News: March 2009 Archives
International Thriller Writers announces the formation of our new Social Networks Committee headed by chair Sheila English. Sheila will direct the efforts to establish, expand and maintain the ITW Internet footprint in the social networks arena. Already online are ITW's Facebook, MySpace and Twitter pages. We encourage our subscribers and members to visit these sites and take part in our ongoing program to establish and build relationships between ITW members and thriller fans worldwide.Sheila Clover English is CEO of Circle of Seven Productions and Executive Producer of Reader's Entertainment TV. She is a member of the Downloadable Media Association, the Internet Content Syndication Council and the Silver Telly Council.
Sheila is a multi-award winning producer, copy writer and director of book commercials, including top awards from the prestigious Telly Awards, Davey Awards, Cameo Awards, EMPixx Awards and The Black Quill Awards. Her most recent award was for Excellence in Email Marketing.
She has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The New York Times and on NPR as well as featured in technology circles such as TubeMogul University, Ask the Experts and Robert Scoble's Fast Company Show.
As a speaker she has done lectures, panels and workshops on book marketing and technology for Book Expo America, Romance Writers of American, ThrillerFest, PubWest, Troy Booklovers Festival, Romantic Times and Lori Foster's Book Lover's Convention. She is a regular contributor to Future Perfect Publishing Blog.
The Left Coast Crime Awards were announced last Wednesday in Hawaii. Congratulations to the many ITW members on the lists!
THE BRUCE ALEXANDER MEMORIAL HISTORICAL MYSTERY
Tasha Alexander: A Fatal Waltz (HarperCollins)
Rhys Bowen: A Royal Pain (Berkley Prime Crime)
Rhys Bowen: Tell Me Pretty Maiden (St. Martin's)
Laurie R. King: Touchstone (Bantam)
Kelli Stanley: Nox Dormienda, A Long Night For Sleeping (Five Star) - WINNER
HAWAII FIVE-0
Baron Birtcher: Angels Fall (Iota)
Kate Flora: The Angel of Knowlton Park (Five Star)
Asa Larsson: The Black Path (Delta)
G.M. Malliet: Death of a Cozy Writer (Midnight Ink)
Neil S. Plakcy: Mahu Fire (Alyson Books) - WINNER
Karin Slaughter: Fractured (Delacorte)
THE LEFTY
Donna Andrews: Six Geese a-Slaying (St. Martin's)
Jeffrey Cohen: It Happened One Knife (Berkley Prime Crime)
Sue Ann Jaffarian: Thugs and Kisses (Midnight Ink)
N.M. Kelby: Murder at the Bad Girl's Bar and Grill (Shaye Areheart Books/Random House Group)
Rita Lakin: Getting Old is To Die For (Dell/Bantam)
Tim Maleeny: Greasing the Pinata (Poisoned Pen Press) - WINNER
In addition, the Dilys Award was presented by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association at the Left Coast Crime awards ceremony. The winner was Sean Chercover's Trigger City.
THE BRUCE ALEXANDER MEMORIAL HISTORICAL MYSTERY
Tasha Alexander: A Fatal Waltz (HarperCollins)
Rhys Bowen: A Royal Pain (Berkley Prime Crime)
Rhys Bowen: Tell Me Pretty Maiden (St. Martin's)
Laurie R. King: Touchstone (Bantam)
Kelli Stanley: Nox Dormienda, A Long Night For Sleeping (Five Star) - WINNER
HAWAII FIVE-0
Baron Birtcher: Angels Fall (Iota)
Kate Flora: The Angel of Knowlton Park (Five Star)
Asa Larsson: The Black Path (Delta)
G.M. Malliet: Death of a Cozy Writer (Midnight Ink)
Neil S. Plakcy: Mahu Fire (Alyson Books) - WINNER
Karin Slaughter: Fractured (Delacorte)
THE LEFTY
Donna Andrews: Six Geese a-Slaying (St. Martin's)
Jeffrey Cohen: It Happened One Knife (Berkley Prime Crime)
Sue Ann Jaffarian: Thugs and Kisses (Midnight Ink)
N.M. Kelby: Murder at the Bad Girl's Bar and Grill (Shaye Areheart Books/Random House Group)
Rita Lakin: Getting Old is To Die For (Dell/Bantam)
Tim Maleeny: Greasing the Pinata (Poisoned Pen Press) - WINNER
In addition, the Dilys Award was presented by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association at the Left Coast Crime awards ceremony. The winner was Sean Chercover's Trigger City.
The April issue of The Writer Magazine features the article Ten Basic Ingredients for a Successful Thriller by ITW member and bestselling author, Gary Braver. In his article, the veteran of the genre lists the 10 basic ingredients you'll need to cook up the perfect story.Braver is a charter member of ITW who helped conceive of the organization during the first Bouchercon meeting in Toronto, October 2004 along with David Morrell and Gayle Lynds. Braver is also the bestselling author of seven critically acclaimed thrillers including Flashback (2006). Visit Braver's website at www.garybraver.com for more info.
RABBIT IN THE MOON, by Deborah and Joel Shlian, has won the the Gold
Medal in the Genre Fiction category for the Florida Book Awards.
The Florida Book Awards--now the most comprehensive state book awards program in the nation--is an annual program established in 2006 that recognizes, honors, and celebrates the best Florida literature published in the previous year. It is coordinated by the Florida State University Program in American and Florida Studies, and co-sponsored by the Florida Center for the Book; State Library and Archives of Florida; Florida Historical Society; Florida Humanities Council; Florida Literary Arts Coalition; Florida Library Association; "Just Read, Florida!"; Governor's Family Literacy Initiative; Florida Association for Media in Education; Florida Center for the Literary Arts; Florida Chapter of the Mystery Writers of America; and the Friends of FSU Libraries.
For more information, please visit Deborah's site at http://www.shlian.com.
The Florida Book Awards--now the most comprehensive state book awards program in the nation--is an annual program established in 2006 that recognizes, honors, and celebrates the best Florida literature published in the previous year. It is coordinated by the Florida State University Program in American and Florida Studies, and co-sponsored by the Florida Center for the Book; State Library and Archives of Florida; Florida Historical Society; Florida Humanities Council; Florida Literary Arts Coalition; Florida Library Association; "Just Read, Florida!"; Governor's Family Literacy Initiative; Florida Association for Media in Education; Florida Center for the Literary Arts; Florida Chapter of the Mystery Writers of America; and the Friends of FSU Libraries.
For more information, please visit Deborah's site at http://www.shlian.com.
Congratulations to our Win-A-Thriller Library winners. Kay Burke is our Grand Prize Winner. Kay will receive a collection of 150 signed thrillers from bestselling authors like Gayle Lynds, Michael Palmer, Allison Brennan, Kathy Reichs, Joseph Finder, Barry Eisler, Sandra Brown, Lisa Jackson and more.Our 3 runner-up winners are Howard Siggelko, Ann Boles and Donald Cash. Each runner-up winner will received a copy of the bestselling anthology THRILLER, a collection of short stories by thriller authors Steve Berry, Lee Child, Heather Graham, Eric Van Lustbader, Katherine Neville, James Rollins, Brad Thor and more. The THRILLER anthology is edited by James Patterson.
Thanks to everyone for entering our contest and for being Big Thrill thriller fans!
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 2011, we’ll be back in the heart of New York in July with the ThrillerFest conference including CraftFest and AgentFest.
ThrillerFest VI will be held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City.
The dates will be July 6-9, 2011.
More information to follow.
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