Mystery Bytes: Mystery News

TV News:

Lifetime Television is developing a series around FBI profiler Clarice Starling, introduced in Thomas Harris's second Hannibal Lecter thriller, the 1988 novel The Silence of the Lambs. Tentative name for the Lifetime series is Clarice, and it would follow the character soon after she graduates from the FBI academy.

Movie News:

The Independent reports that crime novelist James Salis has  a film adaptation in the works for his new novel Driven. Drive was a 2011 Hollywood film with Ryan Gosling.

David Fincher has option Jason Starr's 2009 thriller Panic Attack.

Producer Chris Columbus has acquired the rights to Michael Koryta's The Cypress House.

HT: Omnimystery News

Awards:

Stalker Award Nominees 2012

Pop Culture Nerd announced the line up of nominees for this year's "Stalker Awards, given to crime novels and authors reader are obsessed about."

Categories include Novel You Shoved Most Often in People's Faces, Lead Character You most Want as Your Friend, Most Scene-Stealing Supporting Character and more... Don't miss out. 
Go here for the nominations and cast your vote. Voting ends June 5.

In case you missed these:  

Arthur Ellis Awards (Crime Writers of Canada)

CrimeFest Awards

CWA Dagger Shortlist

Mystery Bytes: Mystery news, reviews, links: May 14

Mystery Bytes: Catching up on Mystery News

Saturday, May 15: Bay Area Women of Mystery at the Oakland  (CA) Main Library. Seven mystery writers will be discussing their craft at the Oakland Public Library, 125 - 14th St, Oakland, 2-4. Free.  Rhys Bowen, Diana Chambers, Lucha Corpi, Susan Dunlap, Priscilla Royal, Susan Sherrell and Kelli Stanley. For more information, go HERE.

I Still Wake Up Dreaming: Noir Film Festival runs May 14 through May 27. Roxie Theater, 3117 - 16th St, San Francisco. www.roxie.com  Saturday, May 15: "99 River Street" "Shield for Murder." Festival consists of mainly new and new looking 35 mm prints. Read Mick LaSalle's article HERE.

The Arthur Lyons Film Noir Festival  is now in full swing, but you still have time to catch a few films. Camelot Theatre, Palm Springs May 13 through 16. Great films and great guests make this a don't-miss event. Guests this year include actors Ernest Borgnine, June Lockhart, Ann Robinson and Tommy Cook. Julie Garfield, daughter of the late great John Garfield, will also be on hand to speak at the screening of her father's last film, John Berry's He Ran All the Way (1951).

Rockford Files Now Dead at NBC.  The classic PI series, which only a month ago appeared as a sure thing this pilot season with  House creator David Shore as writer and Steve Carell as producer, has been canceled. First signs of trouble came in the casting stage when it took a long time to cast the lead played by James Garner on the original series. Feedback from the audition of Dermot Mulroney, who has strong improv background, was great, and the pilot, which co-starred Alan Tudyk and Beau Bridges, went underway with Michael Watkins at the helm. Nevertheless, it's out for now.

Librarians take note: Rolling Stone Keith Richards wanted to become a Librarian? O.K. he took a road less traveled by. He's actually an avid bookworm and takes great pride in developing libraries inside his homes in Sussex and Connecticut. Read the article from the Mail, HERE.

The Plot Thickens As the Drinks Clink. Although this article doesn't deal with Mystery films, it would be a heck of a great dissertation thesis! Just planting the seed. Read the NYT article on Pairing a DVD and a Drink. Here.


Where do you put your gun when you go for a run? Thunderwear has the answer.

Mystery Bytes: News, reviews, and info for the Mystery Community

Mystery Bytes: An occasional round-up of News, Reviews and Info for the Mystery Community

Ever think about checking out your books from the local shanty on the frozen ice? Library Journal reports that there is a branch known as the Library Shanty on a frozen lake near Minneapolis. It was put up last weekend as part of the Art Shanty Project, an annual community of temporary shelters put up be artists for four winter weekends on Medicine Lake. The one-room Library Shanty, called the Medicine Lake Branch, is the brainchild of artist Lauren Herzak-Bauman and was brought to fruition by a team. The collection of books, cataloged via LibraryThing, can be checked out for use in the shanty itself or taken out if the patron is from another shanty. There are 300 books in the library and people keep bringing more. The library is open every weekend for 4 weekends. Read More HERE.

Too cold or too singular an activity? Publishers Weekly reported that The Bookworm in Omaha, NE, is hosting a fundraiser for Haiti relief that, hopefully, will also bring over-30-year-old bookloving singles together. A portion of the $10 entrance fee at The Bookworm’s “Speed Dating by the Book” will be donated to The Haitian Earthquake Relief Fund.

Participants are asked to bring their favorite book with them to “start the conversation going” during four-minute segments between pairs, before the men line up on one side, women on the other, for the question-and-answer part of the evening. The moderator will ask each participant such questions as “What is the favorite book your mother read to you?” or “What was your favorite read in high school?” Read the rest of the article HERE.

Joan Smith on The Man from Beijing by Henning Mankell in the Times Online. Read the Review HERE.

The Daily News reported that Katherine Heigl will play Stephanie Plum in One for the Money. Read the article HERE. What do you think?
Ever want to go inside the home of James Patterson? Probably not, but if you did, James Patterson's Beach Home is Up for Sale for $14.9 million. He calls it his "little cottage." For more on this or to make a bid read more. HERE.

Mystery News: R.I.P.

Mystery News has always been one of my favorite fanzines. It's with great sadness that I share this letter from Chris Aldrich:

It’s with a mixture of regret and relief that Lynn Kaczmarek and I announce that Mystery News will cease publication with the October/November 2009 issue. We are thrilled that Kate Stine and Brian Skupin, publishers of Mystery Scene, have graciously agreed to fulfill our outstanding subscriptions with issues of their well-known and highly professional publication. And you may just find us in their pages in the future. We knew from the beginning that publishing Mystery News would be a labor of love but between changes in our lives and the state of the economy, the labor has started to overpower the love. We’ve had a wonderful time over these past twelve years sharing our love of mystery and crime fiction, and becoming part of a community of readers and authors that have filled our hearts with friendship and the gift of wonderful stories. We are incredibly grateful to everyone who has contributed to Mystery News over the years, to our families and most of all, to our readers. Mystery News was founded in 1982 by Patricia and Jack Schnell, and six years later was taken over by Harriet and Larry Stay, who published it for ten years before we revived it in 1997 under the banner of Black Raven Press. In 2001, Mystery News won the Anthony Award for Best Fan Publication at Bouchercon; we were also nominated for Anthony Awards in 2004, 2006 and 2007. Mystery Scene was established in 1986 by writers Ed Gorman and Robert Randisi. Since being acquired in 2002 by Kate Stine and Brian Skupin, the magazine has focused on informing readers about the best and most interesting work in the crime fiction field. Mystery Scene has won the Anthony Award from the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention (2004), the Ellery Queen Award from Mystery Writers of America (2006), and the Poirot Award from the Malice Domestic Mystery Convention (2009).

Chris Aldrich Partner,
Black Raven Press
publishers of Mystery News
www.blackravenpress.com