Webcast: Mystery Book Buzz

Sponsored by HarperCollins Publishers, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Poisoned Pen Press, Severn House and Library Journal. Starts: Wednesday, August 26, 2009, 2:00-3:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time.

 

Mystery fiction is high on the list of public library patrons - and the genre is as broad as it is deep. While detective fiction may be the most popular form of mystery fiction, there are dozens of other variations which keep these avid readers returning to the library again and again, including thrillers, cozies, romantic suspense and good old police procedurals.

 

A well-known readers' advisory consultant, Joyce Saricks, has written that "mysteries tend to be in-depth examinations of human nature, probing the why almost as frequently as the who and how. They are also morality plays, and justice, or the restoration of order, is at the heart of the solution in Mysteries. When "legal justice" is not an option, investigators take the law into their own hands. As they do in most genre fiction, readers expect the good guys to win and the bad guys to be punished."

 

Library foot traffic is up all around the country and so is circulation. Help your library patrons escape momentarily from the stress and anxiety of the current economic situation by filling the library shelves with the latest titles from their favorite mystery writers!

 

Join us for a 60-minute Mystery Book Buzz webcast sponsored by four leading publishers who will introduce the best of their Fall 2009 and Spring 2010 titles, as well as important midlist and back-in-print titles.

 

Featured Panelists:

 

HarperCollins Publishers, Virginia Stanley, Director of Library Marketing

 

Houghton Mifflin, Katrina Kruse, Marketing Manager

 

Poisoned Pen Press, Barbara G. Peters, Senior Editor

 

Severn House, Edwin Burkhalter, Chairman

 

 

Join us live on Wednesday, August 26, 2009 at 2:00 PM Eastern Standard Time for this one hour webcast event.

 

If you are not able to make the inaugural webcast of Mystery Book Buzz, you will be able to access the webcast archive for one year following the initial webcast, and will receive an email from Library Journal as soon as it is available.