Pics of the Week, 9/12
-- Publishers Weekly, 9/12/2005
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This week our pictures present a gathering of California-based writers to raise money for the victims of Hurricane Katrina and a mob (so to speak) of crime writers gathered at the 36th Bouchercon, The World Mystery Convention, held this year in Chicago. | |
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 WRITERS SUPPORT KATRINA VICTIMS Book Passage owner Elaine Petrocelli (at podium) called on Bay Area authors to come out and raise money for Katrina survivors—and they turned out in droves. Calling themselves Writers4Relief, more than 30 authors helped raise more than $40,000. Authors Amy Tan, Amistead Maupin, Dave Eggers, Maxine Hong Kingston and many others attended. Chronicle Books also donated signed books fpr auction. |
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 AMY TAN SPEAKSAuthor Amy Tan speaks at the Writers4Relief event held at Book Passage in Corte Madera, Calif. |
 EYE ON MYSTERY WRITERS Author Sara Paretsky received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Private Eye Writers of America at this year's Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention, held early this month in Chicago. . | |
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 MINNESOTA CRIME WAVE Most of the MCW, a group of Minnesota crime writers, with stories in The Silence of the Loons, a crime anthology published by Nodin Press, gathered for a publication party at Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention. Pictured (l. to r., front row) are Carl Brookins, David Housewright, William Kent Krueger, Mary Logue, Monica Ferris; (back row) R.D. Zimmerman, Lori L. Lake, K.J. Erickson, publisher Norton Stillman, Ellen Hart, M.D. Lake and Pat Dennis. |
 CRIME WRITING PAYS Bestselling mystery authors Margaret Maron and Charles Todd at Bouchercon, the World Mystery Convention. | |
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