The Christy Award, which recognizes “excellence in Christian fiction written by contemporary authors and highlighting the breadth and diversity of Christian fiction” has announced its 2008 nominees.
Unsurprisingly, Home to Holly Springs by Jan Karon is a nominee in the Contemporary Series category.
The 2008 Edgar Award winners have been announced.
I’m pleased to learn that Down River by John Hart (St. Martin’s, hardcover, $24.95), which is also a SIBA Award Finalist, has won for Best Mystery Novel. We’ve been a John Hart fan since his first novel, King of Lies, which was our first-ever hardcover mystery pick.
The winner for Best First Mystery Novel is In the Woods by Tana French, which will release in paperback on May 27th. Both my mom and I have read In the Woods and recommend it for fans of Val McDermid and other psychological British mysteries.
The Nebula Award winners were announced this weekend. The winner for best novel was The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon which coincidentally releases in paperback (HarperCollins, $15.95) today.
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The 2008 Locus Award Finalists have been announced. The Locus science fiction and fantasy awards are presented to winners of Locus Magazine’s annual readers’ poll, which was established in the early ’70s specifically to provide recommendations and suggestions to Hugo Awards voters. Over the decades the Locus Awards have often drawn more voters than the Hugos and Nebulas combined.
I’m a little behind in my SF reading and so I’m afraid many of the finalists are unfamiliar to me, but the one I have read and greatly enjoyed was The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, a finalist for Best First Novel.
The finalists for the 2008 Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) Book Award have been announced and one of the cookbook finalists is Greenville’s own Soby’s New South Cuisine.
The finalists include the best Southern books of 2007 in the following categories: Children’s, Fiction, Cooking, Nonfiction, and Poetry.
We challenge you to read all the finalists and pick your favorites. If you guess the correct award winner in each of the five categories, you’ll be entered to win a prize.
The Pulitzer Prize winners for the best in journalism and literature for 2007 have just been announced. The fiction winner was The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz.
My favorite recent children’s book, Wild Girls by Pat Murphy (Viking Press, hardcover, $16.99), has just won a Christopher Award. For those not familiar with the award:
First presented in 1949, the Christopher Awards were established by Christopher founder Father James Keller to salute media that “affirm the highest values of the human spirit.” Their goal is to encourage men, women and children to pursue excellence in creative arenas that have the potential to influence a mass audience positively. Award winners encourage audiences to see the better side of human nature and motivate artists and the general public to use their best instincts on behalf of others.
If you have not already read this wonderful book, please purchase a copy today!
The nominees for science fiction & fantasy’s 2008 Hugo Award & John W. Campbell Awards have been posted. The most interesting in nominee is probably The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon, which has also been nominated for a Nebula and an Edgar Award for the Best Mystery Novel of the year.
The nominees for the 2008 Thriller Awards, sponsored by the International Thriller Writers, are:
Best Novel
Best First Novel
Best Paperback Original
Ron Rash’s short story collection Chemistry and Other Stories was one of the 4 runnerups for this year’s PEN/Faulkner Award. The award went to Kate Christensen’s novel The Great Man.
Rash lives in Clemson, SC and is the Parris chair in Appalachian Studies at Western Carolina University, where he teaches creative writing.
His novels have one a variety of awards, including Saints at the River, which was the 2005 SEBA Best Fiction Book of the Year.
