Well-Behaved Children Seldom Make History Makes the Chanticleer Clue Long List!

Well-Behaved Children Seldom Make History Makes the Chanticleer Clue Long List!

 

The Chanticleer Book Awards just announced the Long List for their Clue Awards for Suspense/Thriller, and Well-Behaved Children Seldom Make History made the Long List!  Congratulations to everybody who made the Long List!

 

This past weekend, the Anthony Awards were announced, and though Some of My Best Friends Are Murderers was nominated in the Nonfiction Category, it did not win.  Similarly, She Ruined Our Lives was nominated for Best Literary at the Silver Falchion Awards but did not win.  Congratulations to the winners of those awards, as well as the other Anthony nominees!

 

–Chris Chan

 

 

 

Chris Chan’s book Sherlock Poems was published on June 30^th!  He is also the author of the CWA Dagger Long Listed The Autistic Sleuth, written with the professional guidance of his mother Dr. Patricia Meyer Chan, and he has also written the Agatha and Anthony-nominated book on the Columbo killers, Some of My Best Friends Are Murderers! He is the author of the Funderburke and Kaiming novels Ghosting My Friend and She Ruined Our Lives and Well-Behaved Children Seldom Make History, released by Level Best Books.  He is also the author of the comedic novels Sherlock’s Secretary and Nessie’s Nemesis, published by MX Publishing, as was his anthology Of Course He Pushed Him and Other Sherlock Holmes Stories Volumes 1 & 2.  His Agatha-nominated book Murder Most Grotesque: The Comedic Crime Fiction of Joyce Porter was published by Level Best Books.  His first non-fiction book, Sherlock & Irene: The Secret Truth Behind “A Scandal in Bohemia” is available for sale at Amazon.com and the MX Publishing website, as well as at Book Depository (with free worldwide shipping there).  It is also available in a Kindle edition.

 

A Potential Preserve MKE Commercial

 A Potential Preserve MKE Commercial

 

(We open outside the Milwaukee Public Museum.  Large crates are being hauled out.  A CONCERNED CITIZEN approaches the workmen.)

 

CONCERNED CITIZEN.  What’s in the crates?

 

WORKMAN.  Oh, just a bunch of items that won’t be making the move to the replacement museum.  Antiques from the Streets of Old Milwaukee, animal exhibits, artwork from ancient cultures….

 

CONCERNED CITIZEN.  Wait… These exhibits are not going to be on display anymore?  What’s happening to them?

 

WORKMAN.  Some will go into storage.  Others will be thrown out, given away, or sold.

 

CONCERNED CITIZEN.  What?  What’s going to get thrown out?  Who will get these exhibits or buy them?

 

WORKMAN.  Don’t ask me.  The museum’s not saying.  I’m just doing my job.

 

(Cut to a Milwaukee public park.)

 

CONCERNED CITIZEN.  Hey!  What’s going on at the park?

 

DEVELOPER.  It’s not a park anymore.  It’s been rezoned for a housing project.  

 

CONCERNED CITIZEN.  You can’t tear up these woods.  This is a public park!

 

DEVELOPER.  Not anymore.  It’s been rezoned for construction.  Now go away before I have you arrested for trespassing.

 

(Cut to the Charles Allis Art Museum.)

 

CONCERNED CITIZEN.  What’s happening to the art museum?

 

REALTOR.  The county’s selling the building.

 

(Cut to a public pool.)

 

CONCERNED CITIZEN.  What can’t I take a swim?

 

LIFEGUARD.  The pool’s being sold.  It’s going to become a bar.

 

CONCERNED CITIZEN.  I can’t believe it!  All of this valuable property is being sold,  and artwork and historical treasures are being sold or thrown away.  What’s going on?  Where is the money going?  Why isn’t the news covering this?  What’s going to be gotten rid of next?

 

(Fade to black.  These words appear on the screen:

IF WE DON’T ACT NOW, MORE AND MORE OF MILWAUKEE’S PRICELESS TREASURES WILL BE GONE FOREVER.

 

SAVE THE MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM.  IF WE LOSE IT, WHO KNOWS WHAT WE’LL LOSE NEXT.)  

For more information, get in touch with Preserve MKE, please!

 

 

–Chris Chan

 

 

 

Chris Chan’s book Sherlock Poems was published on June 30^th!  He is also the author of the CWA Dagger Long Listed The Autistic Sleuth, written with the professional guidance of his mother Dr. Patricia Meyer Chan, and he has also written the Agatha and Anthony-nominated book on the Columbo killers, Some of My Best Friends Are Murderers! He is the author of the Funderburke and Kaiming novels Ghosting My Friend and She Ruined Our Lives and Well-Behaved Children Seldom Make History, released by Level Best Books.  He is also the author of the comedic novels Sherlock’s Secretary and Nessie’s Nemesis, published by MX Publishing, as was his anthology Of Course He Pushed Him and Other Sherlock Holmes Stories Volumes 1 & 2.  His Agatha-nominated book Murder Most Grotesque: The Comedic Crime Fiction of Joyce Porter was published by Level Best Books.  His first non-fiction book, Sherlock & Irene: The Secret Truth Behind “A Scandal in Bohemia” is available for sale at Amazon.com and the MX Publishing website, as well as at Book Depository (with free worldwide shipping there).  It is also available in a Kindle edition.