Winning Memory

Just got an email from Charles Ardai, the editor at Hard Case Crime, telling us that we've won one of a dozen advance copies he's giving away of the unpublished noir novel Memory by the late Donald E. Westlake. The Hard Case Crime webpage about the book calls it "a dark and painful portrait of a man's struggle against merciless forces that threaten to strip him of his very identity."

I'll blog about the book here after we receive it. But you can learn more about it by clicking About Memory

The Decade’s Most Awarded Hard-Boiled Authors � The Mystery Bookshelf

Our friend Kent Krueger is included in this list of The Decade’s Most Awarded Hard-Boiled Authors � The Mystery Bookshelf

An Actual Blog For A Change � Christopher Fowler's Blog

One of my actual favorite bloggers actually writes an actual blog for a change. At least that's what he says.

An Actual Blog For A Change � Christopher Fowler's Blog

Nebula Awards nominees

The SFWA has released the 2010 Nebula Awards nominees.

Final cover for Android Karenina

The folks at Quirk Classics are showing off the final cover for the next classic novel to get their "quirky" treatment. (If you don't like puns, maybe you are in the wrong place. Or just read Jody's entries.) This one is called Android Karenina and here's what it will look like when released in June.

This steampunky take on Tolstoy's classic follows other Quirk Classic titles Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, and the soon-to-be-published and reviewed here Pride and Prejudice and Zombies prequel Dawn of the Dreadfuls by Steve Hockensmith. Check back after our official launch in March to see David's full review. And maybe Jody's appalled reaction. 

Stay tuned.

David

Strand Critics Awards

Nominees for the 2009 Strand Critics Awards announced and Elmore Leonard honored

The Strand Magazine has announced its nominees for the 2009 Strand Magazine Critics Awards. Recognizing excellence in the field of mystery fiction, the Critics Awards were judged by a select group of book critics and journalists, including Ron Charles (The Washington Post), Julia Keller (Chicago Tribune), Tom Nolan (Wall Street Journal) Paul Harris (The Guardian), and Hallie Ephron (The Boston Globe).

Best Novel

Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown and Company)
The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston (Ballantine Books)
Life Sentences by Laura Lippman (William Morrow)

The Renegades by T. Jefferson Parker (Dutton)

The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters (Riverhead Books)

Best First Novel

Beat the Reaper by Josh Bazell (Little, Brown and Company)

The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry (Penguin Press)

A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick (Algonquin Books) Starvation Lake by Bryan Gruley (Touchstone)
Black Water Rising by Attica Locke (Harper)

The Strand bestowed its Lifetime Achievement Award to Elmore Leonard for his huge body of mystery and crime novels which have been translated into dozens of languages and are regulars on the New York Times best-seller lists.

The awards will be presented in the categories of Best Novel and Best First Novel at an invitation-only cocktail party, hosted by The Strand on July 7 in New York City.

Bram Stoker award nominees

The Bram Stoker Awards from the Horror Writers Association will be presented March 27 at the World Horror Convention in Brighton, UK.


The 2010 nominees are:

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A NOVEL

• Audrey’s Door by Sarah Langan (Harper)
• Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry (St. Martin’s Griffin)
• Quarantined by Joe McKinney (Lachesis Publishing)
• Cursed by Jeremy Shipp (Raw Dog Screaming Press)

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A FIRST NOVEL

• Breathers by S. G. Browne (Broadway Books)
• Solomon’s Grave by Daniel G. Keohane (Dragon Moon Press)
• Damnable by Hank Schwaeble (Jove)
• The Little Sleep by Paul Tremblay (Henry Holt)

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN LONG FICTION

• “Dreaming Robot Monster” by Mort Castle (Mighty Unclean)
• The Hunger of Empty Vessels by Scott Edelman (Bad Moon Books)
• The Lucid Dreaming by Lisa Morton (Bad Moon Books)
• Doc Good’s Traveling Show by Gene O’Neill (Bad Moon Books)

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN SHORT FICTION

• “Keeping Watch” by Nate Kenyon (Monstrous: 20 Tales of Giant Creature Terror)
• “The Crossing of Aldo Ray” by Weston Ochse (The Dead That Walk)
• “In the Porches of My Ears” by Norman Prentiss (Postscripts #1)
• “The Night Nurse” by Harry Shannon (Horror Drive-in)

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN FICTION COLLECTION

• Martyrs and Monsters by Robert Dunbar (DarkHart Press)
• Got to Kill Them All and Other Stories by Dennis Etchison (Cemetery Dance)
• A Taste of Tenderloin by Gene O’Neill (Apex Book Company)
• In the Closet, Under the Bed by Lee Thomas (Dark Scribe Press)

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN ANTHOLOGY (EDITING)

• He is Legend: An Anthology Celebrating Richard Matheson edited by Christopher Conlon (Gauntlet Press)
• Lovecraft Unbound edited by Ellen Datlow (Dark Horse Books)
• Poe edited by Ellen Datlow (Solaris)
• Midnight Walk edited by Lisa Morton (Darkhouse Publishing)

SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN NONFICTION 

• Writers Workshop of Horror by Michael Knost (Woodland Press)
• Cinema Knife Fight by L. L. Soares and Michael Arruda (Fearzone)
• The Stephen King Illustrated Companion by Bev Vincent (Fall River Press)
• Stephen King: The Non-fiction by Rocky Wood and Justin Brook (Cemetery Dance)

 SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN POETRY COLLECTION

• Double Visions by Bruce Boston (Dark Regions)
• North Left of Earth by Bruce Boston (Sam’s Dot)
• Barfodder by Rain Graves (Cemetery Dance)
• Chimeric Machines by Lucy A. Snyder (Creative Guy Publishing)