Are you tired of good news? Look away. Death at Greenway is a IndieNext pick for November!!! IndieNext is a list of 25 new books out each month, decided by recommendations from independent booksellers across the country. I can’t tell you how excited I am to have…
I’m so excited that library staff ACROSS THE COUNTRY have voted Death at Greenway onto the LibraryReads list for October!! Library staff, I love you, too! What does it mean? LibraryReads collects the top ten books being published each month, based on votes form library staff. It…
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…
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