In response to his overwhelming fan support, Robert Liparulo, author of the best-selling Dreamhouse Kings--an action-adventure series for young adults--is personally autographing 30,000 copies of his books.

Liparulo will spend 10 hours a day for seven consecutive days at the Nelson Fiction warehouse in Nashville, Tenn., signing his name to copies of House of Dark Shadows and Watcher in the Woods, the first two installments of the Dreamhouse Kings series. The books will then be made available to students nationwide by Scholastic at book fairs and other special events.

"Seeing young readers' response to these books has been humbling. This is just one small way I can think of to thank them," said Liparulo, whose latest Dreamhouse Kings installment, Timescape, is scheduled for release on July 7th.

The marathon signing session will take an estimated seven 14 hour days to sign 30,000 books, with three people working in an assembly line fashion; the first to open the book and place it in front of Liparulo, the second (Liparulo) to sign it, and a third person to take it away and box it for shipment.

Liparulo has also spent recent months visiting elementary, middle and high schools across the country to meet Dreamhouse Kings fans. A recent visit to a Baton Rouge, La., middle and high school came when the entire student community pitched in to sponsor the trip. In addition to speaking to assembly of 1,000 students, Liparulo met with individual classes to talk about the writer's life, how he created the Dreamhouse Kings series, and how the students themselves can find their passion in life at an early age.

The 2009 Indianapolis Bouchercon committee is delighted to announce the nominees for the 2009 Anthony Awards, recognizing excellence in the mystery genre in 2008.

Best Novel
Trigger City by Sean Chercover [William Morrow]
The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly [Little, Brown and Company]
Red Knife by William Kent Krueger [Atria]
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson [Knopf]
The Cruelest Month by Louise Penny [Minotaur]

Best First Novel
Pushing Up Daisies by Rosemary Harris [Minotaur]
Stalking Susan by Julie Kramer [Doubleday]
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson [Knopf]
Death of a Cozy Writer by G.M. Malliet [Midnight Ink]
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith [Grand Central]

Best Paperback Original
The First Quarry by Max Allan Collins [Hard Case Crime]
Money Shot by Christa Faust [Hard Case Crime]
State of the Onion by Julie Hyzy [Berkley]
In a Dark Season by Vicki Lane [Dell]
South of Hell by P.J. Parrish [Pocket Star]

Best Short Story
"The Night Things Changed" by Dana Cameron from Wolfsbane and
Mistletoe [Ace]
"A Sleep Not Unlike Death" by Sean Chercover from Hardcore Hardboiled
[Kensington]
"Killing Time" by Jane K. Cleland from Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery
Magazine (November)
"Skull and Cross Examination" by Toni L. P. Kelner from Ellery
Queen's Mystery Magazine (February)
"Scratch a Woman" by Laura Lippman from Hardly Knew Her [William Morrow]
"The Secret Lives of Cats" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch from Ellery
Queen's Mystery Magazine (July)

Best Critical Nonfiction Work
African American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study by
Frankie Y. Bailey [McFarland]
How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries by Kathy Lynn Emerson
[Perseverance Press]
Anthony Boucher: A Biobibliography by Jeffrey Marks [McFarland]
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a
Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale [Walker & Company]

Best Children's/Young Adult Novel
The Crossroads by Chris Grabenstein [Random House]
Paper Towns by John Green [Dutton Juvenile]
Kiss Me, Kill Me by Lauren Henderson [Delacorte]
The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey by Trenton
Lee Stewart [Little, Brown]
Sammy Keyes and the Cold Hard Cash by Wendelin Van Draanen [Knopf]

Best Cover Art
Death Was the Other Woman designed by David Rotstein and written by
Linda L. Richards [Minotaur]
Death Will Get You Sober designed by David Rotstein and written by
Elizabeth Zelvin [Minotaur]
The Fault Tree designed by David Rotstein and written by Louise Ure
[Minotaur]
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo designed by Peter Mendelsund and
written by Stieg Larsson [Knopf]
Money Shot designed by Steve Cooley and written by Christa Faust
[Hard Case Crime]

Special Service Award
Jon and Ruth Jordan
Ali Karim
David Montgomery
Gary Warren Niebuhr
Sarah Weinman

Final voting will take place during Bouchercon 2009, the 40th Annual World Mystery Convention, in Indianapolis, Indiana. The winners will be announced at a gala awards ceremony on Saturday, October 17, at the Hilbert Circle Theatre.

Please visit www.bouchercon2009.com for more information.

The Crime Writers of Canada have announced the nominations for the 2009 Arthur Ellis Awards. Winners will be announced on June 4th. Congratulations to all the nominees!

Best Short Story
Pasha Malla, "Filmsong" in Toronto Noir (Akashic Books)
James Powell, "Clay Pillows" in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (June 2008)
Peter Robinson, "Walking the Dog" in Toronto Noir (Akashic Books)
Amelia Symington, "An Ill Wind" in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine (Sept/Oct 2008)
Kris Wood, "Thinking Inside the Box" in Going Out with a Bang (RendezVous Crime)

Best Non-Fiction
Daphne Bramham, The Secret Lives of Saints: Child Brides and Lost Boys in Canada's Polygamous Mormon Sect (Vintage Canada/RHC)
Sharon Butala, The Girl in Saskatoon: A Meditation on Friendship, Memory and Murder (Phyllis Bruce Books/HarperCollins)
Alex Caine, Befriend and Betray: Infiltrating the Hells Angels, Bandidos and Other Criminal Brotherhoods (Vintage Canada/RHC)
Michael Calce & Craig Silverman, Mafiaboy: How I Cracked the Internet and Why It's Still Broken (Penguin Canada)
Kerry Pither, Dark Days: The Story of Four Canadians Tortured in the Name of Fighting Terror (Penguin Canada)

Best Juvenile
Vicki Grant, Res Judicata (Orca)
Susan Juby, Getting the Girl (HarperCollins)
Elizabeth MacLeod, Royal Murder (Annick Press)
Norah McClintock, Dead Silence (Scholastic Canada)
Sharon E. McKay, War Brothers (Penguin Canada)

Best Crime Writing in French
Jacques Côté, Le Chemin des brumes (Alire)
Maxime Houde, Le Poids des Illusions (Alire)
André Jacques, La Tendresse du serpent (Québec Amérique)
Sylvain Meunier, L'Homme qui détestait le golf (La courte échelle)
Antoine Yaccarini, Meurtre au Soleil (VLB éditeur)

Best First Novel
Nadine Doolittle, Iced Under (Bayeux Arts/Gondolier)
John C. Goodman, Talking to Wendigo (Turnstone)
April Lindgren, Headline: Murder (Second Story Press)
Howard Shrier, Buffalo Jump (Vintage Canada)
Phyllis Smallman, Margarita Nights (McArthur & Company)

Best Novel
Linwood Barclay, Too Close to Home (Bantam)
Maureen Jennings, The K Handshape (Castle Street Mysteries/Dundurn)
James W. Nichol, Transgression (McArthur & Company)
Louise Penny, The Murder Stone (McArthur & Company)
Michael E. Rose, The Tsunami File (McArthur & Company)

Best Unpublished First Crime Novel
Pam Barnsley, This Cage of Bones
Gloria Ferris, Cheat the Hangman
Stephen Maher, Salvage
Douglas A. Moles, Louder
Kevin Thornton, Condemned

Mystery Readers International announced 2009 Macavity nominations today, for books published in the previous year. Awards will be presented at Bouchercon in October. Congratulations to all the nominees!

Best Mystery Novel:

    * Sean Chercover: Trigger City (Wm. Morrow)
    * Deborah Crombie: Where Memories Lie (Wm. Morrow)
    * Declan Hughes: The Dying Breed (UK) / The Price of Blood (US) (John Murray/ Wm. Morrow)
    * Arnaldur Indridason: The Draining Lake (Minotaur)
    * Lisa Lutz: Curse of the Spellmans (Simon & Schuster)
    * Louise Penny: The Cruelest Month (Minotaur)
    * Louise Ure: The Fault Tree (Minotaur)

Best First Mystery:

    * Zoe Ferraris: Finding Nouf (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
    * Stieg Larsson: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Knopf)
    * G.M. Malliet: Death of a Cozy Writer (Midnight Ink)
    * Charlie Newton: Calumet City (Simon & Schuster)
    * Scott Pratt: An Innocent Client (Onyx)
    * Michael Stanley: A Carrion Death (Harper; Headline)
    * Dan Waddell: The Blood Detective (Minotaur)

Best Nonfiction/Critical:

    * Frankie Y. Bailey: African American Mystery Writers: A Historical & Thematic Study (McFarland)
    * Leonard Cassuto: Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories (Columbia Univ.)
    * Kathy Lynn Emerson: How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries (Perseverance Press)
    * David Geherin: Scene of the Crime: The Importance of Place in Crime and Mystery Fiction (McFarland)
    * Harry Lee Poe: Edgar Allan Poe : An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stories (Metro)
    * Kate Summerscale: The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian  Detective (Walker)

Best Mystery Short Story:

    * Dana Cameron: "The Night Things Changed" (Wolfsbane & Mistletoe, ed. by Harris & Kelner, Penguin)
    * Sean Chercover: "A Sleep Not Unlike Death" (Hardcore Hardboiled, ed. by Todd Robinson, Kensington)
    * Toni L.P. Kelner: "Keeping Watch Over His Flock" (Wolfsbane & Mistletoe, ed. by Harris & Kelner, Penguin)
    * Laura Lippman: "Scratch a Woman" (Hardly Knew Her, Wm. Morrow)
    * Tom Piccirilli: "Between the Dark and the Daylight" (EQMM, Sep/Oct 2008)

Sue Feder Memorial Historical Mystery:

    * Rhys Bowen: A Royal Pain (Berkley)
    * Ward Larsen: Stealing Trinity (Oceanview)
    * David Liss: The Whiskey Rebels (Thorndike/ Random House UK)
    * Jeri Westerson: Veil of Lies (Minotaur)
    * Karen Maitland: Company of Liars (Michael Joseph/ Delacorte)
    * Kelli Stanley: Nox Dormienda (Five Star)

Congratulations to all Edgar winners and nominees!

BEST NOVEL

Blue Heaven by C.J. Box (St. Martin's Minotaur)

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR

The Foreigner by Francie Lin (Picador)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

China Lake by Meg Gardiner (New American Library - Obsidian Mysteries)

BEST FACT CRIME

American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime
of the Century by Howard Blum (Crown Publishers)

BEST CRITICAL/BIOGRAPHICAL

Edgar Allan Poe: An Illustrated Companion to His Tell-Tale Stories by Dr.
Harry Lee Poe (Metro Books)

BEST SHORT STORY

"Skinhead Central" - The Blue Religion by T. Jefferson Parker (Hachette Book
Group - Little, Brown and Company)

BEST JUVENILE

The Postcard by Tony Abbott (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

BEST YOUNG ADULT

Paper Towns by John Green (Penguin Young Readers Group - Dutton Children's
Books)

BEST PLAY

The Ballad of Emmett Till by Ifa Bayeza (Goodman Theatre, Chicago, IL)

BEST TELEVISION EPISODE TELEPLAY

"Prayer of the Bone" - Wire in the Blood, Teleplay by Patrick Harbinson (BBC
America)

BEST MOTION PICTURE SCREENPLAY

In Bruges, Screenplay by Martin McDonagh (Focus Features)

ROBERT L. FISH MEMORIAL AWARD

"Buckner's Error" - Queens Noir by Joseph Guglielmelli (Akashic Books)

GRAND MASTER

James Lee Burke
Sue Grafton

RAVEN AWARDS

Edgar Allan Poe Society, Baltimore, Maryland
Poe House, Baltimore, Maryland

THE SIMON & SCHUSTER - MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD

The Killer's Wife by Bill Floyd (St. Martin's Minotaur)