The Alabama Writers’ Forum
The Alabama Writers’ Forum, a partnership program of the Alabama State Council on the Arts, works to cultivate our state’s literary culture. We do that through supporting writers at all stages. We encourage our young writers to find their creative voice through the Father Goose Poetry Festival for Kids!–and through our Alabama High School Literary Arts Awards. We support the work of our state’s literary community through our Alabama Authors Directory, First Draft magazine, and other programming and opportunities for writers across the state. And we celebrate our state’s rich literary legacy through the Alabama Writers Hall of Fame. We are, above all, a community of writers united by our desire to advance the literary arts in Alabama. If that describes you — join us! There are many ways to get involved.
2024 Alabama High School Literary Arts Awards Winners Announced!
Lights, Camera, Bones
Lights, Camera, Bones By Carolyn Haines Minotaur Books, 2024 Hardcover with dust jacket: $28.00 Genre: Fiction/Mystery & Detective/Cozy Reviewed by Lisa Harrison Bestselling author Carolyn Haines, perennial favorite of cozy-paranormal mystery readers, conjures up another delightful whodunit in Lights, Camera, Bones, a Sarah Booth Delaney mystery. Prospects appear bright for the riverside town of Greenville, Mississippi, when a movie production company arrives to film an epic about the 1927 flood that submerged a large section of the area. The crew’s presence means an immediate influx of money for the local economy, and publicity to be generated by the movie promises increased tourism in the future. But no sooner has the company begun filming than complications set in: first there is resistance to the movie by some very vocal local agitators, then come the disappearances of several people while on the set. When star and producer Marlon Brandon goes missing, Sarah Booth Delaney and detective agency partner Tinkie Bellchase Richmond must try to locate him before the production is shut down. Potential suspects and motives abound. Two disgruntled [...]
