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Issue date: July 11, 1999
In
this series:
"Hanging
Out at the Buena Vista" by Elmore Leonard
"An
Inscription" by Alice McDermott
"Congratulations,
You've Just Won" by Jayne Ann Krentz
"Wildflowers"
by Tracie Amirante
"Finish the
Mystery..." by James Ellroy
Also:
Finish-the-Mystery contest rules
USA
WEEKEND's Student Summer Fiction winners
Finish
the mystery...
Vintage Crime/Black
Lizard Books, co-sponsors with USA WEEKEND of this "Finish the Mystery"
Contest, is the premier paperback publisher of crime and mystery
writers.
(This contest has ended. We are no longer accepting submissions for this contest. The winner will be announced around Halloween.)
Meet the
authors of USA WEEKEND's 7th annual Summer Fiction Series:
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 July
11th story
James Ellroy, author of L.A. Confidential
and the new Crime Wave, writes the beginning of a mystery
story that you, the reader, are invited to finish. This fall,
we'll print the winning ending. The contest is co-sponsored
by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Books.
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 July
4th story
Tracie
Amirante
Meet Tracie Amirante, 18,of Palatine, Ill., who won a $2,000
scholarship in USA WEEKEND's fifth annual Student Fiction Contest.
Contest judge Wally Lamb, the novelist, says he knew "from the
first paragraph" of her story that Tracie was a master of "sensual
detail." The Palatine High senior edits a literary magazine
and writes music reviews for her local newspaper, The Daily
Herald. She'll use her $2,000 this fall at Chicago's Roosevelt
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June
27th story
Jayne
Ann Krentz
For 20 years, this romance master has
juggled
multiple pen names. Under her own name, she writes best-selling
contemporary romantic suspense novels; as Amanda Quick, she
writes wildly popular Regency romances. New this spring: Eye
of the Beholder from Krentz (Pocket Books, $24) and
I Thee Wed from Quick (Bantam, $23.95), her 120th novel.
To learn more, go to www.jayneannkrentz.com.
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June
20th story
Alice
McDermott
With four extraordinary novels, McDermott has won critical
acclaim as one of America's finest contemporary writers. Her
latest work is Charming Billy (hardcover, Farrar Straus
Giroux, $22; paperback, Delta, $12.95), for which she won
this year's National Book Award for fiction. (Read an excerpt
at www.randomhouse.com.)
That Night was nominated for the same award in 1987.
McDermott's other novels include the best seller At Weddings
and Wakes
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 June
13th story
Elmore
Leonard has conquered the page, the big screen
and TV with his three dozen books and numerous movies. His
latest book, Be Cool (Delacorte, $25.95), brings back
Chili Palmer, Get Shorty's charming con. Visit www.elmoreleonard.com
for details. In today's story, the Edgar Award winner leaves
his trademark crooks behind -- but not his dry wit or dead-on
dialogue.
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