JOHN BANVILLE AND ALYSSA COLE BAG THE TOP PRIZES ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH, STEPHEN KING, JOSH STANTON AND JOYCE CAROL OATES HONORED   The Best Novel Award went to John Banville for Snow, while Alyssa Cole took home the Best Debut Mystery Novel Award for When No One Is Watching.   John Banville, who has written several thrillers under […]

Authors Stephen King, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Alyssa Cole, Lisa Unger, and Ian Rankin headline this year’s Critics Award nominees and honorees… Recognizing excellence in the field of mystery fiction and publishing, the 2021 Strand Critics Awards are judged by a select group of book critics and journalists. This year’s judges include talent from […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 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… On Wednesday, July 11, at an invitation-only cocktail party in Manhattan, Ivy Pochoda won the Strand […]

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 […]