The winner of the very first Sisters in Crime Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award is Maria Kelson. Her winning manuscript combines elements of feminist fiction and noir and is set in contemporary Humboldt County in Northern California.
As part of the Boston Book Festival on October 25, Sisters in Crime authors will participate in a discussion of traditional motives in crime novels—greed, lust, power, fear, rage—and how variations on these themes and relationships drive today’s crime fiction in often unexpected ways. Session participants Sheila Connolly, Ray Daniel, Kate Flora, Arlene Kay, Marian Lanouette, Edith Maxwell, Liz Mugavero, Leigh Perry, Barbara Ross, and host Julie Hennrikus will offer their expertise and elicit audience involvement in this interactive session.
A new crime fiction conference is headed to Vancounter on March 11-13, 2016. To be titled CUFFED, the Vancouver International Crime Fiction Festival, the inaugural event is already lining up Linwood Barclay, Ian Rankin, Quintin Jardine and more. If you want to help the project off the ground, visit the event's Indiegogo page.
Writing for The Guardian, author Val McDermid took a look at "The grisly history of forensics," and how it's often full of "courtroom disasters, eccentric pioneers, crowd-pleasing showmen and dangerous (sometimes fatal) research."
The British Library just opened the new exhibit "Terror and Wonder: the Gothic Imagination," which will be the UK’s largest showing of gothic literature. The exhibit marks 250 years since Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto inspired the gothic genre, but will also include the first-ever image of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and his monster, Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist, and more.
The Paris Review also noted another exhibit, "Evermore: The Persistence of Poe," at the the Grolier Club in New York City. In addition to manuscripts, first editions, personal effects, and letters belonging to the author, there are also various Poe portrayals in pop culture.
The Ian Fleming estate has chosen internationally bestselling and award-winning writer Anthony Horowitz to pen the new James Bond novel. Although Fleming's estate has authorized other authors to pen installments in the series, Horowitz has a unique opportunity: the book will contain a section of previously unseen material written by Fleming to which Horowitz had exclusive access.
The latest, and *possibly* last, issue of Plots With Guns has been released, with stories from Dennis Tofoya, Rusty Barnes, Frances Gow, and Christopher Irvin. The archives will be available for awhile, including my own story, "Gun Love." But as current editor Anthony Neil Smith hinted, he may have some good news soon about turning the reins over to someone else to continue the publication.
Meanwhile, All Due Respect has opened submissions for their next issue for crime stories of 2,000 to 8,000 words, with a deadline of November 15.
The Guardian's Jonathan Guyer took at look at "The Arab whodunnit: crime fiction makes a comeback in the Middle East," while Marcia Lynx Qualey wrote an essay on the same topic for Al Jazeera about "The mysterious fall and rise of the Arab crime novel."
Over on the All Things Crime Blog, Patrick Moore noted a list of "Ten Wickedest Female Serial Killers Past and Present."
The new featured crime poem at the 5-2 is "Dance Obsolete Obstinacy" by Heidi Kraay.
The Q&A roundup includes an interview with John Lawson over at The Dark Phantom blog, about his latest novel, Sorrow; and Mark McGinn stopped by Kiwi Crime to discuss his legal thrillers.
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