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.

Sorry, running behind...

My New Year's resolution was to stay more on top of things and NOT get behind any longer... Crap, less than a week in, and I've already blown it.

Very quickly, I need to thank Janet Rudolph (pictured at left) of Mystery Readers Journal for allowing Reed Farrel Coleman (Walking the Perfect Square) the opportunity to talk about what it was like to write Tower with Ken Bruen (London Boulevard)... "We never disagreed over who had final say. There were no pissing contests." Read more here.

Also, coming later this year... Busted Flush Press will reprint Reed's Shamus Award-winning 4th & 5th Moe Prager novels, with new forewords! Soul Patch (w/ a new foreword by Craig Johnson) is tentatively scheduled for May, and Empty Ever After (w/ a new foreword by S. J. Rozan) will be out in time for Bouchercon 2010 in San Francisco, and in time for Tyrus Books's publication of Moe Prager #6, Innocent Monster! Cover art coming soon.

I hope to get back on track with blogging later this week. As always, thanks so much for dropping by! And if you have any comments, suggestions, complaints (or, ahem, praise!), don't hesitate to drop me a line at bustedflushpress@yahoo.com. I'd love to hear from you.