My Golden Donut Award (2015)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Vinnie Hansen fled the South Dakota prairie for the California coast the day after graduating high school.
Her eventual home in Santa Cruz serves as the backdrop for most of her Carol Sabala mystery series. Black Beans & Venom, the seventh and latest installment (misterio press), was a Claymore Award finalist and also received a B.R.A.G. Medallion.
But Vinnie loves to write short stories as well. Her story Novel Solution appears in Fish or Cut Bait (Wildside Press). With a home in a tourist mecca, Vinnie couldn’t resist writing Critical Mass, her story in Destination: Mystery! Other stories have been published in Porter Gulch Review, Transfer Literary Magazine, Lake Region Review, phren-Z, Web Mystery Magazine, Crime & Suspense, Mysterical-E, Alchemy and the Santa Cruz Spectacle.
In 2015 her short short Bad Connection won the Police Writers’ Academy’s coveted Gold Donut.
Presentations
Invite Vinnie Hansen to present to your reading group or club! In addition to her book readings, Vinnie has extensive experience speaking to reading groups and to organizations such as the AAUW, the Soroptimists, and Delta Kappa Gamma Zeta Chi. Vinnie has also participated on panels at Left Coast Crime, High Desert Crimes, Killer Nashville, and Litquake.
Vinnie has spoken on topics ranging from the writing process to self-publishing, small-press publishing and e-publishing.
E-mail Vinnie Hansen to schedule an event.
Event Album
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- Launching Lostart Street at Bookshop Santa Cruz June 8, 2017.
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- On the air with Bruce Bratton, KZSC, 6/6/17.
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- Hawking my wares at Bay Area Book Festival 6/2017.
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- With Allen Eskens at Left Coast Crime, March, 2017.
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- Vinnie Hansen, Katherine Hyde, and Mary Feliz (left to right) ready to present to the AAUW (2/25/17).
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- Learning defensive moves at the Writer’s Police Academy 8/2016.
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- At Book Passage, March 2015, with Elin Barnes and Judith Janeway.
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- Vinnie with her Left Coast Crime 2014 panel mates: Laurie Stevens, Sherry Joyce, William E. Wallace (seated), and Michael Cooper (standing).
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- Ready to sign at Chefworks 10/14
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- Vinnie signing books at Inklings & Things October, 2012. Check out this cute bookstore!
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- Vinnie at phren-Z reading, Capitola Book Cafe, May 2012
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- Vinnie at the Sisters in Crime Spring Soiree, 2009
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- Vinnie’s launch reading for Death with Dessert, Capitola Book Cafe, 2009
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- Vinnie on her panel at Left Coast Crime, 2007.
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- Vinnie with John Steinbeck at the reading of her winning piece in the Santa Cruz Reads Adult Fiction Contest.
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- Vinnie speaking at the Capitola Book Cafe, August, 2005.
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- Capitola Book Cafe, August, 2005.
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- Vinnie reading with Laurie R. King at Crossroads Book Store in Watsonville, April, 2004.
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- Vinnie busy at a book signing hosted by Bookshop Santa Cruz, April, 2003.