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Steven Womack Biography With the publication of his tenth novel, By Blood Written (Severn House, May 2005), best-selling author/screenwriter Steven Womack introduces a new suspense series featuring New York literary agent Taylor Robinson and FBI agent Hank Powell. Six of the ten novels published by Womack have received national recognition, including the highest award presented to writers in the field of mystery and crime fiction. Dirty Money, the sixth installment in the award-winning Harry James Denton series, was published in February, 2000 by Fawcett Books and was called "irresistible" by the New York Times. The book was also nominated for the Shamus Award as Best Original Paperback Novel by the Private Eye Writers of America. Murder Manual, the fifth installment in the series, was published by Ballantine Books in 1998, and was nominated for the 1999 Edgar Allan Poe Award as Best Original Paperback Novel by the Mystery Writers of America. Murder Manual was awarded the 1999 Shamus Award as Best Paperback Original by the Private Eye Writers of America. The book was also nominated for The Anthony Award, given by members of Bouchercon, The World Mystery Convention. The novel was called a "knock-out performance" by MLB News. Womack's third book and the debut of the series, Dead Folks' Blues, was presented the 1994 Edgar Allan Poe Award as Best Original Paperback Novel by the Mystery Writers of America. The novel featured bumbling ex-newspaperman turned private detective Harry James Denton and was called by the Virginia Pilot And Ledger Star a "virtuoso performance." The second Harry James Denton mystery, Torch Town Boogie, published in November, 1993, was also nominated for the Shamus Award, as was the third installment in the Denton series, Way Past Dead, published in March, 1995. The New York Times called Way Past Dead "a real hoot," and added that "Harry has something that cuts him apart from the rest of the herd." The fourth installment in the series, Chain Of Fools, was published in May, 1996 and was nominated for both the Shamus and Anthony Awards, two top honors in the field. The Harry James Denton novels have been published in Japan, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. A native of Nashville, Tennessee, Womack is a graduate of Western Reserve Academy and Tulane University, where an unpublished novel of his was the first novel ever accepted as an undergraduate honors thesis. He also holds an M.F.A. from the Southampton College writing program. In addition to writing, Womack is a professor of screenwriting at the Watkins Film School in Nashville. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Screenwriting Association, has been a Regional Vice-President of the Mystery Writers of America and for several years led a fiction writing workshop at the Tennessee State Prison. Womack is also the author of the Jack Lynch books, a trilogy featuring public relations executive/spinmeister Jack Lynch. The first in that series of novels-Murphy's Fault- was called by The New York Times "tough and articulate" in naming the book to its 1990 annual List of Notable Books as one of the top novels of the year, and the only first crime novel on that year's list. Publishers Weekly called Murphy's Fault, "a welcome addition to the genre." First published in hardcover by St. Martin's Press, the novel was also published in paperback in June, 1991. Smash Cut:, the sequel to Murphy's Fault, was published in October, 1991 by St. Martin's Press. The third Jack Lynch novel, The Software Bomb, was published in July, 1993. Womack co-wrote the screenplay for Proudheart, an original made-for-cable movie which premiered in August, 1993 on The Nashville Network. Proudheart was nominated for a CableAce Award. He also co-wrote the ABC-TV film Volcano: Fire On The Mountain, which first aired in February, 1997 and was one of the most watched TV movies of the year. Womack is the former president of Novelists, Inc., an organization of multi-published professional novelists. He is a member of PEN American Center , Novelists, Inc. and The Writers Guild of America. A frequent speaker, Womack regularly appears on writers' panels and at book fairs, including the Southern Book Festival, the North Carolina Literary Festival, the Kentucky Book Fair, the Southeast Writers Association and Bouchercon, The World Mystery Convention. He has also been a guest instructor at the Green River Writers' Workshop, the Sinking Creek Film Festival, the Young Fugitives Writers Workshop, the Writers Roundtable, and the Tennessee Mountain Writers Conference. In 2004, he was awarded the Carrell Family Visiting Writer Fellowship as writer-in-residence at the Harpeth Hall School in Nashville, Tennessee. He is listed in International Authors and Writers Who's Who and Contemporary Authors. |