Archives for February 2026

Left Coast Crime

February 27, 2026 By Michal Strutin

Four of us Sibylline Press mystery writers got together at Left Coast Crime, one of the big mystery conferences. This year LCC was held in San Francisco. Next year’s LCC will be in Santa Fe and I’ll be there with Deceit in the City of Masks, Book 1 in my 16th-century Blood & … [Read more...]

Big Win: Balcony Solar

February 1, 2026 By Michal Strutin

In addition to writing 16th-century mysteries set in the eastern Mediterranean, I’m on the steering committee for the Silicon Valley chapter of Dayenu: a Jewish Call to Climate Action. I presented a program showing what we’ve been doing to protect our climate. One of the bills … [Read more...]

Welcome to my website. Stories are collaborations among the writer, the editor…and the reader. I love it when readers tell me about insights they’ve had into my writing that I hadn’t even thought of. And, as a reader, I love to fill in details of people and place. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice has spawned many movies, yet none of the Lizzys look like the one in my head.

I like writing historical fiction. Why? Researching a period is fun. Plus, people haven’t changed much over the millennia. Joy, jealousy, love, hate, laughter, misery. These are not new. A story seen from a distance in time gives resonance to the human condition. Homo sapiens? I think it’s just as apt to call ourselves Homo storytellers.