It’s Housekeeping Time Again

Anyone who visits this blog regularly can’t help but notice the lengthy list of links featured in the right-hand column. We try to make The Rap Sheet a diverse and valuable resource for readers of this genre, which means not only writing about crime fiction ourselves, but offering connections to other Web sites and blogs that cover the same subject. However, periodically we have found it necessary to weed out what appear to be sites that are no longer being updated. It’s time to do that again.

A few pages have made it known that they’re going out of business, such as Josephine Damian’s personal blog and the Webzine Mouth Full of Bullets, which apparently discontinued publication last fall. Evil E ceased being updated when its author, Elaine Flinn, died in October. Behind the Black Mask: Mystery Writers Revealed has officially ended its run, but it remains on the Web (and in our blogroll) as a resource. Other blogs seem simply to have been abandoned, such as The Alibi, Brian Skupin’s once-lively Bookflings, the cover-art blog Chocolate Cobwebs, Crime Beat Street, and the e-zine Nefarious. A few look very much as if their authors have forgotten about them, such as S.J. Rozan’s Six Word Stories and Angie Johnson-Schmit’s In for Questioning, but we’ve been assured they are merely “on hiatus,” and will return soon.

Over the next week, we’ll be tossing what looks to be dead wood out of The Rap Sheet’s blogroll. If you write a page that is presently listed in the right-hand column, and which looks dead but really isn’t, please drop us an e-mail note here.