News: March 2008 Archives
The nominees for the 2008 Thriller
awards have been selected. Out of a field of over five hundred books,
the list has been narrowed to five titles in each of the following
categories:
BEST NOVEL
No Time For Goodbye by Linwood Barclay (Bantam)
The Watchman by Robert Crais (Simon & Schuster)
The Ghost by Robert Harris (Simon & Schuster)
The Crime Writer by Gregg Hurwitz (Viking)
Trouble by Jesse Kellerman (Putnam)
BEST FIRST NOVEL
Interred With Their Bones by Jennifer Lee Carrell (Dutton)
Big City, Bad Blood by Sean Chercover (William Morrow)
From the Depths by Gerry Doyle (McBook Press)
Volk's Game by Brent Ghelfi (Henry Holt and Co.)
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill (William Morrow)
BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL
The Last Nightingale by Anthony Flacco (Ballantine)
A Thousand Bones by P.J. Parrish (Pocket)
The Midnight Road by Tom Piccirilli (Bantam)
The Queen of Bedlam by Robert McCammon (Pocket)
Shattered by Jay Bonansinga (Pinnacle)
The winners will be announced at Thrillerfest 2008 at the Grand Hyatt in New York City during a gala awards banquet on Saturday, July 12th.
Wyoming authors W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear have been selected to receive the 2008 Literary Contribution Award from the Mountain Plains Library Association. Beth Avery, the Chair of the Awards Committee, says "The award is given to an author whose published writings are most successfully furthering an understanding and appreciation of the Mountain Plains region." The MPLA Award banquet will be held at the annual conference, Thursday evening, May 1, 2008, in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The Gears, who say they are "deeply honored" by the award, will give the keynote speech at the conference. For more information go to:http://www.ula.org/conference/2008conf/index.php.
The Gears, who say they are "deeply honored" by the award, will give the keynote speech at the conference. For more information go to:http://www.ula.org/conference/2008conf/index.php.
Eight professional novelists, screenwriters and reviewers have banded
together to form a unique group, The Liars
Club. The Club includes
Jonathan Maberry (Bram Stoker Award-winner who writes
supernatural thrillers for Pinnacle, nonfic for Citadel and has just
turned in his firs bio-terrorism thriller to St. Martins Press);
Gregory Frost (currently writing YA fantasy for Random House); Jon
McGoran (who publishes forensics mysteries for Penguin as D H Dublin);
L. A. Banks (New York Times best-selling author of the Vampire Huntress
series); Kelly Simmons (her debut novel from Atria nailed a starred
review from PW); Duane Swierczynski (author of gritty crime novels for
St. Martin's Minotaur and comics for Marvel); Laura Schrock (Emmy
Award-winning TV producer and scriptwriter); and Ed Pettit (book
reviewer for the Philadelphia Inquirer and renowned expert on Edgar
Allen Poe).
Club. The Club includes
Jonathan Maberry (Bram Stoker Award-winner who writes
supernatural thrillers for Pinnacle, nonfic for Citadel and has just
turned in his firs bio-terrorism thriller to St. Martins Press);
Gregory Frost (currently writing YA fantasy for Random House); Jon
McGoran (who publishes forensics mysteries for Penguin as D H Dublin);
L. A. Banks (New York Times best-selling author of the Vampire Huntress
series); Kelly Simmons (her debut novel from Atria nailed a starred
review from PW); Duane Swierczynski (author of gritty crime novels for
St. Martin's Minotaur and comics for Marvel); Laura Schrock (Emmy
Award-winning TV producer and scriptwriter); and Ed Pettit (book
reviewer for the Philadelphia Inquirer and renowned expert on Edgar
Allen Poe).
Continue reading The Liars Club.
Bram Stoker Award-winning author Jonathan Maberry will be the keynote
speaker at The Write Stuff Writers Conference on March 28-29, 2008. The
conference, which will be held at The Four Points Sheraton, Allentown,
PA is sponsored by the Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group.
Maberry's topic is "I Can Write That."
For more information visit http://www.glvwg.org/conference/index.html
Maberry's topic is "I Can Write That."
For more information visit http://www.glvwg.org/conference/index.html
ThrillerFest
ITW's annual celebration of the thriller world is the largest event of its kind, a meeting place for authors, readers, budding writers, and publishing industry professionals.
For 2009, we're in the heart of New York in July, with two special add-on events, CraftFest and AgentFest, where authors of all levels can meet the professionals.
ThrillerFest 2009 will be held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City. There are limited rooms available at our 2009 conference rate. As soon as you register, please make your hotel reservation--don't wait! Once our block of rooms is filled, there will be no space available at the conference rate. You must be registered for the conference before making a hotel reservation. Please call the Hyatt at 1-800-233-1234 for reservations.
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