Last week, PW’s article “The Top Five Twitter Feeds for the Six Largest Publishing Houses” asked publishers to send us data regarding their Twitter feeds. While the previous article was meant to show the large publishers’ presence on Twitter, the table below is meant to be as an inclusive listing of…

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Chicagoland's “Those Were the Days” Radio Players will perform at the 2011 Love is Murder Conference in Chicago taking place Feb. 4-6 at at the Intercontinental O'Hare Hotel.

Performances will include a short introduction highlighting some of the sounds of old time radio; an “Escape” program from 11/5/47 titled "Evening Primrose" where a writer takes refuge in a department store only to find a colony of people already living there; and a "Nichols and May" skit about a mother who…

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The Lovey Awards are presented annually to authors attending Love Is Murder. Books and short stories nominated for the Lovey must have been published in the year preceding the current conference. Because Love Is Murder did not occur in 2010, books & short stories nominated for the Lovey Award 2011 were published in 2009 or 2010.



This year we will be listing the nominated books in the newsletter so that you, the voting attendees of LIM 2011, will have a chance to read at least…

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The Lovey Awards are presented annually to authors attending Love Is Murder. Books and short stories nominated for the Lovey must have been published in the year preceding the current conference. Because Love Is Murder did not occur in 2010, books & short stories nominated for the Lovey Award 2011 were published in 2009 or 2010.



This year we will be listing the nominated books in the newsletter so that you, the voting attendees of LIM 2011, will have a chance to read at least…

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Learn how to fast pitch your book, story or idea to publishers, agents and editors: http://tinyurl.com/25emkr8

Me, Myself and Why -- read the review at http://tinyurl.com/25zc9rd

Book Review: Me, Myself & Why by Mary Janice Davidson

http://tinyurl.com/25zc9rd

Major agents taking novel pitches at Love Is Murder Feb.2011. Info at www.loveismurder.net

Love is Murder and the Schaumburg Township Library will host "The Body in the Library," (named for one of the grand dame's novels) a free "mini-con" in observance of Agatha Christie's birthday on Sept. 15 from 6:30 to 8:30pm.



The featured event will be a panel discussion on the writing process as it pertains to women balancing housekeeping, raising a family and often a full- or part-time job with writing, as compared the relatively few stay-at-home dad authors, with Chicagoland-based… Continue

Quoted in the annual books issue of (August 9, 2010):



....“It’s an even playing field for the first time,” says J. A. Konrath, a thriller author (Whiskey Sour) who plans to release all his future novels as self-published Kindle

books. “The gatekeepers have become who they should have been in the

first place: the readers.”…



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Vote for your favorite 10 in NPR's 100 Best Ever "Killer Thrillers"

Love is Murder by Rebecca Brandewyne, Maureen Child & Linda Winstead Jones



Love is Murder by Linda Palmer…



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by Joanna Campbell Slan

“Sarah Booth and Jitty came to me in tandem, arguing just as they do in the books. When such fully developed characters…

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Pitchapalooza Protocol:



Prepare a 2 to 3-minute succinct platform of your work. (For a good description of what a “platform” is, read Sarie Morrell’s article

describing publicity she developed for CREEPERS, a novel by her father,

David Morrell.)



Practice your pitch to include the salient points—definitive type or

sub-genre of mystery; what sets your manuscript apart from others in

this category; etc.… Continue

Prepare a 2 to 3-minute succinct platform of your work. (For a good

description of what a “platform” is, read Sarie Morrell’s article

describing publicity she developed for CREEPERS, a novel by her father,

David Morrell. The article can be found here.



Practice your pitch to include the salient points—definitive type or

sub-genre of mystery; what sets your manuscript apart from others… Continue