Mystery Writers of America will present the first MWA-U session of the year on February 5, via a Zoom webinar at 8:00 PM Eastern Time. In this presentation, AuthorBytes will share key insights it has gleaned from 25 years of creating websites for bestselling, mid-list, and debut authors. AuthorBytes’ Creative Director, Steve Bennett, will cover topics such as the elements of an effective website and how you can incorporate them into your web presence. A registration link is available here, which is free for MWA Members and $20 for non-members.
Mystery Readers International is supporting the victims of and responders to the devastating LA Wildfires by donating funds from the sale of PDFs of the Southern California issue and two Los Angeles issues of Mystery Readers Journal. Buy the Southern California and/or Los Angeles issues of MRJ for $5/each, and the money (including PayPal fees) will be donated to World Central Kitchen and Pasadena Humane. Both charities are on the ground helping victims and responders of the Los Angeles area fires.
Harrogate International Festivals has announced the special guests for this year’s festival, which takes place in the town in July. Scottish novelist Irvine Welsh, the author behind Trainspotting, as well as Lee and Andrew Child, Attica Locke, Kate Atkinson, Paula Hawkins, Kate Mosse, Steph McGovern, Val McDermid and Mark Billingham, will feature in the line up of crime writing icons, TV talent, and reader favorites in a program curated by 2025 festival chair Mick Herron. The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival takes place from July 17 to 20 at the Old Swan Hotel, Harrogate. The full program will be announced on April 1.
Noir at the Bar heads to Chicago on February 20 at the ERIS Brewery and Cider House. The roster of authors currently scheduled to read from their works includes Lina Chern, Tracy Clark, Kelsey Rae Dimberg, Michelle Falkoff, Jake Hinkson, Lindsay Hunter, Regan MacArthur, Juan Martinez, Lori Rader-Day, and Banca Sloane.
Janet Rudolph compiled a listing of crime fiction reads for the Chinese New Year, the annual 15-day festival also celebrated in many other Asian communities and across the U.S.
As part of the weekly Short Story Wednesday, George Kelley reviewed "Missing in Miskatonic" by JP Behrens; Patti Abbott profiled "Torch Song" John Cheever; and Todd Mason (who collects the links), looked at Gregory Shepard's Stark House Anthology.
In the Q&A roundup, CrimeReads interviewed Kevin Shinick, voice actor, comic book creator, and co-writer of The Mike Tyson Mysteries, about his upcoming project, Host Mortem, in which two game show hosts from the 90s get together to investigate mysteries from the 1940s; Author Interviews spoke with Kemper Donovan, host of the All About Agatha podcast, about his new novel, Loose Lips, described as "Knives Out meets high seas intrigue on a literary cruise to nowhere"; and Deborah Kalb chatted with veteran screenwriter and Blue Bloods showrunner, Kevin Wade, about his debut novel, Johnny Careless.
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