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Every year, Mystery Writers of America grants Edgar Awards to the best new fiction and nonfiction of the year. In celebration of the Edgars, we’ve created a new short film featuring previous winners and nominees: T. J. English, Joseph Wambaugh, Brian Freemantle, Don Winslow, James Ellroy, Anne Perry, Loren D. Estleman, Thomas Cook, and James Grady. These writers speak about their writing process and about the significance of winning an Edgar.

Every year, one author receives a Grand Master award for outstanding achievement in the genre. To salute these winners, Open Road Integrated Media is sharing excerpts from eight Grand ...

If you're reading this, it stands to reason you love a good mystery.  In fact, you may even be a mystery writer. . . in which case, you'll surely want to read more about the field trip we took earlier this week to the newly founded Crime Fiction Academy situated in the Center for Fiction in New York City's Mercantile Library.

[What's that?  Oh. You were looking for the Links We Like segment?  Right.  Well, that posts on Fridays—come back tomorrow.  But, wait. . . ! Now that you're here, why not stick around, have a read, and share ...

Open Road Media announces the publication of Afterthoughts by Lawrence Block, now on sale at the very special ebook-only price of 99¢.

Internationally renowned, bestselling author Lawrence Block, whose prolific career spans over one hundred books, including four hit series and dozens of short stories, articles, and books on writing, has been pressed for years by his fans to write a memoir. Block says that all his attempts ended with failure and emotional exhaustion. He simply couldn’t sustain the pace without ripping his mind apart. Then, in 2010, as he was writing a bevy of afterwords for the ...

Open Road Media announces the publication of The Liar's Companion: A Field Guide for Fiction Writers now available for the first time as an ebook and print on demand.

For more than ten years, Lawrence Block, Mystery Writers of America Grand Master and author of more than one hundred books and dozens of short stories and articles, penned the “Fiction” column for Writer’s Digest.  The Liar's Companion, culled from more than seventy-five pieces originally appearing in this column and never before collected in a single volume, illuminates the tricks of the trade from creating a fresh story ...

Launch Ebooks Include Titles from James Ellroy, Charles McCarry, Ross Thomas, Joseph Wambaugh, Thomas H. Cook, Colin Dexter, Donald E. Westlake and Others

(New York, NY June 6th 2011) Open Road Integrated Media Inc. (www.openroadmedia.com), a digital publisher and multimedia content company, and Otto Penzler, the founder of the Mysterious Press and the Mysterious Bookshop, announced today a new digital publishing partnership to bring classic mystery and crime books to E. Penzler is launching MysteriousPress.com to acquire a diverse range of mystery and ...

Today's archival photo shows the esteemed writer Lawrence Block in 1983. Regarding his appearance in the picture, Block says that he “later lost the cap, and some son of a bitch stole the jacket. Don’t even ask about the hair.”

Block is the author of over one hunderd books and the winner of numerous awards, including four Edgar and Shamus Awards, two Falcon Awards, and the Gumshoe Lifetime Achievement Award. In a career that spans over fifty years Block has created some of the most memorable characters in the mystery genre, such as the complex private investigator Matthew Scudder, ...

Every industry has its own awards show that celebrates the pinnacle of achievement in its respective artform. The Oscars. The Grammys. The Tonys. And in the world of crime writing, it is the Edgars®. Few awards in any medium have the history and tradition of the Edgars®, with recipients and nominees who have influenced literature and our larger culture to staggering degrees. Named after the great Edgar Allen Poe, the Edgar® awards are given out every spring, and winning or simply being nominated places the recipient into the rarified air that few occupy. The award itself, a handsome bust of ...

Open Road Media announces the publication of The Liar's Bible: A Handbook for Fiction Writers by Lawrence Block, author of more than one hundred books and dozens of short stories and articles, now available as an ebook and print on demand.  Culled from more than seventy-five pieces originally appearing in Block’s “Fiction” column for Writer’s Digest magazine and never before collected in a single volume, The Liar's Bible affords readers entry into a world of writing that is, quite simply, pure Lawrence Block.

Newly developed content for reviewers and readers includes:

•  Review copies via NetGalley

•  Behind-the-scenes author ...

Open Road Media is proud to release multiple ebook titles from the backlists of several of the biggest, bestselling names in the world of suspense.

With a combined total of more than 325 published novels to their credit, in addition to countless short stories, screenplays, articles and more, Lawrence Block, Stephen Coonts, Carl Hiaasen, Jack Higgins, Jonathon King, Ruth Rendell, Robert K. Tanenbaum, and Don Winslow give new meaning to the term "bestselling author."

Download a PDF of the full press release here.

Open Road Integrated Media, a digital content company that publishes and markets ebooks by creating connections between authors ...