Showing posts with label John Spray Mystery Award. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Spray Mystery Award. Show all posts

Thursday, March 24, 2011

How to make your editor happy

Alison Janssen has written a fabulous post called "8 Fiddly Things You Can Do To Your Manuscript To Make Your Editor's Day".  I am so rereading this before I submit another manuscript.  Thank you thank thank you Alison.

Hey, There's a Dead Guy in the Living Room is a very cool blog about mystery writing with a different blogger posting every day. So many of the posts relate to all sorts of writing even if they aren't, they're just plain fantastic and worth checking out.

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

New Mystery Award for kids' books

Great news...The Canadian Children's Book Centre has just announced a new mystery award for kid's books...

The John Spray Mystery Award will honor excellence in the children's mystery book format and comes with a $5000 cash prize.  The first John Spray Mystery Award will be given out in November of this year for a mystery (thriller, crime novel, or 'whodunit') aimed at readers ages 8-16.  That means another short-list folks, and I love short-lists.  For more info, visit the CCBC.