Nev March's Blog
January 22, 2025
The Silversmith's Secret
Woah, we have a new Book Giveaway open until Feb 9th!
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Enjoy!
NEv
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...
Enjoy!
NEv
June 3, 2021
Nominated for Macavity Awards
This was a delightful surprise!
Thank you Mystery Readers International!
To be nominated for a national award is a huge honor. This year readers have welcomed Murder in Old Bombay with nominations for An Edgar, The Barry, The Anthony, The Hammett Award and now the Macavity award. And what marvelous books to be nominated with!
Category Best First Mystery:
Deepa Anappara: Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line (Random House)
Nev March: Murder in Old Bombay (Minotaur)
Richard Osman: The Thursday Murder Club (Pamela Dorman Books)
David Heska Wanbli Weiden: Winter Counts (Ecco)
Stephanie Wrobel: Darling Rose Gold (Berkley)
https://mysteryreaders.org/macavity-a...
Thank you Mystery Readers International!
To be nominated for a national award is a huge honor. This year readers have welcomed Murder in Old Bombay with nominations for An Edgar, The Barry, The Anthony, The Hammett Award and now the Macavity award. And what marvelous books to be nominated with!
Category Best First Mystery:
Deepa Anappara: Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line (Random House)
Nev March: Murder in Old Bombay (Minotaur)
Richard Osman: The Thursday Murder Club (Pamela Dorman Books)
David Heska Wanbli Weiden: Winter Counts (Ecco)
Stephanie Wrobel: Darling Rose Gold (Berkley)
https://mysteryreaders.org/macavity-a...
May 6, 2021
Thank you BoucherCon!
Imagine my delight to receive this email!
Bouchercon 2021 New Orleans Blood on the Bayou Postmortem has the great pleasure to announce your nomination for an Anthony Award in the category of Best First Novel.
Best First Novel 2021 Anthony Award Nominees
Derailed – Mary Keliikoa – Camel Press
Derailed
Murder in Old Bombay – Nev March – Minotaur Books Murder in Old Bombay
Murder at the Mena House – Erica Ruth Neubauer - Kensington Murder at the Mena House
The Thursday Murder Club – Richard Osman – Pamela Dorman Books The Thursday Murder Club
Winter Counts – David Heska Wanbli Weiden – Ecco Press Winter Counts
Congratulations,
Mike Bursaw, Heather Graham and Connie Perry
Co-Chairs Bouchercon 2021
Bouchercon 2021 New Orleans Blood on the Bayou Postmortem has the great pleasure to announce your nomination for an Anthony Award in the category of Best First Novel.
Best First Novel 2021 Anthony Award Nominees
Derailed – Mary Keliikoa – Camel Press
Derailed
Murder in Old Bombay – Nev March – Minotaur Books Murder in Old Bombay
Murder at the Mena House – Erica Ruth Neubauer - Kensington Murder at the Mena House
The Thursday Murder Club – Richard Osman – Pamela Dorman Books The Thursday Murder Club
Winter Counts – David Heska Wanbli Weiden – Ecco Press Winter Counts
Congratulations,
Mike Bursaw, Heather Graham and Connie Perry
Co-Chairs Bouchercon 2021
January 25, 2021
Nominated for an Edgar Award!
Searching for words to express my delight and astonishment: Murder in Old Bombay, my debut novel has been nominated for an Edgar Award!
As you know, for Mystery Writers, this is the equivalent of an actor being nominated for an Oscar Award! I'm speechless (and that doesn't happen often)
:)
Thank you Mystery Writers of America.
Thank you readers, you 'got' my book--the best reward a writer can hope for.
Nev
www.nevmarch.com
Murder in Old Bombay
As you know, for Mystery Writers, this is the equivalent of an actor being nominated for an Oscar Award! I'm speechless (and that doesn't happen often)
:)
Thank you Mystery Writers of America.
Thank you readers, you 'got' my book--the best reward a writer can hope for.
Nev
www.nevmarch.com
Murder in Old Bombay
December 25, 2020
New York TIMES likes us! We got a NY Times Review!
OMG. YEs, this is indeed an OMG moment.
My friend Jay sent this in the morning, but I was prepping my roast chicken for dinner and didn't see it until just now!
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/bo...
The NY Times likes Murder in Old Bombay. Yes, THE NEW YORK TIMES! Oh what a marvelous Xmas Present :)
Feeling blessed--wish this feeling for each and every one of you, all through the new year.
Nev
Murder in Old Bombay
My friend Jay sent this in the morning, but I was prepping my roast chicken for dinner and didn't see it until just now!
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/bo...
The NY Times likes Murder in Old Bombay. Yes, THE NEW YORK TIMES! Oh what a marvelous Xmas Present :)
Feeling blessed--wish this feeling for each and every one of you, all through the new year.
Nev
Murder in Old Bombay
October 13, 2020
A dream came true!
My historical mystery
Murder in Old Bombay won MWA's award for Best First Crime Fiction.
Read my blog at https://nevmarch.com/apps/blog/
Award speech at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmexe...
Murder in Old Bombay won MWA's award for Best First Crime Fiction.
Read my blog at https://nevmarch.com/apps/blog/
Award speech at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmexe...
August 26, 2020
My article in Mystery Tribune
Unknown Man No. 89Three Fridays ago, my critique group reviewed this piece of writing. Yesterday it was accepted by Mystery Tribune and is JUST PUBLISHED :)
My critique team, thank you for your comments and input that enabled this to happen.
https://www.mysterytribune.com/unknow...
My critique team, thank you for your comments and input that enabled this to happen.
https://www.mysterytribune.com/unknow...
August 12, 2020
My first industry review
Woo Hoo! PublishersWeekly is a huge industry powerhouse in publishing. Here's their review of Murder in Old Bombay!
https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-...
Murder in Old Bombay: A Mystery
https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-...
Murder in Old Bombay: A Mystery
July 27, 2020
I’ve changed careers-- to writing
I wrote four books between 1996 and 2006. Only a few of my closest friends knew about this, how I snatched a few hours to write each night. Those stolen moments were utter joy. For critiques, I traded chapters with a writer from Virginia and another in the UK.
Although I caught an editor’s attention in 2006, my work life and family commitments did not afford the time needed to revise my book as she proposed. And if I’m honest, I didn’t have the writing craft knowledge to pull it off then. So I set it all aside to focus on my analytics job. After all, we had to save enough for our boys to go to college.
In 2015 I got laid off. Anyone who’s had this experience will remember how it shakes you. The shock of it, the uncertainty, the self-doubt. I’d always been a “high performer” so I wondered how come, after the ton of work I’d done, this could happen? Turns out most people who’ve been let go worry about this. It took me two painful days to recover.
Then I began to smile, and do all the things I’d put aside. I played piano. I had lunch with long lost friends. I joined non-profits and filled my life with joy. My kids noticed, saying, “Mom, you look different!”
But I missed the sense of purpose that one derives in a meaningful occupation. When old colleagues began to call, I did project work for a few years as a consultant. However since I traveled frequently to be with my aging parents, it was too much to try holding a full time job.
“When I retire, I’m going back to writing,” I said to my husband one night.
“Why not now?” he asked.
Write? Really write all day, like I had dreamed of? Giving myself permission to experiment with this idea I joined a local writers group, the second smartest decision of my life. (I’ll leave you to guess the smartest one.)
So yes, I’m now a writer. OMG
Although I caught an editor’s attention in 2006, my work life and family commitments did not afford the time needed to revise my book as she proposed. And if I’m honest, I didn’t have the writing craft knowledge to pull it off then. So I set it all aside to focus on my analytics job. After all, we had to save enough for our boys to go to college.
In 2015 I got laid off. Anyone who’s had this experience will remember how it shakes you. The shock of it, the uncertainty, the self-doubt. I’d always been a “high performer” so I wondered how come, after the ton of work I’d done, this could happen? Turns out most people who’ve been let go worry about this. It took me two painful days to recover.
Then I began to smile, and do all the things I’d put aside. I played piano. I had lunch with long lost friends. I joined non-profits and filled my life with joy. My kids noticed, saying, “Mom, you look different!”
But I missed the sense of purpose that one derives in a meaningful occupation. When old colleagues began to call, I did project work for a few years as a consultant. However since I traveled frequently to be with my aging parents, it was too much to try holding a full time job.
“When I retire, I’m going back to writing,” I said to my husband one night.
“Why not now?” he asked.
Write? Really write all day, like I had dreamed of? Giving myself permission to experiment with this idea I joined a local writers group, the second smartest decision of my life. (I’ll leave you to guess the smartest one.)
So yes, I’m now a writer. OMG
