Aspen Mays' Rainbow Spectrum Book Sculpture
The Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards Shortlists 2012, including those for the Gold, Steel and John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Awards were announced last Friday. The Gold Dagger is the highest honor the Crime Writers Association hands out each year, and the nominees are Vengeance in Mind by N.J. Cooper, The Flight by M.R. Hall, The Rage by Gene Kerrigan, and Bereft by Chris Womersley.
Congrat also to the winners of the Killer Nashville conference awards, including 2012 Claymore Award Winner: Jonathan Stone for Again and the Silver Falchion Award winner, C.Hope Clark for Lowcountry Bribe.
Coming soon: the anthology Beat to a Pulp: Superhero, featuring 12 short stories from Keith Rawson, Sandra Seamans, Kevin Burton Smith, Steve Weddle and other prime author fine authors of short crime fiction.
Submissions are now open for the seventh annual Black Orchid Novella Award. Stories must be original works of 15,000 to 20,000 words in the tradition of the ratiocinative detective, as exemplified by Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe. Your entry should also emphasize the deductive skills of the sleuth, contain no overt sex or violence and not include characters from the original series. You've still got time; submissions must be postmarked by May 31, 2013. The winner receives $1,000 plus publication in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine.
Otto Penzler of the Mysterious Press (and bookshop) wrote an essay titled "What is Hardboiled Crime? Five Ways to Know It When You Read It." The Open Road Media blog also created a handy infographic and other articles as part of their week-long Hardboiled Genre Spotlight.
September isn't only back-to-school month, it's also a month of some great new paperback and hardcover mystery novels, including Lee Child's latest Jack Reacher novel and new titles from Laurie R. King, Val McDermid, and J.D. Robb. Thanks to Omnimystery News for compiling these lists each month.
The Q&A roundup this week includes Laura Lippman chatting with the Seattle Mystery Bookshop about her writing and the most interesting question she's ever been asked; and Kieran Shea interviewed Sean Chercover for Spinetingler about Chercover's new book The Trinity Game.
If you're a fan of Louise Penny and her Inspector Gamache series (and live in the U.S.), here's your chance to win one of 10 copies in a giveaway from the Criminal Element blog:
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