For all you mystery/suspense writers and fans, Mystery Writers of America has announced the winners of the 2010 Edgars.
Best Novel: The Last Child by John Hart (Minotaur Books)
Best First Novel by an American Author: In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff (Minotaur Books)
Best Paperback Original: Body Blows by Marc Strange (Dundurn Press)
Best Critical/Biographical: The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest Detectives (Hachette - Little, Brown)
Best Fact Crime: Columbine by Dave Cullen (Hachette - Twelve)
Best Short Story: "Amapola" in Phoenix Noir, by Luis Alberto Urrea (Akashic Books)
Best Young Adult: Reality Check by Peter Abrahams (HarperCollins - HarperTeen)
Best Juvenile: Closed for the Season by Mary Downing Hahn (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Best Television Episode Teleplay: "Place of Execution" by Patrick Harbinson (PBS/WGBH Boston)
Robert L. Fish Memorial Award: "A Dreadful Day" by Dan Warthman, in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
The Simon & Schuster - Mary Higgins Clark Award: Awakening by S.J. Bolton (Minotaur Books)
If you are an author or aspiring author, it is always wise and informative to keep up with the major awards given out by respected bodies in your genre. Go read the list of all the nominees, take note of which publishing houses are well represented. Look at the subgenres getting the most attention.
http://www.theedgars.com/nominees.html
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"If you are an author or aspiring author, it is always wise and informative to keep up with the major awards given out by respected bodies in your genre. Go read the list of all the nominees, take note of which publishing houses are well represented. Look at the subgenres getting the most attention."
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Thanks for posting the Edgar winners and mentioning my book, Ellora's Cave editors. I really appreciate it.
ReplyDeleteIt was quite an honor, and a fun night at the Edgars. I was touched to be nominated, and to take home the little guy.
Because of the interest from students and teachers/profs, we’ve created lesson plans and I’m doing phone-ins or skype to book clubs.
An expanded paperback edition is just out. I spent a lot of time on the new material, so I hope it's OK to mention what I added:
— A 12-page afterword: “Forgiveness.” It includes startling new revelations on the killers' parents. The purpose, though, was to look at three victims in very different places 11 years later, and how forgiving played a pivotal role in their grief. I discovered the secret meetings with the killers' parents in the process.
— Actual journal pages from Eric Harris & Dylan Klebold.
— Book Club Discussion Questions (also available at Oprah.com).
— Diagram of Columbine High School and environs.
— A large-print edition is also now available.
There's lots more info at my Columbine site.
Thanks again.