The Crime Writers of Canada announced their annual awards for excellence in crime writing yesterday, which is the start of a criminally good Canadian season. Coming up June 7–9 at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre is the MOTIVE crime fiction convention, with special guests to include Katrín Júlíusdóttir, Yun Ko-eun, Laurah Norton, Sarah Weinman, Maureen Jennings, Arwen Humphreys, Kelley Armstrong, Drew Hayden Taylor, Walter Mosley, Abir Mukherjee, Linwood Barclay, Kellye Garrett, and more. A week afterward in Toronto, the Bony Blithe Mini-Con will be held on Saturday, June 15, with panels and other programming along with opportunities to schmooze with friends and authors, new and old. As a special treat, there will also be a display of Susan Daly’s mystery-themed miniatures.
CrimeCon, the convention dedicated to all things "true crime," which takes place in Nashville, Tennessee, from May 31 to June 2, has struck a deal with SiriusXM to air a raft of its sessions on SiriusXM’s Triumph channel on June 8 and 9. Speakers at the event include CSI creator Anthony Zuiker, America’s Most Wanted’s John Walsh, Chris Hansen, Nancy Grace, Mark Geragos, Ben Crump, Sean “Sticks” Larkin, Paul Holes, John Douglas and Ann Burgess, who is the subject of Hulu docuseries Mastermind: To Think Like a Killer.
It's a tough game out there in the publishing world, and thus it's not too surprising when indie publishing companies go under. The latest is Polis Books, founded in 2013 by Jason Pinter (an editor, agent, and author himself, including the Henry Parker thriller series), which announced it was closing its doors. Polis started out with a strong focus on crime fiction and has published works by Patricia Abbott, Rob Hart, Steph Post, J.D. Rhoades, Alex Segura, Clea Simon, Lily Wang, and others. As Pinter noted on social media, the company was able to find new homes for a fairly large portion of its list, with several publishers expressing interest, "and we were able to re-home a number of great books."
NI Crime Writers are teaming up with Libraries NI and local bookstores to celebrate National Crime Reading Month with a host of events across Northern Ireland during June. National Crime Reading Month is an annual initiative spearheaded and developed by the Crime Writers’ Association and promotes crime reading across the genre through bookshops, libraries, and venues such as museums and theatres, as well as online. National Crime Reading Month aims to bring new books to existing readers and new readers to the world’s most popular and best-selling genre. With its close links to the small screen, gaming, theatre and film, there’s something for everyone.
The Library of America has posted Dashiell Hammett's "Suggestions to Detective Story Writers," which were part of his Crime Wave columns in 1930 in the New York Evening Post. A former Pinkerton Agency detective, Hammett often despaired of the unrealistic scenes and inexpert characters that populated the genre and was Irritated by mystery writers' mistakes that he'd seen in their works, so he offered corrections for these, including advice such as "When you are knocked unconscious you do not feel the blow that does it" and "'Youse' is the plural of 'you.'" (HT to Elizabeth Foxwell at The Bunburyist blog)
In the Q&A roundup, EB Davis interviewed Marilyn Levinson about her new mystery, Come Home To Death, for the Writers Who Kill blog; M.R. Mackenzie spoke with Crime Time about The Reckoning, the fifth book in the Anna Scavolini series; and SPR chatted with Anthony Lee, who has a background in clinical medicine and health technology assessment, about his novel, Doctor Lucifer, a medical thriller about healthcare and cybersecurity.
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