Indie Lit Awards 2011 Short Lists

The Short Lists for the 2011 Independent Literary Awards have been announced. The awards are given in a number of genres, and I am honored to have been asked to serve as a voting member of the “Mystery” panel.

The following have made the 2011 Indie Lit Awards Mystery Short List:

Missing Daughter, Shattered Family by Liz Strange (MLR Press)
The Cut by George Pelecanos (Reagan Arthur/LIttle, Brown)
A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny (St. Martin’s Press)
The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes by Marcus Sakey (Dutton)
Fun & Games by Duane Swierczynski (Mulholland Books/Little, Brown)

The Short Lists have also been announced for the Biography/ Memoir, Fiction, Non-Fiction, GLBTQ, Poetry, and Speculative Fiction genres as well. You can read more about the Independent Literary Awards and see all the Short List nominees on the Indie Lit Awards website.

5 Comments

Andrez Bergen
January 11, 2012 - 5:06 AM

Ha Ha Ha – have fun catching up with the reading, E! But you’ll be great!
Pop Culture Nerd
January 8, 2012 - 3:04 PM

Yay! I nominated FUN & GAMES! Sad to see THE HOUSE OF SILK didn’t make it but this is a pretty good list. I like seeing nominees I’ve actually read, unlike the short lists for many other awards.
- Elizabeth A. White
  January 8, 2012 - 4:40 PM
  
  I hate when that happens; a “best of” or awards list comes out from some organization and you barely recognize the titles, let alone have read them.
le0pard13
January 8, 2012 - 2:44 PM

My vote is for Fun & Games by Duane Swierczynski. Thanks for the heads up, Elizabeth.
Sabrina Ogden
January 8, 2012 - 2:15 PM

One I’ve read, and two I’ve heard of. Will add these to my list of things to read this year… =)