Author Paul Lindsay, a/k/a Noah Boyd, died last week. He served in the Marines during the Vietnam War and was awarded two Purple Hearts. Following his military career, he spent two decades working as a FBI agent and retired to write seven novels. His latest, Agent X, was released in February 2011, and Millenium Films has acquired the rights to his bestseller The Bricklayer. His family asked that any memorial contributions be made to the the Wounded Warrior Program.
John Kenyon announced the debut of Grift Magazine, a new print magazine that will feature crime fiction, reviews, interviews and more, beginning with its first issue in 2012 and published three times a year (February, June and October). The companion web site will also include flash fiction, reviews, interviews and news. Submission guidelines will be up soon.
Join Mystery Readers NorCal for a Literary Salon with author Deon Meyer in Berkeley, California on Wednesday, September 21st at 7 p.m. Deon Meyer is an award winning South African thriller writer, who books have been translated in 25 languages. His latest work is Trackers. For reservations and directions, send and e-mail to Janet Rudolph.
If you happen to be in Richmond, Virginia on Thursday, October 13th, you can attend the first annual Mystery Day at the Library of Virginia. The event will showcase 16 of Virginia's talented mystery authors with a special tribute to People's Choice Award nominee Donna Andrews. The panels are free of charge but require an advance registration, and there's an optional lunch for a fee. The lineup includes Mollie Bryan, Meredith Cole, Ellen Crosby, Jan Neuharth, Alan Orloff, Brad Parks, Sandy Parshall, JB Stanley, Andy Straka, and Irene Ziegler. Moderators are Art Taylor, Steve Weddle, Katherine Neville and Meredith Cole.
In the Q&A tour this week, Mysterious People has an interview with Timothy Hallinan, nominated for Edgar and Macavity awards for his Poke Rafferty Bangkok thrillers. Hallinan discusses his decision to take the indie eBook route for his new Junior Bender series.
Every year, the Malice Domestic mystery conference awards two grants to unpublished writers to help support their writing careers. The winners are awarded $1,500 as well as a paid registration for the following year's convention and two nights lodging. Submissions will be accepted from September 15th through November 15th only. Note: applicants can't have published a book, short story, or dramatic work in the mystery field, either in print, electronic, or audio form.
Prometheus Books is launching Seventh Street Books, a new mystery and thriller imprint, with 20-24 titles expected in fall/winter 2012–2013 and 32-35 in subsequent years. The books will be released in trade paper and and eBook formats.
If you're a fan of the TV series The Killing on the AMC network, you may (or may not) know it's based on a very popular TV show in Denmark, watched by nearly half of Denmark's 5.5 million population. If you want to see where it all began, The Daily Mail laid out "The Killing Tour" that hits all the program's highlighted locations in Copenhagen.
Planning your funeral arrangements well in advance? Tired of the same-old plain coffin and graveside service? The Mother Nature Network offers up
eight "weird burial alternatives" that are going mainstream. (And also make potential crime fiction plot devices…) (Hat tip to Bill Crider.)
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