Book sculpture by Brian Dettmer
This year's Killer Nashville Conference wrapped up with a dinner where the annual awards were handed out. Congratulations to Sara J. Henry upon winning the Silver Falchion Award for best novel of 2012 for A Cold and Lonely Place, and to Terri Coop, who won the Claymore for best unpublished manuscript for Dial 1-Pro-Hac-Vice.
The Pop Culture Nerd announced the winners of his annual Stalker Awards, celebrating the "best" in categories such as "Novel You Shoved Most Often" and "Lead Character You Most Want as Your Friend." For all the stalk-worthy categories, check out the website link above.
The Bloody Scotland conference announced the finalists for the 2013 Short Story Competition. You can read each story on the festival's website and vote for your favorite.
Patti Abbott has another flash fiction challenge on her blog, this one prompted by the headline she spied, "Michigan Man's Tastes Get Him Into Trouble." You are to feel free to change Michigan to whatever state or place you want (meaning the title of every story will be the same except for the locale). Each story should be 1000 words or fewer. If you have a blog, Patti will post the link. If not, she can post the story ro you. The deadline for all links to be posted is September 26th.
This week's Beat to a Pulp featured fiction is "Stringtown Road" from Richard Prosch, and the newest crime poem over at the 5-2 is "Crime Story" by Alan Catlin.
Criminal Element is offering a chance to win the entire 9-book Walt Longmire series by Craig Johnson.
Author Cleo Coyle, a regular contributor to Mystery Lovers' Kitchen, offered up her take on how to make your own log peanut butter cookies and paired it up with a contest at Goodreads connected with her Coffeehouse Mystery Series.
This week's Q&A roundup includes Margaret Maron, who is Ed Gorman's latest "Pro-File"; Sheila Quigley is the subject of Paul D. Brazill's Short, Sharp Interview; Ruth Rendell chatting with The Guardian and noting that "a very well-known person once said he threw my book out of a taxi window"; and James Lee Burke was interviewed for Men's Journal about crime, marriage and how one of his manuscripts was rejected 111 times.
If you're big into the photo-sharing world of Instagram, you may be familiar with "selfies," or self-portraits people post via that popular app. One Tumblr blog twisted that concept around and created a page for "bookshelfies," where people can share photos of themselves and their bookshelves.
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