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She is a founder of the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. In 1989 she founded The Poisoned Pen, one of the world's largest mystery bookstores. [ 1 ] In 1997 she co-founded Poisoned Pen Press , a separate corporation dedicated to publishing mystery, making available originals and reprints. [ 2 ]
Mysterious Press was founded in 1975 by Otto Penzler, and was one of the first genre publishers to use materials such as acid-free paper, full-cloth bindings, and full-color dust jackets. [5] Many of the books it published were done in both trade and limited editions. In 1989, the company was sold to Warner Books, which was bought by Hachette ...
Poisoned Pen Press was founded in 1997 by Barbara G. Peters, Robert Rosenwald, and their daughter, Susan Malling.Peters, who had founded Scottsdale Arizona's 'The Poisoned Pen, A Mystery Bookstore' a decade ago, sees consolidations in the publishing industry as a threat to cultural diversity and to the survival of the independent bookstore.
Severn House Publishers is an independent publisher of fiction in hardcover and ebooks. [2] Severn House specialises in publishing mid-list authors in both the UK and the USA. Established in 1974, Severn House began republishing out-of-print titles by popular library authors. [ 3 ]
[1] [2] The Independent Mystery Booksellers Association is an association of retail businesses that are either wholly or substantially devoted to the sale of mystery books. The Dilys award is named after Dilys Winn , who became the first specialty bookseller of mystery books in the United States .
Kensington Publishing Corp. is an American, New York–based publishing house founded in 1974 by Walter Zacharius (1923–2011) [2] and Roberta Bender Grossman (1946–1992). [3] Kensington is known as "America's Independent Publisher".
In 2005, Muller was awarded the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master award. She was born in Detroit , Michigan , and grew up in Birmingham, Michigan , and graduated in English from the University of Michigan and worked as a journalist at Sunset magazine. [ 5 ]
The author has been nominated for the Agatha Award and named an Independent Mystery Booksellers Association national bestseller. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Beck is most known for the Donut Shop Mystery series, which features main protagonist Suzanne Hart, who runs a Donut Hearts shop in the town of April Springs in North Carolina .