The paper's literary section makes the work audio book of the week and adds...

This unusual thriller is composed by a series of bestselling authors who each write a chapter. It opens with Harry Middleton, a mild-mannered American musicologist, getting into a spot of bother in Poland while he’s on his way home with a – possibly genuine – Chopin manuscript. Deaver, having set up the story, passes it to Hewson, who moves it to Rome and introduces a water pistol, used to clever effect by the next author. The plot switchbacks crazily around the world as characters painstakingly created by one writer are gunned down by the next (a Wikipedic knowledge of classical-music composition is the key to averting terrorist catastrophe). Published in weekly downloadable installments to heighten the suspense, it’s fabulous fun.

Left Coast Crime 2008 is coming to Denver, and ITW is in the process of putting together an ITW panel track featuring  members.  If you plan to register and want to be on an ITW panel, please contact Christine Goff at chris@christinegoff.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it A.S.A.P.

LCC Guest of Honor is NYT bestselling author, Stephen White.  Fan Guest of Honor is Michael Masliah.  Toastmaster is Elaine Viets, and the Celebrity Chef is Joanne Pence.  Don't miss Parnell Hall singing an original "Ode to Alferd."   We hope you'll join us for all the fun.  Additional information and registration information can be found at http://www.leftcoastcrime.org/2008/.

We're delighted to see that more and more of you are using this site to post your directory entries and other items. Can we please put out a craven plea though... It is very important when you upload your images that you put them in the right place. Every ITW member, associate or author, should have their own image folder. These are broken down alphabetically into group folders - a to h, i to o and p to z. Just choose the group folder for your surname, find the right folder there, and use that to store images. If you don't find a folder please contact us and we'll create one.

Occasionally we find stray images in the wrong place - usually the author directory. We have no idea who these belong to and they do mess with the system. So periodically we will delete these images. If you find images missing in your directory entries the reason will doubtless be that you put them in the wrong place. So please reload them under your personal directory. Thanks...