Bullet Points: Back Into the Swing Edition

• The latest contributors to the podcast site CrimeWAV are Marc Lecard, who reads a story titled “California Racing Pigs,” and Cornelia Read, reading “Hungry Eenough,” her Shamus Award-winning short tale from A Hell of A Woman: An Anthology of Female Noir, edited by Megan Abbott.

• If you missed it originally, here’s the video tribute to Lawrence Block that was shown during Bouchercon.

• Max Allan Collins is interviewed at The Big Adios.

• Crime Scraps has an interesting multi-part interview with Leighton Gage, whose second mystery featuring Brazilian Chief Inspector Mario Silva, Buried Strangers, will be released in January. Click here for part one, and here for part two. More still to come.

• Gerard Brennan is the latest to host the Carnival of Criminal Minds. Rather than focusing on books this time, Brennan turns to another medium for his crime fiction. “You see,” he writes, “I’m working on a screenplay right now and watching a hell of a lot of movies for inspiration. And I realised that a lot of my viewing choices were movies with some sort of Irish element to them. So, after a quick flick through the pages of IMDB, I chose ten movies from my collection that span the last ten years and could be considered Irish crime. It made for some pretty relaxing research.” To read his complete post, click here.

• Sean Chercover agrees to be interviewed by In for Questioning’s Angie Johnson-Schmit. “Listen in,” she writes, “as Sean talks about tackling ‘The Outfit’ (no, not the blog) in his 2008 Shamus award winning debut, Big City, Bad Blood, his hot-off-the-presses follow-up, Trigger City, and the strange (and alcohol induced) genesis of P.I. Ray Dudgeon’s name. Sean also reveals his dirty little culinary secret ... the traitor!” Turn your ear here.

• And Tim Cockey (Backstabber) talks with Julia Buckley.