The ten authors with the most votes from fans will make up the longlist.
Unlike most other literary prizes, the Dagger in the Library is awarded not for an individual book but for an author’s entire body of work, and is one of six highly prized CWA Dagger Awards awarded to crime writers since 1955.
This year’s shortlist and winner will decided by a panel of judges.
When you nominate your favourite author you will be automatically entered into the CWA's special giveaway to win a £200 book token.
The CWA are also asking you to give the name of the library you visit most often, as the winning library (the one with the most mentions) will receive a special prize after the voting deadline.
I am looking forward to my appearance this 'fireworks day' evening at the Sunday Times Crime Club 'Deadlier than the Male' event in London.
It will be great to meet up again with the the other three 'killer' women Louise Millar, Ann Cleeves, and M J McGrath, all of whom featured at the Bloody Scotland crimewriting festival this year at Stirling in September.
It should be a fascinating and entertaining evening, and we will all get the chance to talk and be questioned about our current books (mine is The Special Dead) and about writing crime as women.
Team captains and authors Ian Rankin and Simon Kernick
ahead of the Bloody Scotland football match
credit: Eoin Carey
It is wonderful to see the hard work and enthusiasm of all involved over the years being recognised with the Bloody Scotland crimewriting festival being listed at No. 13 in The List Hot 100 for Scotland.
Scottish Government Cabinet Secretary for Fair Work
Roseanna Cunningham and Lin Anderson
(Representing Bloody Scotland) at Living Wage Week reception in Edinburgh 3rd November 2015
I am delighted to be able to represent Bloody Scotland, the international crimewriting festival, at this evening's Scottish Government reception in Edinburgh to celebrate the success of the Scottish Living Wage accreditation scheme.
Bloody Scotland are a Scottish Living Wage employer, and are one of the ever growing number of employers
who recognise the benefits that the Living Wage can bring to both
their staff and to their organisation.
There are now 350 accredited Scottish Living Wage employers, which is well on the way towards the Scottish Government's target of 500 by March next year.
I've just finished writing None But The Dead, which is Book 11 in my Forensic Scientist Rhona MacLeod series, and is set in Glasgow and on the island of Sanday in Orkney.
Lin Anderson researching None But The Dead
in Scuthvie Bay, Sanday, Orkney
Start Point Lighthouse, Sanday, Orkney
Orkney is a very special place, so I'm looking forward to being back there again tomorrow for appearances at the wonderful Orkney Library in Kirkwall at 3pm, and at Orkney Arts Society in Stromness in the evening.
After explaining the amusing circumstances in which Lin first encountered Jane at a Bloody Scotland event in September, she read the opening of her book Paths of The Dead, which takes place in a church, has a spiritual aspect, and always has an impact on audiences.
Moira Forsyth Open Mic
Lin's opening of the evening was followed by an 'Open Mic' session with local writers giving moving readings of their own and work by others on themes related to the refugee crisis.
Moira Forsyth, writer and Director of Sandstone Press then gave awonderfully animated reading of one of her short stories (prompting a debate afterwards as to the precise meaning of 'puddock').
After a short interval, Val McDermid took the chair, and read a powerful piece from her book The Skeleton Road, taking the audience on a journey via the feelings and experiences of characters in the positions of many of those in Syria today.
After a really excellent and honest Q&A session, where Jane Wallman-Girdlestone quizzed Val about her writing and her ways of going about the creation of her stories, it was time for the book signings ...
The event was supported by Waterstones Inverness. There is an opportunity for everyone of make a contribution to help with the Syria refugee crisis by buying books at their local Waterstones (the books with the 'Buy Books for Syria' stickers). 100% of the cover price goes to Oxfam's Syria Crisis Appeal. Please help if you can.
And a special thanks to Jane for all the hard work by her (and everyone else involved in last night's event)!
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