The Mystery Lovers Kitchen blog has posted several Thanksgiving recipes, in case you're still looking for something to fill out your menu. Check out Potato Bacon Soup with Parmesan Cheese from Daryl Avery; Green Bean Casserole from Peg Cochran; and three spoon-bread recipes from Cleo Coyle.
Looking for some unusual Thanksgiving decorating ideas? Here you go.
Janet Rudolph updated the Thanksgiving Crime Fictiion bibliography in her Mystery Fanfare blog (with a few recipe links thrown in for good measure).
In case you missed it, Richard Pangburn reviewed Michael Dibdin's crime novel Thanksgiving for Friday's Forgotten Books last week, a title he calls "one of the most intelligent literary murder mysteries in existence."
Publetariat reprinted part of a blog post from a few years ago, but the subject matter is relevant. The holidays are a great time to commit your memories—both past and present—to paper, as a memoir and/or as fodder for a short story. The key is to keep your stories personal, anchor your story in its era, and include sensory details.
The indie publisher West Pigeon Press has a new anthology of dark fiction titled For When the Veil Drops. I'm honored to have a story in that anthology, with fellow authors A.A. Garrison, Paul L. Bates, Bryan Brown, Robin Wyatt Dunn, J.R. Hamantaschen, Christian Larsen, Samuel Minier, Nick Medina, Doug Murano, Joshua Clark Orkin, Yarrow Paisley, Lydia Peever, Michael Trudeau, and Michael Wehunt. There is a free giveaway contest right now on Goodreads through November 23.
Untreed Reads has some new Thanksgiving-themed short stories in eBook form, including "The Pecan Pie Affair" from T. Lee Harris; the historical "Joseph's Captivity" from KB Inglee; "Calories" from Albert Tucher; "A Death in the Family" from George Seaton; and also the new anthology, The Killer Wore Cranberry: a Second Helping.
The Q&A roundup this week includes author and investigative reporter Hank Phillippi Ryan talking about the release of her new book, The Other Woman, and juggling careers. Also, Stephen Blackmoore chatted with CrimeSpree about debut novel City of the Lost, a blend of hardboiled crime and supernatural pulp.
Blogger/reviewer Jen Forbus is thankful for her experiences at the recent Murder & Mayhem in Muskeo conference and listed the "Top Ten Things I Learned."
The Science Channel picked up the soon-to-be-ending Fringe sci-fi/crime drama and will celebrate with a Thanksgiving marathon that includes the complete first season, as well as a new series examining some real-life fringe science.
If Fringe isn't your taste, other Thanksgiving TV marathons include NCIS, Season 3 on USA November 21, an NCIS "Gibbs That Keeps On Giving" marathon November 22-23 and yet another NCIS marathon November 25; a Bond Movie Marathon November 22-24 on Syfy; a Castle marathon, November 22 on TNT; a Law & Order: Criminal Intent marathon, November 22-23 on Oxygen, and Law & Order: SVU marathon, November 24-25 on USA Network.
When you're out and about on Black Friday looking for early Christmas present ideas, you can't go wrong with a book. To give you an assist, the Wall Street Journal's Gift Guide 2012: Mysteries has some tips; Barnes and Noble offers a list of mysteries from their Gift Guide; and the New England Independent Booksellers Association also has a 2012 Holiday Catalog with ideas.
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