I couldn’t be happier to announce that “The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie” has been nominated for a 2009 Agatha Award in the ‘Best First Novel’ category.
The Agathas – named in honour of Agatha Christie – are awarded annually by Malice Domestic.
Last year, the Agatha for ‘Best Novel’ went to fellow Canadian, Louise Penny, for “The Cruellest Month”, and Louise is nominated again this year for her novel “The Brutal Telling”.
More details at:
http://www.malicedomestic.org/agathaawards.html
Alan
I’m thrilled to announce that “The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie” has been nominated for the prestigious
Dilys Award. The Dilys Wynn Award is presented annually by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association (IMBA)
to the book its members most enjoyed selling during the year, and is named for Dilys Winn, who founded the first specialty
mystery book store in the U.S. Readers will remember with pleasure her wonderful books, Murder, Ink and Murderess, Ink, those rainy day reference
works that kept you soaking in the bathtub until you resembled a prune.
The 2009 nominees are:
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, Alan Bradley, Delacorte
A Quiet Belief in Angels, R.J. Ellroy, Overlook
The Dark Horse, Craig Johnson, Viking
The Girl Who Played with Fire, Steig Larsson, Alfred A. Knopf
The Ghosts of Belfast, Stuart Neville, Soho
The Brutal Telling, Louise Penny, Minotaur
The Shanghai Moon, S. J. Rozan, Minotaur
It’s especially pleasing to see fellow Canadian Louise Penny’s “The Brutal Telling” nominated. Louise won the Dilys in 2007 for “Still Life”,
the first in her series of Armand Gamache mysteries. If you haven’t already discovered Louise’s books, you have a wonderful treat in store.
Just in time for Christmas!
Flavia makes another appearance on YouTube – this time in an animated trailer
for the Random House audiobook edition.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVkxr7e9YGs
View it and vote!
We’re pleased to announce that “The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie” has been nominated by the American Library Association
in the category ‘Best Books for Young Adults’.
Voting will take place in mid January.
“The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie” has been nominated as a finalist for the Borders’ Original Voices Fiction award. The winner will be announced in January, 2010.
“The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie” has made its appearance on two of Amazon.ca’s ‘Best Books of 2009′ -
appearing on ‘Top Books: Editor’s Picks’ and ‘Top Books: Customers’ Best Sellers
We’re happy to announce that he audio book version of “The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie” has been chosen by the Apple iTunes ‘Rewind’ as the best audiobook of 2009 in the fiction category.
http://audioforbooks.com/wordpress/2009/12/more-best-in-audio-books-itunes-releases-its-list-for-2009/
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/browserRedirect?url=itms%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.
woa%252Fwa%252FviewCustomPage%253Fname%253DpageiTunesRewind09
Congratulations to all at Random House Audio who made it such a success: and to Jayne Entwistle who gave voice to Flavia.
“The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie” has been chosen by Amazon as one of the top audiobooks of 2009.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&plgroup=1&docId=1000446341
Following its appearance last summer on the New York Times bestseller list, “The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie” has again been chosen by the NYT: this time as one of the Notable Crime Books of 2009.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/books/review/Crime-t.html?ref=books
“The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie” has been chosen by Amazon as one the top 10 mysteries and thrillers of 2009:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&plgroup=1&docId=1000446521
It has also been chosen as one of the top audiobooks of 2009:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&plgroup=1&docId=1000446341
In addition, it has been chosen as Amazon’s Best 100 Books of 2009, and nominated by the American Library Association for the ‘Best Books for Young Adults’ award.
