NORTHWEST MYSTERY CONTEST HAS FAR REACHING EFFECT
Murder in the Grove Mystery Contest provides feedback for all entrants. The winner receives a cash prize and a critique by an agent. Deadline is approaching!
/Idaho News Articles/ - BOISE, ID, March 11, 2007 - Only in its third year, the Murder in the Grove Mystery Contest is already making waves. The 2006 winner, M. M. Palmer of Tacoma, Washington, signed with agent, Jo Grossman of Grossman & Holmes Literary Agency in Massachusetts. Grossman, who held pitch sessions with writers during Murder in the Grove 2006, read Palmer's winning entry, L of a Way to Go, as part of the contest's prize.
All writers who enter the contest receive detailed feedback on their manuscripts from judges trained by the sponsor of the contest, the Popular Fiction Association of Idaho, Inc. The 2007 winning entry will receive a $50.00 cash prize as well as a critique by Katharine Sands of the Sarah Jane Freymann Literary Agency in New York City. Sands will present a workshop on pitching and meet with aspiring writers at Murder in the Grove. There's still time for unpublished mystery, thriller, or suspense writers to meet the March 31, 2007 deadline for the contest. The entry fee is $25.00. Details are available at www.murderinthegrove.com or by sending an SASE to PO Box 4762, Boise, Idaho 83711.
The 2007 winner will be announced during the awards luncheon ceremony at Murder in the Grove, an annual conference for mystery writers and readers, which takes place June 8-9, 2007 at Boise Centre on the Grove. At the same awards luncheon, Robert Crais, bestselling and award winning author, will receive the Bloody Pen Award and present the Keynote Address.
Murder in the Grove will host a number of authors, agents, and forensics specialists who will provide workshops, panels, and manuscript evaluations. A full day writer's workshop, "Empowering Characters Emotions," presented by the highly acclaimed instructor, Margie Lawson, will open the conference. The public is invited to meet Crais, Lawson, and all of the other conference participants at a book and dessert party at 7:00 p.m., June 8, at Barnes and Noble Booksellers, 1315 N. Milwaukee, Boise,
For more information including all fees, deadlines, registration instructions, and lodging specials, please visit www.murderinthegrove.com.
To arrange an interview with a committee member please contact Joanne Pence at joanne@joannepence.com or T. L. Cooper at tlcooper@tlcooper.com.
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