Walter Mosley will be the Central Keynote Speaker at the Writer’s Digest Annual Conference August 10-12 in New York City, it was announced yesterday. Mosley is best known among the crime fiction community for his popular historical mysteries featuring the hard-boiled detective Easy Rawlins, a black private investigator and World War II veteran living in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Tickets are on sale for New Zealand's first ever crime fiction festival, Rotorua Noir, on the 26th and 27th of January 2019. Appearing as international guests of honor will be Alex Gray, Lilja Sigurðardóttir. Kati Hiekkapelto and Michael Robotham along with a host of Kiwi authors in panel discussions, interviews and an insight into the life of the criminal mind.
In honor of World Book Day, the UK's True CRIME Museum Hastings is sponsoring a book swap March 2-4. Anyone who arrives at the Museum with a crime-related book to donate can visit the museum for free. All the books collected from the event will be sold through the year and all proceeds go directly to the Museum’s supported charity, Victim Support.
Editor Janet Rudolph of Mystery Readers Journal says the next issue will focus on Gardening Mysteries, and she's seeking reviews, articles, and Author! Author! essays (first person, about yourself, your books, and the 'Gardening/Garden' connection). The deadline is April 1, and you can read more about the call here.
Some sad blogging news and some happy blogging news: First the sad, which is the news that Bernadette Bean, who had been writing the Reactions to Reading blog ever since 2008, has passed away suddenly. Fellow bloggers Jeff Pierce and Margot Kinberg have posted more details and remembrances. In happier news, congratulations go to the Type M 4 Murder blog, which is welcoming its one-millionth visitor this month. Rich Blechta has all the details.
Here's a little-known fact via the Paris Review: Of the ten thousand books in the library of Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II, two thousand were detective novels. During the Sultan's reign (1876-1909), more than fifty mystery novels were translated into Turkish. Abdülhamid also went on to create the first secret service and sent spies across the empire to report to him.
Writing for The Guardian, Olivia Laing looked at "Sex, jealousy and gender: Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca 80 years on," and how the author's bestselling novel reveals much about the author’s fluid sexuality – her ‘Venetian tendencies’ – and about being a boy stuck in the wrong body.
Hollywood Reporter noted that one of the projects in the works for the 100th anniversary in 2018 of the birth of crime writer Mickey Spillane is Titan Comics' comic book series featuring his signature creation, private eye Mike Hammer. The four-issue series is actually based on a story by Spillane himself, "The Night I Died," originally written in the 1950s as an unproduced screenplay.
If you're an aspiring crime fiction author but scared of rejection, take heart: Michael Bracken posted his submission history, and it turns out, he's been rejected 2,552 times. But, on the flip side, he's also had 1,582 acceptances, which is a ratio of one acceptance for every 1.61 rejections; not a bad record at all.
Chris Rhatigan picked "5 Crime Fiction Titles with a Strong Sense of Place" for the Criminal Element blog.
With the imminent premiere of the fourth season of Amazon's Bosch series, you can vote in a poll for your favorite Michael Connelly book, the author whose works inspired the Amazon series.
Ever find yourself hungry for some decadent fare from killer cookbooks? You're in luck.
Sometimes, crime does pay, as with this list of "10 Lifelong Criminals Who Became Successful Authors."
This week's crime poem at the 5-2 is "Soulmate Mountain" by David S. Pointer.
In the Q&A roundup, the Sleuth Sayers' Brian Thornton chatted with Vancouver author Sam Wiebe about his new novel, Cut You Down, the second installment in his series featuring Vancouver PI Dave Wakeland; Criminal Element's John Valeri spoke with John Hart, the only person to win the Edgar Award for Best Novel consecutively, about his latest book, The Hush; Craig Sisterson welcomed London-based Karin Salvalaggio to discuss her Detective Macy Greeley series set in Montana; and Gregg Hurwitz was interviewed by Gulf Shore Life (ahead of an appearance at the Friends of the Library of Collier County’s Nick Linn Lecture Series) about his Orphan X books, recently picked up for film by Warner Brothers to star Bradley Cooper.
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