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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 ...

In honor of this month's Women's History Month, we've put together a new documentary style mash-up video celebrating Women's Mystery Month.  Bestselling authors including Anne Perry, Susan Isaacs, Ruth Rendell and more share their thoughts on writing mystery and suspense from a woman's point of view.   Enjoy!

Editors note: Bestselling authors speak out on behalf of Banned Books Week, September 24-October 1, by sharing their favorite banned books and more.

Loren D. Estleman is the award-winning author of more than sixty-five novels, including mysteries and westerns.  His most enduring character, Amos Walker, has been featured in twenty novels and his adventure novel, The High Rocks was nominated for a National Book Award.  Before “sounding off” on which banned books surprised him the most, Estleman thanked us for “sending the latest list of The Damned”.

I’m never surprised by any of the choices, however innocuous some ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sure, we talk about books all the time. But Open Road is plugged into the world beyond books, too. Each Friday we'll step outside of the industry silo to call out what caught our eye. Whether we're talking about technology, museum exhibits, education—and, yes, sometimes books—we're happy to share Links We Like with readers.

• Although I liked being a Girl Scout as a kid, I was always jealous of the adventuring the Boy Scouts got to do. Playing with bees? Swinging around giant rocks? Making fires? And, in 2011, building robots. According to NPR, the Boy Scouts have now ...

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.