Prose and Cons

With Austin, Texas’ second annual, all-star ConMisterio convention now behind us, Graham Powell has posted an interesting photographic record of those doings at CrimeSpot (see here, here, here, and here). Now for the bad news: the festivities apparently generated much more fan and writer interest than they did money, at least according to organizer Karen Meschke. A press release posted at the ConMisterio Web site says that the event “will not have an encore performance in 2007.” Because the convention “still has not shown a profit ... the staff has decided they cannot continue at this time, and is regretfully retiring the name ‘ConMisterio.’”

And while we’re on the subject of conventions, Olen Steinhauer (author of the forthcoming novel Liberation Movements) has posted, on the Contemporary Nomad blog, a series of reports from last week’s Harrogate Crime Writing Festival. You can read them here, here, here, and here.