Announcing: A FATAL WINTER

05/04/2012

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Max Tudor's second adventure is now available for preorder, wherever you prefer to shop: Online, in bookstores--and don't forget the beloved independent bookstores. Here are the ISBNs that officially identify the book for booksellers:

Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-64797-1

E-book ISBN: 978-1-250-01825-0

The book cover is coming soon and I'll post it here. It is a knockout.
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WICKED AUTUMN nominated for the 2012 Dilys Award

01/26/2012

 
__ The 2012 Dilys Winn Award Nominees have been announced and WICKED AUTUMN, I am so very pleased to say, is on the list. (I mean, just look at the other nominees, below!)

The winner will be named at the Left Coast Crime convention in March. The Dilys is given each year by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association (IMBA) to the book independent booksellers most enjoyed selling during the past year.

The 2012 Dilys Nominees Are:

FAITHFUL PLACE, Tana French
WICKED AUTUMN, G.M. Malliet
TAG MAN, Archer Mayor
A TRICK OF THE LIGHT, Louise Penny
GHOST HERO, S.J. Rozan

 

2010 Agatha Award Nominees and Winners

05/01/2011

 
Presented last night at the Malice Domestic banquet.
* denotes winner.

Best Novel:
Stork Raving Mad by Donna Andrews (Minotaur)
* Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny (Minotaur)
The Scent of Rain and Lightning by Nancy Pickard (Ballantine)
Drive Time by Hank Phillippi Ryan (Mira)
Truly, Madly by Heather Webber (St. Martin's Paperbacks)

Best First Novel:
* The Long Quiche Goodbye by Avery Aames (Berkley)
Murder at the PTA by Laura Alden (Obsidian)
Maid of Murder by Amanda Flower (Five Star/Gale)
Full Mortality by Sasscer Hill (Wildside Press)
Diamonds for the Dead by Alan Orloff (Midnight Ink)

Best Non-fiction:
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum (Penguin)
* Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: 50 Years of Mysteries in the Making by John Curran (Harper)
Sherlock Holmes for Dummies by Stephen Doyle & David A. Crowder (For Dummies)
Have Faith in Your Kitchen by Katherine Hall Page (Orchises Press)
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang (W.W. Norton & Co.)

Best Short Story:
"Swing Shift" by Dana Cameron, Crimes by Moonlight (Berkley)
"Size Matters" by Sheila Connolly, Thin Ice (Level Best Books)
"Volunteer of the Year" by Barb Goffman, Chesapeake Crimes: They Had it Comin' (Wildside Press)
* "So Much in Common" by Mary Jane Maffini, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine - Sept./Oct. 2010
"The Green Cross" by Liz Zelvin, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine - August 2010

Best Children's/Young Adult:
Theodore Boone, Kid Lawyer by John Grisham (Dutton Children's)
Theodosia and the Eyes of Horus by R. L. LaFevers (Houghton Mifflin)
The Agency: A Spy in the House by Y. S. Lee (Candlewick)
Virals by Kathy Reichs (Razorbill)
* The Other Side of Dark by Sarah Smith (Atheneum)

 

Library of Virginia

01/07/2010

 
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Death and the Lit Chick is one of the nominees in the fiction category of the Library of Virginia 2010 Literary Awards. Here are all of last year's winners:

Poetry: Lisa Russ Spaar. Satin Cash. Persea Books.

Fiction: Domnica Radulescu. Train to Trieste. Alfred A. Knopf.

Nonfiction: Annette Gordon-Reed. The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family. W. W. Norton Company.

People's Choice Award for Fiction: Martin Clark, The Legal Limit

People's Choice Award for Nonfiction: Roger Mudd, The Place to Be: Washington, CBS, and the Glory Days of Television News

Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient: John Grisham
 

I am pleased to announce - Anthony Award, IPPY Medal!

05/19/2009

 

Death of a Cozy Writer has been nominated for an Anthony Award for Best First Novel. 

On May 15, it was announced that Death of a Cozy Writer tied for a silver medal for the IPPY, the independent publishers award, in the Mystery/Suspense/Thriller category.

 

Macavity and IPPY

05/05/2009

 

Received word on May 4 that Death of a Cozy Writer has been nominated for a Macavity Award for Best First Novel from Mystery Readers International. The Macavity is awarded each year at Bouchercon, which this year will be held in Indianapolis.

Death of a Cozy Writer is also on the list for an IPPY, the independent publishers award.

I was in the company of Louise Penny and Rhys Bowen, also up for a Macavity for Best Novel and Best Historical, respectively, when we got the news. We were traveling up to PA with Marcia Talley and Mary Jane Maffini for the book festival in Oakmont, and had stopped in a famous old tavern for lunch on the way. Much rejoicing.

 

Agatha Awards

05/04/2009

 

I am humbled and stunned to have won the Agatha Award for Best First Novel.

 

Death of a Cozy Writer Nominated for an Agatha Award

02/24/2009

 

I am thrilled to announce that Death of a Cozy Writer has been nominated for an Agatha Award for Best First Novel. The Agatha Award is given to books best typified by the works of Agatha Christie. The Agathas will be handed out during the Malice Domestic banquet on May 2.

 

Book 'em, Sergeant Fear

01/20/2009

 

I'm very pleased to announce that Death of a Cozy Writer has been nominated for the 2009 Left Coast Crime/Hawaii Five-O Award (best police procedural).