Registration is now open for the International Thriller Writer's Seventh Annual Online Thriller School. The eight-week program begins March 23, 2020, where the craft of thriller writing will be front and center. Each instructor will teach an aspect of craft though a Facebook Live video, written materials that include further reading and study suggestions, and an entire week of on-line Q&A with the registered students. Featured author-instructors include Allison Brennan, Grant Blackwood, Raymond Khoury, Karen Dionne, Steven James, Hank Phillippi Ryan, Peter James and Kathleen Antrim.
Perfect Crime, the first crime writing festival set in the heart of Liverpool, is gearing up for its inaugural convention on November 14 with a new website. Ann Cleves is the special guest, with more authors and evnets to be announced soon.
More good conference news: Noireland 2020 is returning with a one-day festival packed full of panels, workshops, tours, and screenings on Saturday, March 28 in Belfast at the Clayton Hotel. Organizers plan to announced the program soon with more information about registration and tickets.
Level Best Books is partnering with Lee and Denene Lofland to launch New Arc Books, a new imprint. Lee, a veteran police investigator, has served as a consultant for Slate Magazine, Spike TV and for many well-known bestselling authors. As an expert, he has appeared on BBC television, CNN, NPR radio’s Talk of the Nation and Public Television. Denene received a Ph.D. from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, and while her career is focused on science, her life-long passions are fantasy and science fiction. They are actively seeking submissions, from agents or authors, of novels between 70,000 and 100,000 words with a tilt toward crime titles, both fiction and nonfiction.
Faber will celebrate the 100th anniversary of P D James’ birth by publishing her short story "The Part-Time Job" in book form for the first time. August 3 will mark what would have been the 100th birthday of James, which Faber published for over 50 years following the publication of her first novel, Cover Her Face, in 1962. In celebration of this centenary, Faber will publish short story "The Part-Time Job" in book form, which editorial director Angus Cargill described as "an ingenious, dark-treat of a story." Faber will also publish a specially designed new paperback edition of A Mind to Murder, the second novel in James' Adam Dalgliesh series. Faber said it hopes to draw a new generation of readers to "this great character and classic series."
Nancy Drew debuted in 1930 in The Secret of the Old Clock and has been busily solving crimes ever since. She has become an icon as few other characters have. But while you’ve certainly heard of the celebrated girl detective, how much do you really know about her? This quiz poses 15 questions about the characters and cases that appeared in the original 56 Nancy Drew books.
Speaking of Nancy Drew, her fans might not be thrilled to learn that a new graphic novel by Anthony Del Col just killed off the teen detective. But Bustle came to the rescue with a list of "15 Female Detective Novels To Read While You Mourn Nancy Drew."
If you work a lot of crossword puzzles (guilty!), then you've probably come across the word "yegg." Ever wonder how this unusual crime-associated term came about? Grammarphobia has you covered.
This week's crime poem at the 5-2 is "Xannie" by J.B. Stevens.
In the Q&A roundup, Deborah Kalb spoke with Tanen Jones about her new thriller, The Better Liar; the Irish Examiner chatted with Jo Spain, author of Six Wicked Reasons, about how she multitasks to get a lot done; and the Washington Times interviewed Otto Penzler, a long-time champion of short crime fiction through his Mysterious Press imprint.
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