Editor David Cranmer has announced that submissions will be opening up again at Beat to a Pulp beginning May 1st and will remain open for one month, with accepted stories filling the August and September slots. What is he looking for? "Tales that will grab my attention in a jiffy will be a female protagonist searching for buried treasure, a General Tom Thumb style character who is an amateur sleuth, western noir or 21st century cowboy, giants, a condemned wizard and sexy witches, science fiction, a Biblical related detective story, a boat trapped in the Bermuda Triangle, massive human-eating ticks, literary, a necromancer, a caveman cozy mystery. And, of course, just well-written stories." (In other words, throw your story clichés out the window.)
In a post last week, I featured the new release of crime poetry, The Lineup 4. Editor Gerald So announced an evening of readings from that anthology on May 1st at the Cornelia Street Cafe in New York City. Contributors Jeanne Dickey and Caitlin Elizabeth Thomson will join So's co-editors Reed Farrel Coleman and Richie Narvaez in reading selections.
Torbay is expanding its Agatha Christie festival to include two separate events by 2012 or 2013. Although details are still being worked out, one of the two will be the annual birthday festival in September. The other will be an additional celebration in May in partnership with Harper Collins, ITV and The Mousetrap.
If you're headed for Bouchercon, 2011 organizer Jon Jordan has some handy tips in his "Bouchercon Survival Guide" over at the Sisters in Crime blog.
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