1) The Mystery Writers of America have announced the nominees for the 2008 Edgar Allen Poe Awards for suspense fiction released in 2007. The winners will be announced at a banquet on May 1, 2008 at the Grand Hyatt in New York City. 

BEST NOVEL 

Christine Falls by Benjamin Black (Henry Holt and Company)
Priest by Ken Bruen (St. Martin’s Minotaur)
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabon (HarperCollins)
Soul Patch by Reed Farrel Coleman (Bleak House Books)
Down River by John Hart (St. Martin’s Minotaur) 

BEST FIRST NOVEL BY AN AMERICAN AUTHOR

Missing Witness by Gordon Campbell (HarperCollins – William Morrow)
In the Woods by Tana French (Penguin Group – Viking)
Snitch Jacket by Christopher Goffard (The Rookery Press)
Head Games by Craig McDonald (Bleak House Books)
Pyres by Derek Nikitas (St. Martin’s Minotaur)

BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL 

Queenpin by Megan Abbott (Simon & Schuster)
Blood of Paradise by David Corbett (Random House - Mortalis)
Cruel Poetry by Vicki Hendricks (Serpent’s Tail)
Robbie’s Wife by Russell Hill (Hard Case Crime)
Who is Conrad Hirst? by Kevin Wignall (Simon & Schuster)

BEST JUVENILE 

The Name of This Book is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)Shadows on Society Hill by Evelyn Coleman (American Girl Publications)
Deep and Dark and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn (Clarion Books)
The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh (Hyperion Books for Young Readers)
Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things by Wendelin Van Draanen (Random House Children’s Books – Alfred A. Knopf)

BEST YOUNG ADULT 

Rat Life by Tedd Arnold (Penguin – Dial Books for Young Readers)
Diamonds in the Shadow by Caroline B. Cooney
(Random House Children’s Books – Delacorte Press)
Touching Snow by M. Sindy Felin (Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing – Atheneum Books for Young eaders)
Blood Brothers by S.A. Harazin (Random House Children’s Books – Delacorte Press)
Fragments by Jeffry W. Johnston (Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing – Simon Pulse)

2) The American Library Association has announced its Reading List Awards for genre fiction:

SCIENCE FICTION

• In War Times by Kathleen Ann Goonan (Tor, 2007)
• Spook Country by William Gibson (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2007)
• Bright of the Sky by Kay Kenyon (Pyr, 2007)
• Phytosphere by Scott Mackay (New American Library, 2007)
• Brasyl by Ian McDonald (Pyr, 2007)
• Thirteen by Richard Morgan (Del Rey/Ballantine, 2007)
• Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer (Tor, 2007)
• The Last Colony by John Scalzi (Tor, 2007)
• One Jump Ahead by Mark L. Van Name (Baen, 2007)
• Axis by Robert Charles Wilson (Tor, 2007)

FANTASY

• The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss (Daw Books, 2007)
• Territory by Emma Bull (Tor, 2007)
• White Night by Jim Butcher (ROC/Penguin, 2007)
• Kushiel's Justice by Jacqueline Carey (Warner, 2007)
• The Devil You Know by Mike Carey (Warner, 2007)
• Acacia by David Durham (Doubleday, 2007)
• Book of Joby by Mark Ferrari (Tor, 2007)
• First Among Sequels by Jasper Fforde (Viking, 2007)
• GavrielYsabel by Guy Kay (ROC/Penguin, 2007)
• Daughter of Hounds by Caitlin Kiernan (Roc, 2007)
• Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch (Bantam Spectra, 2007)
• City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers (Overlook, 2007)
• A Companion to Wolves by Sarah Monette and Elizabeth Bear (Tor, 2007)
• Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik (Del Rey, 2007)
• Making Money by Terry Pratchett (Harper, 2007)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling (Scholastic, 2007)
• Children of Hurin by J.R.R. and Christopher Tolkien (Houghton Mifflin, 2007)
• In the Cities of Coin and Spice by Catherynne Valente (Bantam Spectra, 2007)

HORROR

• The Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill (William Morrow, 2007)
• Imago Sequence by Laird Barron (Nightshade Books, 2007)
• Shadow Coast by Philip Haldeman (Hippocampus, 2007)
• 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill (William Morrow, 2007)
• The Missing by Sarah Langan (HarperCollins, 2007)
• Baltimore, or the Steadfast Tin Solider by Mignola, Mike and Christopher Golden (Spectra, 2007)
• The Taken by Sarah Pinborough (Dorchester, 2007)
• The Terror by Dan Simmons (Little Brown, 2007)

3) Mike Carey’s new comic series for Virgin Comics, The Stranded, is being developed in cooperation with U.S. cable The Sci-Fi Channel as the beginning of a multi-media operation that may include films and television series adapted from specially designed written media. The Stranded is about five people who discover that their lives on Earth have been a lie and they are in fact alien beings. The first issue of the five-part story is in stores now.