Next week at Maine Crime Writers there will be posts by Maureen Milliken (Monday), Charlene D’Avanzo (Tuesday), John Clark (Thursday) and Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson (Friday).
In the news department, here’s what’s happening with some of us who blog regularly at Maine Crime Writers:
The judges had a very hard time this year picking winners for our “Where Would You Put the Body” contest and wanted to pick all the submissions as winners. It was a fabulous crop of submissions.
Here are the Winners:
From Shelley Burbank:
with the following description (and excellent writing prompt):
In the attic of this creepy house in Farmington, Maine. I would make this an old sorority house from when UMF was Farmington State Teacher’s College in the 1960s. New owners buy the house to fix it up and turn it into a crime writers retreat center…and discover a body in the attic dressed in a moth-eaten sorority sweater. Who was this girl? Why was she murdered? Will the killer come out of “retirement” to stop the investigation?
From Jeff Cutler:
In among the ruins of Fort Popham in Phippsburg, ME. The loose rocks and crumbling facade would make it easy to stuff a body in a corner where only the young eagles (pictured) could pick at it until the bones are dry and brittle.
And from Louisette Castonguay:
Once heard of a Gangsta’ fixer who said he knew of places to “hide a car” in the Maine woods where no one would ever find the body. I’ve occasionally seen cars seemingly abandoned, since then, on little side roads, and thought of this.
Congrats to our winners. Please send your snail mail addy to writingaboutcrime@gmail.com to receive your prize.
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Congrats to the winners! This is always a fun contest! And, dang, that house is right around the corner. Never thought of it.
I live across the street from that house! Convenient for me, LOL. People stop to take pictures of it all the time. It’s absolutely criminal what the owners have allowed to happen. Was one of Farmington’s finest houses in its heyday.