Bouchercon 2011 panels announced
When Bouchercon 2010's organizers gave me two panels to moderate, I wrote: "Any more panels, and I'll be able to furnish a rec room."This year I furnish that room in Scandinavian modern, with plenty of shelves for interesting objects from almost everywhere. I'm moderating three panels at Bouchercon 2011 in St. Louis next month. Here's my lineup:
- Thursday, Sept. 15, 10 a.m.-11 a.m.: "A QUESTION OF DEATH: HOW IMPORTANT IS WHODUNIT?" with Gianrico Carofiglio, Agnete Friis & Lene Kaaberbøl, and Anders Roslund & Börge Hellström. This one is going to be fun.
- Saturday, Sept. 17, 11:30 a.m.-12:30, it’s “CRANKY STREETS: WHAT'S SO FUNNY ABOUT MURDER?” wherein I shepherd Eoin Colfer, Colin Cotterill, Chris Ewan, and Thomas Kaufman through a discussion of fictional killing, real humor, and the interesting ways they mix.
- Then it’s up to my hotel room to change into a fresh aloha shirt before I pop back at 1 p.m. for “NEVER LET ME GO: PASSPORT TO MURDER,” with old Bouchercon friends Lisa Brackmann and R.J. Ellory, plus Anne Zouroudi, David Hewson, and Martin Limón.
Here's the complete lineup of panels. It's not too lated to sigh up, and if you happen to be in St. Louis, Sept. 15-18, stop in and say hi.
© Peter Rozovsky 2011
Labels: Bouchercon, Bouchercon 2011, conventions
posted by Peter Rozovsky at 12:02 AM
18 Comments:
Congratulations!
These are fantastic panels, all of them.
I love Carofiglio's books, and anticipate reading works by many others listed here.
Hope that the loyal bloggers get filled in on what transpires.
Whatever happens, there will be lots of information and wit careening off the walls.
Thanks. I've finished reading Carofiglio's The Past is a Foreign Country and Friis & Kaaberbøl's The Boy in the Suitcase in recent days. I am looking forward to this one.
Well done! I will look forward to a report especially of the "Whodunnit' panel.
I'm looking forward to all three. See you there.
Sounds wonderful! And how lucky they are to have you. :)
Dana, I'll see you there. And I think I'll have to cancel any lunch plans I may have had for Saturday.
It should be wonderful, I.J. I very much enjoy preparing for the panels, developing questions especially. Getting up there and moderating the panels has been enjoyable, too.
Uriah, I figured that one would catch your attention. I am enjoying my preparation for it. I would not be shocked to see The Boy in the Suitcase win some awards next year.
Hope that all goes well and that you have a marvelous time. Await your posts on all three panels, but particularly the one with Colin Cotterill, as I have Killed at The Whim of A Hat in hand, thanks to you.
Thanks, Liz. I've had a marvelous time at my three previous Bouchercons, and I expect this one to be no different.
I've posted about them at great length, but posting about a panel in which one has taken part is not always the world's easiest task.
All very cool and very different from each other.
If you don't want four next year, though, you had better at least act winded.
At least it's an arithmetical rather than a geometrical progression. 1, 2, 4, 8 ... would be too much to take.
Who's gonna live-Tweet your panels and what's the hashtag?
Well, it's not going to be me! Maybe I'll ask Ali Karim to do the honors.
Well done you, Peter. Very interesting topics indeed, and they could not have chosen a finer moderator. Enjoy.
Woot! Hey delightfully beardy*, I'm coming to New York with the rest of the writer crew in September, hope to see you then.
* your Irish name of course,
Thanks, Philip. I'm already hitting the books hard and enjoying doing so.
Arlene, I regret to say that I'll be freshly scrubbed and shorn from my Bouchercon appearances. I'll not have had time to revert to the shaggy, primitive state I was in when I stomped around the Giant's Causeway.
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