The first week of February has been busy – heck, the first day of February was busy, with me in three time zones in eighteen hours — and I haven’t had time to put together the comprehensive tour info for the web site. Meanwhile, news, mostly good, keeps arriving at a pace that makes it difficult for me to keep up.
For example, I’ve just learned that WHAT THE DEAD KNOW has been nominated for an <a href=” http://www.audiopub.org/2008Audiesfinalistsrelease2.pdf”_blank”> Audie</a>, in the Thriller/Suspense category. Congratulations to Linda Emond, the talented actor who has been reading my books in the U.S. market for several years.
And I think it’s safe now to share the news that HARDLY KNEW HER, the collection of short stories to be published in September, will include a never-before-published novella, “Scratch a Woman.” I still have another draft to go, but my editor and agent like what I showed them this week.
Meanwhile, a question for the historians in our midst: How many writers have been nominated for the Edgar ® in three or more categories? My tally includes Block, Westlake, McBain/Hunter, Kaminsky (not counting their grandmaster status), <a href=” http://www.laurierking.com/wp.php/”_blank”> Laurie King</a>, David Simon* and, um, your humble hostess.
*Simon has been nominated in fact crime, episodic television and miniseries, but “The Wire” was entered into two different categories, per the decisions of the Edgar chairs.
Larry Beinhart, Max Allan Collins, Thomas H. Cook, William L. DeAndrea (won each of the three times he was nominated), Joe Gores (4), Tony Hillerman, Dorothy B. Hughes (includes one for outstanding mystery criticism, 1951), John le Carre, Bill Pronzini (4), Domenic Stansberry, Ross Thomas
I don’t mind being part of that list!
Your short stories, Tess series and stand alones show a real range and depth. Keep it up and my crystal ball predicts GM status in your future.
A girl can dream, but I’ll need about another twenty years in the trenches.
One GM I would like to see SOON is Margaret Maron. Talk about range.
Wait–two books of yours this year?
Best. News. EVER!
I’m actually pretty proud of the short story collection. And while everything (except the novella) has been published before, not all the stories are easy to find.
Plus — three of the stories were picked for Best American Mystery Stories, and one was picked for for the next Ed Gorman/Martin Greenberg anthology. (And one, The Shoeshine Man’s Regrets, was in both.) The book also includes an Edgar (r) nomine and an Agatha nominee. As of this writing, it breaks down into four sections:
Girls Gone Wild
Other Cities, Not My Own
My Baby Walks the Streets of Baltimore (two Tess stories, but also two other Baltimore-centric stories)
Scratch a Woman (a novella about the character who appears in “One True Love,” which was chosen for Carl Hiaasen’s BAMS.)
After finally understanding a comment about the 2007 awards, Daniel Stashower gets added to the list and Thomas Cook also has a Short Story nom.
Love Stashower!
In trying to at least match the number of nominees you listed, I have come up with the following list of nominees in three or more categories: Ed Gorman (3), Max Collins (3), Elmore Leonard (4 + Grandmaster), Tony Hillerman (6 + Grandmaster), Ira Levin (3 + Grandmaster), Robert L. Fish (6), Thomas Cook (6)and, finally, although I am not sure this one actually counts as he was nominated in two and won Grandmaster, Robert B. Parker. Wow!
Because it was presented that I did not include all the information you were looking for, I have updated my response. I concede that Parker and Gorman were nominated only twice with each receiving a special award, Ellery Queen and Grandmaster, respectively. That still leaves me with six….close. But you know what they say about close – “it only counts in horsehoes, hand grenades and drive-ins”. HAHA. Let me know how I did.
Tony Hillerman, 1971 Best First Novel, 1972, 1974, 1979, 1989 Best Novel, 1992 Best Critical/Biographical Work, 1991 Grandmaster
Thomas Cook, 1981 and 2005 Best Paperback Original, 1989 and 1997 Best Novel, 1993 Best Fact Crime
Ira Levin, 1954 Best First Novel, 1968 Best Novel, 1980 Best Play, 2003 Grandmaster
Robert L. Fish, 1963 Best First Novel, 1967, 1970, 1972, 1973 Best Short Story, 1969 Best Motion Picture
Max Allan Collins, 1985 and 2002 Best Critical/Biographical Work (w/James Traylor in 1985), 1993 Best Short Story, 2005 Best Play
Elmore Leonard, 1973 Best First Novel, 1979 Best Paperback, 1983 and 1984 Best Novel, 1992 Grandmaster