Nancy Drew Interest Leads to Police Academy: If you read Nancy and you want to know more about what police do then the Police Department in Hendersonville TN has a class for you. This worked out real well for recent academy graduate Holly Folsom who says, "Some of the first books I ever read were Nancy Drew books." Applications for the Citizen Police Academy may be picked up at the department's front desk. The cost is $30, which covers the all materials and supplies. And if you're lucky you might find a husband like Holly did. Read more ...

Does anybody really know what time it is ... or maybe the Secret of the Old Clock? Someone who got this game for Christmas, someone who just blows through Sudoku and Zelda, someone who is more than a little outside the 10 - 14 year old age group this game is targeted for, is still struggling with helping dear Emily Crandall and would certainly like to know. No, not me, I'm just sitting on the sidelines watching her change tires, golf and look for clues while drinking just about any Cabernet Sauvignon she can find. Hmmmm ... maybe that's the problem. Oh well ... anyway, the point is that there's a nicely done review of Secret of the Old Clock PC game here ...

Graphic Nancy Wins a Franklin: The first volume in the Nancy Drew graphic novel series from Papercutz, that would be "The Demon of River Heights", was awarded the 2006 Benjamin Franklin Award for best graphic novel. The Franklin Awards are given out by the Publishers Marketing Association, the independent publishers association, at an annual gala held just before the opening of Book Expo America, the book publishing industry's convention. The Graphic Novels category is new this year. Hmmmm .... maybe I need to find a copy of "The Demon" somewhere ... and while I'm thinking about it, maybe I should check out Netfix for Nancy videos and add them to my queue. Learn more about the Franklins ... or about Book Expo America ...

What would Nancy Drew: Kristi Martinelli, 18-year-old Grayson High School senior who holds a private investigator's license from the state of Georgia and thinks "It's pretty cool to follow people" was a big fan of the Nancy Drew detective novel series and is now apparently living the life ... court papers, drug-trafficking, prom dresses ... oh my! Read more ...

Nancy Wins: Mystery Writers of America have announced their 2006 Edgar Winners. Among them, as top book in the Best Critical/Biographical category, is Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her by Melanie Rehak from Harcourt. Read more about 2006 awards at MWA ...

Nancy Drew at AMAZON.CA : Tomorrow, Tuesday May 9th, is the release date for the 1995 Nelvana versions of both Nancy Drew - The Complete 1st Season and The Hardy Boys - The Complete 1st Season at Amazon Canada. Read more ...

All About Nancy ... well, not exactly ... but the short piece called "The Ghost of Nancy Drew" that Kihm Winship includes under "miscellany" at Faithful Readers where it almost gets lost among the many articles about beer such as "Beer Frames: The Meaning of Malty Movie Memories" not only gives an insightful history of the series, but also provides a sense of the fun the books provide and is well worth reading . You could do that right now. Read article ...

Project Sunshine: In their newly released title "The Fake Heir" we get what the Papercutz people call "a little peek at the type of thing Nancy Drew does when she's not solving a mystery" and learn that:

Nancy, along with her best friends Bess Marvin and George Fayne, appear at a local pediatric hospital in River Heights as Project Sunshine volunteers, wearing the organization's distinctive yellow T-shirts. In a comics panel, in which Nancy is making balloon animals, while George juggles, and Bess entertains as a clown, the classic Carolyn Keene character explains "once a month, we do a little act for all the children with serious illnesses, just to try to bring them, well, a little sunshine."

Project Sunshine is a nonprofit organization which provides many free programs and services to children with cancer, AIDS, and other life-threatening illnesses. Project Sunshine Week, a special week in NYC in which businesses collaborate to raise funds and awareness about Project Sunshine, is coming up May 8th to May 15th. Read more about Project Sunshine ... read news release ... or read more about the fifth Nancy Drew graphic novel from Papercutz, "The Fake Heir".

Seventy-six Years Ago: Claire Lui, editorial assistant at American Heritage magazine, has written an overview of the launch of the Stratemeyer Syndicate's Nancy Drew seventy-six years ago on April 28, 1930.

Nancy Drew, the linchpin of the Stratemeyer Syndicate for the next 54 years, would be Edward Stratemeyer’s last hurrah. Twelve days after the first Nancy Drew book was published, he died of pneumonia. Nancy now became the work of two separate women: Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, the new head of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, and Mildred Wirt Benson, the ghostwriter behind most of the early mysteries. Together, Adams and Benson were Carolyn Keene, the author listed in the Library of Congress as Nancy Drew's author. Their differing visions of Nancy would eventually be reflected in two versions of the series.

Lui believes that Nancy, who has never gone out of print, and who is now appearing in new stories will last for at least another 76 years. Read article ...

Nancy Prew: Huh? This blurb from westender.com in Vancouver tells you everything you need to know.

All-American teenage sleuth Nancy Prew (not to be confused with all-American teenage sleuth Nancy Drew, for obvious potentially litigious reasons) is transported from the 1950s to 2006, only to be faced with a dastardly group of conservative evil-doers that plans to turn back the hands of time to Prew's era of chasteness and "family values." Mmmm... that's good satire! The always disrespectful and irreverent Screaming Weenie Productions presents Clue in the Fast Lane, presented as a three-episode series April 11-29 at Odyssey Nightclub (1251 Howe), 7:30 p.m. Tickets $10 from ScreamingWeenie.com, Little Sister's and Tech Direct PC, or $12 at the door ($25 for all three episodes).

Wonder if this show will ever come east where I might have a chance to see it. I suppose I'll just have to settle for Lucy Liu in "Lucky Number Slevin" ... movie also stars Josh Hartnett and Bruce Willis ... hmmmm. Read more ...