March Mystery Madness Update: Week 3
Wednesday, Mar 26, 2008 at 7:49pm
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....
Categories: buzz, Fun, websites, Mystery & Crime, Contests and Giveaways, Book ListsMarch Mystery Madness Update: Week 1
Monday, Mar 17, 2008 at 4:25pm
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.
Categories: Awards, Site News, buzz, Fun, websites, Mystery & Crime, Contests and Giveaways, Book ListsHarperCollins March Mystery Madness
Friday, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:23am
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
Categories: buzz, Fun, websites, Book Clubs, Mystery & Crime, Contests and Giveaways, Book ListsThe Short Long-Distance Writing Contest: Geist Magazine
Tuesday, Feb 19, 2008 at 10:39amGeist Magazine is running a short-short writing contest: 500 words or less, action in at least two different Canadian time zones. Find the full details here.
Categories: Fun, Contests and GiveawaysKathy Reichs Contest in Winnipeg
Wednesday, Oct 17, 2007 at 3:00pm
McNally Robinson Booksellers will be hosting a special presentation and signing with internationally acclaimed author on Friday, October 19 at our Grant Park location in Winnipeg.
Reichs's Temperence Brennan series is celebrating its 10th anniversary, and Simon & Schuster Canada has provided us with a complete set to give away.
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