A new Bouchercon Scholarship Award Program has been established to help mystery fans and writers with a financial subsidy. This subsidy covers registration fees for the annual Bouchercon convention, scheduled to be held in San Diego in 2023, as well as travel and lodging costs, reimbursed up to $500.00 (for up to five awardees). Interested applicants will need to write a 300 to 500 word essay on the applicant’s interest in attending Bouchercon and in the mystery genre and be willing to volunteer for no less than four hours at the event. The deadline is May 1st, with scholarship winners announced June 1.
Harrogate International Festivals revealed the Festival Programming Chair and Special Guests for the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, which celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2023, July 20-23. Multi award-winning crime novelist Vaseem Khan will be acting as this year’s Festival Programming Chair, following in the footsteps of Ian Rankin, Elly Griffiths, Denise Mina, and Lee Child. Vaseem is known for his Baby Ganesh Agency series set in modern Mumbai and the Malabar House historical crime novels set in 1950s Bombay. Special guests include Val McDermid, Lee Child, Andrew Child, Lisa Jewell, Ruth Ware, Ann Cleeves, Jeffery Deaver, Lucy Worsley, S. A. Cosby, and Chris Hammer.
US publisher Inkshares is launching its UK imprint this summer with two new crime novels by Fulton Ross (The Unforgiven Dead) and Christopher Huang (Unnatural Ends). Founded in 2014, Inkshares uses a "community analytics model," in which readers provide feedback on incomplete manuscripts, to source literary début novels for publication. Over the past 10 years, the independent publisher said it has had single title sales of more than 100,000 units and sold to the major houses for translation in France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, the Czech Republic, and Brazil. Later this year, its first completed adaptation will stream on Apple TV, Mrs. American Pie, based on the 2018 novel by Juliet McDaniel, and starring Laura Dern, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Bibb, Allison Janney, Ricky Martin, Josh Lucas and Carol Burnett.
Here's an exhibit you don't see every day: a "Scooby-Doo Mansion Mayhem" exhibition at the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation, in Dearborn, Michigan, where visitors can solve mysteries alongside Scooby, Shaggy, and gang through April 9, 2023. A jewel-thieving ghost has dodged the police and was last seen in this spooky mansion. Can you meddling kids (and grown-ups, too!) help the gang solve the mystery in this immersive exhibit? (HT to Elizabeth Foxwell)
This week's crime poem at the 5-2 weekly is "Valentine's Day Blind Date - Paulie" by Robert Cooperman.
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