Congratulations to the winners of the 2016 Thriller Awards, announced at the Thrillerfest banquet this past weekend. They include:
- Best Novel: The Fifth Gospel by Ian Caldwell
- Best First Novel: Bull Mountain by Brian Panowich
- Best Paperback Original: Against All Enemies by John Gilstrap
- Best Short Story: "Gun Accident" by Joyce Carol Oats
- Best Young Adult: Pretending to be Erica by Michelle Painchaud
- Best e-Book Original: The Prisoner's Gold by Chris Kusneski
The Strand Magazine Strand Magazine Critics Awards were also announced, with Best Novel handed out to The Whites, by Richard Price writing as Harry Brandt, and Best First Novel going to Past Crimes, by Glen Erik Hamilton. As was previously announced, Colin Dexter and Jeffery Deaver received this year’s Strand Critics lifetime achievement awards. (HT to Mystery Fanfare)
The annual Deadly Ink Conference announced the nominees for the David Award, including Ornaments of Death by by Jane K. Cleland, Big Shoes by by Jack Getze, What You See by Hank Philippi Ryan, Forgiving Maximo Rothman by A. J. Sidransk, and Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter.
The inaugural Whistler Independent Book Awards for Canadian authors announced finalists in the four represented genres including crime fiction. That list will be whittled down by Canadian Authors Vancouver, with the winners handed out at this year’s Whistler Writers Festival during the Literary Cabaret event on October 14.
Although it's sold out, you might keep your eye out for future Crime Scene Live events like the upcoming fest at London's Natural History Museum on July 17. The interactive night combines real science and crime fiction as it allows guests to work with the museum's scientists to solve a murder mystery by gathering and analyzing evidence and trawling through the evidence room to piece together the clues using case files, images, recordings and fingerprint analysis.
Malice Domestic's William F. Deeck-Malice Domestic Grant Program for Unpublished Writers is open for submissions through November 1, 2016. The program is designed to foster quality Malice Domestic literature and to assist the next generation of traditional mystery authors on the road to publication. Grant winners receive a $2,500 award plus one comprehensive registration for the upcoming Malice convention and two nights’ lodging at the convention hotel. You can visit the website for detailed submission guidelines and a list of previous Malice Grant winners.
Coffin Hop Press and Opal Publishing are teaming up to present the "When Words Collide" edition of Calgary’s only official Noir at the Bar event at the Boomtown Pub on August 12. Authors scheduled to appear so far include Marty Chan, Julie E. Czerneda, Ian Hamilton, Robert Runté, and Eve Silver.
Minotaur Books / A Thomas Dunne Book and Wordharvest announced that they have joined forces with Western Writers of America, who will now host the Tony Hillerman Prize. The change includes a new submission deadline, an option for electronic manuscript submission, and a new venue for the announcement of the winner at the annual Western Writers of America convention. It also means that competition for 2016 has been suspended, with the new deadline for the 2017 competition January 2, 2017. Interested authors can check out the guidelines and the online submission here. (HT to Mystery Fanfare)
The summer edition of Suspense Magazine has interviews and profiles featuring authors Brad Meltzer, Graham Masterton, Lisa Unger, L.J. Sellers, Warren C. Easley, debut author, Ezekiel Boone, and more; Joseph Badal and Allison Leotta have cool writing tips in Craft Corner; Dennis Palumbo shares his take on She's Your Agent, Not Your Mother; Anthony Franze and Lois Winston talk writing; and there are over 20 pages of book reviews, short stories, and other articles.
Carol Westron penned a guest blog post for Promoting Crime about the rise of fingerprinting and forensic science during the Golden Age of crime fiction and how it worked its way into the novels of Arthur Conan Doyle, R. Austin Freeman, Dorothy L Sayers, and Annie Haynes.
For years, the final resting place of pioneering crime writer Mary Fortune has been a mystery. Now Lucy Sussex, biographer of Fergus Hume and long-time champion of Fortune and her work, has discovered the unmarked grave where the author has lain since 1911. Fortune, who Sussex says "could be the mother of Australian crime writing," was one of the first writers of police procedurals and between 1868 and 1908 wrote more than 500 stories for The Australian Journal. But she used a pseudonym, W.W., standing for Waif Wander, and her identity was revealed only in the 1950s.
The Bouchercon Conference did a nice thing by making all of the Anthony Award Best Short Story finalist entries available for reading online. Check out all of them via this link.
Chet Williamson, writing for The Guardian, picked his "Top 10 novels about deranged killers": from Norman Bates to Hannibal Lecter, murderous bogeymen exercise an enduring grip on readers’ imaginations.
Meanwhile, the Decider website decided which crime shows were among the "top 10" of the new millennium.
If you are a die-hard book lover, why not carry your love of books around with you? As in a book-scented perfume. Boing Boing notes there are dozens of such new products, from Demeter Paperback Cologne ("used bookstore": paper, violets and potpourri) to Byredo M/Mink (smells like ink); to Kilian Water Calligraphy ("blended to reflect a scent of Chinese ink sliding over rice paper") to Tokyo Milk Parfumarie Curiosite 17 Paper & Cotton ("coriander, white sage, birch wood, and tundra moss"); and Paper Passion ("the unique bouquet of freshly printed books").
The featured crime poem at the 5-2 this week is "Dangerous Honesties" by Sara J. Tantlinger.
In the Q&A roundup, Manning Wolfe chats with The Mystery People about her series featuring Austin attorney Merit Bridges; the MP's also sat down for a chat with Billy Kring, who draws from his experiences as a former border agent for his heroine Hunter Kincaid; Omnimystery News welcomed Rick Bylina to discuss his new cozy mystery titled Kill All Cats; and Criminal Element snagged John Farrow, author of the Storm Murders Trilogy, to answer questions about his retired detective, Émile Cinq-Mars, and new book, Seven Days Dead.
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