Poisoned Pen Author Event (poisonedpenauthorevent)

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Author interviews from a bookstore in Scottdale, Arizona. The bookstore offers many signed first edition novels from your favorite authors. Check our website to see who will be coming to the store soon. http://www.poisonedpen.com

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The best of the mystery world's authors visit Barbara Peters to chat about their books at the Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale AZ. Now these interviews are available for fans all over the world to watch and enjoy. After careers in history, libraries, and the law, Barbara joined the rest of her family in Arizona over 20 years ago and opened The Poisoned Pen in 1989 as a kind of hobby to support her book habit. In her own words " Here we are with a wonderful staff, phenomenal customers, worldwide trade, and a web of relationships with authors, publishers, readers, and colleagues that is beyond price. I read everything, so while we began as a Mystery Bookstore we're today an independent bookstore specializing in quality fiction and nonfiction with forays into delights like history, food, travel, wordsmithing—anything we like." "I'm especially pleased with a 1998 Edgar Allan Poe Award nomination as editor of the Best Critical/Biographical Work and to have received the MWA Raven Award for outstanding contributions outside the field of creative writing. And with some 12 nominations as Bookseller of the Year. "I'm a member of The Mystery Writers of America, The British Crime Writers Association, The Crimewriters of Canada, The Valley Independent Booksellers Association, and the American Booksellers Association/Book Sense, and co-founded the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. "My husband Robert L. Rosenwald and I founded Poisoned Pen Press in 1997. I am Editor in Chief. So I own the bookstore and he works for me; he owns the press and I work for him—thus we stay happily married." At Bouchercon 2008, Barbara and Rob were the joint recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award.