The Bloody Words conference in Canada gets underway on Friday and runs through June 5th. This year, it's being held at the scenic Hotel Grand Pacific in downtown Victoria on the inner harbour. Guest of Honour is Michael Slade, International Guest of Honour is Tess Gerritsen and Local Guest of Honour is William Deverell, with Denise Dietz serving as emcee. Ahead of that on Thursday, the annual Arthur Ellis awards will be announced.
If you missed the academic symposium on Steig Larsson and other Scandinavian writers in Los Angeles recently (and if you have a lot of time and money for last-minute travel), Film in Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire, just north of London, is organizing a free one-day symposium of talks and discussion on Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy. The Keynote Speaker is Barry Forshaw, author of The Man Who Left Too Soon: The Biography of Stieg Larsson.
Is France the new Scandinavia? Over at Euro Crime, Karen Meek reports on a CrimeFest panel where someone made that made that very claim, so to give you a head start, she offers up some new books set in France but written by North Americans.
Fresh on the heels of the birthday of Arthur Conan Doyle (May 22), and Memorial Day this week, Elizabeth Foxwell points you to an article by Catherine Wynne who discusses how Arthur Conan Doyle dealt with war in his writing.
The inaugural Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime novel, launched in Christchurch last year (and delayed for awhile due to the earthquake situation there) will be presented again this fall. The seven-member judging panel will be announced soon to consider a shortlist of New Zealand crime novels published last year.
Timed to complement the upcoming release of the new film version of John le Carré's novel Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, artist Matt Taylor has created new covers for a series of George Smiley reissues from Penguin. They'll start on June 7th with the first two books in the "Karla Trilogy" and the third will follow on June 28th, with more non-Smiley reissues thereafter. (Hat tip to the Double O Section.)
If you are a member of the Sisters in Crime organization and were thinking about going to the Writers' Police Academy organized by Lee Lofland, SinC has an offer for you: sign up by June 15th and they'll pay 65% of the registration costs. It's a terrific hands-on event for writers to learn about police procedures and forensics.
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