Bouchercon Underway
Dateline: Madison Wisconsin. Bouchercon, the largest of all mystery cons, is underway in Madison Wisconsin. The Druidical & Literary notes that Edward Champion is attending the conference along with notables such as Sarah Weinman and Tribe. This weekend the coveted Anthony Award will be given in several crime fiction categories. Nominees include Laura Lippman, Michael Connelly, Jan Burke, Thomas H. Cook, and William Kent Krueger in the best mystery novel category. The winner will be invited to Wellington Leg for a virtual ticker tape parade.
The in the PBO category we find PJ Parrish, Reed Farrell Coleman, Allan Guthrie, Susan McBride, and Charlie Huston. Good luck to all. Sarah Weinman is nominated for an award in the Special Service category for her blog Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind.
Prudentia Chalfont-Smythe ( not nominated) will host a Bouchercon Tea at the Hotel Faz Saturday at four pm. She will read her noir epic poem Goner in its entirety this year. “With the earl behind bars we’re counting on peace and quiet for a change,” she said. Last year’s reading came acropper when the Earl’s hogs entered the hotel’s remodeled lobby en masse. “They like poetry,” mused Professor Moriarity. Management of the Faz devised a sign reading Hogs Unwelcome. “That should do the trick,” said DCI Borchardt.