I liked the Swedish versions fine, but I must admit: This trailer has me hooked.
Tweeting from Bouchercon
This is my periodic request for you to follow my twitterfeed. I'll be tweeting from St. Louis for the next four days while I attend the 2011 Bouchercon World Mystery Convention. Expect lots of twitterpics of famous crime writers looking at me with bewilderment as I train my iPhone on them across the bar and carrying those overstuffed tote bags that make it so hard to look dignified.
My Three Bouchercons
I am preparing to head to the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention in St. Louis, and I have a new post up at MaineCrimeWriters.com about how my understanding of the conference, and myself as a mystery fan, has changed over the past three years. Give it a read. And if you are also planning to attend, please introduce yourself!
Mystery Month
If you're a fan of crime fiction, Augusta, Maine, is the place to be in October. The folks at the Lithgow Library always bring in the big guns.
The Maine Edge
One of the interesting things about having a novel out is you never know when it will get reviewed. The process starts months in advance of the publication date as journals like Publishers Weekly and Booklist begin weighing in with notices. But it continues long after your book has been in stores for a while, too. That's the hope anyway: that you keep getting discovered.
For instance, I was pleasantly surprised to discover a glowing review of Trespasser in the Maine Edge, an alternative weekly out of Bangor, Maine:
In Mike Bowditch, Doiron has created someone we can root for. He's a man with a real connection to the outdoors and to the job that he does. He's got smarts, but he's not the over-the-top genius that some fictional lawmen are. He's articulate without being overly verbose. He makes mistakes. He's human, essentially, which is a large part of why he's such an engaging character. He feels real — no mean feat.
Getting reviews like these never gets old.