Imagine my surprise when I found out Dead Is the New Black was nominated for a Preditors and Editors Award and somehow I totally missed it.

Or don’t. Because then you’d have a heart attack or stroke out or something.

But if you read the book and liked it, I have four days to convince you to go vote for it for best mystery of 2012.

So please, really. It would mean a lot to me because life is so short and painful and this would be a bright spot I can remember on my deathbed.

Dire enough for you?

Here’s the link.

http://www.critters.org/predpoll/novelmys.shtml

Please vote only once – though I know it’s tempting to vote seventeen times.

If you click on this picture it will take you right to the site.