My novel Fifty Grand won the 2010 Spinetingler Award for best novel of the year in their Rising Star category. A big thank you to everyone who voted for me and a big thank you to Spinetingler Magazine for short listing me in the first place. There were a lot of good books out this year and I really appreciate it guys and gals.
Monday, May 3, 2010
Spinetingler
My novel Fifty Grand won the 2010 Spinetingler Award for best novel of the year in their Rising Star category. A big thank you to everyone who voted for me and a big thank you to Spinetingler Magazine for short listing me in the first place. There were a lot of good books out this year and I really appreciate it guys and gals.
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Very nice indeed, squire. And very well deserved, too ...
Cheers, Dec
If they'd leave these things in my hands, as they damned well should, you'd have had an Edgar for this book.
Congratulations!
Congratulations, well deserved.
Brilliant, Adrian!
Congrats
And well-earned it is. Congratulations.
Well timed, too, with the paperback coming out before too long.
So Fifty Grand won you the Spinetingler Award, huh? That's what I call bribery! ;)
Congratulations!
And it's true that anyone who did happen to vote for the book didn't have to represent themselves as being part of a doubtful "Western" part of Greater Britain either.
50 grand was definitely worth giving him the award for, but I am hoping he'll come up with 100 Grand soon. We could use it. ;)
Congrats!! I hope to read this one soon.
Dec
Slainte mate.
Naomi
How do we get you onto the Edgar Committee, then?
Mike,
I thank you, sir.
John
I'll take the congratulations, but...well deserved? I dont know about that. Remember I'm a repressed Presbyterian from darkest Ulster. One must only expect cold showers, simple spartan gruel, the gloomy passages of the Old Testament and beach holidays on the frigid waters of the north Atlantic.
Girish
Cheers, mate.
Steve
Thanks buddy.
Dana
I'll take the congrats, thanks man.
Seana
I'm sure Holt will fly me out for a whistle stop tour. Maybe get me on Ellen or Regis and Kelly.
Actually I bet they never find out about it.
And yeah that World Book Award was very very odd.
Marco
I'm pretty sure its something to do with the dreaded Canadian mafia.
Sandra
What about a 100 Grand bar? Its got nougat and chewy caramel and its only 190 calories.
Dog Snob
Or you could listen to it if you like audiobooks. I'm listening to the Prestige at the moment. Very different from the film. Better.
Well, I can see if I can 'help' them find out. Or at least their Northern California sales rep.
Congrats, my friend. You deserved it.
Congrats mate. A well deserved win.
Adrian, I did your "dead" series on audio book, now every time I hear that same narrator I have to remind myself it's not Michael Foresyth, (I really liked that one on audio BTW). I had The Prestige book for awhile but never got around to reading it, I might have to try it on audio.
Congratulations Adrian. I just finished Fifty Grand. Excellent.
Fifty Grand rocks and totally deserves this award and more.
Congratulations!
Congrats Man!! You got my vote, just wish I could be so lucky with my Kentucky Derby pick.
Being a fairly new McKintyite (didn't know what I was missing, and I'm grateful for Amazon's "you might like this feature)just finished DIWMB..Awesome.
My Mum pulled a fast one and read Dead Yard already, and is now on The Bloomsday Dead. Told her "not a word" until I finish them. Fifty G is next on her list and mine, as soon as I finish the other two.
Thanks for the entertainment and wishing you continued success.
Congratulations Adrian! You deserve it brother.
Seana
Tell them Im John Banville's illegitimate love child, that'll get them excited.
Liam
Cheers mate
Dog Snob
Yeah Ger did a pretty good job with those books didnt he?
Gerard
Thank you Mr Murphy.
Holden
You are too kind, thank you.
Sean Pat,
Well I hope this doesnt spoil it for you but Dead Yard isnt a hardboiled thriller at all but in fact is a delightful Hugh Grant style comedy of manners with a lot of stuttering and swishy hair.
Greg
THANKs mate, I appreciate it.
Well, I would, but I don't think Banville's career really needs any help from me.
Congrats, pal! That's great news!
Wise arse. Big time bummer. For whatever reason, my intel told me it was about a bad-ass guy named Forsythe, who for whatever reason has found his way to my home state. I'll buy him a Harp, oops, I mean a Guinness, if our paths ever cross.
Oh, Sean. I don't really know how to break this to you, but Adrian McKinty is just a pen name of a personal friend of mine, Adrienne McGinty, who steeled herself to write some 'tough guy' fiction in order to somehow lure in male readers. I know, lame idea, except apparently it worked! You know how it goes in the romance world...Oh, you don't? Well, first the guy seems totally incorrigible, and worse, just plain rude. But then slowly, after a lot of misunderstandings-- admittedly,not usually involving guns, but that's her breakout innovation!--the guy is slowly broken into a reasonable facsimile of a human being.
I mean, come on. Why else would your mom and someone like me be reading this kind of stuff?
Although this blog is apparently generated by some kind of random program, I have heard that Hugh Grant, though perfect in his day, is well past his prime for the role. Younger dithering types are advised to apply.
Hooray! Congratulations. Well deserved, I say.
Brian
Cheers mate.
Sean
The finale takes place at the top of the Empire State Building during a snowstorm. Amy Adams is involved too somehow.
Seana
You promised not to tell. I guess I knew this would all come out one day. That hush money was never going to be enough in this economy.
David
I thank you, sir, again not sure about the well deserved bit though.
Incidentally two posts ago I lightheartedly said that I had to win the Spinetingler, Rory McIlroy had to win his first PGA event and the Chicago Cubs had to win the World Series for me to recoup my gambling debts. Well, on the same day I won the Spinetingler and Rory Mac dramatically won his first PGA event at Quail Hollow....
It wasn't about the money. It was when you promised me lunch with Hugh and went off and got drunk with him instead.
Okay, I lied about how he's too old for the role. Lighting can do anything. It was just spite.
50 grand was definitely worth giving him the award for, but I am hoping he'll come up with 100 Grand soon. We could use it. ;)
50 Grand, 100 Grand ... dude's the new Janet Evanovich.
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Good man! And young Rory McIlroy won his first PGA with an outrageous 61 on his final 18! The Irish are ascendent. But that is not what you turn to Bright Wind from Mountain for...
So I tease the Beretta out of its hideyhole behind the bed and use the pillow to muffle the sound as I release the safety. I ease myself over the side of the side of the bed, bunching the pillows under the sheets. I tiptoe to the end of the cabin by the head and listen to the very practiced tick of a lockpick aligning the timbrels. The hatch eases open...gotta go. More later
My sincere apologies Ms. Mckinty, your are a fine writer...for a lass.
Unless Amy Adams gets tossed off the top of the E.S.B in the middle of the snowstorm, and lands on top of Mr.Grant, as he is soliciting, ah you know... I am going to have to pass. What kind of j'amoke let's Liz Hurley go?
Peter Rozovsky wrote..
"50 Grand, 100 Grand ... dude's the new Janet Evanovich."
Now that's just funny!!
Peter
Nice one...
Bright Wind
I liked the interview with McIlroy after the win when he admitted that he was too young to go a pub but if it had been Ireland he would have gone on a epic bender.
Sean
Yes he was a fool. Even today Liz Hurley rocks the red carpet.
Hell! didn't know you are a Presbyterian but I suppose I should read it anyway.
John
Recovering Presbyterian...if you ever really can from the deep dark grimness of the Ulster variety.
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