An Edgar Nomination for CRIMINAL!!

Criminal has been nominated for an Edgar Award! This is a hugely prestigious award granted by the Mystery Writers of America. To even be on this list is an enormous honor, and I must thank everybody who had anything to do with making this book, or reading it, or talking about it, to get it there!!

We’ll find out what happened on May 1st!!

I must also thank the folks at YALSA for nominating Criminal for 2013 ALA/YALSA Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers, and for the Teen Reads nomination for Teen Choice Book of the Year. (You can vote here!) This book is incredibly special to me, and that so many people have been reading it and affected by it –that so many people want to share it, and find it deserving of even a nomination– means more than this girl who has been writing her whole life can find the words to say.

Thank you, everyone!!!

(Now, let’s keep our fingers crossed.)