The Maine Crime Writers
Tag Archives: Level Best Books
What Have I Been Up To?
Hi. Barb here. No, I don’t have any big writing announcements to make like Kaitlyn/Kathy and Lea. Nonetheless, it’s felt like a really busy month. So this happened. And then this happened… Meanwhile, this also happened… I’m … Continue reading →
Soup and Suspense? Death and Dessert? Tips for Successful Library Events
Kate Flora: Last year, I jokingly said that it was my goal to visit every library in Maine. I failed, but that just means there are many more libraries to discover and librarians to meet. It’s a happy part of … Continue reading →
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Tagged Barbara Ross, Death and Chocolate, Death and Dessert, Death of an Ambitious Woman, Group Post, John Clark, Kaitlyn Dunnett, Kathy Lynn Emerson, Lea Wait, Level Best Books, Lithgow Library, Maine Crime Writers, Mystery month, National Library Week, Soup and Suspense, successful library events, Vose Library
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Level Best Books–Story Submissions Open, Photo Contest, Reviews & Award Nominations
Hi. Barb here and today in my capacity as a co-editor at Level Best Books, along with my fellow editors Mark Ammons, Katherine Fast and Leslie Wheeler. Best New England Crime Stories 2013: Blood Moon First of all, if you … Continue reading →
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Tagged A Regular Story, Barbara Ross, Best New England Crime Stories 2013: Blood Moon, Best New England Crime Stories 2014: Stone Cold, Double Wedding, Group Post, Katherine Fast, Kept in the Dark, Leslie Wheeler, Level Best Books, Mark Ammons, Mo Walsh, Peggy McFarland, Sheila Connolly
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What Happens When 12,000 Writers Converge
Hi. Barb here. Last week I attended AWP, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference in Boston. Why did I go? It was one of those weird convergences in life where you’ve never heard of something, and then all … Continue reading →
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Tagged 2013, Alice Hoffman, All this talk of Love, Andrew Goldstein, Association of Writers and Writing Programs, AWP, Barbara Ross, Best New England crime stories: Blood moon, Boston, Christopher Castellani, Grub Street, Helen Keller in Love, Henriette Power, Hope Edelman, ilan mochari, launch lab, Level Best Books, Malice Domestic, marjan Kamali, New England Crime Bake, Rosie Sultan, Sarah Gerkensmeyer, Steve Almond, The Bookie's Son, the clover house, Together Tea, Tom Perrotta, webct, What you are now enjoying, zinsky the obscure
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The Books I want to be given, the ones that I will give
Kate Flora here, leading off a group post about giving, and getting, books for the holidays. When I was growing up on the farm in Union, one of the most special events of the season was getting the Brentano’s catalogue. … Continue reading →
Tagged A Chronicle of Endylmyr II, A Wee Christmas Homicide, Alice Munro, An Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty, Andrew Goldstein, B.A. Shapiro, Barbara Kingsolver, Barbara Ross, Best New England Crme Stories, Blood Moon, Bring Up The Bodies, Calvin Can't Fly, Charles Hall, Charlotte MacLeod, Christmas themed mysteries, Dear Life Stories, Dictionary of American Regional English, Donna Pincus, Emily's dress and other missing things, Flight Behavior, Grandma Drove the Garbage Truck, Group Post, Growing Up Brave, Helen Keller in Love, Hilary Mantel, Kaitlyn Dunnett, Kathyrn Burak, Level Best Books, Louise Erdrich, Love and Haight, Oh Yuck, Rest You Merry, Rhys Bowen, Rosie Sultan, Susan Carlton, The Art Forger, The Bookie's Son, The Round House, The Suffolk Collection, The Twelve Clues of Christmas, Travis Thrasher
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Best New England Crime Stories 2013: Blood Moon–the Maine Connections
Hi. Barb here. Stopping by after a busy weekend spent co-chairing the New England Crime Bake. It was great to see so many Maine Crime Writers fans, as well as fellow bloggers Kaitlyn Dunnitt, Vicki Doudera, Kate Flora and Lea … Continue reading →
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Tagged Al Blanchard Award, Barbara Ross, Best American Mystery Stories, Best New England Crime Stories 2013 Bllod Moon, Judith Green, Kaitlyn Dunnett, Kate Flora, Katherine Fast, Lea Wait, Leslie Wheeler, Level Best Books, Mark Ammons, Vicki Doudera, VR Barkowski, Woody Hanstein
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Have Books, Will Travel . . .
Hi, it’s Kate Flora, here, starting a conversation about Books in Boothbay, a wonderful event several of us attended last Saturday, and all the other book events we’ll be attending this summer. Because it’s summer, and in the summer, Maine … Continue reading →
Tagged All That Glitters, Barbara Ross, Books in Boothbay, Brandon Blake, Charlotte Agell, Dead Calm, Dooryard Art, Ellsworth Library, Gerry Boyle, Group Post, James Hayman, Kate Flora, Katherine Hall Page, Lea Wait, Level Best Books, Maine libraries, Sarah Braunstein, Sarah Graves, Tess Gerritsen, The Sweet Relief of Missing Children, Vicki Doudera
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Rejection—Part One
Rejection is part of every writer’s life. Not the good part, I would add, but a part. I’ve been wanting to write about it for awhile, because it’s something I feel like I’ve learned a little about over the past … Continue reading →
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Tagged Barbara Ross, Best New England crime stories: Blood moon, Level Best Books, rejection
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A Librarian’s Journey: Interview with John Clark
John, to launch National Library Week, we thought we’d interview a librarian who is also a writer. Let’s start with the library side of things. Can you tell us a little bit about how you came to be a librarian? … Continue reading →
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Tagged AMHI, Association of Mental Health Librarians, bookmouch, Boothbay Harbor Library, Boothbay Register, Central Maine Hospital, DOCLINE, Evergreen, graphic novels, Hartland Library, Hartland ME, HSLIC, Joe Craig, John Clark, Kudu, Level Best Books, Maine Balsam Libraries Group, Maine State Library, Mary Johnson, Medical Library Association, National Library Week, paperbackswap.com, Scarecrow Press, St. Mary's Hospital, swap.com, The Wizard of Simonton Pond, Tom Abbott, University of South Carolina, Walter Taranko, Wolf Moon Journal, Y/A
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Writing Warriors at the Kripalu Center
Hi. Barb here and— But first, a word from our sponsors: Taking a quick moment to announce that the tenth annual Level Best Books anthology has a name—Best New England Crime Stories 2013: Blood Moon. Submission guidelines are here and … Continue reading →
