Bouchercon is a HUGE mystery conference held every year. In 2007 it was in Anchorage, Alaska, and it must have been fun and exciting to be in the biggest state.
The envelope, please!
BEST NOVEL: NO GOOD DEEDS, Laura Lippman, (William Morrow)
BEST FIRST NOVEL:STILL LIFE, Louise Penny, (St. Martin's Minotaur)
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL: ASHES AND BONES, Dana Cameron, (Avon)
BEST SHORT STORY:Simon Wood, "My Father's Secret" (Crimespree Magazine, B'con Special Issue 2006)
BEST CRITICAL NONFICTION:MYSTERY MUSES , Jim Huang & Austin Lugar, ed. (Crum Creek Press
SPECIAL SERVICES AWARD: Jim Huang
A hearty congrats to all the winners and especially to Dana Cameron, a member of our local Sisters in Crime and MWA chapters and a fun person, as well as an excellent writer. Yay, Dana!
Showing posts with label Edgar Award Winners 2007. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Edgar Award Winners 2007. Show all posts
Monday, October 01, 2007
Friday, June 15, 2007
The Trial, But Not Kafkaesque
Four days of sitting on rock hard benches in the swanky new Federal Courthouse on Boston's harborfront. Your tax dollars at work in a pleasing, esthetic way. Great view, good cafeteria, fast elevators, an easy walk from South Station. I don't even remember when I last dressed up four days in a row, as in tailored jacket. Not that this is a great hardship.
Should have been a lawyer. That is one of the week's epiphanies. Water way the hell over the dam and the rapids and through the sluice gates and the weirs, but self-discovery is always a shock. I find that even at my advanced (ha ha) age, I can remember the most minute details. Keep having to stifle myself from rushing up and giving counsel, defendants, even plaintiffs advice. Who woulda thunk. Gee whiz, Grapeshot could have been writing legal thrillers.
As Don McClean noted, isn't LIFE THE PERFECT THING TO PASS THE TIME AWAY?
Two key things have come out of all the hours spent.
1) I got a terrific 2 line description for a characters
2) The decision to dive into my half-begun memoir "Twenty-five Years in Information Systems." I started writing it over a year ago for Gather web-site and wrote a few posts. Seemed well-received, then I got busy doing other stuff, like finishing Festival Madness, and dropped it. Went back and read the segments and they pretty much sucked. Thought, "you an do better than that." From time to time I thought of it, and now with this postscript finale to my career, such as it was, I think I can do a bang-up job, maybe even a slim volume to tempt a non-fiction publishers. Cause I got tales to tell. No names or companies. Have to make some up. No problemo.
So: right now, I still have to finish the second pass thru Festival Madness, and continue pushing World of Mirrors, although an agent has the MS and someone else is nibbling.
It's always good to have a plan. The California book, now tentatively titled Such Stuff As Dreams, can lie fallow in my head, as the Wisconsin book, Promiscuous Mode, did.
I am confident enough in Promiscuous Mode that if I find agent/publisher they will take on that book, too. Because it's fun. Zany. Interesting. Even instructive. And I really want to do a book signing in Minnocqua, WI. So there.
Miles to go.
Grapeshot
Should have been a lawyer. That is one of the week's epiphanies. Water way the hell over the dam and the rapids and through the sluice gates and the weirs, but self-discovery is always a shock. I find that even at my advanced (ha ha) age, I can remember the most minute details. Keep having to stifle myself from rushing up and giving counsel, defendants, even plaintiffs advice. Who woulda thunk. Gee whiz, Grapeshot could have been writing legal thrillers.
As Don McClean noted, isn't LIFE THE PERFECT THING TO PASS THE TIME AWAY?
Two key things have come out of all the hours spent.
1) I got a terrific 2 line description for a characters
2) The decision to dive into my half-begun memoir "Twenty-five Years in Information Systems." I started writing it over a year ago for Gather web-site and wrote a few posts. Seemed well-received, then I got busy doing other stuff, like finishing Festival Madness, and dropped it. Went back and read the segments and they pretty much sucked. Thought, "you an do better than that." From time to time I thought of it, and now with this postscript finale to my career, such as it was, I think I can do a bang-up job, maybe even a slim volume to tempt a non-fiction publishers. Cause I got tales to tell. No names or companies. Have to make some up. No problemo.
So: right now, I still have to finish the second pass thru Festival Madness, and continue pushing World of Mirrors, although an agent has the MS and someone else is nibbling.
It's always good to have a plan. The California book, now tentatively titled Such Stuff As Dreams, can lie fallow in my head, as the Wisconsin book, Promiscuous Mode, did.
I am confident enough in Promiscuous Mode that if I find agent/publisher they will take on that book, too. Because it's fun. Zany. Interesting. Even instructive. And I really want to do a book signing in Minnocqua, WI. So there.
Miles to go.
Grapeshot
Thursday, April 26, 2007
The 2007 Edgar Award Winners
Here are the lucky, talented writers who won an Edgar Award at the MWA festivities in NYC this evening, April 26, 2006.
BEST NOVEL The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin (Farrar, Straus and Giroux
BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR The Faithful Spy by Alex Berenson (Random House
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Snakeskin Shamisen by Naomi Hirahara (Bantam Dell Publishing – Delta Books)
BEST FACT CRIME Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson (HarperCollins – William Morrow)
BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL The Science of Sherlock Holmes: From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear by E.J. Wagner (John Wiley & Sons)
BEST SHORT STORY "The Home Front" – Death Do Us Part by Charles Ardai (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown and Company)
BEST JUVENILE Room One: A Mystery or Two by Andrew Clements (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
BEST YOUNG ADULT Buried by Robin Merrow MacCready (Penguin YR – Dutton Children's Books)
BEST PLAY Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure by Steven Dietz (Arizona Theatre Company)
BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY Life on Mars – Episode 1, Teleplay by Matthew Graham (BBC America
BEST TELEVISION FEATURE/MINI-SERIES TELEPLAY The Wire, Season 4, Teleplays by Ed Burns, Kia Corthron, Dennis Lehane, David Mills, Eric Overmyer, George Pelecanos, Richard Price, David Simon & William F. Zorzi (Home Box Office
BEST MOTION PICTURE SCREENPLAY The Departed, Screenplay by William Monahan (Warner Bros. Pictures)
BEST NOVEL The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin (Farrar, Straus and Giroux
BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR The Faithful Spy by Alex Berenson (Random House
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL Snakeskin Shamisen by Naomi Hirahara (Bantam Dell Publishing – Delta Books)
BEST FACT CRIME Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson (HarperCollins – William Morrow)
BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL The Science of Sherlock Holmes: From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear by E.J. Wagner (John Wiley & Sons)
BEST SHORT STORY "The Home Front" – Death Do Us Part by Charles Ardai (Hachette Book Group – Little, Brown and Company)
BEST JUVENILE Room One: A Mystery or Two by Andrew Clements (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers)
BEST YOUNG ADULT Buried by Robin Merrow MacCready (Penguin YR – Dutton Children's Books)
BEST PLAY Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure by Steven Dietz (Arizona Theatre Company)
BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY Life on Mars – Episode 1, Teleplay by Matthew Graham (BBC America
BEST TELEVISION FEATURE/MINI-SERIES TELEPLAY The Wire, Season 4, Teleplays by Ed Burns, Kia Corthron, Dennis Lehane, David Mills, Eric Overmyer, George Pelecanos, Richard Price, David Simon & William F. Zorzi (Home Box Office
BEST MOTION PICTURE SCREENPLAY The Departed, Screenplay by William Monahan (Warner Bros. Pictures)
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