Mrs Pollifax Fan Blog

Dorothy Gilman Appearing Soon

mrspfans — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:00:34 +0000

Hey Guys the the 2010 Edgar Awards is fast approaching. If you haven’t heard yet, Dorothy Gilman has been chosen as the Grand Master for the 2010 Edgar Awards and will be at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City for the ceremonies between April 27th to April 29th. The tickets are $175 a person and can still be bought online through their website at: the Edgar Awards. Here is the blurp from their website….

2010 Edgar® Banquet
64th Gala Banquet
April 29, 2010
Grand Hyatt Hotel
New York City
Join us for our annual black tie gala celebrating
the best and brightest in crime fiction, non-fiction and television.
Reception: 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Dinner & Awards 7:30 pm – 11:00 pm

Tickets for the symposium and the banquet may be purchased online at the MWA store or by returning the RSVP forms. You must RSVP and/or purchase your tickets by April 16, 2010.

I looked through the different pages and she is not giving any talks as far as I can tell. If you are going to the Banquet and are able to get some pictures then please pass them onto her fellow fans here. You can email them to me or upload them to a flickr account and I will post the link to them. We would also appreciate a play-by-play of your experience!

Mrs Pollifax in your Country

mrspfans — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:55:26 +0000

Do you live in one of the countries that Dorothy Gilman writers about? Of course, I live in the U.S. but I have never been to New Jersey. I went through New Jersey once on a train but you can’t see very much. Sadly, I have never been out of the country either. I believe that is one of the things I love about her books is that she helps you see the country, the people and what it might be like to visit that place. A good mystery setting with rich descriptive words about place and time makes a good story for me. Our favorite author has set her stories in Mexico, Italy, Albania, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Thailand, Mainland China and various parts of the Africa Continent.

If you have lived or are living in one of the countries and would like to share with us some of the modern descriptions we would greatly appreciate it. The names of one or two of the countries that she has written about may have changed since the books were published but we would like to hear from you anyway. If you have some pictures we could email them to me with a description and I would be happy to post them. Email to: jolene.macfadden@mrspollifax.com

Have a great January and hope to hear from you soon!

Blog Downtime

mrspfans — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:03:24 +0000

For those who have recently tried to view the website within the last week or so you may have gotten the message that the account was suspended. That was my fault folks due to recent financial setbacks and the holidays I forgot to include the fee for hosting the blog. I have been paying for this blog for about 7 years now and have enjoyed keeping it going but I need help now and hope you will help me if you can.

I am asking for $1.00 donations through the secure servers at Paypal from members who are able and willing to contribute to keeping this blog going. You can of course send any amount you wish and in any monies that Paypal accepts and they will convert it to US dollars.

We are also still looking for contributors who would like to post their own essays so please use the contact form and give me your subscriber ID and I will make you a contributor. This allows you to make posts to the blog, upload pictures and post your own stories.

We have some very interesting things plan for the coming months for our fellow fans and look forward to hearing from you. Have a safe and happy holiday!

Dorothy Gilman Grand Master at Mystery Writers Award

mrspfans — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:52:43 +0000

Just got an email from JB with some very exciting news. DOROTHY GILMAN HAS BEEN CHOSEN TO BE THE GRAND MASTER AT THE 2010 MYSTERY WRITERS AWARDS! How about that for some exciting news?!?!?

Here is the excerpt from the announcement…Or you can view the entire announcement on the MWA website at:

http://www.mysterywriters.org/files/2010_GM_Ravens.pdf

MWA GRANDMASTER

Mrs Pollifax in Australia

mrspfans — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:01:39 +0000

I know that we may never get another book in the Mrs Pollifax series but I, as an avid FAN, would like to propose story lines that we can make up ourselves. I have always wanted to go to Australia and I think a Mrs Pollifax story set in this country would be a GREAT idea. There are so many possibilities for Mrs P. to get into trouble even if she was not “on-assignment” there.

Now according to the CIA World Fact website, which is the only place to look for information about any of the countries that Mrs Pollifax may go, Australia is approximately 7.7 million sq km in area, has about 21 million people, races consists of white 92%, Asian 7%, aboriginal and other 1% and the languages are English 78.5%, Chinese 2.5%, Italian 1.6%, Greek 1.3%, Arabic 1.2%, Vietnamese 1%, other 8.2%, unspecified 5.7%. Granted the country is smaller than the U.S. but it has vast territories with little or nothing in them that could hold a mystery or two. Not to mention the close proximity to Japan, New Zealand, and hundreds of thousands of islands off the coast. If there are any fans out there that live in Australia, have relatives who live there or have visited there it would be greatly appreciated if you could contribute a mystery or spy-type thing that has happened there in the last 40 or 50 years that we could make up our own story about.

It is a challenge to think of story lines and the carry through with them but between all of us I think we can come up with some interesting plots and twists and enjoy them together. Remember to think like Mrs Pollifax, Carstairs, Bishop, Cyrus and even her children.