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Half-Blood Blues Strikes Again!

By Ali Fisher
May 16th, 2012
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Well, well, well. It looks like HALF-BLOOD BLUES won YET ANOTHER award; this time it's the BC Book Prize’s Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize!

What's that you say? You're getting confused about all of the awards and honors that HALF-BLOOD BLUES has received?

Let's recap, shall we:

- Winner of the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize!

- Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize!

- Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize!

- Shortlisted for the Orange Prize (to be announced May 29)!

- Shortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize (to be announced June 16)!

- Finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize!

- Finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award!

- A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice!

- An Amazon "Best of the Month" Pick for March 2012!

...to, you know, name a few.

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Our 2011 Agatha Award Nominees!

By Ali Fisher
February 22nd, 2012
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Malice Domestic has nominated quite a few excellent traditional mysteries for the Agatha Awards this year. We are especially excited about all of the fantastic Minotaur titles!

Best Novel:

md logoTHE REAL MACAW
Donna Andrews (author of the 2002 Best Novel and the 1999 Best First Novel)

WICKED AUTUMN
G. M. Malliet (author of the 2008 Best First Novel)

A TRICK OF THE LIGHT
Louise Penny (author of the 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 Best Novel)

Best Historical Novel:

TROUBLED BONES
Jeri Westerson

The winners will be announced at the 2011 Agatha Awards banquet to be held on April 28, 2012. We'll have our fingers crossed until then!

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Romantic Times 2011 Award Nominees!

By Ali Fisher
November 29th, 2011
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The Romantic Times has published their 2011 award-nominees and we're proud to see so many of our excellent authors and titles on their list!

In fact, we're honored to say we have published books from eight of the nominees for Career Achievement awards. We're rooting for all of you, ladies!

Career Achievement Nominees:

Kristin Hannah
Rhys Bowen
Sue Grafton
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Cherry Adair
Brenda Jackson
Jacqueline Carey
Francine Pascal

SOE (Seal of Excellence Winners) and RT Book of the Year Nominees

You’re Next by Gregg Hurwitz

Best Historical Novels 2011

Historical Love & Laughter

Beginner’s Guide to Rakes by Suzanne Enoch

Cloudy with a Chance of Marriage by Kieran Kramer

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The National Book Award Finalists!

By Ali Fisher
October 12th, 2011
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We interrupt our regularly scheduled blogging to bring you the National Book Award-finalists from Macmillan!

Fiction:
SALVAGE THE BONES by Jesmyn Ward (Bloomsbury USA)

Nonfiction:
THE CONVERT by Deborah Baker (Graywolf Press)

Poetry:
THE CHAMELEON COUCH by Yusef Komunyakaa (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
DOUBLE SHADOW by Carl Phillips (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

See the full list of NBA-nominees at Publishers Weekly.

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