Colin O'Sullivan's debut novel Killarney Blues (Foreign Novel) and Franz Bartelt's The 'Hôtel du Grand Cerf (French Novel) were awarded the 2018 Prix Mystère de la critique in France. The award was established in 1972 by the magazine Mystère, making it one of the oldest French awards for a detective novel, and continues to be awarded each year by its founder, Georges Rieben and a jury of reviewers.
The British Book Awards unveiled the nominees for 2018, including those in the Crime & Thriller category: J P Delaney's The Girl Before; Lee Child’s The Midnight Line; Jane Harper’s The Dry; Sarah Pinborough’s Behind Her Eyes; Mick Herron’s Spook Street; and Erin Kelly’s He Said/She Said.
The Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) unveiled nods for their annual Ben Franklin Awards for best novels of the past year, including Mystery/Suspense: Death on West End Road: A Hamptons Murder Mystery by Carrie Doyle; Full Service Blonde: A Copper Black Mystery by Megan Edwards; The Old Cape Hollywood Secret by Barbara Eppich Struna; and The Ploy by Marilyn Jax.
Foreword Reviews also announced the Foreword Indie Awards finalists in various categories, including Best Thriller/Suspense and Best Mystery.
Editors Sandra Ruttan and Brien Lindenmuth, formerly of Spinetingler Magazine, are starting up a brand-new publication titled Toe Six Press. They will be accepting submissions soon for short crime fiction, and in the meantime, they have some Author Snapshots up on the website.
Open Road Integrated Media has acquired U.S. ebook rights to 27 titles by the iconic British journalist-novelist Graham Greene (1904-1991), whose works have never before been published in ebook format in the States. The first three are among Graham’s most recognized works: The Quiet American, The Power and the Glory, and The End of the Affair. On April 10, The Heart of the Matter, Brighton Rock, Travels With My Aunt, and other titles will be released, with more than 15 titles to be added during the year.
Jeffery Deaver will be headlining a series of workshops for the Mystery Writers of America titled "Writing Commercial Fiction." In each case, the award-winning author will lead groups in a morning session and will be joined in an afternoon session (on publishing options and a Q&A) with a panel of other authors. Coming up next is Newton, Massachusetts, where the New England Chapter of MWA will host the workshop on March 24, and then the Rocky Mountain Chapter will sponsor the event in Denver on April 7.
If you're a writer who wants to attend a conference but has a hard time traveling, the Writers Digest University is offering its annual mystery/thriller online workshop April 6-8. Participants will spend the weekend learning techniques for honing their craft from bestselling authors and then pitch their novel via query letter to a literary agent specifically looking for material in the mystery or thriller genre.
The 2018 Bay Area Book Festival on April 28th and 29th in Berkeley, California, will include panels of interest to mystery readers, several sponsored by Mystery Writers of America, Northern California Chapter. Among the highlights will be Catherine Coulter being interviewed by Laurie R. King; a panel titled "Insider, Outsider: Do PIs or Cops Do It Better?" with Cara Black, Candice Fox, Matt Goldman, and Rachel Howzell Hall, moderated by Bill Petrocelli; and "Women Plot the Crime" with Sara Blaedel, Anne Holt, and Yrsa Sigurdardóttir, moderated by Cara Black. There will also be a Noir at the Bar event on the 28th. (HT to Mystery Fanfare)
It’s March Madness season, and Writers' Digest got in on the action, writing style, with "Literary Lunacy: Vote in a March Madness Bracket for Book Lovers."
Ruth Downie is the author of a series of mysteries featuring Roman Army medic and reluctant sleuth, Gaius Petreius Ruso, including the newly released Memento Mori. Downie applied the Page 69 Test to Memento Mori and reported the results.
This week's crime poem at the 5-2 is "Dogs to the Chain" by John Patrick Robbins.
The annual Malice Domestic conference is coming up April 28-29, and The Stiletto Gang posted interviews with all of the nominees for the Agatha Award for Best First Novel.
In other Q&A roundup items, the Mystery People's Matthew Turbeville interviewed Bob Kolker about his true-crime book Lost Girls; Crime Fiction Lover chatted with Robert Goddard, whose crime novels across the UK and around the world, including his latest and 27th book, Panic Room, a contemporary thriller based in Cornwall; and Writers Who Kill blogger E.B. Davis spoke with Shawn Reilly Simmons as they discussed Simmons' Murder On The Rocks, the fifth Red Carpet Catering Mystery
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