Contest for cash, conference admission
What a great idea! The New England Crime Bake, the 9th Annual Mystery Conference for Writers and Readers (November 12-14, 2010 at the Hilton Hotel in Dedham, MA) has an associated short story contest....
View ArticleBest American Series Out for 2010!
Every year, I look forward to the appearance in bookstores of Mariner Book’s The Best American Series – an annual compilation of the best short fiction and nonfiction. First purchase is always The...
View ArticleA very literary Christmas…
Well, the wrapping paper is all bundled up and the coffee pot is on its second brewing, and everyone seems very pleased with Christmas morning. Snow blankets the ground and hangs heavily from tree...
View ArticleLehane’s Patrick Kenzie matures
“They were written from a young man’s perspective. I left Patrick when I was 33 and he was 33. I’ve tried, but his voice won’t come,” said Dennis Lehane in the USA Today interview just two short years...
View ArticleThumbs up for Howard Owen’s Oregon Hill
What kind of sociopath kills a college freshman, decapitates her, and ships her head to her father in a box? Cops say that it was the sleazy, hit-on-the-coeds 32-year-old Martin Fell, but police beat...
View ArticleLehane’s Live By Night Last Edgar Finalist – winner in Lunchbox ranking...
Boston native Dennis Lehane has had a particularly energetic career in fiction, penning his first book, A Drink Before the War which introduced the recurring characters Patrick Kenzie and Angela...
View ArticleFoiled again. Lehane and Pavone take home the Edgars.
Seth Godin and I have something in common. In his recent blog post, he points out that he saw Alan Cumming on Broadway in an out-of-the-box one-man version of MacBeth. Critics, particularly Charles...
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