Oh, man, that really sucks. We spent a great day together trawling Maryland used bookstores after the DC Bouchercon years ago, Kerry, Kevin and I. Kerry will be missed.
Mark
> To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
> From: kvnsmith@thrillingdetective.com
> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:18:45 -0700
> Subject: RARA-AVIS: Kerry Schooley, R.I.P.
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> It's not been a good month. I just heard from Peter Sellers, the Canadian crime writer and editor, that our good friend Kerry Schooley is dead, apparently of a heart attack.
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> I'll try to find out more as soon as I can, but I'm not at home right now. And not very good company, I'm afraid.
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> Kerry was of the brightest lights of this list, an intelligent and well-read man whose opinions carried not just weight but grace and wit and generosity of spirit -- things we're too often too of. He was also, under the pen name of John Swan, one of the best noir writers and editors in Canada, sadly under-appreciated. He actually bought my first published fiction. But more than that, he was a good friend. A very good friend.
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> Somehow we lost touch over the last few years, and now we'll never be able to catch up. Fuck. I'm really hurting.
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> Crank up the Otis Redding, boys. We're just lost one of the good ones.
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> Kevin
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