by Crimespree Magazine | Apr 18, 2005 | Books, Events, Jon Thoughts
Bouchercon is held in a different city every year. The people hosting it are doing it as volunteers. They donate their time because they love the mystery community and they love the convention. Every year I go I have a wonderful time. And every year I hear people...
by Crimespree Magazine | Apr 11, 2005 | Events, Jon Thoughts
This coming Wednesday, Ruth and I have been invited to speak to the Midwest MWA chapter. At first I thought “cool… sounds like fun and free food.” But now I’m thinking…. We have to talk about Crimespree for an hour. Wow. I don’t...
by Crimespree Magazine | Mar 10, 2005 | Features, Jon Thoughts
Saw this somewhere else and liked the idea. TEN THINGS I’VE DONE THAT YOU PROBABLY HAVEN’T 1) When in Italy in 1980, I had five Italian soldiers stop me with machine guns drawn. They spoke no English, and my Italian consists of Spagehtti-os. Ended up...
by Crimespree Magazine | Feb 21, 2005 | Features, Jon Thoughts
He shot himself dead. What the fuck?!?? I’m not sure of the impact of this, but it bothers me that someone who seemed to take such joy in life saying, “fuck you” to everything said fuck it and left. Especially weird when you consider the amount of...
by Crimespree Magazine | Feb 20, 2005 | Features, Jon Thoughts
Ok, I’m putting together Crimespree #5. Working away, loving Microsoft Publisher. I get to a feature that includes all the Edgar nominees. Cool. Uh oh…. The fiction titles are all nice and short, but the non-fiction stuff …. Some of the titles run...
