Show and Tell

Are you somewhere other than at Bouchercon this week, but still remain curious to know what’s going on at that event in Indianapolis?

Well, note that in addition to Jim Winter’s expanding series of video interviews with authors here in The Rap Sheet, another of our contributors, novelist Mark Coggins, has been busily posting portrait shots of the prominent convention-goers in his own blog. Among his subjects so far: Lee Child, Loren D. Estleman, Peter Lovesey, and Brett Battles. More of Coggins’ Bouchercon images can be found on his Flickr Photostream page.

And even though she isn’t among the conventioneering masses, either, Sarah Weinman reports that “At a panel on publishing held this morning at Bouchercon, Little, Brown president Michael Pietsch announced that the company would be launching a crime fiction imprint in the near future. The details are still vague ... and there is no launch date set in stone, but here’s what I do know: the goal of the still-unnamed imprint is to find and grow new talent while also bringing over established writers. Advances are largely projected to be in the ‘nice deal’ spectrum, but Pietsch did say that the imprint could pay up to 7 figures where warranted. And the imprint will largely publish paperback originals, using Black Lizard as its model, more or less.” Learn more here.