Mercury Press, Toronto

In 1994, both of our debut Midnight Originals series novels, The Bloody Man, by Bevan Amberhill (which made the Globe & Mail's Bestseller list), and Dead and Living, by Jane Bow, were shortlisted for the Crime Writers of Canada's Arthur Ellis Awards. Carol Malyon's If I Knew I'd Tell You was shortlisted for the Smithbooks/Books in Canada Best First Novel Award.
In 1993, Di Brandt's mother, not mother was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award, and Sarah Murphy's The Deconstruction of Wesley Smithson was nominated for the Alberta Writers' Guild Short Fiction Award. Anne Dandurand, on the basis of her only novel, The Cracks, which the press published in English translation, was named one of the top ten Canadian novelists under the age of 45 by Quill & Quire.
In 1992, Carol Malyon's The Edge of the World was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book.
In 1991, Cary Fagan's City Hall & Mrs. God was a finalist for the City of Toronto Book Award, and Kenneth J. Harvey's Directions for an Opened Body was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book. Judith Fitzgerald's Rapturous Chronicles was nominated for a Governor General's Award.
In fall, 1996, Les Editions Balzac of Montreal published a French edition of Julian Samuel's Passage to Lahore, and in 1997 Balzac published the French edition of Robert Richard's A Johnny Novel.
"Nobody Wears Orange", by Marg Wilson, from Consider the Hollyhocks, was made into a television program in The Spoken Arts series for BRAVO.
Our crime and murder mystery series, Midnight Originals-- novels set in Canada and featuring Canadian characters and situations-- have focused on local geography, theatre, royalty-in-Canada, issues of ecology, and, in two titles, serious examinations of Canadian justice issues. Both The Running Girl and Millicent: A Mystery, have been optioned for film; Howard Engel is writing Millicent's screenplay.