Exciting news! The Day I Died has been chosen for an IndieNext Pick for April! Along with some other amazing books! I have already pre-ordered about… all of these books. What does “IndieNext” mean? you may be wondering. “Indie” refers to the network of independent bookstores who…
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…
The Black Hour is a nominee for the Macavity Award for Best First Novel! What a year I’ve had.
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…
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…
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…
I mentioned my big news on Facebook and Twitter but kinda forgot to put it here. Oops. Not like I had a fantastic, gorgeous site built just for this kind of news, right? Oops again. But here it is: I sold my second novel, a mystery tentatively…
Welcome to the new and improved LoriRaderDay.com. I can’t tell you how excited I am about my new site. The trees. Oh, the trees. And the lines from my book? Can you stand it? Tremendous thanks to Karen Barry of Austin, Texas, the genius behind my new…
Unless you’ve read the book (and I can count those people on one hand), you may not know how spot-on perfect this is—but it is. Thank you to Seventh Street Books for giving me a cover I will hold up proudly! I LOVE IT. And not just…
Sorry for the radio silence. I’ve been busy with the usual, and then the stuff I’m hoping will become my new usual, like book edits. But I have to get better at blogging, and quick quick. And here’s why: I’m a Debutante. What that means is that…
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