Welcome to Writing the Open Range!
This blog chronicles Alberta crime books and crime writers at Bloody Words, Canada’s national conference on mystery fiction.
Your blog hosts are Jayne and Anne, better known from Mystery Writers Ink in Calgary. Along with descriptions of panels we attend and mystery icons we meet in the elevator or the autograph line, we’ll feature books by Alberta writers, by writers who set their mysteries in Alberta, and crime novels and non-fiction published by Alberta publishers.
Many books will be given away to unsuspecting conference-goers. Some of the titles were donated by the authors or publishers, and many others were purchased with generous support from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.
Mystery Writers Ink, a Calgary-based mystery writers group, sponsors the 'Writing the Open Range' Panel at 6:30 Friday evening, showcasing Alberta crime writers Garry Ryan, Sharon Wildwind and Susan Calder along with ex-Alberta writer Joan Donaldson-Yarmey. The amazing Anthony Bidulka, author of the Russell Quant mysteries, moderates.
For more news on the panel and the Ink authors, see the group's blog at Mystery Writers Ink
A tip of the cowboy hat to the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, whose support makes possible our promotion of Alberta books and publishers here at Bloody Words
Jayne and Anne
