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Fifteenth Edition, March, 2008 An Agatha Award nomination! A REAL BASKET CASE was one of four books nominated in the Best First Novel category of the Agatha Awards, which are given out annually at the Malice Domestic conference. The Agatha Awards are one of the biggies in the mystery community, and my publisher is VERY excited to have one of their books nominated. The Agatha Awards honor the traditional mystery—books best typified by the works of Agatha Christie. The genre is generally characterized by mysteries that contain no explicit sex, excessive gore, or gratuitous violence; usually featuring an amateur detective, they have a confined setting and characters who know one another. The awards will be presented at the Malice Domestic XX convention during the Agatha Awards Banquet on April 26, 2008, and you can bet I’ll be there. If you plan to attend the conference, I would sincerely appreciate your vote! The nominees in the category are listed below, and I’m in some august company: Best First Novel
The Agatha Award nomination has generated quite a bit of attention, and I have an interview scheduled with a feature writer from my local newspaper, The Colorado Springs Gazette. I also had fun collecting congratulatory emails from the some of my favorite mystery authors (such as Donna Andrews, Elaine Viets, and Margaret Maron) and watching the Google Alerts pop-up as my name was listed with the other nominees on various mystery news websites. However, the two interviews I did this week had been set up well before the news hit the streets. The first was a meeting with the Writers Group on Athena Isle in Second Life, a 3-D virtual world. Cybergrrl Oh set up the event, created my avatar for me, and helped me learn the ropes—including teleporting me back to the conference table after I walked my avatar off the edge of the floor and plummeted three floors to the ground. I’m glad that little maneuver happened before the participants showed up! The meeting was a lively chat about how to get the most out of writing conferences, and boy, were my typing fingers sore by the end of the hour. The second was an telephone interview with CommunityGal from the Eons social networking website. We discussed my Top Ten Rules for Networking as a Writer and my writing career. CommunityGal will transcribe the interview and post it on the site in the next week or two. If you’re an Eons member, my Eons name is AuthorBeth and I’m an active participant in a number of groups. Send me a friend request! I’m also a member of the Facebook, Crimespace, and GoodReads social networks, so if you’re involved with any of those, look up my name and send me a friend request there, too. Upcoming Appearances My April appearances are listed below, and I hope to meet some of you at these gatherings. Check out my Appearances page for details on these events.
Book Club Reminder As a reminder, if you’d like to have an Agatha Award nominated author speak to your book club, please contact me. I love to do either speakerphone or in-person visits with book clubs because the members are avid readers like myself. I usually come away from each meeting with a list of recommended books to add to my TBR pile. Contact Me If you have any questions or topics you want me to address on my blog and/or in my newsletter, please feel free to email me. I love to hear from readers. |
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