Friday, January 18, 2008

2008 Edgar Allan Poe Award nominees

The Rap Sheet has posted the list of 2008 Edgar Allan Poe Award nominees.

Several of the nominated authors have popped up on CftAR sites.

Reed Farrel Coleman, whose Soul Patch is nominated for Best Novel, recently applied the Page 69 Test to his Redemption Street.

Christopher Goffard's Snitch Jacket is nominated for Best First Novel by an American Author. Read:
Craig McDonald's Head Games is nominated for Best First Novel by an American Author. See: The Page 69 Test: Head Games.

Vicki Hendricks' Cruel Poetry earned a Best Paperback Original nomination. She applied the Page 99 Test to Cruel Poetry last November.

Who Is Conrad Hirst? by Kevin Wignall is also nominated for Best Paperback Original. Check out the Page 69 Test: Kevin Wignall's Who is Conrad Hirst?.

Stanley Alpert's The Birthday Party is nominated for Best Fact Crime. See: The Page 69 Test: The Birthday Party.

In the Best Critical/Biographical category, The Triumph of the Thriller: How Cops, Crooks, and Cannibals Captured Popular Fiction by Patrick Anderson earned a nomination. See the Page 69 Test: The Triumph of the Thriller.

The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh earned a Best Juvenile nomination. Marsh applied the Page 99 Test to The Night Tourist in November.

The First Stone by Judith Kelman is nominated for The Simon & Schuster/Mary Higgins Clark Award. Kelman's The First Stone is featured on three CftAR sites: Read about all of the nominees at The Rap Sheet.

--Marshal Zeringue