Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 15:57:11 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Discovering a local author
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

>sfbookfan at yahoo.com 10/15/03 03:49PM
>Hi all,
>
>The Gaithersburg Gazette (section 2 - Bookmarks) had a
>short article today about local authors who write
>mysteries.  One of them was Donna Andrews.  She also
>writes a futuristic mystery series set in Washington,
>D.C. featuring "Turing Hopper, a crime-solving
>sentient artificial intelligence personality."  I
>found one of the books -You've got Murder - in the
>library.  The Gazette says she lives in Reston and the
>book says she lives in Arlington.
>
>Sounds like SF to me, but in the acknowledgments, one
>of her friends assures her, "Of course, it's mystery
>not science fiction."  Sigh.
>

"You've Got Murder, the first of a new series, will be released by
Berkley Prime Crime in April 2002. The protagonist of this book is
an artificial intelligence personality--or AIP--who lives in a large
corporate computer and has achieved sentience. When the
programmer who created her disappears, she decides to play
sleuth."  <http://www.donnaandrews.com/news.shtml>

CapClave Program Dept: her contact info is located at: http://www.donnaandr=
ews.com/ .

& Peter Heck, who has been in the skiffy field for some time, also writes =
mysteries featuring Mark Twain.

mjw