The national Sisters in Crime organization is sponsoring SinC Into Great Writing IV on Wednesday, October 3, 2012. The annual event held at the same time as Bouchercon (this year, in Cleveland), will feature Nancy Pickard leading the "Sensory Self-Editing Workshop."
The new Bloody Scotland crime fiction conference announced the shortlist for the inaugural Bloody Scotland Scottish Crime Book of the Year award, including:
- A Foreign Country, by Charles Cumming
- Dead Men and Broken Hearts, by Craig Russell
- Gods and Beasts, by Denise Mina
- The Lewis Man, by Peter May
- Prague Fatale, by Philip Kerr
- Redemption, by Will Jordan
CrimeCityCentral is a new site highlighting a weekly podcast of crime fiction-related authors and storytellers. They're also looking for submissions of 3,000 to 10,000 words including short stories, excerpts, a first chapter or collection of short shorts. They prefer published works, but self-pub, ePub and indie pub all count as published.
The August issue of Yellow Mama is available online, and they're also open for new submissions of stories with themes that are cutting edge, hardboiled, horror, literary, noir or psychological/horror. (Hat tip to Sandra Seamans.)
Next year's special issue of The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture, to be launched in Brisbane at the 2013 conference, is on crime (crime fiction, crime on TV or film, true crime, and so on). The call for papers within the 5,000-6,000 has a submission deadline of September 2012.
The Q&A roundup this week includes "7 questions with...Timothy Hallinan"; Chelsea Cain admits she reads fewer thrillers than people assume she does, reading more non-fiction than anything else (she just went through a Bill Bryson binge); Karin Slaughter chats on the blog Jen's Book Thoughts about writing and researching her latest novel, Criminal; and Megan Abbott had a fun chat with Omnivoracious about her latest book, Dare Me, as well as some memorable moments and her obsessions.
Keep an eye out for the upcoming Murder and Mayhem in Muskego anthology from Down & Out Books to benefit the Muskego public library. The short story anthology features bestselling, Edgar and Shamus award-winning writers who have attended the annual MMM Conference, and will be edited by Jon and Ruth Jordan.
Katherine Neville, author of The Eight and Advisory Board Member of the the Smithsonian Libraries, announced two upcoming special events in Washington, D.C. The first is the Adopt-A-Book benefit taking place on September 13, where participants can browse through the library's special collections and "adopt" a book to help with preservation, while enjoying Italian food and lectures from curators. The other is a Writers' Workshop with author Steve Berry on October 18 at the National Museum of Natural History, followed by an exclusive rare books tour and reception.
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