Final Report on the Strand Critics Awards… (Anthony Horowitz, Angie Kim, Tess Gerritsen, Walter Mosley, and Bronwen Hruska took home the top awards via a virtual ceremony held on Friday, September 4.) The Best Novel Award went to Anthony Horowitz for The Sentence is Death, while Angie Kim took home the Best Debut Novel Award […]
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Authors Attica Locke, Alex Michaelides, Don Winslow, Angie Kim, and Laura Lippman headline this year’s nominees for the Strand Critics Awards…
The Strand Magazine announces nominations for the 2020 Strand Critics Awards: Authors Attica Locke, Alex Michaelides, Don Winslow, Angie Kim, and Laura Lippman headline this year’s nominees for the Strand Critics Awards. Walter Mosley and Tess Gerritsen will receive Lifetime Achievement Awards. Bronwen Hruska of Soho Press will receive the Publisher of the Year Award. […]
Industry Insiders Interview with Italia Gandolfo on Vesuvian Media Group
Industry Insiders Interview with Italia Gandolfo on Vesuvian Media Group Samantha Friedlander The book publishing and visual entertainment worlds have always been connected to one another, whether it be through transforming books to movies or the other way around. These business negotiations typically require multiple different agencies going over both creative and logistical aspects of […]
The Astonishing Life and Times of CLIVE CUSSLER, “The Grandmaster of Adventure”
The Astonishing Life and Times of CLIVE CUSSLER, “The Grandmaster of Adventure” (Editor’s Note: Clive Cussler represented a life well lived. He served in the US military during the Korean War, wrote scores of bestselling novels, discovered more than 60 underwater wrecks, his Dirk Pitt and Kurt Austen books are adventure classics, and all his […]
Final Report on the Big New York Publishing Bash
Final Report on the Big New York Publishing Bash It was and balmy night in New York City, but that’d didn’t deter an all-star gang of authors, agents, publishers, and publicists from joining the revelry and honoring three legends. The best novel honors went to Kate Atkinson and Laura Lippman, they shared the Strand Critics […]
And the Nominees Are… The Nominees for the 2019 Strand Critics Awards
And the Nominees Are… The Nominees for the 2019 Strand Critics Awards Michael Connelly, Tana French, and Laura Lippman headline the nominees for the Strand Critics Awards while Heather Graham and Donna Leon receive Lifetime Achievement Awards, and Dominique Raccah of Sourcebooks receives the Publisher of the Year Award. Recognizing excellence in the field of […]
Ivy Pochoda and Sheena Kamal win Strand Critics Awards for Best Novel and Best Debut Novel, and J.A. Jance and Jonathan Gash are awarded lifetime Achievement Awards and the first Publisher of the Year Award goes to Tom Doherty…
Ivy Pochoda and Sheena Kamal win Strand Critics Awards for Best Novel and Best Debut Novel, and J.A. Jance and Jonathan Gash are awarded lifetime Achievement Awards and the first Publisher of the Year Award goes to Tom Doherty… On Wednesday, July 11, at an invitation-only cocktail party in Manhattan, Ivy Pochoda won the Strand […]
AudioFile Magazine’s Picks for the Summer’s Best New Audiobooks
AudioFile Magazine’s Summer Audiobook Picks AudioFile Magazine’s Picks of the Best New Audiobooks for Summer Listening Want a beach listen? Or something suspenseful enough to make you hide under the covers? (Of course, that means you have to stay under wraps because the bogeyman is definitely out there.) Here are our picks for five […]
The Nominees for the 2018 Strand Critics Awards
The Nominees for the 2018 Strand Critics Awards 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 Strand Magazine’s Top 25 Books of 2017
The Strand Magazine’s Top 25 Books of 2017 These are the Strand Magazine’s pick for the Top 25 Books of 2017, amongst many others. 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 […]
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 […]