THE P.I. CALENDAR:
Conventions, Fan Events & Other Fun Stuff

Okay, okay, okay, this page is occasionally out-of-date, but we're doing much much better than we used to. If you've got a RELEVANT con coming up, tell me... or at least put me on your mailing list....,

2008

• One Book, One Chicago
  Chicago, Illinois
  April 2008
  The Chicago Public Library and Chicago mayor Daley have recently announced that Raymond Chandler's classic P.I. novel The Long Goodbye has been selected for its city-wide reading program, The entire month will be full of Chandler discussions, programming, related film series and more, including a “Virtual discussion” with The Outfit Collective on their blog for two weeks in April, a “Raymond Chandler Night” at Weegee’s bar in Humboldt Park, a weekend matinee series at The Music Box Theatre that will screen films adapted from Chandler’s novels or written by Chandler himself, a lecture by Indiana University film scholar James Naremore, a solo talk by Judith Freeman, novelist and author of the recent Chandler biography The Long Embrace and more.
  
  
• NoirCon
  Philadelphia, PA
  April 3-6, 2008
  Guests of Honour: Dennis McMillan and Ken Bruen
  A three-day journey into that abyss that offers an opportunity to have a helluva good time looking into the bottomless, downward void that is noir!
  
  
• Bloody Words 2008
  Toronto, ON
  June 6 – 8, 2008
  Canadian guest of honour: Rosemary Aubert
  International guest of honour: Carolyn Hart
  MC: Anthony Bidulka
  Canada’s oldest and largest gathering of mystery readers and writers rides again.
  
  
• Bouchercon 2008: Charmed to Death
  Baltimore, MD
  October 9-12, 2008
  US Guest of Honour: Laura Lippman
  International Guest of Honour: John Harvey
  Toastmaster: Mark Billingham
  Contribution to the Genre: Barbara Peters and Robert Rosenwald
  Fan Guest of Honour: Thalia Proctor
  A few new twists this year: there's a daily blog and the Anthonys have a whole new category: Best Mystery Web Site/Blog.

And, as always, thanks to Jan Long, for her untiring efforts.