Janice MacDonald made media waves this holiday season with tons of coverage of her new Randy Craig mystery, Hang Down Your Head.
On December 16 she was one of several authors interviewed on the CBC Daybreak Christmas Book radio show. Please listen to the full interview here.
Edmonton's Breakfast Television invaded Audrey's Books and owner Sharon Budnarchuck chatted about Hang Down Your Head and Janice MacDonald as one of Edmonton's local luminary authors. Please see the segment here. Janice received some face time of her own on BT Edmonton and had a chance to chat up her latest mystery here.
When interviewed by the Quill and Quire about holiday book sales, Sharon Budnarchuck listed Hang Down Your Head as one of the more popular titles. Please see full article here.
An interview with Janice MacDonald ran in the Edmonton Journal on December 28, 2011. The interviewer reports that, "Mystery readers like a precisely local setting, MacDonald explains, regardless of what that is. They go for place and character because the whodunnit genre is formulaic. While a reader from Norway wouldn’t even blink at a mystery novel set here, locals “find themselves startled by the absolute recognition and reality.”" Please see the full article here.
Janice MacDonald is the current featured alumna on the University of Alberta Faculty of Arts website. According to the article, "MacDonald reflects on her time at the Faculty of Arts as a period that helped to shape her into the author of a series of novels, which often features the U of A. The Randy Craig mystery series keeps readers on edge with the twist and turns of the lead character, Miranda (Randy) Craig, and her brushes with academe in Edmonton. Please see the full article here.