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Happy Thanksgiving

We just got back from visiting our daughter in Washington, D.C. – after visiting my brother in Colorado Springs. It’s been a busy month for both my husband and me!

This year I decided that rather than stand in the kitchen all day long cooking, I would treat myself to a day of heating prepared casseroles that I bought at various stores. Our son will be coming over for the meal, so I’ll be able to visit with him – instead of rushing around in the kitchen. Ya-hoo!

I hope all of you are able to enjoy this day of giving thanks. 

The Jury’s In… or Should I Say Out?

I’m not sure how I feel about this, but I wasn’t selected to sit on a jury yesterday. It is the second time that I actually got named as a possible, but it’s also the second time that the parties were able to determine a deal before the voir dire process began. On the one hand I’m glad that I won’t have to drive to and from downtown every day during the two rush hours, but I’m sort of sorry I won’t be part of the judicial process.

(Not at all related to being on a jury >>> It was nice coming home and finding that my husband had missed me!)

Congratulations to All 2011 Agatha Award Nominees!

As some of you might already know, they announced the Nominees for the 2011 Agatha Awards. The Malice Domestic Convention will be April 27-29 in Bethesda, Maryland.

Congratulations to all 2011 Agatha Award Nominees!

2011 Agatha Awards Nominees:

Best Novel:
The Real Macaw by Donna Andrews
The Diva Haunts the House by Krista Davis
Wicked Autumn by G.M. Malliet
Three-Day Town by Margaret Maron
A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny

Best First Novel:
Dire Threads by Janet Bolin
Choke by Kaye George
Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry
Who Do, Voodoo? by Rochelle Staab
Tempest in the Tea Leaves by Kari Lee Townsend

Best Historical Novel:
Naughty in Nice by Rhys Bowen
Murder Your Darlings by J.J. Murphy
Mercury’s Rise by Ann Parker
Troubled Bones by Jeri Westerson
A Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear

Best Short Story:
“Disarming” by Dana Cameron, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine – June 2011
“Dead Eye Gravy” by Krista Davis, Fish Tales: The Guppy Anthology
“Palace by the Lake” by Daryl Wood Gerber, Fish Tales: The Guppy Anthology
“Truth and Consequences” by Barb Goffman, Mystery Times Ten
“The Itinerary” by Roberta Isleib, MWA Presents the Rich and the Dead

Best Children’s/Young Adult:
Shelter by Harlan Coben
The Black Heart Crypt by Chris Grabenstein
Icefall by Matthew J. Kirby
The Wizard of Dark Street by Shawn Thomas Odyssey
The Code Busters Club, Case #1: The Secret of the Skeleton Key by Penny Warner

Best Non-fiction:
Books, Crooks and Counselors: How to Write Accurately About Criminal Law and Courtroom Procedure by Leslie Budewitz
Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making: More Stories and Secrets from Her Notebooks by John Curran
On Conan Doyle: Or, The Whole Art of Storytelling by Michael Dirda
Wilkie Collins, Vera Caspary and the Evolution of the Casebook Novel by A. B. Emrys
The Sookie Stackhouse Companion by Charlaine Harris

Lifetime Achievement:  Simon Brett

Poirot Award:  Lee Goldberg

Amelia Award:  Elizabeth Peters

Guest of Honor:  Jan Burke

Toastmaster:  Dana Cameron

Malice Remembers:  Tony Hillerman

By the way, the Best Historical Novel (Mystery) is a new Agatha Award category. Must mean that a lot of us are reading (and enjoying) them!

Wow! What a line-up of wonderful mystery authors! Those of you who are lucky enough to be going to the Malice Domestic Convention this year are sure to have a mysteriously wonderful time!

Hallmark Movie Channel: Perry Mason Marathon on Presidents’ Day 2012

I hope you all are off from work and enjoying Presidents’ Day.

I want to pass on what Jennifer told me in an e-mail: A Perry Mason movie marathon will be running all day (today) on the Hallmark Movie Channel.

(Also, I just looked at the line-up on the Hallmark Movie Channel, and they are showing two Matlock mystery movies next Sunday – February 26 –  followed by an all-day marathon of Murder, She Wrote mystery movies.)

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