Kate Stine, editor of Mystery Scene, offered up some tantalizing hints about the upcoming spring issue next month. "Without giving too much away, we'll say readers can look forward to leaping into Lutz, promenading in Paris with Black, walking with Westlake down Murder Lane, and generally cooking up crime in the kitchen." If you subscribe to their newsletters, you'll also notice a new ongoing series, "Writers on Reading," with authors talking about the books and writers they love. First up, Carolyn G. Hart, author of the Death on Demand, Henrie O, and Bailey Ruth Raeburn series.
Edward Champion of the Philadelphia Inquirer reviewed the posthumous pulp mystery novel Memory by Donald Westlake, who died in December 2008. The novel, which had been sitting in a drawer for four decades and was found after the author's death, tells the story of a traveling actor afflicted with amnesia after being pummeled by the husband of his lover. When he awakens not knowing where he is or who he is, he wonders if he'll ever be able to reclaim his life. Champion calls it "an unexpected masterpiece emerging from a pulp framework."
Lee Lofland's Writers Police Academy just keeps getting bigger and better. The conference is sponsoring a novel-writing contest based on the submission of a synopsis and the first 12 pages. Dubbed "The Don Knotts Silver Bullet Contest Award," (humorous stories are welcome, but definitely not required) it will award the winner free Writers' Police Academy registration, the opportunity to submit their entire manuscript to one of the judges and free attendance to an Algonkian Conference. There will also be a short-story contest, although the details haven't been finalized just yet.
Laurie's Wild West blog has a Q&A with Evan Lewis, of Davy Crockett's Almanac fame, about his favorite pulps and how he got into collecting. Of the magazines he owns, his favorites are Hollywood Detective and Detective Fiction Weekly, but check out his listing of what he thinks the top five pulp magazines overall are.
Pulse Magazine's current contest asks authors of an unpublished mystery novel to send in the first 100-150 words of your manuscript since "The success of any novel depends on your opening paragraphs, so entertain us, regale us, or terrify us!" Deadline for submissions is midnight, Sunday, May 16th, with the finalist to be selected and published in the summer issue.
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