Cartoon of the Day: Books

 From the Amazing Tom Gauld:

Cartoon of the Day: Banned Book Week

 

NEW ENGLAND CRIME BAKE: DeadActually: November 10-12

 

Conference for Mystery Writers & Readers Friday-Sunday, November 10-12, 2023 The Hilton Boston/Dedham with Guest of Honor Deborah Crombie! Register or Add to  Registration HERE! Master Classes 3-4:15 pm *Master Class 01 Forensics for Fiction Writers by BJ Magnani *Master Class 02 Mystery, Thriller, Suspense: Know Your Subgenres by Hallie Ephron *Master Class 03 How to Get an Agent by Doug Grad 4:40-5:45 pm *Master Class 04 Plot (TBD) by Deborah Crombie WAIT LIST *Master Class 05 Secrets of Suspense by Hank Phillippi Ryan *Master Class 06 Creating Your Narrator's Inner Voice by Naomi Hirahara Agents & Editors Track Our featured literary agents and editors work with you in exclusive sessions for authors preparing for publication!   Practice Your Pitch on Friday evening First Page Critique on Saturday morning Craft a Query Letter on Saturday afternoon 90-Minute Pitch Sessions on Saturday evening Manuscript Critique Submit up to 20 pages/4,500 words of your story or novel manuscript by October 13th for a one-on-one critique session with one of our published authors. Awards Banquet Celebrate members of our cracking mystery community with a proper good nosh and bevvy, aka the Crime Bake banquet with an English flair. Costumes optional. All registrations include: A schedule chock-a-block with panels by mystery authors plus law enforcement, forensic, and publishing industry experts. Two breakfasts, box lunch, and "Death by Chocolate." Meet the Debut Authors and Ask the Experts. Plus the Jungle Reds Game Show Panel, Logline Slam, Flashwords! Short Story Contest, Prize Drawings, and more!

Details at www.crimebake.org Founding organizations, the New England chapters of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime.

Cartoon of the Day: Hell's Library

 

ANIMAL MYSTERIES, Volume 14: No. 4, Winter 1998

You all know we're having two issues of Mystery Readers Journal focusing on Animals in Mysteries this year. One of the past issues (Volume 27, No. 3, 2011) is available, but Volume 14, No. 4 has not been. Now it is thanks to Kate Derie. She created a downloadable PDF of Animal Mysteries: Volume 14: No 4 from 1998. That means we have all the Animal Mysteries issues available for purchase as PDFs. Wowza. 

Kate Derie, Associate Editor, writes, 

Since we’re doing another issue of Animals, I thought I would go all the way back to the 1998 issue on Animal Mysteries and produce a PDF. These old ones are getting harder and harder to remaster. This one was originally done in Word 5.1 (!!!), with a weird layout to make it easy to cut and paste for the printer. I had to pull out my 2003 PowerBook, which still runs 5.1, in order to straighten things out. But it’s fun, in a nerdy kind of way.

Thanks, Kate! How fabulous! 

Below find the Cover and Table of Contents with a link for ordering Animal Mysteries, Volume 14, No. 4, 1998.

Animals in Mysteries II, Volume 39:4 will be out in December.

Animal Mysteries issues available as PDFs now. 

Volume 39, No. 3: Animals in Mysteries I, 2023

Volume 27, No. 3: Animal Mysteries, 2011

Volume 14, No. 4: Animal Mysteries, 1998

Animal Mysteries

Volume 14, No. 4, Winter 1998-99

Buy this back issue! Available as a downloadable PDF.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• The First Felines of Mystery by Carolyn Wheat
• Strange Mix: Man and Dog by Roberta Ann Henrich
• Rita Mae Brown: A “Fabulous Fabricator of Felonious Feline Fiction”? by Nicole Décuré
• Animal Armaments by Jim Doherty
• Look What Lassie Found! by Beth Fedyn
• Equine Mysteries from a Horse-Breeder’s Perspective by Marsha Valance
• “A Dog’s a Dog for a’ That” by Tom Kreitzberg
• The One Taboo in Mystery Writing by Dee Burton

THE WRITERS WRITE

• Watch the Cat for Clues by Marian Babson
• Partners: One’s Human, The Other Isn’t by Carol Lea Benjamin
• The Best Job in the World by Laurien Berenson
• The Night Monsieur Pamplemousse Met Pommes Frites by Michael Bond
• The Little Rabbit That Could by Margaret Chittenden
• Midnight Louie, P.I.: The Cat and I by Carole Nelson Douglas
• Mystery Animals by Michael Allen Dymmoch
• Animal “Mythteries” by Jacqueline Fiedler
• Get Real! by Jan Gleiter
• Why Write Animal Mysteries? by Patricia Guiver
• The Dog It Was That Lived by Timothy Heald
• Not In My Back Yard! by Sue Henry
• Man’s Best Friend… and the Author’s, Too by Jonnie Jacobs
• What’s a Life—or a Story—Without a Dog? by Janet LaPierre
• If I Hadn’t Met a Bloodhound… by Virginia Lanier
• Rover of Rover’s Tales by Michael Z. Lewin
• Rover à Clef by Laura Lippman
• I Brake For Animals by Allana Martin
• The Role of Cats in Mysteries… and Everything Else in My Life by Alex Matthews
• The Action Never Stops by Karin McQuillan
• No Bones About It by Donna Huston Murray
• Going to the Dogs by Leslie O’Kane
• Animals As Metaphors by Lillian Roberts
• How the Dog Got In My Mysteries by Lora Roberts
• Cat Got My Tongue—and Heart by Alan Russell
• Beauty of the Beast: Mankind’s Mysterious Relationship with the Animal Kingdom by Barbara Sohmers
• Animalmania by Jessica Speart

COLUMNS

• MYSTERY IN RETROSPECT: Reviews by Carol Harper, Lucille Gordon, Nancy Gordon, Harriet Klausner
• A MYSTERY READER ABROAD: In Transition by Carol Harper
• BRITISH FICTION: Cats and Dorothy L. Sayers by Philip L. Scowcroft
• IN SHORT: Animal Form by Marvin Lachman
• JUST JUVENILES: The Beasts and the Children by Nancy Roberts
• MRI Mayhem by Janet A. Rudolph
• From the Editor’s Desk by Janet A. Rudolph

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