I know it's only April, but please start thinking about entries for the Tony Hillerman Prize. WORDHARVEST'S Tony Hillerman Writer's Conference presents the award in cooperation with the founding partner, St. Martin's Press. Deadline for submissions is June 1, but you don't have to wait that long. The winner receives a $10,000 advance and publication with St. Martin's. The book has to be a book length mystery set in the Southwest. The author can be a published or unpublished writer, as long as he or she has never published a mystery. We get a lot of questions about on-demand publishing, self-publishing, etc. Usually, those books are allowed. (Our partners at St. Martin's make the final call). For full details, go here, to the novel contest link our WORDHARVEST website.
We've had two winners in the three previous years of the contest. Christine Barber won for The Replacement Child, a wonderful book set in Santa Fe. Roy Channey received the Hillerman Prize in 2008 for The Ragged Edge of Nowhere, a mystery set in Las Vegas. I thought both of them were good reads.
So, don't be shy. Get your manuscripts shaped up and mail them off to St. Martin's. You never know....The winner will be announced at the Tony Hillerman Writer's Conference Nov. 13.
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