WHEREAS, Popular Fiction Association of Idaho, Inc. is a volunteer literary non-profit community-based literary arts organization that promotes education and literacy in the community; and

        WHEREAS, it is good for the community to have authors, editors and agents speak to and advise its members about mystery writing, and to encourage reading and writing, it is beneficial for the State of Idaho to give an annual award to an author like Robert Crais who has contributed to the mystery field; and

        WHEREAS, the Popular Fiction Association of Idaho, Inc. has volunteered to organize the presentation of an annual award, whose recipient is determined by Partners in Crime of Boise, and such award is named The Bloody Pen for excellence in the mystery field; and

        WHEREAS, Robert Crais has been selected to be the 2nd recipient of The Bloody Pen Award;

        NOW, THEREFORE, I, C.L. “BUTCH” OTTER, Governor of the State of Idaho, do hereby proclaim that Bloody Pen Award be given to Robert Crais and declare June 9th 2007

ROBERT CRAIS DAY

in Idaho.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the Great Seal of the State of Idaho at Boise, Idaho, on this 7th day of June in the year of our Lord two-thousand and seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred thirty-first and of the Statehood of Idaho the one hundred seventeenth.

BEN YSURSA
SECRETARY OF STATE