Twittering, Edgars, & other news

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Speaking of author events... Don't miss the Edgars Symposium at the Lighthouse Auditorium (111 E. 59th St., NYC), TOMORROW (Wednesday, April 29), which features a panel discussion entitled "The Art of the Story," with Reed Farrel Coleman, Laura Lippman, C. J. Box, Christa Faust, and Sean Chercover). The symposium also includes a Q&A with this year's Grand Masters, Sue Grafton & James Lee Burke! Go here for more information or to register. And this is all in advance of the big shindig, the 2009 Edgar Awards banquet Thursday night!

Happy birthday to NYC's Partners & Crime mystery bookstore, celebrating 15 years with a special party, TOMORROW (Wednesday, April 29), 7:30 p.m. BFP publisher David Thompson is hoping to attend.

Random stuff...

BFP's publisher David Thompson (and wife McKenna) will be attending the 2009 Edgar Awards banquet this Thursday. If you see us, please say hi! BFP authors Alex Carr (a.k.a. Jenny Siler; "3-A", in Damn Near Dead), Christa Faust ("Cutman", in A Hell of a Woman), and Meg Gardiner (essay on Phyllis Dietrichson, in A Hell of a Woman) are up for Edgars for Best Paperback Original, and Laura Lippman ("Femme Fatale", in Damn Near Dead; essay on Mildred Pierce, in A Hell of a Woman) is up for Best Short Story... we wish these ladies lots of luck!

BFP author David Handler (The Man Who... omnibuses) will have a new stand-alone thriller, Click to Play, out this fall from Severn House. His previous experiences with thriller fiction include the internationally best-selling actioner Gideon, co-written under the pseudonym Russell Andrews.

Catch BFP authors Ken Bruen (A Fifth of Bruen; Tower) and Megan Abbott (A Hell of a Woman) at the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival 2009 (July 23-26). Held every summer in the North Yorkshire spa town of Harrogate, this is the biggest crime writing event in Europe. Other scheduled authors include George Pelecanos, Laura Lippman, David Simon, Mark Billingham, John Harvey, and more!

Coming in 2010 to BFP... Zoë Sharp!

Acclaimed thriller writer Zoë Sharp is the author of seven novels featuring self-defense expert Charlie Fox, only three of which have published in the U.S. (#4, 6, and 7). BFP is very excited proud to announce plans to publish in America for the first time the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 5th books in the series...

"James Bond, watch your back. There's a tough new breed of British muscle on the block, and her name is Fox, Charlie Fox." -- Booklist

#1 -- Killer Instinct

To be published in 2010.

#2 -- Riot Act

To be published in 2010.

#3 -- Hard Knocks

To be published in 2010.

#4 -- First Drop
Currently available from St. Martin's Minotaur (978-0-312-93704-1)

#5 -- Road Kill

To be published in 2010.

#6 -- Second Shot

Currently available from St. Martin's Minotaur (978-0-312-35896-9)

#7 -- Third Strike
Currently available from St. Martin's Minotaur (978-0-312-35897-6)

More information to come soon. Welcome, Zoë!

Murder 203 & Bouchercon approaching...

Look for Reed Farrel Coleman (The James Deans) at Murder 203 this weekend (April 18-19) in Connecticut. Go here for an earlier post on the mystery festival. It's only $75 for 2 days, and that includes meals... you can't beat that!

And don't forget that Bouchercon 2009 is quickly approaching (Oct. 15-18 in Indianapolis). Attendees include Michael Connelly (Guest of Honor, pictured at left), S. J. Rozan, Sara Paretsky, Sharan Newman, Charles Todd, Nancy Pickard, Gary Phillips, Charlaine Harris, Peter Lovesey, and many, many more. Busted Flush Press's David Thompson (me!) and Reed Farrel Coleman will be there, and maybe more to come. Go here for more information or to register.

Assorted stuff...

Zoë Sharp (A Hell of a Woman's "Served Cold") on writing short stories.

Megan Abbott (A Hell of a Woman) on 1952 noir film Clash by Night.

Cool interview with the late Donald Westlake.

Charles Ardai (Damn Near Dead's "Fathers and Sons") launches the new Hunt for Adventure site.

Busted Flush Press now online at Consortium!

Consortium Book Sales & Distribution will begin handling the, um, sales & distribution of Busted Flush Press on June 1st. However, libraries and bookstores (and individuals who just want to check it out!) can go here to view BFP's complete line-up, going up through March 2010. Libraries & bookstores can start backordering from Consortium for books to ship in June, or you can get them right now from Ingram, Baker & Taylor, or directly from Busted Flush Press.