... Ann Parker here, every other Thursday blogger on the LadyKillers, begging for a little compassion as I only remembered at the eleventh hour that this post was due. It's been a little crazy lately.
I just finished a month-long bout of intense science writing on two nifty topics: a technique for measuring isotopes that requires no vacuum chambers, no sample preparation (very very cool; take my word for it) and some recent research on climate science/global warming (which is actually pretty much of a downer, when you take it all in).
And
OH YES...the other news from the past week+ is...
~ Mercury's Rise is nominated for the Agatha Award for Best Historical Novel!! ~
The full list of nominees for this award is as follows:
Best Historical Novel:
Naughty in Nice by Rhys Bowen (Berkley)
Murder Your Darlings by J.J. Murphy (Signet)
Mercury's Rise by Ann Parker (Poisoned Pen Press)
Troubled Bones by Jeri Westerson (Minotaur)
A Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear (Harper)
What's more, LadyKiller Penny Warner is nominated for an Agatha Best Children's/Young Adult Award (!!) for The Code Busters Club, Case #1: The Secret of the Skeleton Key. (Do your kids like secret codes and puzzles? If so, they'll love Penny's book ... guaranteed!)
You can view all the Agatha Awards and their nominees here (scroll down a bit, and you'll see them).
The winners will be announced at the Agatha Awards banquet on April 28, at the Malice Domestic convention.
I'm honored, stunned, and excited, and I feel I should be shouting all this from the rooftops (or at least announcing it in every Yahoo group I belong to and doing all the social media stuff one should do)... However, I have three (shorter, much shorter) science writeups I need to complete in the next six days or so and barely enough time to do them and meet the impending deadlines.
Before I disappear down that particular rabbit hole, I do want to thank everyone who gave a thumbs up for my protagonist Inez and helped place her on the list. Poor woman has been through a lot in the past four books.
Hmmmm, to bring this back to the topic of the week, I wonder: Should I show a little compassion towards Inez and start her down the road to a "happily ever after" type of resolution in Book #5? (And just what would that future look like?)
