Michael Connelly, Anthony Horowitz, and Attica Locke headline the nominees for the Strand Critics Awards, and J.A. Jance and Lovejoy author Jonathan Gash receive Lifetime Achievement Awards and Tom Doherty receives the Publisher of the Year Award… Recognizing excellence in the field of mystery fiction and publishing, the annual Strand Critics Awards are judged by […]
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The Strand Magazine’s Top 25 Books of 2017
The Strand Magazine’s Top 25 Books of 2017 1. The Fifth Petal by Brunonia Barry (Crown) 2. Two Days Gone by Randall Silvis (Sourcebooks Landmark) 3. Follow Me Down by Sherri Smith (Forge Books) 4. Where Dead Men Meet by Mark Mills (Blackstone) 5. Fast Falls the Night by Julia Keller (Minotaur) 6. Burial Hour […]
AudioFile’s 2017 Best MYSTERY & SUSPENSE Audiobooks
AudioFile’s 2017 Best MYSTERY & SUSPENSE Audiobooks ARROWOOD by Mick Finlay, read by Malk Williams http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read/124955/ BLUEBIRD, BLUEBIRD by Attica Locke, read by JD Jackson http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read/129024/ CAMINO ISLAND by John Grisham, read by January LaVoy http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read/128887/ COLLARED by David Rosenfelt, read by Grover Gardner http://www.audiofilemagazine.com/reviews/read/128875/ A CONSPIRACY IN […]
Harper’s Sara Nelson on the Lifelong Pursuit of Learning
Harper’s Sara Nelson on the Lifelong Pursuit of Learning “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire,” William Butler Yeats once wrote. If Yeats is to be believed, then Sara Nelson is aflame in her position as executive editor at HarperCollins. The relatively new appointment comes after several […]
Top 12 Mystery Novels of 2017
We compiled a list of the top 12 mystery novels of 2017 and here’s what we came up! Some are set on foreign shores, a few are domestic, some thrillers add a spark, and historical also gets in the mix. The one thing in common is that these are 12 storytellers at the top of […]
Soho Press: Independent and Flourishing
Soho Press: Independent and Flourishing When many people picture an independent publisher, they envision a small startup hoping to be acquired by a bigger firm. That’s not the case with Soho Press—quite the opposite, in fact. Proudly independent for over three decades, Soho aims to discover new voices and bring them to the literary […]
Travel the Intriguing Road of Publishing With Mulholland Books
Travel the Intriguing Road of Publishing With Mulholland Books “Still round the corner there may wait, a new road or a secret gate,” wrote J.R.R. Tolkien, whose words precisely describe exactly what each reader is seeking when turning the pages of an intriguing book. We don’t know what’s around the next bend, so we keep […]
The Evolution of Other Press
The Evolution of Other Press How many publishers can say they got their start by translating Lacan texts into English, and then segued that into publishing bestselling novels? Most likely the answer is “just one.” Other Press is unique in every way, and its staff members have turned their passion for the written word […]
Hanover Square Press: Bringing Fresh Stories to Life
Hanover Square Press: Bringing Fresh Stories to Life It’s been said that every new story starts the same way—with a blank page. Publishing itself is no different, and even the most legendary publishers started at the beginning with a blank slate, a newly hired stable of editors, and a hunger for bringing the best […]
Sourcebooks: Driving Change in the Publishing World
Sourcebooks: Driving Change in the Publishing World Everyone knows the legendary story of how Steve Jobs started Apple Computers in a garage, but many people don’t realize that publishing often has the same humble beginnings and can grow into an equally strong powerhouse. Such is the background of Sourcebooks, which started in a […]
The Best Novel Nominees React and An Appreciation of Cussler
The Best Novel Nominees React and An Appreciation of Cussler Reviewers from some of the nation’s top newspapers and magazines—including the NPR, TIME magazine, Boston Globe and the Washington Post—chose this year’s lineup of nominees for The Strand Critics Awards. Congratulations to all the nominees and to Clive Cussler for receiving The Strand Magazine’s Lifetime […]
The Best Debut Novelists on The Strand Critics Awards…
The Best Debut Novelists on The Strand Critics Awards… (The nominees for Best Debut Novel shared their reactions after receiving news of their nominations.) A Deadly Affection By Cuyler Overholt (Sourcebooks Landmark) “Launching your first book into the world is a little like putting your baby in a basket and sending it downstream. You […]