of brainy and timely posts related to crime fiction--will be the last, after a run of almost a year and a half. She explains this decision at the Carnival’s main site:They say all good things must come to an end. (I don’t know why--dark chocolate should never come to an end.) But it seems time to strike the big top, break down the roller coaster, and shut off the lights. It’s getting harder to find new hosts, I hate to keep imposing on the same contributors, and a truly wonderful substitute has come along ...Fister has more to say about that substitute here:
There is an even better way to waste time discover fine blogging and discuss it with fellow crime fiction fanatics. A while back, one of the massive brains involved with Euro Crime set up a crime and mystery fiction room in FriendFeed--a social site for sharing links and blog feeds that is hard to describe but is a mini-Harrogate, a daily Bouchercon, a place where readers can swap links, information, opinions, and thoughts. Sign up for an account, fool around with the knobs and buttons, and join in.Hmm. I’m not really the social-networking type, so FriendFeed may not be for me. However, I do want to thank Fister for inviting The Rap Sheet to join in the Carnival fun. I was asked to write two of the 32 series installments, in October 2007 and again in December of last year. Each time I was led to explore more fully the numerous offerings the Web makes to fans of this genre, both in terms of new fiction and valuable reporting. And assembling those posts caused me to think more about the genre’s breadth and health. Crime fiction really is an extensive, energetic, and astounding literary field, when you consider the vast number of books old and new, all of the authors currently writing, and the resources (such as Kevin Burton Smith’s The Thrilling Detective Web Site and Barry Forshaw’s recently published British Crime Writing: An Encyclopedia) that have been created specifically to help readers get a handle on the reach and history of this genre.
I hope that, even in the absence of the formal Carnival of the Criminal Minds, bloggers will continue to search out and make known to others useful and interesting material available beyond the limits of their own sites. Barbara Fister pointed the way. We have only to extend the path so that others may follow.
A complete list of blogs that have taken lively part in Fister’s Carnival can be found here.
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Thanks for the sendoff - and for playing host twice. Tillie is an unforgettable image that I will always associate with the Carnival concept.
FriendFeed is remarkably easy even for those not interested in the usual social networking. Basically, it's an aggregate feed that people comment on. You'll recognize a lot of members - Norm, Maxine, Karen Chisholm, Karen Meek ... sort of the comments from blogs spilling together into a larger conversation.
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