I’m more than ecstatic to share the news that the Flavia de Luce mysteries have been optioned by director Sam Mendes of Neal Street Productions.
Details can be read here in Variety:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118053847.html?cmpid=RSS%7CNews%7CLatestNews
More details as they become available.
As a proud member of the Crime Writers of Canada, I’m thrilled to be able to announce that “I Am Half-Sick of Shadows” the fourth Flavia de Luce mystery, has been shortlisted for a prestigious Arthur Ellis Award.
The winners will be announced in Toronto on May 31st, 2012.
Here’s the complete list of nominees (some mighty big names here!):
Best Crime Novel
A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny, St. Martin’s Press
Before the Poison by Peter Robinson, McClelland and Stewart
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows by Alan Bradley, Doubleday Canada
I’ll See you in My Dreams by William Deverell, McClelland and Stewart
The Guilty Plea by Robert Rotenberg, Simon&Schuster
Best First Novel
The Man Who Killed by Fraser Nixon, Douglas & McIntrye
The Survivor by Sean Slater, Simon&Schuster
The Water Rat of Wanchai by Ian Hamilton, House of Anansi Press Inc.
Tight Corner by Roger White, BPS Books
Watching Jeopardy by Norm Foster, XLibris
Best Crime Book in French
La chorale du diable by Martin Michaud, Les Editions Guélette
Pwazon by Diane Vincent, Editors Triptyque
Pour Ne Pas Mourir ce soir by Guillaume Lapierre-Desnoyers, Lévesque Éditeur
Best Juvenile or Young Adult Crime Book
Blink & Caution by Tim Wynne-Jones, Candlewick Press
Charlie’s Key by Rob Mills, Orca Book Publishers
Empire of Ruins by Arthur Slade, HarperCollins Publishers
Held by Edeet Ravel, Annick Press
Missing by Becky Citra, Orca Book Publishers
Best Crime Nonfiction
A Season in Hell by Robert Fowler, Harper Collins
Hot Art: Chasing Thieves and Detectives Through the Secret World of Stolen Art by Joshua Knelman, Douglas& McIntyre
The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by Steven Laffoley, Pottersfield
The Pirates of Somalia by Jay Bahader, Harper Collins
The Weasel: A Double Life in the Mob by Adrian Humphreys, Wiley
Best Crime Short Story
A New Pair of Pants by Jas. R. Petrin, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
Beer Money by Shane Nelson, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
The Girl with the Golden Hair by Scott Mackay, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
The Perfect Mark by Melodie Campbell, Flash Fiction Magazine
What Kelly Did by Catherine Astolfo, North Word Magazine
Best Unpublished First Novel – “Unhanged Arthur”
Gunning for Bear by Madeleine Harris-Callway
Last of the Independents by Sam Wiebe
Snake in the Snow by William Bonnell
The Rhymester by Valerie A. Drego
Too Far to Fall by Shane Sawyer
Wish us all luck!
I couldn’t be happier to share the news that the third Flavia de Luce novel, “A Red Herring Without Mustard” has been shortlisted for the first-ever Bloody Words Light Mystery Award.
The award, whose winner is to be announced at the Bloody Words Mystery Conference, in Toronto, in June, 2012, is given for “a book that makes us smile”.
The complete list of nominees – a drumroll, if you please:
Janet Bolin, Dire Threads (Berkley Prime Crime)
Alan Bradley, A Red Herring without Mustard (Doubleday Canada)
Gloria Ferris, Cheat the Hangman (Imajin Books)
Mary Jane Maffini, The Busy Woman’s Guide to Murder (Berkley Prime Crime)
Phyllis Smallman, Champagne for Buzzards (McArthur & Company)
The Guest of Honour at the conference is to be Linwood Barclay, and the International Guest, Gayle Lynds.
More details at the Bloody Words webpage:
http://www.bloodywords2012.com/
Flavia on Oprah? You bet!
“The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag”, the third book in the Flavia de Luce series, has been named as one of “9 Mysteries Every Thinking Woman Should Read” on Oprah’s website.
Read about it here:
http://www.oprah.com/book/The-Weed-That-Strings-the-Hangmans-Bag-The-Flavia-de-Luce-Mysteries
Yaroo!
“A Red Herring Without Mustard”, the third book in the Flavia de Luce series, has been announced as a finalist for a CBC Radio “Bookie Award”. The shortlist is made up of books chosen as their favourites by readers.
You can cast your vote here:
http://www.cbc.ca/books/2012/03/the-second-annual-cbc-bookie-awards.html
You (and all your family and friends, I hope!) are allowed to votes once each per day.
“Flavia forever!”
Just in time to welcome the spring!
Here are the new book designs for the UK editions of the Flavia de Luce series. Quite stunning, I think!
Thanks to all of you who responded so overwhelmingly to the Flavia mystery question.
It was so much fun that I’ve decided we should do it more often!
I’m looking into ways of managing a regular book giveaway.
Let me know your thoughts and suggestions.
Alan
I’ve just posted an opportunity to win a signed an inscribed Flavia novel at the Flavia Fan Club website:
www.flaviafanclub.ning.com
Hop over there, join the club, and solve the mystery.
Alan
One of the questions I am most often asked is this: “How many Flavia de Luce” books are there going to be?”
While I can’t really give a definitive answer, I can say that as of yesterday, four more have been added.
Kate Miciak, of Random House, New York, and Kristin Cochrane, of Doubleday, Canada, have announced the signing of a contract for an additional four novels in the series, bringing the total to 10.
The fourth book, “I Am Half-Sick of Shadows” was published in November, 2011, with the fifth to follow in early 2013.
Further information is given in Mark Medley’s ‘Afterword” column in today’s National Post:
http://arts.nationalpost.com/2012/01/30/flavia-de-luce-isnt-going-anywhere-soon/
Herewith, my answers to CBC’s “Canada Writes” Laferrière Questionnaire”:
http://www.cbc.ca/books/canadawrites/2011/12/alan-bradley-takes-the-laferriere-questionnaire.html
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