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New Thriller for Adults Due Next January

January 23, 2012 News

Andrew’s new publisher Grove/Atlantic will bring out his latest thriller for adults one year from now, January 2013. The book, which Andrew completed at the end of last year, will be published under the auspices of Otto Penzler’s Mysterious Press imprint. The imprint has already published novels by Joyce Carol Oates and Thomas H. Cook. [...]

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New Ghost Anthology Scheduled

December 19, 2011 News

Vintage Original has scheduled the publication of its new anthology, The Big Book of Ghost Stories, edited by Otto Penzler, for September of 2012. The book will include Andrew’s popular Christmas ghost story “The Advent Reunion.” The story began its life as a series of homemade videos released online with support from Andrew Breitbart’s Big [...]

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Andrew’s “Assassin” Coming In Spanish

April 5, 2011 News

Andrew’s first and only spy story, “Sleeping With My Assassin,” will soon be out in Spanish translation for the Mexican and South American market.  Plata Negra publishers will publish Otto Penzler’s collection “Agents of Treason” as “Agentes de la Traicion,” come May 15.  The collection is billed as the first ever anthology of original spy [...]

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Andrew Moving to Grove/Atlantic

March 22, 2011 News

Andrew will follow his editor Otto Penzler from publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – which published Damnation Street, Empire of Lies, and Identity Man – to Grove/Atlantic. Grove/Atlantic will be relaunching Penzler’s famous Mysterious Press imprint.  The imprint will publish 10 to 12 books a year, including Andrew’s next thriller for adults, already under contract. “HMH [...]

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Novel: Hell At The Breech

March 18, 2011 Books

Okay, fiction fans, read this.  Really.  It’s wonderfully good.  A gripping, beautifully written novel  set during a real-life feud in 1890′s Alabama.  Author Tom Franklin won an Edgar Award for his 1999 book of short stories Poachers, which I haven’t read, but which also won high praise from Otto Penzler who despite being my editor [...]

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Advent Ghost Story Won’t Die!

December 14, 2010 News

Andrew’s chilling Christmas season ghost story, The Advent Reunion, will have yet another incarnation.  The story began as a homemade online video two Christmases ago, then was remade professionally and posted at PJTV last Christmas and, this Christmas, rose again in a prose version in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine.  Now the story has been accepted [...]

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Andrew in “Best Noir of the Century”

September 21, 2010 News

“Best American Noir of the Century,” edited by James Ellroy and Otto Penzler is now available.  The 39-story anthology features short noir classics from writers such as Cornell Woolrich, Jim Thompson, Patricia Highsmith and Elmore Leonard.  Andrew’s Edgar-nominated short story “Her Lord and Master” makes the cut as well.

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ID Man Gets Pre-Pub Nod In UK

August 10, 2010 News

Andrew’s upcoming thriller The Identity Man has won pre-publication praise from Britain’s premier publishing trade magazine, The Bookseller.  The journal selected the novel as one of its “Bookseller Picks” for this coming November, lauding its “fast-paced and gritty plotline containing plenty of twists.”  The book, which tells of a suspected murderer given a mysterious second [...]

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New York Nod

June 8, 2010 Culture

Was happy to get a nice nod in a New York Magazine feature called “If You Liked My Book, You’ll Like These.”  Editor extraordinaire Otto Penzler was asked for suggestions to compliment his new espionage anthology Agents of Treachery, which features my short story “Sleeping with My Assassin.”  Along with works by the incomparable John [...]

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“Agents” Garnering Top Reviews

June 8, 2010 News

Agents of Treachery, Otto Penzler’s anthology of espionage stories–the first anthology of original spy stories ever–is receiving rave reviews.  The collection, which includes a story by Andrew, received starred pre-publication raves from both Publishers Weekly and Booklist and has now received glowing praise in the Washington Times and  from Clea Simon at the Boston Globe.  [...]

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