The Joffe Books Prize is looking for a talented new crime fiction writer of color. The prize invites submissions from unagented UK residents and British citizens (including those living abroad) from Black, Asian, Indigenous and minority ethnic backgrounds writing in crime fiction genres such as psychological thrillers, cozy mysteries, police procedurals, twisty chillers, suspense mysteries, and domestic noirs. The winner will be offered a prize package, one of the UK’s largest literary prizes, consisting of a two-book publishing deal with Joffe books, a £1,000 cash prize, and a £25,000 audiobook offer from Audible for the first book. The submission period ends at midnight on September 30, 2024. This year the Joffe Books Prize judging panel includes A.A. Chaudhuri, bestselling author of She’s Mine, and literary agent Gyamfia Osei from Andrew Nurnberg Associates. (HT to Shots Magazine)
Mystery Writers of America University 2024's latest online class via Zoom is coming up on Wednesday, September 4th at 8pm EDT. Daniel Stashower, a three-time Edgar-winner whose books include Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle and The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War, will talk about setting. Powerful settings have always been essential to the mystery story, from Poe’s "rank sedges, vacant eye-like windows and white trunks of decayed trees" to I.S. Berry’s "noncontiguous streets, noises without origin or purpose, and angles that didn’t quite fit together." MWA-U classes are free to current MWA members and offered to nonmembers for $20 a session. For more information and to register, follow this link.
Thanks to Elizabeth Foxwell, over at her Bunburyist blog, I learned about a series of maps published by Herb Lester Associates, essentially insider's guides to the cities certain crime authors knew (and used in their stories), which can still be visited today. The latest, due out in September, is Maigret's Paris, a map of locations from the Chief Inspector Maigret oeuvre of Georges Simenon. Previous releases include The Raymond Chandler Map of Los Angeles; Agatha Christie's England; John le Carré's London; and The World of Patricia Highsmith.
In the Q&A roundup, Lisa Haselton interviewed Lindy S. Hudis about her new crime thriller, Hollywood Underworld, and spoke with Tracey Lampley about her new mystery, All Money Ain’t Good Money; Luke Deckard talked with CrimeReads about his latest novel, Bad Blood, which is set in 1922 and follows Logan Bishop, an American PI in London, looking for a missing woman who is connected to his father’s murder; and William Kent Krueger spoke with CrimeTime about the twentieth novel in his Cork O’Connor mystery series, Spirit Crossing, and the truths that inspired it.
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