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An Interview with Margaret Maron

Margaret Maron is no stranger to awards. Her 1992 novel, Bootlegger’s Daughter, famously swept the Edgar, Anthony, Agatha, and Macavity…

…and best wishes for a great time over the long weekend. Please check back Monday when I’ll be posting an…

The November 25th Washington Post carried an announcement that screenwriter John Michael Hayes had died on November 19. Hayes, 89, was the…

Charles Ardai’s new novel, Fifty-to-One, marks a milestone in his career both as an author and as an editor. In…

Mystery Writers of America announced yesterday its Grand Masters for 2009: James Lee Burke and Sue Grafton — the first…

Three months into my own blog here, a friend sent me the article “Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So…

Last-minute announcement here on my part: Tonight — Thursday, November 20 — award-winning novelist Rawi Hage, author of DeNiro’s Game,…

The Fall for the Book Festival, based at George Mason University, has announced a poster contest — inviting artists to…

Nani Power‘s first novel, Crawling at Night, earned the kind of attention and honors that most debut novelists would surely envy:…

That’s the big question that seems to be running through all the recent (and largely negative) reviews of Quantum of…