This year’s finalists for the Lambda Literary Awards were announced earlier today by the Lambda Literary Foundation. These so-called Lammys “celebrate achievement in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) writing for books published in 2010.” There are 114 contestants in 24 categories of books, with 10 in a pair of groups that might be of interest specifically to Rap Sheet readers:
Lesbian Mystery:
• The Cruel Ever After, by Ellen Hart (Minotaur)
• Fever of the Bone, by Val McDermid (HarperCollins)
• Missing Lynx, by Kim Baldwin and Xenia Alexiou (Bold Strokes Books)
• Parallel Lies, by Stella Duffy (Bywater Books)
• Water Mark, by J.M. Redmann (Bold Strokes Books)
Gay Mystery:
• Cockeyed, by Richard Stevenson (MLR Press)
• Echoes, by David Lennon (Blue Spike Publishing)
• Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers, by I.E. Woodward (iUniverse)
• Smoked, by Garry Ryan (NeWest Press)
• Vieux Carre Voodoo, by Greg Herren (Bold Strokes Books)
A full list of nominees can be found here. Winners are set to be announced on Thursday, May 26, during a ceremony at New York City’s School of Visual Arts Theater.
(Hat tip to Mystery Fanfare.)
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
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