The Day I Died took home the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original! Now, to put some big flowers into that vase. Thank you, Bouchercon board and volunteers, attendees, authors, readers, friends. This book was ten years in the making. Who knew when I put that manuscript…
Some great news this week… The Day I Died is a nominee for the ITW Thriller Award for Best Paperback Original! This is truly thrilling news, my first Thriller Award nomination! I’ve definitely had more than my fair share of award nominations, but it’s exciting to be…
Had a lovely surprise today: The Day I Died is a finalist for the Simon and Schuster/Mary Higgins Clark Award! The award is given out alongside the Edgar Awards, announced today, on Edgar Poe’s birthday. Yes, that’s a thing that mystery writers know. It’s Edgar’s birthday. *confetti*…
That title is a song, and if you’re not *from* Indiana, perhaps this song has never wedged itself into your brain for an entire weekend. I spent last weekend at the festivities for the Indiana Author Award. I was the Regional category winner, and it was just…
I’ve had more than my fair share of good news lately, an embarrassment of riches. So all I will say is: I am happy and happy for so many great writers on the Anthony Award nominations list, which came out this morning. Little Pretty Things is a…
OH, boy, do I need to get better at updating here. You win one huge mystery writing award, and things on your website go sadly out of date. That’s right. WIN. The Invisible Trophy, as I have nicknamed it, is…
When I first met Mary Higgins Clark—on the shelf of my public library—I was 12. Pretty sure I was too young and naive for most of what I found between those covers, but I LOVED those books. So to be nominated for the Simon & Schuster Mary…
Well, this is ridiculously exciting. This morning, Little Pretty Things was named a 2016 Mary Higgins Clark Award nominee! A full list of nominees for the Edgars and the MHC Award—with many many great friends on it—is here. I think I’ve said before how much Mary Higgins…
You will not be surprised to find that winning an Anthony Award puts me into a good mood. I want to share it. The mood, not the Anthony. Get your own shiny wooden bowl. How about a contest? Join my email news list for (seriously) only occasional…
The Black Hour won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel this weekend at Bouchercon in Raleigh, North Carolina! One exclamation point doesn’t do it!!! !!! Thank you thank you to everyone there and to Sharon Bowers, my agent, and Seventh Street Books/Prometheus/Peguin&Random House for everything they…
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