The latest Noir at the Bar heads to Toronto at the Duke of Kent pub tonight at 7pm. Authors scheduled to read from their works and sign books include Giles Blunt, Barbara Fradkin, Don MacDonald, C.S. O'Cinneide, Howard Shrier, and Carolyne Topdjian.
Another Noir at the Bar will take place on April 27 at the upcoming SIBA in the Springtime conference in Winston-Salem, NC, the first SIBA (Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance) in-person event since the pandemic began. Eight crime, thriller, and mystery authors will read from their works in an event hosted by author and veteran Noir at the Bar MC, Eryk Pruitt.
The one hundredth British Library Crime Classic has now been published, as reported by Martin Edwards, who began his association with the series back in 2013. The title in question is appropriately a "bibliomystery," Bernard J. Farmer's Death of a Bookseller, complete with a message on the inside cover from Edwards, who also noted in the article that the Crime Classics are famous enough to merit a mention in Anthony Horowitz's Moonflower Murders. The series has included the publication and "rediscovery" of novels by such varied writers as E.C.R. Lorac, Mary Kelly, John Dickson Carr, Richard Hull, C.E. Vulliamy, Anne Meredith, Peter Shaffer, Christianna Brand, Nap Lombard, Raymond Postgate, and Margot Bennett.
San Diego's Mysterious Galaxy bookstore, an independent genre store specializing in science fiction, fantasy, mystery, young adult, romance, and horror, has launched a $225,000 GoFundMe campaign to help "with some vital upgrades we need to make as well as to help recuperate some finances lost over the two year pandemic." Co-owners Jenni Marchisotto and Matthew Berger posted on Facebook that although loyal customers helped keep the store afloat over the past two years of the pandemic, the campaign will help address the losses of the last two years. On May 7, the store is planning a birthday bash to celebrate their 29th anniversary. (HT to Shelf Awareness)
The Criminal Law Bulletin, an interdisciplinary, peer-edited law journal, seeks papers for two forthcoming special issues. One will be devoted to reform-based solutions to problems in the criminal-legal context and is scheduled for publication in the January/February issue of 2023. The other will explore the collateral consequences of criminal convictions and is scheduled for the publication in the March/April issue of 2023. Submission of papers related either of these broad themes are welcomed from legal, social science, and humanities scholars, as well as from justice practitioners, law students, and graduate students in criminology, criminal justice, and related fields.
The New York Times reported on "How Barnes & Noble Went From Villain to Hero." In the past, the book-selling empire, with 600 outposts across all 50 states, was seen by many readers, writers, and book lovers as strong-arming publishers and gobbling up independent stores in its quest for market share. Today, virtually the entire publishing industry is rooting for the chain, including most independent booksellers. (You can read more here.)
This week's crime poem at the 5-2 weekly is "Every Story is a Ghost Story" by Brian Townsley.
In the Q&A roundup, Lisa Haselton spoke with Canadian thriller author Ryan Lawrence about his debut LGBTQ thriller, Vindictive; over at the Writers Who Kill blog, Sarah E. Burr chatted about #Follow Me for Murder, the first in her Trending Topic Mystery Series, and You Can’t Candle the Truth, first in the Glenmyre Whim Mystery Series; Indie Crime Scene interviewed Mary Keliikoa, whose novel Deceived (PI Kelly Pruett mystery series) is their featured new release on May 10; and Don Winslow told The Guardian about the inspiration for his new book about warring gangs, his sudden thirst for poetry and why reading Jane Austen wears him out. Interestingly, Winslow yesterday announced on Twitter that "I'm retiring. The #CityOnFire trilogy will be the last 3 new books I publish. I look forward to sharing with you what is next for me in the days ahead."
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