Deadly Pleasures magazine announced the finalists for the annual Barry Awards for crime fiction in the categories of Best Fiction, Best First Novel, Best Paperback Original, and Best Thriller. (Hat tip to Mystery Fanfare.)
Foreword Review's INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award finalists were announced last week, including the categories of Mystery and Thrillers & Suspense.
The Chipping Norton Literary Festival, April 23-26, is scheduled to include talks from leading crime fiction authors Lee Child, MC Beaton and SJ Watson.
The New England Writers' Centre and the Armidale Dumaresq Library are sponsoring six Thunderbolt Prizes for Australian crime writers, including Emerging Writers, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The entry deadline closes on August 24, 2015.
Pushkin Press is establishing a new imprint, Pushkin Vertigo, which will start publishing "crime classics" from around the world by international masters from the 1920s to the 1970s. Stephanie Seegmuller, co-editor of Pushkin Vertigo, commented: "The Pushkin Vertigo books are truly for everyone who loves classic crime, from Agatha Christie to Robert Chandler." The first six titles will be released in September in the U.K. and North America, and another fourteen titles are slated for next year.
Scottish crime novelist Ian Rankin was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Rankin is best known for his two series and over 20 novels featuring policemen John Rebus and Malcolm Fox.
Dave Zeltserman penned an essay for Boston's WBUR public radio about his thoughts on noir and "an essential noir reading list."
In celebration of Women's History Month, The Weekly Lizard blog (from Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) listed "5 Fictional Females Who Rock."
Stephen Marche, witing for Esquire, penned an essay on "How Genre Fiction Became More Important Than Literary Fiction." As he notes, "Only idiots or snobs ever really thought less of 'genre books' of course. There are stupid books and there are smart books."
This week's featured crime poem at the 5-2 is "Diseases Without Borders" by Charles Rammelkamp."
The Q&A roundup includes psychotherapist and thriller author Dennis Palumbo chatting with the Huffington Post about the latest installment in his series featuring Dr. Daniel Rinaldi, a psychologist and trauma expert; the Sirens of Suspense welcomed Glen Erik Hamilton, who talked about his earliest crime influences; Rachel Amphlett talked with Omnimystery News about her new political thriller; Michael Robotham spoke with the Mystery People about his new thriller, Liife or Death; and Christoph Fischer took Paul D. Brazill's "Short, Sharp Interview" challenge.
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