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September
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Bouchercon 2007
Bearly Alive
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SNOWMAN NEWSLETTER
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| New
York Times bestselling crime fiction author Thomas Perry of
Nightlife and fan favorite The Butcher’s Boy,
has graciously accepted our invitation to step in as Bouchercon
2007’s American Guest of Honor. From his website http://www.thomasperryauthor.com/
Thomas Perry was born in Tonawanda, New York in 1947. He received
a B.A. from Cornell University in 1969 and a Ph.D. in English
from the University of Rochester in 1974. He has worked as
a park maintenance man, factory laborer, commercial fisherman,
university administrator and teacher, and a writer and producer
of prime time network television shows. He is the author of
fourteen novels. He lives in Southern California with his
wife and two daughters. |
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Our
Special Guest of Honor will be Diana Gabaldon, http://www.dianagabaldon.com/
the international bestselling author of the Outlander
novels about time-travelling nurse Claire Beauchamp and
Highlander lord Jamie Fraser, as well as the historical crime
fiction Lord John series, featuring Lord John Grey, a breakout
character from the Outlander novels. |
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| Bouchercon
2007 is awarding a lifetime achievement award to James
Sallis, author of last year’s wildly acclaimed noir,
Drive. From his website: “Author of the popular
Lew Griffin novels and the recent novel Cypress Grove,
he has also written an avant-garde novel, Renderings,
and a spy novel, Death Will Have Your Eyes, as well
as countless short stories, poems, and essays. In addition,
he has written and edited a number of musicological studies
and works of literary criticism, including The Guitar Players,
Difficult Lives, a study of noir writers, and Chester
Himes: A Life, a biography of one of his literary heroes.
Jim has even turned his hand to writing screenplays, and he
pens regular columns for the Boston Globe, Fantasy and Science
Fiction, and Web Del Sol.” |
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Our
fan guest of honor is Barbara Peters, proprietor of the immensely
successful Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale, Arizona,
who has single-handedly done more to promote the genre of
crime fiction than anyone else living today. She also acquires
and edits crime fiction for the Poisoned Pen Press. Her website
can be found at http://poisonedpen.com.
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Bouchercon
2007
P.O. Box 241803
Anchorage, Alaska 99524
http://www.bouchercon2007.com
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