Otto Penzler's Blog, page 22
July 9, 2014
eBook of Wilkie Collins' THE WOMAN IN WHITE
Check out the new, MysteriousPress.Com-approved eBook edition of Wilkie Collins’The Woman in White, now featuring a new introduction from Otto Penzler!
July 3, 2014
Podcasts, newspaper, and book club hits for A SWOLLEN RED SUN
A Swollen Red Sun continues to win favor with readers and industry watchers. This time it's LitReactor, the Booked. Podcast, and the Gasconade County Republican.
July 2, 2014
PRIMER: Marc Olden
For anyone curious about Olden’s work, Black Samurai provides a great introduction. But the Baltimore-born author—whose writing career ranged from a non-fiction study of political activist Angela Davis to a novel about magical druids wreaking havoc on New York City—was far too versatile and prolific a writer to be pigeonholed by that one series.
June 27, 2014
The Macavity Award nominees are out!
The boss man, Otto Penzler, had a good showing in the Macavity Award nominations this year.
Charles McCarry tells the future once again
Former spy Charles McCarry has a habit of telling the future in his fiction—and the latest example of that involves robotic bees.
June 24, 2014
PRIMER: Charlotte Armstrong
Some call her the master of domestic suspense; others, a forerunner of suburban noir—but, believe it or not, Edgar Award-winning author Charlotte Armstrong took over thirty years to begin writing the mystery and suspense novels for which she is now known.
June 19, 2014
Matthew McBride at Book House in St. Louis!
Matthew McBride will be signing his new book, A Swollen Red Sun, at Book House in St. Louis! Thursday, June 19, 7 p.m. Be there.
June 17, 2014
Happy book birthday to A SWOLLEN RED SUN by Matthew McBride!
A Swollen Red Sun, the new novel from Matthew McBride, which has won some serious praise from authors like Daniel Woodrell and Donald Ray Pollock, is out today!
June 5, 2014
Advance praise piles up for A SWOLLEN RED SUN
Reviews are coming in for Matthew McBride's new rural noir novel...
June 3, 2014
Janice Law wins a Lambda Literary Award!
The winners of the 26th Annual Lambda Literary Awards (the “Lammys”) were announced last night—and among them was Janice Law, who won best gay mystery for The Prisoner of the Riviera!
