2022 Edgar Allan Poe Award Winners Announced
Mystery Writers of America has announced the Winners for the 2022 Edgar Allan Poe Awards, honoring the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction, and television published or produced in 2021. Winners included Five Decembers by James Kestrel for Best Novel, Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York by Elon Green for Best Fact Crime, and Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley for best Young Adult. You can see the full list of winners here. The winners were announced in a ceremony at the New York Marriott Marquis Times Square and livestreamed on YouTube.
Nicola Yoon to Publish First Novel for Adults
Young adult author Nicola Yoon is writing for adult audiences for her next novel One of Our Kind, which will be out from Anchor in 2024. Yoon, author of The Sun is Also a Star and Everything, Everything, describes her next book as “The Stepford Wives meets Get Out.” One of Our Kind will follow the story of a family who moves to a Black community in California, only to uncover a frightening secret about the town’s history. Yoon’s agent, Jodi Reamer, says the novel “takes the Nicola Yoon canon to a brilliant new level.”
Wake School Board Rejects Book Challenge
The Wake County school board in North Carolina has rejected a parent’s request to remove young adult novel Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez from Cary High School’s library. The parent argued that the book contains profanity and sexually explicit content. On Thursday, a school board panel voted 3-0 on to allow the book to remain in Cary High’s library, citing a “full reading” of the book and the fact that students aren’t required to read the novel as part of the school’s curriculum. “This isn’t anything assigned to any child,” vice chairman Chris Heagarty said during the open-session discussion. “It’s only available in the media center.”
Is Romance Set in the Book World Trending?
Books about books have always been super popular, but there are a lot of romance novels set in the publishing world in 2022.