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Seattle Times Calls The Mirrored Heavens “Wild and Relentless”
In a recent review, the Seattle Times gave high praise to The Mirrored Heavens, David J. Williams debut novel that blends military SF and dystopian cyberpunk.
“Calling to mind Clint Eastwood and Dirty Harry more than Humphrey Bogart and Philip Marlowe, ‘The Mirrored Heavens’ ’ action is wild and relentless…. In a welcome respite from noir stereotyping, Williams’ female protagonist is neither killed nor kidnapped. A subject, not an object, Claire Haskell moves and shakes her dystopic world.”
Click here to read the full review.
Bantam Dell Mysteries Rack Up Two Barry and Three Shamus Award Nominations
Linwood Barclay’s No Time for Goodbye and Brett Battles’ The Cleaner were each nominated for the Barry Award for Best Thriller. The Barry Awards, named for ambassador of mystery fiction, Barry Gardner, are voted on by the readers of Mystery News and Deadly Pleasures.
Battles’ The Cleaner was also nominated for the Shamus Award for Best First Novel. Barclay and Kelley Armstrong were selected as nominees for the Best Paperback Original for their novels Stone Rain and Exit Strategy, respectively. The Shamus Awards, given annually by the Private Eye Writers of America, recognizes outstanding achievement in private eye fiction.
All winners will be announced on October 9 at Bouchercon in Baltimore.
Bantam Spectra at San Diego Comic-Con 2008
The Bantam Spectra Team is heading off to San Diego for Comic-Con 2008 and you can follow along virtually on Facebook and MySpace as our editors send updates, videos and more.
For a full list of attending authors and the schedule of events, click on the links below:
Sarah Graves on NPR’s Morning Edition: Crime in the City
The author of the Home Repair Is Homicide series, Sarah Graves, was featured as part of Morning Edition’s “Crime in the City” series on NPR, where crime novelists give listeners a tour of the places they and their characters inhabit. Graves, who moved from Manhattan to Eastport over a decade ago, uses her hometown, Eastport, Maine, as the setting for all 12 of her mysteries.
Click here to listen to the full interview and read an excerpt from her latest book, The Book of Old Houses.
Read Three Chapters of Conquistador for Free
You can now read chapters two-four of Conquistador, the astonishing history by Buddy Levy, for free.
Conquistador is the story of the clash of cultures between Montezuma, the enigmatic leader of the Aztecs, and the brash, brilliant upstart, Hernán Cortés, who would bring down the empire in just 2 years. From Cortés’ arrival in Cuba in 1519 to his defiant burning of the ships at Vera Cruz and the astonishing military campaign in Tenochtitlan—the famed City of Dreams—Conquistador is a tale of adventure and discovery.
And don’t keep it to yourselves; share it on your Facebook profile or blog.
And be sure to add Conquistador to your online book shelf.
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The Midnight Road Wins Thriller Award
The International Thriller Writers named Tom Piccirilli’s The Midnight Road the 2008 winner for Best Paperback Original on July 12 at a gala celebration at Thrillerfest. Linwood Barclay’s No Time For Goodbye was also nominated in the Best Novel category.
Elizabeth Bear Wins Sturgeon Award
Congratulations to Elizabeth Bear, whose short story, “Tidelines,” was one of two winners of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for best short science fiction work of 2007. The Sturgeon award was established in 1987 by James Gunn, professor emeritus of English and director of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction, and the heirs of Theodore Sturgeon as a memorial to one of the great short-story writers in a field distinguished by its short fiction.
Read more of Elizabeth Bear’s award winning stories:
Carnival
Dust
Hammered
Scardown
Undertow
Worldwired
Newspaper Chooses Mister Pip for Book Club
The Contra Costa Times announced Mister Pip as its August book club pick. The paper will run a feature interview with author Lloyd Jones planned for next month.
Click here for details on the Contra Costa Times Book Club.
Southern Booksellers Celebrate Garden Spells
Congratulations to Sarah Addison Allen whose debut novel, Garden Spells, was announced as the winner of the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance 2008 SIBA Book Award for Fiction. The SIBA Book Award celebrates the best of southern literature, as chosen by independent booksellers throughout the South.
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