Record hot temperatures outside, Readers. The intrepid Mesdames are beating the heat with terrific events.
Read on!
FINGERS CROSSED FOR AWARDS AT KILLER NASHVILLE
Congrats to Mme Marilyn Kay, whose unpublished manuscript is up for a Killer Nashville Claymore Award for Best Investigator Manuscript.
Congrats also to Mmes Sylvia Maultash Warsh and Melissa Yi. Sylvia‘s book, The Orphan, and Melissa‘s The Red Rock Killer are in contention for Killer Nashville’s Readers’ Choice Award. Voting ends on August 18th.
EVENTS
On Sunday, August 17th, Mme Melissa Yi will be at Readers Take Cornwall held at the Best Western Hotel, 1515 Vincent Massey Drive, Cornwall, Ontario, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The event is now SOLD OUT!! Melissa will be presenting her latest novels in the Glengarry Guards hockey/figure skating romances!
Mme Lisa de Nikolits joins legendary crime writer, Giles Blunt, on Tuesday, August 26th at DRUNK FICTION. Lisa will be reading from her upcoming noir crime novel, Mad Dog and the Sea Dragon. She joins Giles, who has just launched his historical literary novel, Bad Juliet.
DRUNK FICTION is a continuing series of readings by acclaimed authors held monthly at the wonderful Caledonian Pub.
On Monday, August 25, at 7:00 p.m. at TPL’s Pape/Danforth Branch, 701 Pape Ave., Mme Lorna Poplak presents her book, The Don: The Story of Toronto’s Infamous Jail, which investigates the origins and evolution of the Don Jail in Toronto from its inception in the mid-1800s to the present day.
This presentation includes information on what brought the author to write about the Don Jail, the narrative arc of the book, the characters that appear on its pages, an examination of some thorny issues, and what the author hopes people take away from the book.
This is a drop-in program. No registration required.
PUBLICATIONS
Pulp Literature Issue 47 is now available for purchase through the Magazines-Pulp Literature bookstore. Mme M. H. Callway‘s story, “The Lost Diner”, appears in this volume.
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