downtown Seattle. But I am going a few days early (as usual) to visit some new museums (MoPOP, Chihuly, Glass) and revisit one of my most favourite places, Pike Place Market.

        Like

    1. Right now, I:m looking forward to the temps returning to above freezing. lol
      Seriously though, my wife and I are headed to the Florida Gulf Coast in late April. The weather that time of year is perfect for us. We’re already raring to go.

      Like

  10. We saw our first play of the year this past weekend and went out for a nice dinner. I’m looking forward to the rest of the season’s shows. The playhouse has a new one every four weeks or so and we have season tickets

    Like

  11. My husband and I will be travelling regularly to visit with our grandkids who live 2 hours away -one group in the eastern part of Ontario, the other in the central part of Ontario.
    And I’ll be visiting my mom and brother in Nova Scotia at some point this year. Plans are up in the air for that trip.
    And I’m really looking forward to attending Malice Domestic again. I missed last year!

    Like

  12. Looking forward to my husband’s surgery to reverse an earlier one. Then we can get back to something like a normal life including traveling!

    Like

  13. I hope to visit my best friend in Flower Mound, Texas. We said we would do that yearly and then Covid hit. We did it in 2019 and then nothing. I do not like to fly but there is no choice there.

    Like

Comments are closed.