{"id":10258,"date":"2012-06-11T16:13:09","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T21:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=10258"},"modified":"2012-06-11T16:13:09","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T21:13:09","slug":"2012-nero-wolfe-award-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/2012-nero-wolfe-award-nominees\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Nero (Wolfe) Award Nominees!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finally posted the nominees for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cozy-mystery.com\/Nero-Awards.html\">2012 Nero Awards<\/a>. Most of you, I am sure, know exactly what the Nero Awards stand for:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The &#8220;Nero&#8221; is an annual award presented to an author for literary excellence in the mystery genre. The award is presented at the Black Orchid Banquet, which is traditionally held on the first Saturday in December in New York City. Past winners of the award include Fred Harris, Martha Grimes,\u00a0Dennis Lehane, and Sharyn McCrumb.<\/p>\n<p>(I copied the above statement from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nerowolfe.org\/htm\/neroaward\/award.htm\">Wolfe Pack site<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all of the nominees!<\/p>\n<p><strong>2012<\/strong>: Guilt by Association by Marcia Clark\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10263\" title=\"Orchid\" src=\"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Orchid2-e1339449106280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" \/><br \/>\nThe Silent Girl by Tess Gerritsen<br \/>\nThe House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz<br \/>\nSpiral by Paul McEuen<br \/>\nThough Not Dead by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cozy-mystery.com\/Dana-Stabenow.html\">Dana Stabenow<\/a><br \/>\nBlack Orchid Blues by Persia Walker<\/p>\n<p>(And, here&#8217;s a fun tidbit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cozy-mystery.com\/Jane-K.-Cleland.html\">Jane K. Cleland<\/a>, author of the popular Josie Prescott Antiques Mystery Series,\u00a0\u00a0is the Wolfe Pack&#8217;s literary awards chair!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally posted the nominees for the 2012 Nero Awards. Most of you, I am sure, know exactly what the Nero Awards stand for: The &#8220;Nero&#8221; is an annual award presented to an author for literary excellence in the mystery genre. The award is presented at the Black Orchid Banquet, which is traditionally held on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-authors","7":"category-awards","8":"category-books","9":"entry","10":"override"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pI0sr-2Fs","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}