The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers has just announced its nominees for the first annual Scribe Awards, “honoring excellence in licensed tie-in writing for books published in 2006.” Apart from the question of whether there can be such a thing as a “first annual” award (don’t you have to establish some track record, before commending yourself for doing something every 12 months?), the interesting thing about this shortlist is that easily half, if not more of the titles featured are science-fiction or fantasy. However, there are books under the General Fiction heading that are crime-related, or at least penned by authors who write in this genre. Those nominees:Best Novel (Adapted):
• Snakes on a Plane, by Christa Faust (Games Workshop)
• The Pink Panther, by Max Allan Collins (HarperEntertainment)
Best Novel (Original):
• CSI: New York: Blood on the Sun, by Stuart M. Kaminsky
• Las Vegas: High Stakes, by Jeff Mariotte
• Mr. Monk Goes to Hawaii, by Lee Goldberg
• Oakdale Confidential: Secrets Revealed, by Alina Adams
In addition, Donald Bain, who (ostensibly with Jessica Fletcher) writes the Murder, She Wrote tie-ins as well as the Coffee, Tea or Me series, will receive the association’s Grandmaster Award.
Winners will be named during in late July during Comic-Con, to be held in San Diego, California.
Speaking of Lee Goldberg, Elizabeth Zelvin posted an interview with him this morning in the Poe’s Deadly Daughters blog. A few things we learn from this exchange: that he began writing novels while still a student at UCLA; that he regrets the “enormous amount of ego and dick-measuring in TV”; that the novels by Anita Shreve are his guilty pleasures; and that he used to write “sexually explicit letters-to-the-editor at Playgirl for $25 each.”
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