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TNT has optioned FRAGILE to be part of its new Mystery Movie Night!  On November 29^th, Scott Turow’s Innocent will launch a series of contemporary crime dramas that will include Lisa Gardner’s Hide, Sandra Brown’s Ricochet, Richard North Patterson’s Silent Witness, April Smith’s Good Morning, Killer, and Mary & Carol Higgins Clark Deck the Halls.

As the year draws to a close, I hope that you are celebrating your joys and successes surrounded by friends and family. It’s a mad rush during the holidays, but I always try to take a little time to reflect on the year that has passed and the one that approaches. And I’d also like to take a few moments to thank you for your faith and support this year. It has been a joy to connect with you both in person and online. Your kind messages and efforts in spreading the word about my work have meant the world to me. Know that I read every email, guestbook and wall post (even if I don’t always have time to answer) and that I’m deeply grateful for you and all you do.

Just discovered that Black Out (French version “Memoire Trouble”) has been shortlisted for the French award, Le Prix Polar International.  Previous winners include Elmore Leonard, Ian Rankin and Peter James.  

DIE FOR YOU was featured on the Today show this morning!

See a summary of the segment at Today online.

It’s with the usual mingling of excitement and dread that I prepare to head out on the road for DIE FOR YOU this coming weekend.  I’m excited because the release of a new book is always wonderful, because I love hanging out with readers, booksellers, seeing the friends and family that turn that out for events.  I dread it too because putting an author on the road is like throwing a cat into water.  We can survive it, but it’s not pretty — lots of hissing and back-arching.  Most of us would rather be in a hobbit hole somewhere making up stories.  If we weren’t naturally introverted, borderline hermits, semi- agoraphobic, we would never finish our books.

I’m excited that the paperback version of BLACK OUT hits the stores this week … Check out the trailer!

This weekend I’ll be heading down to Palm Beach for the first Writers Live! Murder They Wrote event at the Hagen Ranch Road Library.  If you’re in the area, I’d love to see you.  I’ll be on a panel with Jim Born (Burn Zone) and Ted Bell (TSAR) from 10 am – Noon on Saturday, April 18.  I know we’re going to have a great time!  Brad Meltzer will also be speaking later in the day.

Check out Oline Cogdill’s “Off The Page” blog for more info …

Oline’s blog is a great one to check out in general for all kinds of book news, reviews and event information.

Black Out wins a Silver Medal in the 2008 Florida Book Awards.

The Florida Book Awards, coordinated by the Florida State University Program in American & Florida Studies — and co-sponsored by the Florida Center for the Book, the State Library and Archives of Florida, the Florida Historical Society, the Florida Humanities Council, the Florida Literary Arts Coalition, the Florida Library Association, “Just Read, Florida!,” the Governor’s Family Literacy Initiative, the Florida Association for Media in Education, the Florida Center for the Literary Arts, Friends of the Florida State University Libraries, and the Florida Chapter of the Mystery Writers of America — is an annual awards program that recognizes, honors, and celebrates the best Florida literature published in the previous year.