The winners of the Lambda Literary Awards, also known as the "Lammys," were announced at Sony Hall in New York City, including the winner of the LGBTQ+ Mystery category, A Calculated Risk by Cari Hunter (Bold Strokes Books). The other finalists include: Don’t Forget the Girl by Rebecca McKanna (Sourcebooks Landmark); The Good Ones by Polly Stewart (HarperCollins Publishers); Transitory by J. M. Redmann (Bold Strokes Books); and Where the Dead Sleep by Joshua Moehling (Poisoned Pen Press). Lambda Literary nurtures and advocates for LGBTQ writers, and established the Lambda Literary Awards, which recognize the best LGBTQ books published in a given year across dozens of categories, in 1989
Registration is open for the International Thriller Writers' Online School. Participants will learn from the masters, bestselling authors and industry professionals, and gain insights into pacing, dialogue, character development, setting, twists, and more. The court covers seven weeks and 13 individual sessions (nine classes, three Spotlight Interviews and one bonus panel) during a live Zoom session and will offer live Q&A with the attending students. Featured presenters include Sara DiVello, K.J. Howe, Steven James, Andrea Johnson, Angie Kim, Mary Kubica, Jean Kwok, Tosca Lee and Nina Sadowsky. Spotlight interviews will include Lisa Gardner, Heather Graham, Charlaine Harris, Gregg Hurwitz, and Jerri Williams, with Bonus panel discussion via Jeneva Rose, Karen Dionne, and Wanda Morris, as moderated by Sam Octavius. For more information and to register, follow this link.
Mystery Writers of America also has an online learning opportunity via MWA-U 2024, to consist of six online classes taught by top-notch crime writers with live Q & A. Take your writing to the next level by attending these informative classes – free to MWA members (offered to nonmembers for $20/session). Tracy Clark will discuss writing characters; Meg Gardiner will tackle plot; Donna Andrews, dialogue; Daniel Stashower, setting; Jeffery Deaver, writing a commercial thriller; and Sheri Lewis-Wohl will speak on forensics.
Mystery Fanfare has a list of crime fiction and mysteries themed around Father's Day (Sunday, June 16th in the U.S.).
Can you identify these opening lines of classic mystery and crime novels? Test your knowledge with this quiz via Olivia Rutigliano at CrimeReads.
In the Q&A roundup, Author Interviews welcomed Catriona McPherson, author of the Dandy Gilver historical detective stories, the Last Ditch mysteries, and contemporary standalone novels, about her new release, Deep Beneath Us; James Lee Burke chatted with CrimeReads about Hemingway, Orwell, and a new chapter in the American battle against fascism; and Ruth Ware was also interviewed by CrimeReads, talking about her new thriller set on a tropical Indonesian paradise that quickly turns into nightmare, One Perfect Couple.
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