Bouchercon XXXVIII explained

Bouchercon XXXVIII
Subheader:	"Bearly Alive"
Location:	Anchorage, Alaska
Country:	USA
Host:	Dana Stabenow, Dee Ford, Kimberley Gray
Previous:	XXXVII
Main:	Bouchercon
Next:	XXXIX

Bouchercon is an annual convention of creators and devotees of mystery and detective fiction.^[1] It is named in honour of writer, reviewer, and editor Anthony Boucher; also the inspiration for the Anthony Awards, which have been issued at the convention since 1986.^[2] This page details Bouchercon XXXVIII and the 22nd Anthony Awards ceremony.

Bouchercon

The convention was held in Madison, Wisconsin on September 27, 2007; running until the 30th. The event was chaired by authors and members of Alaska Sisters in Crime, Dana Stabenow, Dee Ford and Kimberley Gray.^{[3] [4] [5]}

Special Guests

• Lifetime Achievement award — James Sallis
• Special Guest of Honor — Diana Gabaldon
• American Guest of Honor — Thomas Perry
• Fan Guest of Honor — Barbara Peters

Anthony Awards

The following list details the awards distributed at the twenty-second annual Anthony Awards ceremony.^[6]

Novel award

Winner:

• Laura Lippman, No Good Deeds

Shortlist:

• Jan Burke, Kidnapped
• Denise Mina, The Dead Hour
• Nancy Pickard, The Virgin of Small Plains
• Julia Spencer-Fleming, All Mortal Flesh

First novel award

Winner:

• Louise Penny, Still Life

Shortlist:

• John Hart, The King of Lies
• Steve Hockensmith, Holmes on the Range
• Cornelia Read, A Field of Darkness
• Alexandra Sokoloff, The Harrowing

Paperback original award

Winner:

• Dana Cameron, Ashes And Bones

Shortlist:

• Troy Cook, 47 Rules of Highly Effective Bank Robbers
• Sean Doolittle, The Cleanup
• Robert Fate, Baby Shark
• Victor Gischler, Shotgun Opera
• Naomi Hirahara, Snakeskin Shamisen
• Charlie Huston, A Dangerous Man

Short story award

Winner:

• Simon Wood, "My Father's Secret", from Working Stiffs

Shortlist:

• Megan Abbott, "Policy", from Damn Near Dead: Old, Bold, Uncontrolled
• Dana Cameron, "The Lords of Misrule", from Sugarplums And Scandal: A feast of passion and suspense for the holidays!
• Bill Crider, "Cranked", from Damn Near Dead: Old, Bold, Uncontrolled
• Toni Kelner, "Sleeping with the Plush", from Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine May 2006
• Elaine Viets, "After the Fall", from Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine January / February 2006

Critical / Non-fiction award

Winner:

• Jim Huang & Austin Lugar, Mystery Muses

Shortlist:

• Gary Warren Niebuhr, Read 'Em Their Writes
• Chris Roerden, Don't Murder your Mystery
• Daniel Stashower, The Beautiful Cigar Girl
• E. J. Wagner, The Science of Sherlock Holmes

Special service award

Winner:

• Jim Huang, Crum Creek Press and The Mystery Company

Shortlist:

• Charles Ardai, Hard Case Crime
• George Easter, Deadly Pleasures
• Jon Jordan & Ruth Jordan, Crimespree Magazine
• Lynn Kaczmarek & Chris Aldrich, Mystery News
• Ali Karim, Shots Magazine
• Barbara Franchi & Sharon Wheeler, ReviewingTheEvidence.com
• Maddy Van Hertbruggen, 4 Mystery Addicts

Notes and References

1. Web site: Bouchercon World Mystery Convention : Home . Bouchercon.info . January 30, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130112224218/http://www.bouchercon.info/index.html . January 12, 2013 . dead . mdy-all .
2. Web site: Bouchercon 2010 by the Bay: The World Series of Mystery . https://archive.today/20120905081837/http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/887593-264/bouchercon_2010_by_the_bay.html.csp . dead . September 5, 2012 . Libraryjournal.com . November 4, 2010 . January 30, 2012 . Teresa . Jacobsen .
3. Web site: Q & A with Kimberly Gray | Ramona DeFelice Long . Ramonadef.wordpress.com . September 19, 2010 . February 24, 2012.
4. Web site: DEBRA MCKINNEY [e-mail] . Author Stabenow's Kate Shugak may be headed for television: Arts | Alaska news at . Adn.com . February 24, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121004144252/http://www.adn.com/2009/10/27/988933/author-stabenows-kate-shugak-may.html . October 4, 2012 . mdy-all .
5. Web site: AkLA 2010: Breaking New Trails . https://web.archive.org/web/20140602005036/http://www.akla.org/anchorage2010/Ak_Lib_Assoc_2010_JPG.pdf . dead . June 2, 2014 . Alaska Library Association . 2010 . February 24, 2012 .
6. Web site: Bouchercon World Mystery Convention : Anthony Awards Nominees . Bouchercon.info . February 13, 2012 . February 7, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120207060829/http://www.bouchercon.info/nominees.html#2007 . dead .