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In Conversation with Omnimystery News

I recently had the pleasure of participating in a QA with Omnimystery News about my new novel PLAYED TO DEATH and its protagonist, Scott Drayco: Omnimystery News: Introduce us to Scott Drayco. What is it about him that appeals to you as a writer? BV Lawson: Scott Drayco was a promising piano prodigy until a violent brush with crime ended his career and left his right arm scarred. Seeing this as a chance to find justice for other victims, he decided to follow in the footsteps of his

Always Have a Plan B

Plan B Magazine debuted in 2013, the brainchild of Darusha Wehm, as a way to showcase short crime fiction. She envisioned it as a free-to-readers publication they can read and/or listen to online and also in portable, affordable DRM-free ebooks. Wehm also was determined to pay authors (which is getting rarer in the world of fiction and nonfiction publications), with hopes of attracting top notch authors and original stories. In its short history, Plan B has published a story by Mike Miner,...

Mystery Melange

Book sculpture by Pam Langdon

The winner of the very first Sisters in Crime Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award is Maria Kelson. Her winning manuscript combines elements of feminist fiction and noir and is set in contemporary Humboldt County in Northern California.



As part of the Boston Book Festival on October 25, Sisters in Crime authors will participate in a discussion of traditional motives in crime novels���greed, lust, power, fear, rage���and how variations on...

X Marks a Giveaway!

Author Les Roberts has penned 23 novels, close to a dozen short stories, eight screenplays and countless newspaper articles and reviews, but is perhaps best known to readers for his Slovenian detective, Milan Jacovich. What you might not know about Roberts is he's also a Hollywood veteran, producer of such shows as The Hollywood Squares, The Lucy Show, The Andy Griffith Show, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. His crime fiction success resulted nominations for both the Shamus and the Anthony Awards,...

Media Murder for Monday

MOVIES



Daniel Radcliffe is in negotiations to join the cast of the magician heist caper Now You See Me 2, joining Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher, Morgan Freeman, Woody Harrelson and Dave Franco. Radliffe will take on the role of the son of a duped insurance magnate (Michael Caine).



Ben Affleck is in talks to star in the thriller The Accountant, about an accountant who moonlights as an assassin.



Emma Watson and Daniel Bruhl are set to star in Colonia, a South American political thriller from...

A Halloween Blog Hop With Prizes!

I recently joined in the collaborative book Bake, Love, Write: 105 Authors Share Dessert Recipes and Advice on Love and Writing. In this cookbook, all 105 romantic suspense and mystery authors not only share their favorite recipes for decadent cakes, candy, cookies, pies, and more, they also share the best words of wisdom they've received on relationships and writing. From today through October 23, several of my fellow contributors and I are part of a Halloween Scavenger Hunt.



Here���s how...

Quote of the Day

FFB: Death of a Dutchman by Magdalen Nabb

Magdalen Nabb was born in Lancashire in 1947 but lived in Florence, Italy, from 1975 until her death in 2007. She wrote both children's fiction and crime fiction, the latter featuring her literary creation Marshal Salvatore Guarnaccia. She modeled the Marshal on a real Florentine law officer who used to keep the author up to date on crimes in the city being investigated by the Carabinieri, the national Italian police force. Critic Susanna Yager of the Sunday Telegraph once noted that "The my...

A New Giveaway! An Edna Buchanan Ebook Bundle

Dubbed "the queen of crime" by the Los Angeles Times, Edna Buchanan was one of the first female crime journalists in Miami, reporting for the Miami Beach Daily Sun and The Miami Herald, winning the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for General News Reporting "for her versatile and consistently excellent police beat reporting." In 1990, she turned her hand to writing mystery novels, with her debut standalone title, Nobody Lives Forever.



She followed that up with two different series, one featuring Sergeant...

Mystery Melange

Book sculpture by Nino Orlandi

The Private Eye Writers of America announced the finalists for its 2014 Shamus Awards. Winners will be named during a banquet at Bouchercon in Long Beach, California, on November 14. The nominees for Best Hardcover P.I. Novel include Little Elvises, by Timothy Hallinan; The Mojito Coast, by Richard Helms; W Is for Wasted, by Sue Grafton; The Good Cop, by Brad Parks; and Nemesis, by Bill Pronzini. For ticket information about attending the banquet, contact PWA...