San Francisco Noir 2: The Classics

San Francisco Noir 2: The Classics, edited by Peter Maravelis, is the latest in Akashic Book's award winning Noir Series. This volume contains classic reprints from Ambrose Bierce, Frank Norris, Mark Twain, Dashiell Hammett, Bill Pronzini, Joe Gores, Don Herron, Janet Dawson and many more. Living in the Bay Area, I was waiting for this second volume of San Francisco Noir. Don't miss it, and while you're at it, pick up San Francisco Noir which contains brand new stories from some of your favorite mystery authors.

Peter Maravelis, a native San Franciscan, programs the events calendar at City Lights Bookstore and was also editor of the first volume of San Francisco Noir.

To launch this new volume in the Bay Area, several booksignings/readings have been scheduled with Editor Peter Maravelis introducing different contributors.

February 14: San Francisco. Ha Ha Room, 875 Geary. 8 p.m. Contributors: Robert Mailer Anderon, Craig Clevenger, David Corbett, Don Herron, Jim Nisbet, John Shirley, Domenic Stansberry and more!

February 19: San Francisco. Noon., Stacey's Books, 581 Market. Contributors: Janet Dawson, Bill Pronzini, and Marcia Muller.

Feburary 24: Berkeley, 7:30 p.m., Moe's Books, 2476 Telegraph Ave: Contributors, Janet Dawson, David Corbett, Oscar Penaranda, and John Shirley.

February 28, Petaluma. 7 pm. Copperfield's Books., 140 Kentucky St.: Janet Dawson, Oscar Penaranda, David Corbett.

San Francisco Mysteries/Mystery Readers Journal

Coming soon, Mystery Readers Journal: San Francisco Mysteries, II. As I mentioned, once again we had so much material for the San Francisco issue of Mystery Readers Journal that we had to go to two issues. I'll let people know when the next issue comes out. There will be author! author! essays from Marcia Muller, Peri O'Shaughnessy, Steve Brewer, Janet La Pierre, and many more. Stay tuned.

Janet Rudolph, Editor

San Francisco Mysteries/Mystery Readers Journal

Mystery Readers Journal: San Francisco themed issue

San Francisco, everybody's favorite city, with its icon Golden Gate Bridge, heavy fog, beautiful buildings, Ocean, Bay, and multi-ethnic neighborhoods, makes it the perfect setting for so many mystery novels, films and TV shows. Once again I received an abundance of wonderful articles, reviews and author! author! essays for a themed issue. We're going to have two issues of San Francisco Bay Area mysteries (Volume 24: 3, 4), so I'll be pushing back the other themed issues. The Journal (Volume 24:3) will be out in October. This issue will be available in October online at: Mystery Readers Journal. I'll post more about this issue when it comes out. First issue has articles by Meg Gardiner, Don Herron, Sheldon Siegel, Lisa Lutz, Richard Lupoff and many more great mystery authors who set their mysteries in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Mystery Readers Journal: Around the World in a Magazine

Writing about my Bouchercon panel yesterday, I thought about all the issues of Mystery Readers Journal that were set in other countries. Mystery Readers Journal is a quarterly themed hardcopy magazine, and all reviews and articles focus on the special theme.

I especially enjoy the Author! Author! section of MRJ. Mystery authors write about themselves, their books, and why they chose the theme of the issue to incorporate into their novels. MRJ is like a convention in a magazine. The last issue, Irish Mysteries, showed many sides of Irish mystery writing from noir to cozy . We've also had issues on France, Italy (2 issues), Scandinavia, the Far East, Pacific Northwest, Oxford, Canada, New England and the South (2 issues). Coming up MRJ will have issues on San Francisco, Africa, and Los Angeles. All this in addition to themes such as Art Mysteries, Theatrical Mysteries, Sports Mysteries, History Mysteries, etc.

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