{"id":41,"date":"2007-04-05T19:24:44","date_gmt":"2007-04-06T00:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/before-the-awardsbouchercon.html"},"modified":"2007-04-05T19:24:44","modified_gmt":"2007-04-06T00:24:44","slug":"before-the-awardsbouchercon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/before-the-awardsbouchercon\/","title":{"rendered":"Before the Awards &#8230;&#8230;. Bouchercon???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of you know about Bouchercon. I found out about it several years ago, while I was a member of several online mystery reading groups. I don&#8217;t know why it had taken me so many years to discover it&#8230; It&#8217;s been around since 1970. I have never attended a convention, but a few of the people in one of my online reading groups got together at a Bouchercon, and apparently they had a great time. During the convention, several awards are given. (Which is why I am prefacing my blogs about awards with this one.)<\/p>\n<p>Bouchercon gets its name from Anthony Boucher, who was an author,&nbsp;editor, and, even a reviewer. I have to admit that I had never heard of him&#8230;. shame on me (apparently.)&nbsp;Each year, it is held in a different city.&nbsp;The host city&#8217;s volunteers line up the guests and decide on the different schedules for that year.&nbsp;The convention is for&nbsp;authors,&nbsp;readers\/fans, publishers, book sellers,&nbsp;authors&#8217; agents, (ETC)&#8230;.. anyone who has a passion\/career\/interest\/ ETC &nbsp;for mystery\/detective\/crime novels.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Glancing at the&nbsp;list of cities that have previously&nbsp;hosted the Bouchercons, it appears that almost all of the conventions have been held in the United States, with two taking place in Canada and another two&nbsp;in England. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bouchercon2007.com\/\">This year&#8217;s Bouchercon<\/a> convention is going to be held in Anchorage, Alaska, September 27-30. Sounds like fun to me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of you know about Bouchercon. I found out about it several years ago, while I was a member of several online mystery reading groups. I don&#8217;t know why it had taken me so many years to discover it&#8230; It&#8217;s been around since 1970. I have never attended a convention, but a few of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-41","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-books","7":"entry","8":"override"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI0sr-F","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}