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Oct 12
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The Black Hour won the Anthony Award!

By Lori | Awards, Black Hour, Bouchercon, Conferences, News | One Comment

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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Jun 18
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The Black Hour is nominated for a Macavity Award!

By Lori | Awards, Black Hour, Bouchercon, News | No Comments

The Black Hour is a nominee for the Macavity Award for Best First Novel! What a year I’ve had.

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May 10
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Little Pretty STARRED review!

By Lori | Awards, Black Hour | No Comments

I forgot to share this news: LITTLE PRETTY THINGS got a starred review from Booklist! Booklist has been amazing to me. People who like libraries are all right by me, too. In fact, Booklist also just put THE BLACK HOUR on this “best of” list. Yes, best…

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May 07
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THE BLACK HOUR is an Anthony Award nominee!

By Lori | Awards, Black Hour, Bouchercon, Debutante Ball | No Comments

This is big! THE BLACK HOUR is a nominee for the Anthony Award for Best First Novel! The winner will be announced at Bouchercon in October! That’s also where we’ll hear about the Barry Awards. That’s going to be a fun weekend. So excited to among such…

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Mar 28
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THE BLACK HOUR is nominated for a Barry Award!

By Lori | Awards, Black Hour, News | No Comments

I’ve been so busy I forgot to post the latest great news: The Black Hour is a finalist for the Barry Award for Best Paperback Original! Not sure how I skated past “best first novel” into the grown-up category of “best” anything else, but I’m happy to…

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Jan 27
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THE BLACK HOUR is nominated for the Rosebud!

By Lori | Awards, Black Hour, Conferences, News | No Comments

More good news! THE BLACK HOUR has been nominated for the Rosebud Award at Left Coast Crime 2015: Crimelandia! That’s the award at this year’s conference for the best first mystery. I’m so excited, and here’s the best news: All the other nominees are my friends, so…

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Jan 21
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BIG news! Mary Higgins Clark Award nomination

By Lori | Awards, Black Hour, Fangirl, News | No Comments

Today I learned that The Black Hour has been nominated for the Mary Higgins Clark Award. This is huge to me. I’m so thrilled and overwhelmed and all the big emotions. Upon further reflection, I also realized that I was getting nominated for an award named after…

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Nov 06
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News

By Lori | Awards, Writing | 2 Comments

The editors of Freight Stories nominated the story I published there, The Summer Ahead, for a Pushcart Prize. Very excited.

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Jul 01
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I’m a Mystery Writer of America

By Lori | Awards, News, The Day I Died, Writing | 3 Comments

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New Mystery Writers Receive the 2010 Helen McCloy/MWA Scholarship New York, NY – Mystery Writers of America is pleased to announce the two recipients of the 2010 Helen McCloy/MWA Scholarship for Mystery Writing: Lori Rader Day of Chicago, IL, and Supriya Savkoor of Sterling,…

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Apr 18
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“Layers”

By Lori | Awards, Publishing, Short stories, Writing | No Comments

I should probably say that my story, “Layers of Love,” is in the current issue of Good Housekeeping. My lil story went out and won a big prize. Look at it go. I’m posting this again, because in the last post I hedged a bit on the…

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