At some point I’ll write a little bit about Bouchercon, held last week (as of this writing) in New Orleans. Many of you know this is the annual worldwide convention/conference of crime writers and readers. This was my second Bouchercon and they’re a lot of fun because they’re a chance for writers like me and many much more accomplished to meet with other writers and readers.

I’ll write more about Bouchercon in the coming days, or I intend to, but a quick anecdote:

On Saturday, I was one of the authors at the debut authors’ breakfast at Bouchercon. The annual event was sponsored by Lee (“Reacher”) Child and his brother Andrew, who now writers most of the Reacher books. Another sponsor is Michael Connelly, creator of Harry Bosch and Renee Ballard and other great crime fiction characters.

Connelly also kindly hosted the breakfast.

At some point I’ll tell you how I had a quick breakfast with Connelly, but today I’ll talk about the shirt you see me wearing in the photo above.

In the photo, I’m wearing a colorful shirt with pink flamingoes and other images and it’s pretty memorable. This was the photo of me that I submitted weeks or months ago for them to use in the program book for the breakfast.

This was also the shirt I managed to wear that day to the breakfast.

I realized this only after I’m sitting at the table and about to be introduced by Connelly to speak for one minute about myself and my book, THAT OCTOBER.

So, in the interest of transparency, I opened my one minute of remarks by noting the coincidence.

“If you notice, in the our program book, I’m wearing a particular shirt and I’m wearing it today as well.

“You could assume from that that I apparently have a favorite shirt.”

I went on to talk about my book briefly but the line about my favorite shirt got a good laugh.

And I had people come up to me afterward and later in the day remarking, “Your favorite shirt!”

And it apparently is.