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  <name><![CDATA[Craig McDonald]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Edgar®—nominee Craig McDonald is an award-winning journalist, editor and fiction writer. His short fiction has appeared in literary magazines, anthologies and several online crime fiction sites. 

His debut novel, &lt;i&gt;Head Games&lt;/i&gt;, was published by Bleak House Books in September 2007. &lt;i&gt;Head Games&lt;/i&gt; was selected as a 2008 Edgar®—nominee for Best First Novel by an American Author. &lt;i&gt;Head Games&lt;/i&gt; was also a finalist for the Anthony, Gumshoe and Crimespree Magazine awards for best first novel. A graphic novel scripted by McDonald of &lt;i&gt;Head Games&lt;/i&gt; is forthcoming from First Second.

The other novels in the Hector Lassiter series include &lt;i&gt;Toros &amp; Torsos&lt;/i&gt; (2008), &lt;i&gt;Print the Legend&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Roll the Credits&lt;/i&gt;, both to be published in 2010 and 2011 by Minotaur Books.

His nonfiction books include &lt;i&gt;Art in the Blood&lt;/i&gt;, a collection of interviews with 20 major crime authors which appeared in 2006, and &lt;i&gt;Rogue Males: Conversations and Confrontations About the Writing Life&lt;/i&gt;, a second collection of interviews  published by Bleak House Books. 

McDonald was also a contributor to the NYT's nonfiction bestseller, &lt;i&gt;Secrets of the Code&lt;/i&gt;. He recently won national awards for his profiles of crime novelists James Crumley, Daniel Woodrell, James Sallis and Elmore Leonard. 

He is a member of the Mystery Writers of America, the International Association of Crime Writers and a contributor to Crimespree Magazine. 

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  <title><![CDATA[Head Games: A Hector Lassiter Novel]]></title>
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