
The winner of the first Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award was recently
announced. Former high school English teacher Bill Loehfelm took home the prize for Fresh Kills, a noir mystery about lower-middle-class life in Staten Island, home to the famous garbage dump Fresh Kills. Loehfelm wins a $25,000 publishing contract with Penguin, which will publish the novel in late summer.
3 comments:
I found your blog through Library Thing (we have many books in common). Your post caught my eye because I own a book called "Fresh Kills-a Mystery" by Carolyn Wheat published in 1995, same setting. Interesting coincidence?
Is it a coincidence, I wonder? Interesting...
It is a coincidence, it's just such a compelling title.
Interested readers can find out more about Fresh Kills '08 and its author at www.billloehfelm.com, including where to pre-order the book, plus links, author appearances and Bill's blog.
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