A Mysterious Celebration!

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To announce  the nominees for the 2013 Arthur Ellis Awards for the best in Canadian Crime Writing
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The shortlist for the Audrey Jessup short story contest.

Join Ottawa’s top crime writers for an entertaining evening of celebration of Canadian crime writing.

o Refreshments
o Hard-Boiled or Laughs: What makes a great mystery?
o No-holds-barred debate

The announcements take place at 8:45 pm

Thursday April 18. 7:00 PM

Auditorium, Main Branch, Ottawa Public Library, Main Branch.

120 Metcalfe St.

Books for sale from Books on Beechwood

Be sure to reserve a place at this year’s annual Christmas Dinner with special guest Tim Wynne-Jones.

Where: KS on the Keys, 1029 Daze Street (South Keys)

When:  Wednesday, December 12^th

Time:   Mingling begins at 5:30 p.m.

**To register, click here.

We are extremely pleased to announce this year’s December guest speaker – Tim Wynne-Jones is a two-time Governor General’s Award-winning author, Order of Canada recipient and nominee for the 2012 international Hans Christian Andersen Award, the highest international honour for children’s authors and illustrators. Tim’s 2011 novel Blink and Caution won the Arthur Ellis Award for best children/YA crime novel and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for 2011. He won his first Arthur Ellis for the Boy in the Burning House, which also won the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America in 2002, for best young adult mystery.

Tim’s eclectic, pre-author years included stints as:  band member in several rock groups (Boogie Dick and Alabaster, to name two), fine arts student, book designer and owner of a graphic design firm. He wrote his first novel Odd’s End in 1978 while in the Masters Fine Arts program at York University – it won the Seal First Novel award along with the $50,000 prize, making him believe that ‘this writing thing might be fun’.

Tim lives in a house that he designed in Perth, Ontario on 76 acres of ‘rough and tumble land’ that has figured prominently in his writing over the last twenty years.  He spent most of last year ‘playing hooky’ overseas with his wife Amanda Lewis but is now back at his computer, working on a new manuscript. For more information about Tim, his travels and his writing, please visit his website.

Books will be available for purchase.

This was a great launch. Music, food, booze, and a lot of Capital Crime Writers out. A great book as well. If you haven’t read it, you really, really should. Visit virtual Chris online @: CBForrest

Baico Publishing and Mike Martin are pleased to announce the release of “The Walker on theCape”. This is the first in a series of stories featuring RCMP Sgt. Winston Windflower, a Cree from Northern Alberta who finds himself stationed in Grand Bank,Newfoundland.

Except from the back cover of “The Walker on theCape”

A man’s body is found on the Cape overlooking Grand Bank,Newfoundland. At first everyone thinks it’s a heart attack or stroke. But then it is discovered that he was poisoned. Who would do this and why? Finding that out falls to Sergeant Winston Windflower of the RCMP along with his trusted side-kick Eddie Tizzard.  Along the way they discover that there are many more secrets hidden in this small community and powerful people who want to keep it that way.

Windflower also discovers two more things; a love of living in a smallNewfoundlandcommunity that is completely different from his up-bringing in a Northern Alberta reserve and maybe the love of his life. He gets a taste of Newfoundland food and hospitality as well as a sense of how crime and corruption can linger beneath the surface or hide in the thick blanket of fog that sometimes creeps in from the nearby Atlantic Ocean.

Mike Martin was born in St. John’s,Newfoundland and now lives and writes in Ottawa. This is his first fiction book. He is a long time freelance writer and the author of “Change the Things You Can: Dealing with Difficult People.”

For more information or to obtain a review copy please contact Mike Martin at mike54martin@sympatico.ca or visitwww.walkeronthecape.com

The 2012 Scene of the Crime short story contest winners have been announced and the top three spots have all gone to Ottawa writers.

Congratulations to Kelly Quinn, Wynn Quon, and Denis St. Jean.

http://sceneofthecrime.ca/festival/contest.html

Join us on June 13th between 7:00-9:00 p.m. at Collected Works bookstore (Wellington at Holland) for a Wine and Cheese get together before the summer break. We will announce the winners of the Audrey Jessup  Short Story Contest, and all winners will read from their work.  You are also invited to bring along a sample of a current writing project to share with the gang.

Plan to come out for a glass of wine and stuff on crackers – catering is by our good friend Margaret Dunlop.  We need to know how many are coming so please RSVP by sending an email to:  m.murphy345@hotmail.com by June 10th.