Tweeting at the Edgars!

The Edgar Awards banquet is now 10 days away (Thursday, April 29)... and yours truly, Busted Flush Press's David Thompson will be there with his/my beautiful bride, McKenna Jordan, owner of Houston independent mystery bookstore, Murder By The Book. As a service to our MBTB customers -- and frankly, just fun for the Twitterin' fun of it -- I'll be Tweeting live Edgar Awards results as they are announced, through MBTB's Twitter feed. Be sure to follow us that evening! (And please keep your fingers crossed for BFP's nomination: Ace Atkins's Best Short Story nom for "Last Fair Deal Gone Down," published for the first time in the recent reprint of Crossroad Blues!)

And if you're attending the Edgars week symposiums, please look for BFP authors Megan Abbott (A Hell of a Woman), Ace Atkins (Crossroad Blues), Reed Farrel Coleman (Walking the Perfect Square), Laura Lippman (Damn Near Dead), and S. J. Rozan (Damn Near Dead 2), all of whom are speaking on various panels. Register for the symposium panels here.

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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!