• The Gumshoe Site reports that the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association has chosen its nominees for the 2008 SoCal Book Awards. Contenders for what has recently been renamed the T. Jefferson Parker Mystery Award are: An Incomplete Revenge, by Jacqueline Winspear (Picador); Chasing Darkness, by Robert Crais (Simon & Schuster); Hollywood Crows, by Joseph Wambaugh (Little, Brown); Judas Horse, by April Smith (Knopf); Oscar Season, by Mary McNamara (Simon & Schuster); and Snitch Jacket, by Christopher Goffard (Overlook/Rookery). Winners are to be announced on October 18.
• First came the longlist of nominees for this year’s Ned Kelly Awards, given to Australian crime fiction and true-crime books. Now, at last, we have the shortlist. Among the nominees: Sucked In, by Shane Maloney; Shatter, by Michael Robotham; The Low Road, by Chris Womersley; and Underbelly: The Gangland War, by John Silvester and Andrew Rule. Winners in all categories are to announced on August 29 during the Melbourne Writers Festival.
• Kelli Stanley, San Francisco author of the new “Roman noir” novel, Nox Dormienda, is the latest subject of January Magazine’s Author Snapshot series.
• I’m not sure at what point Barbara Fister’s Carnival of the Criminal Minds went from being a fortnightly, progressive blog feature to being a monthly one, but the carnival makes its latest stop at Damien Gay’s Crime Down Under blog. Not surprisingly, he highlights both Australian novelists and Web sites. You’ll find all three rings of this circus here.
• For those of you who enjoyed NoirCon 2008 in Philadelphia, note that registration is already open for NoirCon 2010. This time around, George Pelecanos will receive the David L. Goodis Award.
• Speaking of conventions, I totally agree with David J. Montgomery that Bouchercon 2010 ought to be held in San Francisco, one of the finest cities in the world. (And I don’t say that simply because I just finished writing a photographic history of “Baghdad by the Bay,” and am having a hard time putting my enthusiasm for the place aside.) By the way, for those of you who don’t know, the 2009 convention will be held in Indianapolis.
• Now that the first season of The Mod Squad has been released in DVD format, CBS/Paramount announces that it will released The Mod Squad: The Second Season, Volume 1 on November 25.
• Declan Burke brings news about the Sunday Independent Books 2008 literary festival, to take place in Dublin during the first weekend in September. More here.
• I can’t decide which of these covers I prefer.
• And though this has to do with science fiction, I’m sure there were similar examples of pulp crime-fiction writers trying to slip one past their copy editors.
Friday, August 01, 2008
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The Carnival is returning to a fortnightly schedule with the August 15th-ish stop at Anthony Neil Smith's Virtual Dive Bar, but keeping it up will all depend on whether my arm-twisting skills are up to finding more hosts.
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