Monday, January 28, 2008

New stuff coming to Booked.TV!

Hello all!

I have some interesting updates to share.

Booked.tv has added a new crime fiction author to their site - John Connolly. John Connolly is a best-selling crime writer from Dublin, Ireland. Here's a little bit about him if you've never heard of him before:

John Connolly was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1968 and has, at various points in his life, worked as a journalist, a barman, a local government official, a waiter and a dogsbody at Harrods department store in London. He studied English in Trinity College, Dublin and journalism at Dublin City University, subsequently spending five years working as a freelance journalist for The Irish Times newspaper, to which he continues to contribute.

His first novel, Every Dead Thing, was published in 1999, and introduced the character of Charlie Parker, a former policeman hunting the killer of his wife and daughter. Dark Hollow followed in 2000. The third Parker novel, The Killing Kind, was published in 2001, with The White Road following in 2002. In 2003, John published his fifth novel - and first stand-alone book - Bad Men. In 2004, Nocturnes, a collection of novellas and short stories, was added to the list, and 2005 marked the publication of the fifth Charlie Parker novel, The Black Angel. John's seventh novel, The Book of Lost Things, a story about fairy stories and the power that books have to shape our world and our imaginations, was published in September 2006, followed by the next Parker novel, The Unquiet, in 2007. He is currently working on The Reapers which, if he stops pfaffing about, will be published in 2008.

John Connolly is based in Dublin but divides his time between his native city and the United States, where each of his novels has been set.


He is a great writer

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Love is Murder conference in Rosemont





If you live in Rosemont, Illinois ... or will be there from Feb 1st to the 3rd ... there is a cool conference coming up called Love is Murder for fans, authors, and aspiring writers of mysteries, romantic suspense, horror and thrillers.

Panelists include nationally known authors, editors, publishers, and agents, as well a criminal justice experts, attorneys, police offices, and more.

Here's a little PR from the site ...

"Fans have the opportunity to hear some of the best mystery writers in this country and abroad discuss their books, their motivation for writing, their plans for future mystery novels -- just about anything fans are interested in. Fans are encouraged to question the authors during the panels, converse with them during meals and in the hospitality room, and generally mingle with them throughout the conference. We'll have authors who write in all the mystery fields -- amateur sleuth, thrillers, suspense, historical, paranormal, police procedurals, PI novels. Mostly, fans will enjoy a weekend of fun events and be able to indulge in the camaraderie that goes hand in hand with a love for the mystery genre."

To check out more about it, click on the following link: Love is Murder.

More festivals for crime and crime fiction lovers can be found on the Booked.tv website by clicking here!

Look for more entries coming soon!!