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Mary’s dark fantasy novel Daemon Blood named Best Fantasy Thriller in the 2022 BestThrillers.com Book Awards

With these awards, Best Thrillers recognizes the best overall thriller of the year as well as a winner and finalists in fifteen categories.

The mission of BestThrillers.com is to “help mystery and thriller fans discover amazing books. [They] help readers choose from the more than one million new titles published each year while helping deserving authors connect with new audiences.”

The site reviews thrillers published by mainstream publishers, small presses, and authors.

Learn more about BestThrillers.com here.

Mary’s crime thriller Darkroom wins First Prize for Fiction in the 2017 IndieReader Discovery Awards

Entries were judged by a panel of PR and publishing professionals.  Winners were announced June 3 at BookCon in New York City.

“IndieReader, the essential consumer guide to self-published books and the people who write them, created the IRDAs to give indie authors access to people who can make a difference in their book’s success. To that end, judges on the IRDA panel include PR and publishing professionals, top industry bloggers, professional reviewers and more.  Judging is based on the quality of writing and the originality of the story.”

Read more about the contest and the 2017 winners in fiction and nonfiction here.

Recent Interviews with Mary Maddox

Mary discusses her new novel Darkroom in two recent interviews. At Indie Reader, she talks about creating a world that is “dark and violent, but not hopeless.” With British author Jane Davis she presents Darkroom as a book club selection.

Jane Davis is a prizewinning literary writer, described by Compulsion Reads as “a phenomenal writer, whose ability to create well rounded characters that are easy to relate to feels effortless.” Her books included These Fragile Things, An Unknown Woman, and My Counterfeit Self.

Read Jane’s interview with Mary here and the Indie Reader Interview here.

Darkroom makes Indie Reader‘s list of best-reviewed books of 2016

Mary’s noir suspense thriller Darkroom is among the year’s top picks at Indie Reader. The reviewer describes the novel as “a highly polished atmospheric descent into a seedy world of drugs, murder and photography.” 

Founded by publicist and writer Amy Edelman, Indie Reader is a book review website devoted to celebrating and promoting self-published authors whose books are outside the mainstream. “In a world where almost everything is packaged by committee, Indie Reader offers you books with a single voice: the author’s own.”

Find out more at www.indiereader.com.

Best Thrillers names Darkroom one of the year’s top ten

Darkroom has made Best Thrillers‘ list of the best thriller books of 2016. The reviewer remarks that “In a genre full of heroines that seem entirely too clever and smug, Maddox’s Kelly is a hugely relatable breath of fresh air.” The list of ten books contains a mix of indie and mainstream titles, and Mary is honored to have Darkroom mentioned alongside amazing novels like Stephen King’s End of Watch and Blake Crouch’s Dark Matter. 

Best Thrillers is a review site and book club that offers personalized editorial recommendations to readers. As the name indicates, the site is devoted to the thriller and its various sub genres.

Learn more at www.bestthrillers.com.