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2007 NEWS
 December 2007
Drop-in signing blitz just
in time for gift-giving
On
Tuesday, December 4, I'll be doing drop-in
signings at bookstores all over the Twin Cities, just in time for the
gift-giving season. If you'd like a signed book, just check with your
favorite local
bookstore, and ask them to set aside a signed copy for you to pick up
at your convenience. If you need a book inscribed for someone in
particular, just pre-order the book from your local bookseller, then send me a quick e-mail
with the name of the bookstore, the person's name, and any other
special requests for the inscription. That way, I can sign a book just
for you as I make the rounds on December 4.
August 1, 2007
Newsletter
launch
I'm
trying a new way to keep in touch—hope you like it. This way I can let
people know about publication and
tour dates,
interviews, reviews, all that craic. Let me know what else
you'd
like to see... Check out the newsletter archives
 March 1, 2007
LAKE
OF SORROWS paperback
available August 2007
The
LAKE OF SORROWS
trade paperback edition, with a special
section including discussion questions for book clubs, should be
arriving in bookstores by August 2007, just in time for late summer
beach reading!
Scribner
ISBN
13: 978-1416541301
ISBN 10: 1416541306
January 3, 2007
LAKE
OF SORROWS published across
Europe and Japan
The
second novel in the Nora Gavin/Cormac Maguire series has been published
across Europe (in Britain, France, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Italy,
Norway, Portugal, Russia, Spain, and Sweden), and is due to be
published soon in Japanese. Evidently people everywhere are interested
in bogs!
 2006 NEWS
February
22, 2006
LAKE
OF SORROWS paperback available March 2006
The
LAKE OF SORROWS
mass-market paperback should be arriving on bookstore shelves by
February 28, 2006.
Pocket Star
Books
ISBN 13: 978-0-7374-7101-5
ISBN 10: 7374-7101-6
2005 NEWS
February
6, 2005
LAKE
OF SORROWS chosen as Minnesota Book Award finalist
LAKE
OF SORROWS has been selected as a finalist in the 17th Annual
Minnesota Book Awards. Other finalists in the Popular Fiction category
were: Alone at Night by K.J. Erickson; Blood Hollow by William Kent
Krueger; Live Bait by P.J. Tracy; and The Tarnished Eye by Judith
Guest. Congratulations to all the finalists! Winning titles will be
announced at the Minnesota Book Awards ceremony on Saturday, April 16.
January
12, 2005
Barcelona
conference on European crime writing
Erin
will attend and speak at the First European Meeting on Crime
Fiction in Barcelona, Spain, on January 20-22, 2005. She's
scheduled to share a panel with fellow writers from Sweden, Norway, and
Russia, and is busy preparing remarks she'll deliver about the slow but
steady growth of crime writing in and about Ireland. She's also looking
forward to seeing all the modernista architectural sites, and liberally
sampling the local wines and tapas!
2004 NEWS
December
31, 2004
LAKE
OF SORROWS named among Best Crime Novels of 2004 by Barnes &
Noble staffers
Barnes
& Noble bookstore staff members selected LAKE OF SORROWS
as of their favorite books of 2004. Read the recommendation here.
December
1, 2004
LAKE
OF SORROWS chosen as a BookSense
Mystery/Thriller
Pick for December 2004
LAKE OF SORROWS was selected by
independent booksellers as one of the best mystery/thriller offerings
of December 2004. Many thanks to Laura Hansen of Bookin' It Bookstore
in Little Falls, Minnesota for the glowing
recommendation.
November
12, 2004
HAUNTED
GROUND to be published in Japan and Russia
HAUNTED
GROUND has finally broken out of North America and Europe. It's
scheduled to be translated into Russian and Japanese sometime in 2005.
October
16, 2004
Scribner
publishes LAKE OF SORROWS
LAKE
OF SORROWS, the second Nora Gavin/Cormac Maguire book, was
published in hardcover by Scribner, and is now on bookstore shelves.
Here’s what the book jacket says: "In LAKE OF SORROWS,
Hart again delves into Ireland’s mysterious peat bogs to create a
stunning tale of deception and murder... The danger mounts, fueled by
illicit liaisons, rumors of ancient gold, and one person’s thirst for
vengeance." And as of November 2004, LAKE OF SORROWS was
already into a second printing.
August
11, 2004
Scribner
to publish trade paperback of HAUNTED GROUND in March 2005
Scribner
has announced plans to publish a trade paperback edition of HAUNTED
GROUND in March 2005, to coincide with the LAKE OF
SORROWS mass market paperback.
August
1, 2004
Scribner
to publish LAKE OF SORROWS mass market paperback in March 2005
Scribner
will publish the mass market paperback edition of LAKE OF SORROWS
in March 2005—just in time for Saint Patrick's Day.
 July
24, 2004
HAUNTED
GROUND nominated for Anthony Award
HAUNTED
GROUND was recently nominated for an Anthony Award in the Best
First Novel category! Also nominated in that category were: Death Of A
Nationalist by Rebecca Pawel; Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear;
Monkeewrench/Want to Play? by PJ Tracy; Wiley's Lament by Lono
Waiwaiole. Congratulations to all the best first nominees; Anthony
award winners will be selected by attendees at the Bouchercon world
mystery convention, October 7-10, 2004 in Toronto.
July
15, 2004
HAUNTED
GROUND now out in paperback
HAUNTED
GROUND has been published in a mass market paperback edition by
Pocket Books in August 2004. The book is also available in Britain and
Ireland in a mass-market paperback edition from New English Library, a
division of Hodder & Stoughton.
Book
clubs interested in reading and discussing HAUNTED GROUND
and looking for some ideas and questions to get started can find a
lively start with the new reading
group guide
on this site or by visiting Simon
and Schuster's Book Club Reader site.
May
1, 2004
HAUNTED
GROUND named among Booklist’s Top Ten Mysteries
The
May 2004 edition of Booklist magazine (the annual mystery issue) named HAUNTED
GROUND as one the Top Ten Crime Novels of 2003-2004, and also
in the Top Ten First Crime Novels of the year. In his introduction to
the list, editor Bill Ott said: "The Top 10 was reserved for those
books that simply demanded to be there. We have two wonderful first
novels—Erin Hart's HAUNTED GROUND, and Adrian McKinty's
Dead I Well May Be—sitting in the winner's circle alongside superb new
work by such established masters as John leCarré and George
Pelecanos. Throw in outstanding installments in relatively new series
by Giles Blunt and Jonathon King, two very different but equally
compelling historical thrillers by Stephen Hunter and David Liss, and
perhaps the best work yet by two veterans, Joe Lansdale and Robert
Greer, and you have a top 10 for the ages."
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Booklist’s
Top Ten Crime Novels, 2003-2004:
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- Absolute Friends by John LeCarre
- Dead I Well May Be by Adrian McKinty
- The Delicate Storm by Giles Blunt
- Hard Revolution by George Pelecanos
- HAUNTED
GROUND
by Erin Hart
- Havana by Stephen Hunter
- Heat Shock by Robert Greer
- Shadow Men by Jonathon King
- A Spectacle of Corruption by David
Liss
- Sunset and Sawdust by Joe R. Lansdale
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Booklist’s
Top Ten Crime Debut Novels, 2003-2004:
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- A Cruel Season for Dying by Harker
Moore
- Dead I Well May Be by Adrian McKinty
- HAUNTED
GROUND
by Erin Hart
- The Hundredth Man by Jack Kerley
- Mission Flats by William Landay
- The Night of the Dance by James Hime
- Quantico Rules by Gene Riehl
- Relative Danger by Charles Benoit
- Weeping by Shelly Reuben
- Where the Truth Lies by Rupert
Holmes
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HAUNTED
GROUND WINS YEAR-END ACCOLADES
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- ALA/Booklist
Top Ten Crime Novels of 2003-2004
- Friends
of American Writers Award 2004
- Romantic
Times - Best First Mystery 2003
- Nominated
for Book-of-the Month Club Best Mystery 2003
- Nominated
for Agatha Award Best First Mystery 2003
- Nominated
for Anthony Award Best First Mystery 2003
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Among
Best First Mystery selections of 2003:
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- ALA
/ BOOKLIST MAGAZINE
- BRITAIN'S
BCA MYSTERY & THRILLER CLUB
- DEADLY
PLEASURES MAGAZINE
- MYSTERY
NEWS MAGAZINE
- SOUTH
FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL
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March
2, 2004
HAUNTED
GROUND receives the 2004 Friends of American Writers Award
HAUNTED
GROUND was chosen to receive the 2004 Adult Literature Award
from the Friends of American Writers. In order to qualify for the
award, an author must be a resident (or previously have been a
resident) of Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan,
Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota, or
Wisconsin. Past FAW winners include Jane Smiley, Toni Morrison, William
Maxwell, Maxine Clair, Larry Watson, and A. Manette Ansay.
February
19, 2004
HAUNTED
GROUND Nominated for Malice Domestic’s AGATHA Award
HAUNTED
GROUND has been nominated for a prestigious AGATHA award for
Best First Mystery. Agathas are fan-selected awards, presented each
year at Malice Domestic, a conference celebrating the traditional
mystery, held in metropolitan Washington D.C. (This year’s Malice will
be in Arlingon, Virgina, April 30-May 2.) Other Agatha nominees for
Best First Mystery include: Dealing in Murder by Elaine Flinn (Avon);
Take the Bait by S. W. Hubbard (Pocket); Alpine for You by Maddy Hunter
(Pocket Books); Murder Off Mike by Joyce Krieg (St. Martin's Minotaur);
O' Artful Death by Sarah Stewart Taylor (St. Martin's Minotaur); and
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear (Soho Press Inc.)
January
26, 2004
HAUNTED
GROUND Nominated as a Romantic Times ‘Best First Mystery’
HAUNTED
GROUND has been nominated for Best First Mystery by the
Romantic Times book club. Nominees and winners are chosen by the
Romantic Times staff of reviewers, and winners will be announced in the
April issue, just before the Booklovers Convention March 24-28.
2003 NEWS
December
21, 2003
HAUNTED
GROUND Nominated to several ‘Best of 2003’ lists
HAUNTED
GROUND has been nominated for among the best first mysteries of
2003 by Deadly Pleasures magazine and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
Britain’s BCA Mystery & Thriller Club readers also picked Haunted
Ground as one of two favorite debut novels for 2003.
December
11, 2003
HAUNTED
GROUND now available in paperback in Britain and Ireland
HAUNTED
GROUND is currently available in Britain and Ireland in a
mass-market paperback edition from New English Library, a division of
Hodder & Stoughton. HAUNTED GROUND is due to be
published in North America in a mass-market paperback edition by Pocket
Books in August 2004.
November
30, 2003
BOMC
Nominates HAUNTED GROUND as Best Mystery of 2003
Book
of the Month Club selected P.D. James's The Murder Room as the best
mystery of 2003, but HAUNTED GROUND was among the
nominees for that honor. Here's what the Best of 2003 catalog said
about the book: "This was the most auspicious mystery debut of the
year, with a unique feeling for place and a depth of forensic details
that chill. Again, complexity reigns in a genre that rarely offers any
at all." And the other nominees provided good company: Minette Walters'
Fox Evil, Robert Crais' The Last Detective, and Tony Hillerman's The
Sinister Pig.
November
15, 2003
HAUNTED
GROUND selected for two all-city reading programs
Two
cities in Minnesota, Saint Peter and Austin, have selected HAUNTED
GROUND for their all-city reading programs in the new year.
Erin and her husband, Paddy O'Brien will travel to Saint Peter on
January 22, and to Austin on March 25-26 to take part in readings, book
discussions, and school and college writing and literature classes.
July
31, 2003
HAUNTED
GROUND selected by Four National Book Clubs
HAUNTED
GROUND was chosen as an alternate selection by four national
book clubs: Book of the Month Club, the Literary Guild, the Doubelday
Bookclub, and the Mystery Guild. Here's what BOMC editor Victoria
Skurnik said: "Not since P.D. James and Minette Walters have I been so
excited about a mystery author. Erin Hart’s HAUNTED GROUND
is atmospheric, romantic, as rich in contemporary mayhem as it is in
archeological history. Some authors write characters so well they dont
have to bother with plot. Others do plot so well, their people are
cardboard. Yet a third group knows all about forensics, and nothing of
anything else. Erin Hart is the first author Ive read in years who does
it all, and does it all absolutely right. This is stunning in
atmosphere and forensic detail, rich in history, and has characters
whose longings are so palpable you feel them as your own."
July
12, 2003
HAUNTED
GROUND picked for July/August BookSense 76
Thanks
to the enthusiasm of independent booksellers, HAUNTED GROUND
is featured and reviewed in the BookSense 76 newsletter for
July/August, in which independents share news about books that they're
excited to put into loyal readers' hands. Check the newsletter—in
bookstores now—under the heading "Mystery and Suspense for Gripping
Summer Reading." A special thanks to Carrie Sutherland of J.W. Beecroft
Books in Superior, Wisconsin, who offered this great review:
HAUNTED GROUND, by Erin Hart (Scribner,
$24, 0-7432-3505-3)
"This mystery set in a modern-day Ireland with ties to the past is one
of the best books I've read in a long time. Filled with folklore, Irish
history, and gothic intrigue, HAUNTED GROUND is a
wonderful blend of classic suspense and modern day forensics."
—Carrie
Sutherland, J.W. Beecroft Books & Coffee, Superior, WI
April
30, 2003
Interview
from THE DEAD BEAT / Murder By The Book, Houston TX
Dean
James, mystery author and manager of Murder By The Book mystery
bookstore in Houston, recently interviewed Erin about HAUNTED
GROUND. The interview also appears in the Spring 2003 issue of
THE DEAD BEAT, Murder By The Book's quarterly magazine.
April
28, 2003
Crime
writing panel at Dublin Writers Festival
Erin
has been invited to to join a panel discussion on crime writing at the
Dublin Writers Festival on Saturday, June 14. Other panelists will
include Michael Dibdin, author of the Aurelio Zen series, and French
crime writer Dominique Manotti. Check the Dublin Writers Festival
website for more information: www.dublinwritersfestival.com
April
24, 2003
HAUNTED
GROUND to celebrate Ireland/UK launch in Dublin
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton will celebrate the release of HAUNTED
GROUND in Ireland and the United Kingdom with festivities
including some great traditional music in Dublin the week of May 26;
details to follow soon.
April
19, 2003
Paddy
O'Brien to play for HAUNTED GROUND reading dates
Irish
button accordion virtuoso (and Erin's husband) Paddy O'Brien will
travel along and set the mood with traditional tunes at several
scheduled readings: Once Upon A Crime in Minneapolis; Borders in
Madison; and The Little Read Book in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin (Milwaukee
area). For Paddy's complete biography, check: http://www.chulrua.com/pobbio.html
March
12, 2003
Britain’s
Bookclub Associates’ Mystery and Thriller Club selects HAUNTED
GROUND as a featured title
The
British Bookclub Associates’ Mystery and Thriller Club will feature the
UK edition of HAUNTED GROUND in their May 2003 catalogue.
February
23, 2003
Poisoned
Pen Books selects HAUNTED GROUND for First Mystery Club Pick
Barbara
Peters at the Poisoned Pen bookshop (Scottdale, AZ) has selected HAUNTED
GROUND as one of her First Mystery Club Picks for 2003.
February
22, 2003
Random
House to release HAUNTED GROUND audiobook
Random
House will release an abridged version of HAUNTED GROUND
in audiobook format, available on CD and as a download.
February
19, 2003
HAUNTED
GROUND published in German as Die Frau im Moor
German
publisher Wilhelm Heyne Verlag will launch the German-language
translation of HAUNTED GROUND, entitled Die Frau im Moor
(The Woman in the Bog) on February 19.
February
15, 2003
HAUNTED
GROUND published in France under the title Le Chant des Corbeaux
French
publisher Editions Payot & Rivages will launch the French-language
translation of HAUNTED GROUND, entitled Le Chant des
Corbeaux (The Call of the Crows), on April 4.
February
6, 2003
Mysterious
Bookshop selects HAUNTED GROUND for
First Mysteries Club
Otto
Penzler’s Mysterious Bookshop (New York NY) has selected HAUNTED
GROUND as one of their First Mystery Book Club selections for
2003.
February
1, 2003
HAUNTED
GROUND available in hardcover
Scribner
has announced that HAUNTED GROUND will be released in
the US and Canada in hardcover in May 2003.
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