Thursday, June 18, 2009

Severance and the Barry

This morning I woke up to the happy news that my fourth novel, Severance Package, has been nominated for a Barry Award in the category of Best Paperback Original. The full list has been leaked here; the winners will be announced at this year's Bouchercon in Indianapolis. I'm sure I'm going to have my ass handed to me by my fellow nominees (including Max Allan Collins and Christa Faust), but as they say, it's just a pleasure to be nominated.

8 comments:

Mauro said...

Ha! I loved the plug Deadpool gave the book in Cable #15! Favorite line of the issue (which was the best of the series so far, in my opinion.) Congrats on the nomination!

Nate said...

Nice work Duane. Stiff competition to be sure, but I sure as hell think you hold your own.

Wayne C. Rogers said...

Duane,

You do have some very strong competition with Christa Faust and her novel, Money Shot. Good luck to you!

Terrill Lee Lankford said...

Congrats, man!

(But what the %$@^*#% is the "Barry"?)

Chadwick said...

Congrats Duane,

Best of luck to you. Severance deserves a win!

Dan Wagner said...

Awesomeness on the nomination! It was one my three best reads of 2008. Congrats!

Ryan K Lindsay said...

Congrats on the nom Mr Swierczynski.

I am finally getting a copy of that book down here in Australia, I just dropped about $350 on Amazon and got that, Secret Dead Men and The Wheelman, amongst a few other novels and comics. I already own, and love, The Blonde. I'm sure I'll love the rest too.

Sophie Littlefield said...

sorry to be so late in adding my congrats. was just checking you out to see what I would be missing at comicon. anyway, well done and full steam ahead