Subtitled EEEKKKKK - it's my turn....
The marvellous Barbara Fister came up with the idea of the Carnival of the Criminal Minds, which will be a strolling / wandering / juggling roll call of bloggers who, in turn, will point out some items of interest to our joint readership. It's going to be great fun so I hope you'll subscribe and follow along with everyone.
I feel like a bit of a fraud in participating in this because there are some SERIOUS bloggers on Crime Fiction following along - suffice to say I'm going first because I've got a big mouth and my timezone means I'm a day ahead of everyone else (and about 10 years behind).
So leaping into the fray - Crimespace is a marvellous Crime Fiction community started by Sydney's own Daniel Hatadi - wander over to his blog to hear a really excellent interview that Daniel did recently with Angie Johnson-Schmit. And for that matter if anybody hasn't signed up for Crimespace - it's a great community of readers and writers who chat about all sorts of things, share individual comments, upload photos, bore everybody else witless with their choices in Music. A great example of a community site with a specific interest.
Recently on the excellent Matilda our attention was drawn to a blog entry by Henry Rosenbloom, publisher at Scribe Publications, who has attempted to describe how publishers think on his own blog. Kirsty Brooks has a similar flavour of commentary on Determination, willpower... and loving what you do.
Finding out the noise about what's happening New Zealand isn't always easy - but Beattie's Book Blog by the former Managing Director of Penguin Books NZ Ltd is a really great place to start - not specifically Crime Fiction and not necessarily just New Zealand writers - this is a great blog just to get a feeling for what's going on in the land of the long white cloud.
Not a blog as such - but Michael Williams has written a fascinating piece about Chris Womersley's The Low Road in The Age - and on the same site Sue Turnbull is discussing Ian Rankin's Exit Music (I mention this mostly because of the voice of the reviewer - Sue Turnbull is a great authority on Crime Fiction - Australian and overseas and her reviews deserve a wide readership).
Damien at afterdarkmysweet mentions Michael MacConnell's Maelstrom is finally out and about and a review copy arrived here last week - unexpectedly and I was delighted to receive it. Andrea and I will be chatting about it together on the Yahoo Group - Murder and Mayhem in mid October.
On Carnival of the Criminal Minds News - next up will be Jeff Pierce at the inspiring The Rap Sheet (hide your credit card when you wander around that blog - you're guaranteed to develop a book buying itch). Jeff will be posting the next entry in the Carnival of the Criminal Minds around the 15th of the month - so make sure you keep an eye out for that posting. Why not subscribe to the RSS feed for The Rap Sheet now to make sure that you don't miss it!
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