WHEN WORDS COLLIDE 2022

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This summer, not only am I attending When Words Collide, I’m participating on two crime fiction panels:

Friday, August 12 at 5 p.m. Mountain time, I’ll be a panelist on Western Voices Hitting the Shelves.

Saturday, August 13 at 3 p.m. Mountain time, I’ll be chatting with other panelists about Running the Obstacle Course–all about the external and internal obstacles that keep us from writing.

Do join us. It’s free but you must register. Go to www.whenwordscollide.org/ for information on how to register, programming, merchants table, etc. It’s going to be a blast!

Here’s how the organizers describe WWC: “The festival is designed to bring readers and writers together in a celebration of the written word. Up to 10 tracks of programming, beginning at 1 PM on Friday and running through 5 PM Sunday, offer informational, educational, and social activities covering a wide spectrum of literature including Mystery, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Romance, Historical, Literary, Script-writing, Poetry, Comics, and Non-fiction.”

Road Trip

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I’m very pleased that my story, “Road Trip,” is in this month’s Mystery Magazine. In “Road Trip,” Cass is driving like a madwoman from Whitehorse to Calgary to be with her daughter who is in labour. Along the way, she comes across a young woman running from her abusive boyfriend. “Road Trip” is based on a true story. Well, partly.

This month’s magazine features cover art by Robin Grenville Evans and stories by: Kelsey Hutton, Jackie Sherbow, George Guthridge, Melodie Desmond, Mark Thielman, Hunter Liguore, Edward Lodi, and John H. Dromey. I look forward to reading them all!

CWC interviews me

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Last week, Erik D’Souza of Crime Writers of Canada interviewed me about my CWC Award of Excellence-nominated novella, Identity Withheld. Erik is a lovely host and has done (and is continuing to do) a series of these interviews with CWC members. Here’s my interview:

He’s posted the series (nine at last count) on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/Crime.Writers.Canada/videos/945217846172179/. Check it out if you want to hear from Linwood Barclay, Delee Fromm, Patricia Barnsley, Elizabeth Elwood, Melissa Yi, Noah Hendley, Rosemary McCracken, or Sam Wiebe.

Identity Withheld short-listed for CWC Award of Excellence

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Well, the title says it all, really. I found out last week, via YouTube, that my novella, Identity Withheld, has been short-listed for a Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence. The winners will be announced on May 26 on YouTube.

Identity Withheld is set in Fredericton (because I love Fredericton) and features Cleo, a young woman called back to Fredericton when her parents’ car is forced into the river. Her parents’ past has finally caught up with them.

You can find a full list of the award nominees here. As you will see, I am in good company! And just in case you didn’t know, I won last year’s CWC Award of Excellence for my short story, “Cold Wave,” in Crime Wave: A Canada West Anthology.

The A’lle Mutation in a new StoryBundle

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The 2022 Aliens Among Us StoryBundle, curated by Dean Wesley Smith is now up! It includes eight novels, one anthology and one collection, including my A’lle Chronicles mystery, The A’lle Mutation (previously called Epidemic):

Two months after the events in Backli’s Ford, Constance A’lle, first A’lle investigator for Lower Canada, and Chief Investigator Desautel still haven’t identified the cabal responsible for the kidnapping and murder of so many A’lle.

While they pursue their investigation in Montreal, Constance is sidetracked by family and the threat of an epidemic—an epidemic for which the immune A’lle might be responsible, intensifying the already simmering human resentment against the A’lle.

Here’s what Dean has to say about The A’lle Mutation:

“In The A’lle Mutation, award-winning writer Marcelle Dube gives us an amazing place in Canada set in 1912 when an alien ship crashes and the humans and the aliens must learn to work and live together. This book gets you thinking almost from page one and won’t let you put it down. Stunning story.”

The other writers are: Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Kari Kilgore, Rebecca Senese, Robin Brande, Cameron Cooper, Robert Jeschonek, Raymond Eich, Dean Wesley Smith, and the writers from the Pulphouse anthology, Aliens Among Us.

These story bundles are a fantastic deal: $5 for the first four books, or $20 for all ten. That’s $2/book. What a great opportunity to discover new-to-you authors. Read more about it here: https://storybundle.com/aliens