NEWS All the latest....      Celebration in London for the launch of CROSS: Left: Ken with David Soul Right: Ali Karim, David Soul, Ken and Nick Stone Ken reads CROSS Ken's CROSS Launch Ken's CROSS Book Video The Dramatist was nominated for a Gumshoe Award for the BEST EUROPEAN CRIME NOVEL of 2006! Click here to listen to Ken read his story, Punk, from the anthology These Guns for Hire. Check out Ken's short story, Cross, featuring Jack Taylor, from Scorpion Press. Ken received the best series award in February for the Jack Taylor novels from The Crime Writers Association of America. According to the Galway Independent, Galway City Councillor Terry O'Flaherty is calling for award winning local crime writer Ken Bruen to be honoured in Eyre Square's Sculptor Garden. AMERICAN SKIN is on the Barnes & Noble Best of 2006 List: "On the Dark Side." It's also #1 on Poisoned Pen's Bestseller List! Ken with Janet Rudolph, B'con 2006 THE MC DEAD wins for Best Crime Novel in France! A new book is available which includes a long interview with Ken! Art in the Blood, by Craig McDonald, features interviews with twenty top crime writers, including Ken. Plus Ken wrote the introduction, so check it out! The British Crime Writers' Association has settled on a roster of nominees for Best Short Story award... and Ken has been nominated for "Loaded" from London Noir! Ken answers A QUICK FIVE at the Central Crime Zone! Ken is a Beatitude on a New Orleans blog ... donate to support literature in New Orleans. Read about BUST, a recent release by Jason Starr and Ken by Hard Case Crime which made the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association (IMBA) list, one of the first "dark" books to do so! Publishers Weekly calls it "a full-tilt, rocking homage to noir novels of the 1950s..." Ken with Tess Gerritsen in Dublin, 2006 Ken was on CBS Sunday Morning July 16th. You can read the transcript here. A special limited edition of Priest is available from Scorpion Press. More details here. THE GUARDS ("Maderos") has won two Spanish prizes—"Premios Brigada 21" as the best novel translated to Spanish, and another one called NovelPol! Read a new short story, To Have and To Hold, by Ken in Hardluck Stories. Information is now online about A FIFTH OF BRUEN, an omnibus collection of Ken's first four novels and two short story collections! MAILING LIST Mailing List Members receive advance information about Ken's new books and book signings and events. This mailing list is private... your e-mail address will not be shared. Note that the company we use, VerticalResponse.com, is a no-spam email service. If you have a spam-blocker on your email account, you may need to put Ken_Bruen@mail.vresp.com into your Contacts or on your approved list in order to receive newsletters. Email Address: