The application deadline for Sisters in Crime's Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award is fast approaching. The annual grant of $2,000 for an emerging writer of color helps fund activities that include workshops, seminars, conferences, and retreats, online courses, and research activities required for completion of the submitted work. To learn more about submission requirements, follow this link, but materials are due by March 31st.
Alex Segura, the writer of the Miami-based Pete Fernandez mystery series, will discuss his latest thriller, Secret Identity, a literary mystery set in the world of comic books, in a virtual program hosted by the Mark Twain House & Museum on March 29 at 6 p.m. The talk is free, but registration is required.
The next Noir at the Bar Dallas is back with "more dastardly tales of crime and debauchery read live" at The Wild Detectives on March 31 from 7-9 p.m. Authors scheduled to appear include Jim Nesbitt, Sean C. Wright Neeley, Rod Davis, Opalina Salas, Carlos Salas, Eryk Pruitt, Kathleen Kent, Kevin R. Tipple, Sanderia Faye, and Harry Hunsicker.
The Friends of the Fairfield Public Library are hosting a star-studded evening on April 7 with best-selling authors of psychological thrillers, including Greer Hendricks, Liv Constantine, and Wendy Walker. Award-winning podcaster/publisher Zibby Owens will take on moderating duties.
Coming soon to bookstores near you (in April in the UK and in June in the U.S.) is a new reference book, This Deadly Isle: A Golden Age Mystery Map, created by author Martin Edwards with illustrations by Ryan Bosse. The work provides a map and guide to more than 50 locations from Golden Age mysteries from authors such as Margery Allingham, Agatha Christie, Anthony Berkeley Cox, Ngaio Marsh, and Dorothy L. Sayers. The Golden Age map joins similar works like Agatha Christie's England by Shedunnit's Caroline Crampton, and The Hardboiled Apple by Jon Hammer and Karen McBurnie. (HT to The Bunburyist.)
The latest edition of Mystery Readers Journal, titled New England Mysteries I is now available as a PDF and hardcopy. Editor Janet Rudolph received so many articles, reviews, and author essays for this edition that she decided to split the topic into two issues, with the second, New England Mysteries II, coming out this summer. You can subscribe and read a few sample articles online including "Why New England?" by Edith Maxwell / Maddie Day; "How I Became a Resident Mystery Writer" by David Handler; and "From Narrative Nonfiction to a Fictional Narrative" by Ben Mezrich.
Fans of John le Carré might want to take note of a collection of letters by the late novelist set to be published later this year. A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré 1945-2020 spans almost eight decades, from the author’s childhood in wartime Britain to just days before his death in 2020. It contains letters to le Carré’s family and friends as well as to high-profile fans such as Hugh Laurie, Ralph Fiennes, Stephen Fry, Alec Guinness, and Tom Stoppard.
Slash Film took at look at the "Surprising Way The Maltese Falcon Influenced World War II."
Yorkshire brewery T&R Theakston has launched a limited-edition label for its Old Peculier beer, ahead of the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival later this year.
If you have a spare thirty million dollars lying around, you might be interested in buying a luxurious Carmel, California beachfront estate that was featured prominently in the HBO crime series, Big Little Lies, as well as the thriller film, Basic Instinct. It's a bargain, too: three years ago, the asking price was $52.4 million.
From the life imitates crime imitates life department comes this unlikely tale: True crime author Paul Harrison claimed he'd interviewed the world's most infamous murderers – only to be exposed as a fraud and scammer.
This week's timely crime poem at the 5-2 weekly is "Putin On The Blitz" by Tony Dawson.
In the Q&A roundup, Lisa Haselton chatted with mystery writer HS Burney about her new thriller, The Lake Templeton Murders, a Fati Rizvi private detective murder mystery; Deborah Kalb interviewed Nancy Allen about her new novel, Renegade, the first in her Anonymous Justice series; E. B. Davis spoke with Korina Moss for the Writers who Kill blog about her debut cozy mystery, Cheddar Off Dead; and over at The Stiletto Gang, Lois Winston grilled suspense author Donnell Ann Bell about researching and writing her Cold Case crime series.
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