Sunday, July 15, 2007
Maine Writers Index
New on the Maine Writers Index:
Joanne Clarey (pictured), mystery and thriller writer, former Portland resident and now Maine summer resident.
Portland native and resident, Down East columnist, journalist Elizabeth Peavey
Labels: clarey, columnist, journalist, maine writers index, mwi, mysteries, peavey, thrillers
Saturday, May 12, 2007
Crime Novels are the New Mainstream Fiction
"[C]rime-related books we now call thrillers -- private-eye novels, legal thrillers, spy thrillers, even literary thrillers - constitute the new mainstream of American popular fiction. If you look back a few decades, the bestseller lists were dominated by writers like James Michener, Harold Robbins, and Jackie Susann. They wrote about sex, movie stars, wars, and exotic foreign lands, but not about crime -- crime novels were still 'genre fiction,' often published as paperback originals. All that has changed. Look at the American bestseller lists any Sunday and you'll find that at least half of the novels listed are thrillers of one sort or another." So says Patrick Anderson in the Guardian's book blog.Labels: crime novels, fiction, mysteries, thrillers
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Mystery Debuts
Publishers Weekly predicts success for nine mysteries by first-timers, and describes the plot, author's inspiration, why it might be successful, body count, and Hollywood pitch for each. The body count for HeartSick by Chelsea Cain, due out in Sept., is "either five or 204, depending on how you're counting (but only one person has her small intestine removed with a crochet hook)." via Confessions.Labels: crime novels, debuts, mysteries, publishing
