Sara Paretsky has been named the 2025 Killer Nashville John Seigenthaler Award Winner and Guest of Honor. The award is bestowed upon an individual within the publishing industry who has championed First Amendment Rights to ensure that all opinions are given a voice, has exemplified mentorship and example to authors, supporting the new voices of tomorrow, and/or has written an influential canon of work that will continue to influence authors for many years to come. The award will be presented at the Killer Nashville Awards Dinner.
Here's another bit of good news, via Lesa Holstine: When Bill Crider died in 2018, he left behind over sixty books published by New York publishers including his Sheriff Dan Rhodes series, but beginning with book eleven, they’re now out of print. Bill’s daughter, Angela Crider Neary, and her husband, Tom Neary, have decided to do something about that by republishing the Sheriff Rhodes series. They’re refreshing all twenty-five of those books and also making them available as audiobooks through Audible with a new narrator, Chris Abel. The new books, with Sheriff Dan Rhodes appearing on the covers as Bill Crider described him, will be issued beginning in January with one book issued every four to six weeks.
Scottish company Glencairn Crystal, which produces the whisky glass the Glencairn Glass and has sponsored the McIlvanney and Bloody Scotland Debut crime-writing literary awards since 2020, has launched a new anthology, The Last Dram. The anthology features stories from 16 different authors (including yours truly), all of whom have previously entered the Glencairn Glass Crime Short Story competition over the past three years. All of the profits from the book sales in the run-up to Christmas will go to the UK cancer charity, Maggie’s.
The second Loch Long Crime Writing Residency at Cove Park has been awarded to Callum McSorley. Based in Glasgow, McSorley’s debut novel Squeaky Clean (2023) – inspired by his years working at a car wash in Glasgow’s East End – was praised by the likes of Chris Brookmyre, Peter James, and Kevin Bridges, and featured in 2023 "best of the year" lists in The Guardian, The Scotsman and The Times. He became the youngest ever author to win the prestigious McIlvanney Prize for Best Scottish Crime Novel of the Year. His second novel, Paperboy, will be published in 2025. Launched in March 2024, the Loch Long Crime Writing Residency is a funded residency for Scotland-based writers developing new work in crime fiction. The first award went to Caro Carver.
The deadline for the 2025 Minotaur Books/Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery Novel Competition is fast approaching. The award is open to writers of any nationality, aged 18 or older, who have never been the author of any published mystery novel (including self-published), with a top prize of a $10,000 advance against royalties. Nominees will be selected by judges chosen by the editorial staff of Minotaur Books, and the winner will be chosen by Minotaur Books editors on the basis of the originality, creativity and writing skill of the submission. To be considered for the 2025 competition, all submissions must be received by 11:59pm EST on November 30, 2024.
Editor Janet Rudolph posted that the deadline for articles, reviews, and author essays for the "London" issue of Mystery Readers Journal has been extended until November 15, 2024. The topics can include crime fiction book both in and out of print that are set in London or have a strong London connection. Author essays and articles should be between 500-1,000 words, with reviews 50-250 words.
Another deadline has been extended, from November 1 to December 15. The William F. Deeck-Malice Domestic Grant Program for Unpublished Writers is designed to foster quality literature in the Malice Domestic tradition and assist the next generation of traditional mystery writers on the road to publication. The grant includes a $2,500 cash award and a comprehensive registration to the Malice Domestic conference, including two nights' lodging at the convention hotel. Applicants need to submit the first three chapters of a work in progress, short synopsis, bio, and statement. For more information, click on over here.
In the Q&A roundup, Wisconsin Public Radio chatted with Gabino Iglesias about his novel, House of Bone and Rain, plus hurt, horror, and hurricanes; and Writers Who Kill's E. B. Davis interviewed Heather Weidner about her fourth Glamping Mystery, Deadlines and Valentines.
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