{"id":78,"date":"2007-06-27T19:40:25","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T00:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/what-happened-to-gold-medal.html"},"modified":"2007-06-27T19:40:25","modified_gmt":"2007-06-28T00:40:25","slug":"what-happened-to-gold-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/what-happened-to-gold-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happened to Gold Medal?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I was getting together the list of Edgar Awards in the Best Paperback Originals category, I was surprised to see several publishing companies that I simply did not recognize. What a surprise that Playboy actually published books… and not just their monthly magazines… In 1981, Thomas H. Cook’s Blood Innocents was up for the Edgar’s Best Paperback Original<\/a> prize, with Playboy being his publisher. Who’d have known!?! I had no idea that Playboy published anything without glossy pictures! <\/p>\n

And, ending in 1978, there were several books that were put out by the Gold Medal publishing house…  Who’d have known that not only cake-bakers and Olympiads would strive for the Gold Medal? <\/p>\n

Whatever happened to some of the "old" publishing houses? Several years ago, when I was still very active in my mystery reading groups and forums, I "heard" cozy mystery readers complain that some of their favorite authors were being dropped by the very same publishing houses that the authors had helped finance.  (I wish I could remember some of the authors’ names…. but one thing I do remember…. the authors were famous cozy mystery authors<\/strong>.) But, I think that there lies the problem. Are cozy mysteries given the same amount of "legitimacy" as other types of fiction? <\/p>\n

I remember on one particular reading forum board, a woman from the non-mystery fiction group referred to mysteries as mind "candy"…. apparently, she thought of mysteries as just being something sweet and frothy, frosting (on top of frosting) on a cake, summer beach-time books… nothing of any importance.  I am sure she didn’t mean to label our mystery reading group as a mindless group of twits, but let’s face it, that is certainly what she inferred with her "candy" comment. <\/p>\n

I have to admit, though, that I didn’t take it personally…. I enjoy good non-mystery fiction, but I just happen to enjoy mysteries more. I particularly enjoy cozy mysteries<\/strong>, but that’s just me!<\/p>\n

 And oh, by the way, I happen to enjoy candy, too!<\/p>\n

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