CAMILLE MINICHINO: R.I.P.

Update: Please read Ann Parker's testimonial to Camille Minichino. 

Camille Minichino. Such sad news. What an amazing woman- smart, witty, funny, supportive, creative! She loved life and learning, writing and crafts, physics and humor, and so much more. She was an inspiration to us all. I was lucky to serve on the MWA NorCal Board with her. Last time we chatted, she had enrolled in an MFA writing program. Really?After having written so many books and having taught creative writing? When I asked why she was getting 'another' degree in a subject she was so fluent with, she said you're never too old to learn something new. That was Camille.  My heart and sympathy go out to her family and friends.

Camille received her Ph.D. in physics from Fordham University, New York City. She was on the faculty of Golden Gate University, San Francisco and taught writing throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. She was Past President and a member of NorCal Mystery Writers of America, NorCal Sisters in Crime, and the California Writers Club. She taught physics at Golden Gate University in San Francisco. Camille also taught fiction writing and worked as a scientific editor in the Engineering Department of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She wrote more than 25 mystery novels.

Books

The Periodic Table Mysteries, featuring retired physicist Gloria Lamerino,set in Revere, Massachusetts;

The Miniature Mysteries, featuring miniaturist Gerry Porter and her preteen granddaughter in a northern California town. See a slideshow of Camille's miniatures.

The Professor Sophie Knowles Mysteries, featuring a math professor in a small New England college.

The Postmistress Mysteries (as Jean Flowers), featuring Cassie Miller, postmistress in a western Massachusetts town.

The Alaskan Diner Mysteries (as Elizabeth Logan), featuring Charlotte "Charlie" Cooke, and her sleuthing crew in a fictitious Alaska town.

A stand-alone, KILLER IN THE CLOISTER, is available on Kindle and CreateSpace.

The nonfiction book, HOW TO LIVE WITH AN ENGINEER, is available on Kindle and Createspace.

Links to her books
https://cozy-mystery.com/camille-minichino.html
http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/M_Authors/Minichino_Camille.html

WESTERN WRITERS OF AMERICA 2023 SPUR AWARD: ANN PARKER

Congratulations to Ann Parker who won the Western Writers of America 2023 Spur Award for Best Traditional Novel for The Secret in the Wall: A Silver Rush Mystery.

Western Writers of America annually honors writers for distinguished writing about the American West with the Spur Awards. Since 1953 the Spur Awards have been considered one of the most prestigious awards in American literature. Spurs are given for the best western historical novel, best western traditional novel, best western contemporary novel, best short story, best short nonfiction. Also, best contemporary nonfiction, best biography, best history, best juvenile fiction and nonfiction, best drama, best documentary, best poem, best song, best children’s picture book and best first novel as well as best first nonfiction book.

For other Spur Award Winners and Finalists, go HERE. 

WESTERN WRITERS SPUR AWARDS

Western Writers of America Announced the 2023 Spur Award Winners.

Ann Parker's The Secret in the Wall: A Silver Rush Mystery won in the Traditional Novel. I think it would have been a winner in the Historical category or in a Mystery category, if they had one. Congratulations, Ann!

For other winners and nominees, Go Here.

Mystery Readers Journal: Small Town Cops I (Volume 32:3)

Mystery Readers Journal: Small Town Cops I (Volume 32:3) is now available as a PDF and hard copy. Because we had so many terrific essays, articles, and reviews, we had to divide this theme into two issues. So, contributors, if you don't see your article or review in this issue, it will be in Small Town Cops II (Volume 32:4) that will be out in Winter 2016-2017. Thanks to everyone who contributed to this making this issue such a success.

This issue is available with subscription or can be purchased individually --as Hardcopy. Go here and scroll down or as a PDF.

SMALL TOWN COPS I: (Volume 32: 3)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• I’ll Be Your Warrior of Care by Margot Kinberg
• Parker’s Jesse Stone: Fragile Power by Mimosa Stephenson

AUTHOR! AUTHOR!

• A Whole New Territory by Victoria Abbott
• Life Under the Magnifying Glass by Kelley Armstrong
• Wild West by Shannon Baker
• How I Learned to Start Writing and Embrace My Small Town Cop by Patrick Balester
• Changing the Dynamics of Small Town Cops with One Experienced Detective by Laura Belgrave
• My Cousin, the Small Town Cop by Linda Berry
• Uncovering the Truth about Small Town Policemen by Rhys Bowen
• Community Policing in Italy by Grace Brophy
• Small and Cozy by J. D. Crayne
• Small-Town Texas by Bill Crider
• A Small-Island Cop by Thomas Rendell Curran
• Kendal’s Cold Case Cop by Martin Edwards
• “32” Jones and “Scary” Larry by Tom Franklin
• Knowing Everyone by Name by Anne Hagan
• Finding the Sweet Spot Between Mayberry and Fargo by S.W. Hubbard
• The Making of a Small Town Cop by J.A. Jance
• Small Town Cop Life In Ipswich, Massachusetts by Gavin Keenan
• A Writer Survives in the North Woods by Henry Kisor
• How I Found My Small-Town Cops by Jill Kelly
• It’s Always About the Little Things by Victor Letonoff Jr.
• A Copper in a Small English Mill Town by Priscilla Masters
• Snapshots of a Mountain Town by Margaret Mizushima
• Discovering Joe Silva by Susan Oleksiw
• Silver Rush Woes by Ann Parker
• A Different Point of View by Cathy Perkins
• From Family to Fiction by Terry Shames
• Crime Moves Into the Bedroom… Town by Neil Plakcy
• Small Town in a Small Country by Vanda Symon
• Got Writer’s Block? by Elly Varga
• The Last Uncorrupted Mexican Cop by Jonathan Woods
• An Old-Time Bluegrass Sheriff by Sally Wright

COLUMNS

• Mystery in Retrospect: Reviews by Vinnie Hansen, Lesa Holstine, L.J. Roberts
• Top Ten: No Small Cops, Only Small Towns by Jim Doherty
• The Children’s Hour: Small Town Cops by Gay Toltl Kinman
• Crime Seen: Small Town USA by Kate Derie
• Just the Facts: A Tale of Two Cops by Jim Doherty
• From the Editor by Janet Rudolph