2nd Annual Spinetingler Award Nominees

The nominees for the 2nd Annual Spinetingler Awards are:

New Voice

Toby Barlow – SHARP TEETH
Declan Hughes – THE PRICE OF BLOOD
John McFetridge – EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS IS NOWHERE
Brian McGilloway – BORDERLANDS
Castle Freeman JR – GO WITH ME
Cornelia Read – THE CRAZY SCHOOL
Kevin Wignall – WHO IS CONRAD HIRST?
Austin Williams – CRIMSON ORGY

Rising Star

Kate Atkinson – WHEN WILL THERE BE GOOD NEWS?
Ray Banks – NO MORE HEROES
Christa Faust – MONEY SHOT
Jeffrey Ford – THE SHADOW YEAR
Allan Guthrie – SAVAGE NIGHT
Timothy Hallinan – A NAIL THROUGH THE HEART
Andrew Klavan – EMPIRE OF LIES
Olen Steinhauer – VICTORY SQUARE

Legend

Lawrence Block – HIT AND RUN
Lee Child – NOTHING TO LOSE
Robert Crais – CHASING DARKNESS
Joe Lansdale – LEATHER MAIDEN
Dennis Lehane – THE GIVEN DAY
Norah McClintock – DOOLEY TAKES THE FALL
Val McDermid – A DARKER DOMAIN
James Sallis – SALT RIVER

Graphic Novel

100 Bullets by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso
Criminal by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
Femme Noir by Christopher Mills and Joe Staton
Hawaiian Dick by B. Clay Moore and Steven Griffin
Incognegro by Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece
Scalped by Jason Aaron and R.M. Guera

Best Editor

Ben LeRoy – Bleak House
Charles Ardai – Hard Case Crime
Neil Nyren – Putnam
John Schoenfelder – Thomas Dunne

Best Reviewer

Ali Karim
Larry Gandle
Lesa Holstine
Karen Chisholm
Glenn Harper

Best Publisher

Bleak House
Hard Case Crime
Soho

Special Services to the Industry

Declan Burke: Crime Always Pays
Barbara Franchi: Reviewing The Evidence
J. Kingston Pierce: The Rap Sheet
John & Ruth Jordan: Crimespree
Peter Rozovsky: Detectives Beyond Borders
Ruth Jordan & Judy Bobalik: Bouchercon 2008

Best Cover

AT THE CITY’S EDGE by Marcus Sakey – Cover design by The DesignWorks Group
DEATH WAS THE OTHER WOMAN by Linda L Richards – Cover design by David Baldeosignh Rotstein
EMPTY AFTER AFTER by Reed Farrel Coleman – Cover design by 2Faced Designs
FIFTY TO ONE by Charles Ardai – Cover design by Cooley Design Lab
MAD DOGS by Brian Hodge – Cover design by Jill Bauman
SHARP TEETH by Toby Barlow – Cover design by Christine Van Bree illustrated by Natasha Michaels

Best Short Story on the Web

Cold Rifts by Sandra Seamans (Originally published at Crooked)
Fruits by Steve Mosby (Originally published ay Spinetingler)
Hard Bite by by Anonymous-9 (Originally published at Beat to a Pulp)
Lenny and Earl Go Shooting Off Their Mouths by Ray Morrison (originally published at Word Riot)
Random Acts of Fatherhood by Robert Pesa (Originally published at Darkest Before the Dawn)
Red Hair and Black Leather by Jordan Harper (Originally published at Thuglit)
She Watches Him Swim by Claude Lalumiere (Originally published at Back Alley)
Sisters Under the Skin by Naomi Johnson (Originally published at A Twist of Noir)
They Take You by Kyle Minor (Originally published at Plots With Guns)
Wishing on Whores by John Weagly (Originally published at Thieves Jargon)

Winners in each category will be determined by public vote. Voting will be open until April 25, 2009. Please follow this link to cast your vote in any or all of the categories, to see the covers nominated and to follow the links to the short stories.

Congratulations to all the nominees. Winners will be announced April 30.

Click HERE to vote.

*Please note that the voting boxes are inside a box with a scroll bar.

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UPDATE:

When I was pulling the information for the Best Cover category for the Spinetingler Awards, I looked where I usually do. Inside, on the copyright page. And so it was that I saw, “Designed by Leah Carlson-Stanisic” on our copy of SHARP TEETH, and attributed the cover design to her. I now see that on the back cover, in small print, it says that the cover design is by Suzanne Dean… But that’s not the end of the story.  There was actually an error with the book, and the cover design was done by Christine Van Nee.  The poll and list have been corrected.

About Sandra_Ruttan

Described as "one of crime fiction's hot new voices" by Rick Mofina, Sandra Ruttan is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Spinetingler Magazine and her short fiction has appeared in Out of the Gutter, Crimespree Magazine, Pulp Pusher, Demolition, The Cynic and Mouth Full of Bullets. She had her first newspaper column at the age of 13 and launched the Nolan, Hart and Tain series with her book, WHAT BURNS WITHIN, earlier this year. In November '08 the second book in the series, THE FRAILTY OF FLESH, will be released.