Welcome to Spring Break and St. Pat’s Day, with lots of writerly activities this March, Dear Readers!
Short stories both fiction and non, audiobooks, a new historical mystery, the Left Coast Crime conference and more history about the Don Jail. And Bony Blithe Mini-con is back!
CONGRATULATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
Mme Melodie Campbell’s personal story, What is the Appeal of Running Away to Elope?, was published by Readers’ Digest UK back in February!
What is the appeal of running away to elope? (readersdigest.co.uk)
Melodie Campbell joins other Derringer Award winners from SleuthSayers, with a story, ‘The Mob, the Model, and the College Reunion’ in the newly released anthology, MURDER, NEAT (from Level Short books, an imprint of Level Best.)
It’s available on Amazon and all the usual suspects.
Melodie says “This could quite possibly be the loopiest story I’ve ever written. Who could guess that my past would be all over the short story, ‘The Mob, The Model and The College Reunion?’
Mme Jayne Barnard’s Falls thriller series is now on audiobook:
Why the Rock Falls Why the Rock Falls (Audible Audio Edition): J. E. Barnard, Marni Penning, Dreamscape Media, LLC: Amazon.ca: Books
When the Flood Falls When the Flood Falls (Audible Audio Edition): J. E. Barnard, Marni Penning, Dreamscape Media, LLC: Amazon.ca: Books
Where the Ice Falls Where the Ice Falls (Audible Audio Edition): J. E. Barnard, Marni Penning, Dreamscape Media, LLC: Amazon.ca: Books
Mark your calendars! Mme Sylvia Warsh’s new historical mystery, The Orphan will be published on May 15th! https://auctuspublishers.com/books
The official launch will take place at Sleuth of Baker Street. Date TBA.
When his mother drowns, 15-year-old Samuel Evans loses the will to live and falls gravely ill. He is saved by an experimental drug that gives him the ability to communicate with animals.
The Orphan is set against the backdrop of slavery and the 1844 presidential election that determined whether Texas would enter the union as a slave state.
MESDAMES ON THE MOVE
Mme M. H. Callway is looking forward to seeing many of her West Coast crime writer friends at Left Coast Crime, Seattle Shakedown, April 10 to 14th. She is delighted to be on the panel, Mix It Up, Writers who Bend Genres, on Friday, April 12th.
https://leftcoastcrime.org/2024
Mme Lorna Poplak will be speaking at the Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavinia Ave., Toronto on March 6 at 8:00 p.m. for the Swansea Historical Society.
She will be highlighting stories about the people associated with the Don Jail –inmates, guards, governors, escapees, and those whose lives ended there at the end of a rope.
BONY BLITHE IS BACK!
The 2024 Bony Blithe Mini-con will be held on Saturday, June 15, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the High Park Club (100 Indian Road, Toronto), the home of their last 3 mini-cons.
This year, they’ll be on the second floor (blessedly air conditioned) of the club, but they’ll have runners to hit the downstairs bar for you. As always, they’ll have panels and other programming, along with lots of books, so bring your biggest book bag. There’ll be breakfast treats, a lunch, and afternoon nibblies, and they are looking into having a book dealer with them.
The cost is $85 this year, but if you prepaid in 2019 for the 2020 noncon and left your money with them, you’re fully paid up for this year.
The new Bony Blithe FaceBook page will be up soon so check there for more information on the mini-con and a link to the registration form.
For more info, here’s their email: bonyblithe24@gmail.com.
THIS MONTH’S FEATURED STORY
Our featured story in March is by Mme Rosemary McCracken. “Farewell to the King” was first published in our 4th anthology, In the Key of 13 (Carrick Publishing).
A group of friends who are super-fans of the late Elvis Presley journey to Graceland for his funeral, but their pilgrimage masks a sinister crime.
Mesdames of Mayhem 