2012 Agatha Award winners

The 2012 Agatha Award winners were announced at the 24th Annual Agatha Awards Banquet at Malice Domestic in Bethesda, MD, April 28th, 2012.

Best Novel:
Three-Day Town by Margaret Maron (Grand Central Publishing)

Best First Novel:
Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry (Crown)

Best Non-fiction:
Books, Crooks and Counselors: How to Write Accurately About Criminal Law and Courtroom Procedure by Leslie Budewitz (Linden)

Best Short Story:
"Disarming" (PDF) by Dana Cameron, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine - June 2011

Best Children's/Young Adult:
The Black Heart Crypt by Chris Grabenstein (Random House)

Best Historical Novel:
Naughty in Nice by Rhys Bowen (Berkley)

PA Bulletin 30 April 2012

PA Bulletin 30 April 2012, from The Publishers Association, UK, is now available online #publisher #publishing

2012 Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards winners

The winners of the 2012 Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards, celebrating "excellence in photography and moving image publishing," are:

Best Photography Book: Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs edited by Weston Naef and Christine Hult-Lewis (Getty Publications)

Best Moving Image Book: Concentrationary Cinema: Aesthetics as Political Resistance in Alain Resnais's Night and Fog edited by Max Silverman and Griselda Pollock (Berghahn Books)

National Media Museum First Book Award: Mrs. Merryman's Collection (of postcards) edited by Anne Sophie Merryman (to be published by MACK)

Outstanding Contribution to Publishing: Dewi Lewis of Dewi Lewis Publishing

J K Rowling's The Casual Vacancy to be published in Germany

J K Rowling's The Casual Vacancy is to be published in Germany by Carlsen and Ullstein, acting in an unprecedented joint venture

Self-Publishing: Carnival of the Indies Issue #19

Welcome to this issue of the Carnival of the Indies blog carnival. This issue is for April, 2012. We welcome your submissions on topics related to writing, self-publishing, book design or marketing books

The Man Booker Prizes Weekly Roundup - 27 April 2012

The latest news about Man Booker Prize writers and judges - 27 April 2012

Tor UK ebook titles to go DRM-free

Tor UK, Pan Macmillan's science fiction and fantasy imprint, announces that it will make its ebooks DRM-free over the next three months

Commonwealth Writers announces shortlists for 2012 prizes

Commonwealth Writers has announced shortlists for the 2012 Commonwealth Book Prize and Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Writers from around the world have been shortlisted for each prize in anticipation of becoming a regional winner on 22 May and ultimately competing for overall winner which will be announced at Hay Festival on 8 June:

Commonwealth Book Prize

The Wandering Falcon, Jamil Ahmad (Pakistan), Hamish Hamilton

Patchwork, Ellen Banda-Aaku (Zambia), Penguin Books, South Africa

Rebirth: a novel, Jahnavi Barua (India), Penguin Books India

The Sly Company of People Who Care, Rahul Bhattacharya (India) Picador

The Ottoman Motel, Christopher Currie (Australia), The Text Publishing Company

A Cupboard Full of Coats, Yvvette Edwards (UK), Oneworld Publications

The Book of Answers, CY Gopinath (India), HarperCollins India

Jubilee, Shelley Harris (South Africa), Weidenfeld & Nicolson

The Dancing and the Death on Lemon Street, Denis Hirson (UK), Jacana Media

The Vanishing Act, Mette Jakobsen (Australia), The Text Publishing Company

Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew, Shehan Karunatilaka (Sri Lanka), Random House India

Purple Threads, Jeanine Leane (Australia), University of Queensland Press

Sweetheart, Alecia McKenzie (Jamaica), Peepal Tree Press

The Town that Drowned, Riel Nason (Canada), Goose Lane Editions

Dancing Lessons, Olive Senior (Canada), Cormorant Books

The Dubious Salvation of Jack V, Jacques Strauss (South Africa), Jonathan Cape

Me and Mr Booker, Cory Taylor (Australia), The Text Publishing Company

Pao, Kerry Young (UK), Bloomsbury



Commonwealth Short Story Prize

Morrison Okoli (1955-2010), Jekwu Anyaegbuna (Nigeria)

Flight, Jayne Bauling (South Africa)

The Queen's Blessing, Edyth Bulbring (South Africa)

Devil Star, Hazel Campbell (Jamaica)

Brothers, Adrienne Frater (New Zealand)

Like a Heart Maybe, but Cold, Chris Hill (UK)

The False River, Nick Holdstock (UK)

Radio Story, Anushka Jasraj (India)

Rush, Nic Low (Australia)

Elbow, Khadija Magardie (South Africa)

Two Girls in a Boat, Emma Martin (New Zealand)

Glory, Janice Lynn Mather (The Bahamas)

The Dolphin Catcher, Diana McCaulay (Jamaica)

Friends, Sharon Millar (Trinidad and Tobago)

The Ghost Marriage, Andrea Mullaney (UK)

If These Walls had Ears, Carl Nixon (New Zealand)

Next Full Moon We'll Release Juno Bridget Pitt (South Africa)

The Crane, Sarah Quigley (New Zealand)

Drums, Mahesh Rao (UK)

Ammulu, Poile Sengupta (India)

Another Dull Day, Sreejith Sukumaran (India)

Edgar Allan Poe Awards 2012 winners

The winners of the Edgar Allan Poe Awards 2012 have been announced

2012 Anisfield-Wolf winners

"The 2012 Anisfield-Wolf winners reflect the complexity of the issues of race and cultural diversity in our world," said Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research at Harvard University, who serves as jury chair. "These books and the people who created them help us gain a deeper understanding of the need to respect both the humanity and individuality of one other." Our 2012 winners are (click on any of the photos to read more on the authors):

* Esi Edugyan, Half-Blood Blues: A Novel, Fiction
* David Blight, American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era, Nonfiction
* David Livingstone Smith, Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others, Nonfiction
* Wole Soyinka, Lifetime Achievement