2017 Anthony Nominations

The Anthony Award is named for the late Anthony Boucher (William Anthony Parker White), well-known writer and critic from the New York Times, who helped found the Mystery Writers of America. This year, they will be presented at Bouchercon in Toronto on October 15th.

Congratulations to all the nominees!

ANTHONY AWARD NOMINATIONS for 2017

Best Novel

You Will Know Me – Megan Abbott (Little, Brown)
Where It Hurts – Reed Farrel Coleman (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
Red Right Hand – Chris Holm (Mulholland)
Wilde Lake – Laura Lippman (William Morrow)
A Great Reckoning – Louise Penny (Minotaur)

Best First Novel
Dodgers – Bill Beverly (Crown)
IQ – Joe Ide (Mulholland)
Decanting a Murder – Nadine Nettmann (Midnight Ink)
Design for Dying – Renee Patrick (Forge)
The Drifter – Nicholas Petrie (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
 

Best Paperback Original
Shot in Detroit – Patricia Abbott (Polis)
Leadfoot – Eric Beetner (280 Steps)
Salem’s Cipher – Jess Lourey (Midnight Ink)
Rain Dogs – Adrian McKinty (Seventh Street)
How to Kill Friends and Implicate People – Jay Stringer (Thomas & Mercer)
Heart of Stone – James W. Ziskin (Seventh Street)

Best Short Story
“Oxford Girl” – Megan Abbott, Mississippi Noir (Akashic)
“Autumn at the Automat” – Lawrence Block, In Sunlight or in Shadow (Pegasus)
“Gary’s Got A Boner” – Johnny Shaw, Waiting to Be Forgotten (Gutter)
“Parallel Play” – Art Taylor, Chesapeake Crimes: Storm Warning (Wildside)
“Queen of the Dogs” – Holly West, 44 Caliber Funk: Tales of Crime, Soul and Payback (Moonstone)

Best Critical Nonfiction Work
Alfred Hitchcock: A Brief Life – Peter Ackroyd (Nan A. Talese)
Letters from a Serial Killer – Kristi Belcamino & Stephanie Kahalekulu (CreateSpace)
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life – Ruth Franklin (Liveright)
Something in the Blood: The Untold Story of Bram Stoker – David J. Skal (Liveright)
The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer – Kate Summerscale (Bloomsbury/Penguin)

Best Children’s/YA Novel
Snowed – Maria Alexander (Raw Dog Screaming)
The Girl I Used to Be – April Henry (Henry Holt)
Tag, You’re Dead – J.C. Lane (Poisoned Pen)
My Sister Rosa – Justine Larbalestier (Soho Teen)
The Fixes – Owen Matthews (HarperTeen)

Best Anthology
Unloaded: Crime Writers Writing Without Guns – Eric Beetner, ed. (Down & Out)
In Sunlight or in Shadow – Lawrence Block, ed. (Pegasus)
Cannibals: Stories from the Edge of the Pine Barrens – Jen Conley (Down & Out)
Blood on the Bayou: Bouchercon Anthology 2016 – Greg Herren, ed. (Down & Out)
Waiting To Be Forgotten: Stories of Crime and Heartbreak, Inspired by the Replacements – Jay Stringer, ed. (Gutter)

Best Novella (8,000-40,000 words)
Cleaning Up Finn – Sarah M. Chen (CreateSpace)
No Happy Endings – Angel Luis Colón (Down & Out)
Crosswise – S.W. Lauden (Down & Out)
Beware the Shill – John Shepphird (Down & Out)
The Last Blue Glass – B.K. Stevens, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, April 2016 (Dell)

2016 Anthony Award Nominations

BEST NOVEL

Night Tremors - Matt Coyle [Oceanview]
The Killing Kind - Chris Holm [Mulholland]
The Child Garden - Catriona McPherson [Midnight Ink]
The Nature of the Beast - Louise Penny [Minotaur/Sphere]
What You See - Hank Phillippi Ryan [Forge]


BEST FIRST NOVEL

Concrete Angel - Patricia Abbott [Polis]
Past Crimes - Glen Erik Hamilton [William Morrow]
New Yorked - Rob Hart [Polis]
Bull Mountain - Brian Panowich [G.P. Putnam's Sons/Head of Zeus]
On the Road with Del & Louise - Art Taylor [Henery]


BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL

The Long and Faraway Gone - Lou Berney [William Morrow]
Gun Street Girl - Adrian McKinty [Seventh Street/Serpent's Tail]
Little Pretty Things - Lori Rader-Day [Seventh Street]
Young Americans - Josh Stallings [Heist]
Stone Cold Dead - James W. Ziskin [Seventh Street]


BEST CRITICAL OR NONFICTION BOOK

The Golden Age of Murder: The Mystery of the Writers Who Invented the Modern Detective Story - Martin Edwards [HarperCollins]

Meanwhile There Are Letters: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and Ross Macdonald - Suzanne Marrs & Tom Nolan, editors [Arcade]

Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime - Val McDermid [Grove]

The Lost Detective: Becoming Dashiell Hammett - Nathan Ward [Bloomsbury USA]

The Mystery Writers of America Cookbook: Wickedly Good Meals and Desserts to Die For - Kate White, editor [Quirk]


BEST SHORT STORY

"The Little Men: A Bibliomystery" - Megan Abbott [MysteriousPress.com/Open Road]
"The Siege" Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Dec 2015 - Hilary Davidson [Dell]
"Feliz Navidead" Thuglit Presents: Cruel Yule - Brace Godfrey/Johnny Shaw [CreateSpace]
"Old Hands" Dark City Lights - Erin Mitchell [Three Rooms]
"Quack and Dwight" Jewish Noir - Travis Richardson [PM]
"Don’t Fear the Ripper" Protectors 2: Heroes - Holly West [Goombah Gumbo]



BEST ANTHOLOGY OR COLLECTION

Safe Inside the Violence - Christopher Irvin [280 Steps]
Protectors 2: Heroes- Stories to Benefit PROTECT - Thomas Pluck, editor [Goombah Gumbo]
Thuglit Presents: Cruel Yule: Holiday Tales of Crime for People on the Naughty List - Todd Robinson, editor [CreateSpace]
Murder Under the Oaks: Bouchercon Anthology 2015 - Art Taylor, editor [Down & Out]
Jewish Noir: Contemporary Tales of Crime and Other Dark Deeds - Kenneth Wishnia, editor [PM]


BEST YOUNG ADULT NOVEL

Need - Joelle Charbonneau [HMH Books for Young Readers]
How to Win at High School - Owen Matthews [HarperTeen]
A Madness So Discreet - Mindy McGinnis [Katherine Tegen]
The Sin Eater’s Daughter - Melinda Salisbury [Scholastic]
Fighting Chance - B.K. Stevens [The Poisoned Pencil]
Ask the Dark - Henry Turner [Clarion]


BEST CRIME FICTION AUDIOBOOK

Dark Waters - Chris Goff - Assaf Cohen, narrator [Crooked Lane]
The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins - Clare Corbett, Louise Brealey & India Fisher, narrators [Penguin Audio/Random House Audiobooks]
Causing Chaos - Deborah J. Ledford - Christina Cox, narrator [IOF Productions]
The Nature of the Beast - Louise Penny - Robert Bathurst, narrator [Macmillan Audio]
Young Americans - Josh Stallings - Em Eldridge, narrator [Josh Stallings]

Bouchercon 2014 Wrap-Up: Teen Tuesday

Last week, I listed the teen events that were scheduled for Murder at the Beach. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to attend all of them because there was just so much going on!

I had to miss the first teen-themed panel, Dystopian YA, because it was scheduled on Friday afternoon at the same time as a panel I was moderating called No Computers, No Cars, No Problem. 

I did make it to the Teen Angst panel first thing Saturday morning, with panelists Cara Brookins, Janie Chodosh, Margaux Froley, and Owen Laukkanen.  Moderator Joelle Charbonneau won the Anthony Award the following evening for The Testing, the first novel in The Testing trilogy.

Joelle Charbonneau; Cara Brookins

Janie Chodosh, Margaux Froley, Owen Laukannen

I also missed the Guest of Honor interview with Eoin Colfer, because I was "room monitor" for a fantastic panel called Kick-Ass Women (details to come later in the week).

Sunday morning was a panel of middle-grade authors, which was also a lot of fun.

(L-R) Leslie Blatt, Sarah Smith, Penny Warner, Carol Hughes, Gay Kinman, Keir Graff

Sadly, the event I'd been looking forward to all weekend, a YA "Fan-Fest" brunch on the Queen Mary, was cancelled due to unforseen circumstances.  

But it was an amazing, exciting, exhausting con that sped by much too quickly.  

Teen Tuesday

For the first time in years, Bouchercon welcomes a young adult author as one of the guests of honor:  Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl series.

There will also be some ya-centric panels.

On Friday afternoon at 1:30 is Dystopian YA, with moderator Jess Lourey and panelists F.T. Bradley, Joelle Charbonneau, Michelle Gagnon, Sophie Littlefield, and Alexandra Monir.  (Unfortunately, I won't be able to attend this panel, as I'm moderating a panel called No Computer,  No Cars, No Problem at the same time.)

On Saturday at 8:30 a.m. will be Teen Angst, with moderator Joelle Charbonneau and panelists Cara Brookins, Janie Chodosh, Margaux Froley, Owen Laukkanen, and Lissa Price.  At 11:30 that morning, Alison Gaylin will interview Eoin Colfer, who will be signing, along with the other guests of honor, at 12:30 p.m.

There will  be a panel on Crime for Middle Grades at 10:00 on Sunday morning, moderated by former school librarian Leslie Blatt and panelists Keir Graff, Carol Hughes, Gay Kinman, Sarah Smith, and Penny Warner.



Finally, on Sunday afternoon at 1:00, a Y.A. FanFest aboard the Queen Mary: a special limited-ticket event with Eoin Colfer and over 20 other young adult authors. All proceeds go to the Long Beach Public Library  Foundation for their Family Learning Center program, designed to promote literacy and academic success.

Tickets for this event are $65, and can be purchased on the Bouchercon  website.





It's not too late to register for Bouchercon 2014, Murder at the Beach. If you can't make it for the whole convention, single-day passes are available.