$25,000 AWARD;
BOOK FAIR
New York, August 15, 2016 — Otto Penzler, President and CEO of
MysteriousPress.com, has announced the finalists for the inaugural Mysterious
Press Award, which was established as a contest for a mystery novel to be
published as Best E-Book Original by MysteriousPress.com and distributed in the
United States and Canada by Open Road Integrated Media and published
world-wide.
The finalists are:
(represented by Janet Reid)
Cooper (represented by Janet Reid)
Leigh C. Rourks (represented by Larry Kirshbaum)
“As electronic publishing has become a significant element of the
publishing world, we decided to recognize an outstanding work of mystery
fiction by offering a substantial advance and a great opportunity for world-wide
recognition,” said Penzler. “We had an extraordinary array of
outstanding crime novels submitted for the contest and will be thrilled to
publish whichever one is chosen as the winner.”
These top three entries have been circulated to Mysterious Press’s world-wide
partners for a final decision. The winner will be chosen based on a variety of
criteria, including originality and literary quality.
The winning entry will receive a prize of $25,000 and guaranteed world-wide
publication. The $25,000 prize will be an advance against future royalties.
MysteriousPress.com will publish the winning title as an e-book original with
print-on-demand copies also available. World-wide partners will have all rights
(excluding dramatic rights) to publish in all formats.
The winner will be announced at the 2016 Frankfurt Book Fair.
Contest sponsors are MysteriousPress.com partners who distribute and market its
books: Open Road, in North America and numerous countries around the world;
Head of Zeus in the British Commonwealth; Hayakawa Publishing (Japan,
Singapore, and South Korea), Bonnier (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland);
Dutch Media Books (Holland and Belgium), and Bastei Lubbe (Germany, Austria,
Switzerland, Luxembourg, Greece, and selected Eastern European countries).
MysteriousPress.com e-books are distributed in China by Trajectory.
The contest was open to established authors as well as first-time novelists.
Submissions of complete and unpublished novels were accepted from accredited
literary agents.
More information about Mysterious Press can be found on MysteriousPress.com.
