Poisoned Fiction Review

Poisoned Fiction Review      
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Email: barbara@poisonedpen.com

After careers in history, libraries, and the law, I joined the rest of my family in Arizona over 20 years ago and opened The Poisoned Pen in 1989 as a kind of hobby to support my book habit. Who knew? Here we are with a wonderful staff, phenomenal customers, worldwide trade, and a web of relationships with authors, publishers, readers, and colleagues that is beyond price. I read everything, so while we began as a Mystery Bookstore we're today an independent bookstore specializing in quality fiction and nonfiction with forays into delights like history, food, travel, wordsmithing—anything we like.

I'm especially pleased with a 1998 Edgar Allan Poe Award nomination as editor of the Best Critical/Biographical Work and to have received the MWA Raven Award for outstanding contributions outside the field of creative writing. And with some 12 nominations as Bookseller of the Year.

I'm a member of The Mystery Writers of America, The British Crime Writers Association, The Crimewriters of Canada, The Valley Independent Booksellers Association, and the American Booksellers Association/Book Sense, and co-founded the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. My husband Robert L. Rosenwald and I founded Poisoned Pen Press in 1997. I am Editor in Chief. So I own the bookstore and he works for me; he owns the press and I work for him—thus we stay happily married.