Nick DiChario will be launching his new novel Valley of Day-Glo, a post-apocalyptic comedy, at our Grant Park location May 17th in a joint launch with fellow science fiction authors Robert J. Sawyer and Hayden Trenholm. DiChario, who previously held a science fiction/fantasy writer's workshop event for us, was kind enough to answer a few of my questions via email.

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In an interview at Newsarama it was revealed that crime writer Duane Swierczynski will be taking over writing chores on Marvel Comics' Immortal Iron Fist.

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Edge Science Fiction will be launching the debut novel of Victoria's Lee Danielle Hubbard on April 15th. She was kind enough to take the time to answer a few of my questions.

(If you swing by Edge's table at Keycon, Winnipeg's annual science fiction and fantasy convention, you'll have a chance to meet Lee there.)

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CBC Radio One's Between the Covers will serialize Robert J. Sawyer's Hugo and Aurora nominated novel: Rollback. The program airs across Canada in fifteen minute installments. Rollback's air date has yet to be determined.

This year the Prix Aurora Awards, Canada's science fiction and fantasy award will be announced at Keycon 25 in Winnipeg. This year's shortlist features strong contenders from Robert J. Sawyer, whose Rollback was just shortlisted for The Hugo Award, and Nalo Hopkinson's The New Moon's Arms, which was previously shortlisted for The Nebula Award. Will the small press titles be able to upset two of Canada's genre giants?

The selections for best long form work in English follow after the jump.

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The March Mystery Madness showdown has now reached its third week. During the last round, 48 books were voted off, leaving 16 behind to duke it out over the coming three weeks....

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As you may already know, we were pretty excited when we found out about March Mystery Madness last week. In fact, after a quick flurry of email conversations, we wound up sponsoring it.

With 64 of the best mystery and thriller novels pitted against each other in a six week competition, the first week of polling is done:

Narrow upsets, crushing defeats and last-second comebacks were all the rage. Blockbuster author Philip Margolin put up a fight, slashing his way to a narrow defeat against Andrew Taylor's Fallen Angel. Taylor now takes on Karin Slaughter, who squeaked out a narrow victory of her own over the beloved Louis Bayard and his The Pale Blue Eye. Will these close victories serve as inspiration or will fans of each author be satisfied just to be in the second round?

You can find the full list of 32 first-round winners here.

Don't forget to go vote for your favourites this week- it could mean a free library of 65 excellent books.

You can find out more about the books here.

By day, paranormal romance author Kate Brallier works as an editor for a major publishing house in New York. With her second novel The Boundless Deep just released, Kate was kind enough to answer some questions for our website prior to her March 22nd reading and signing at our Grant Park location.

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HarperCollins Canada has launched a blog/contest called March Mystery Madness:

We're hoping that everyone finds March Mystery Madness blog worthy. It's a massive, really fun online event we're running over the next six weeks: 64 books, 4 conferences, tonnes of "games," and one ultimate winner. Essentially, it's the NCAA basketball tournament only with mystery books.

Battling mystery titles, hype, games and the chance to win 65 great mystery novels. What's not to love?

Link to March Mystery Madness

Thanks, Ragdoll