Thanks for choosing Dice in this list Southern Cross Crime - step into the shoes of a juror….

On #InternationalWomensDay a shoutout to some terrific storytellers from six continents, and novels I've loved in recent years. Mere tip of iceberg. Readers who love crime/thriller fiction owe a debt to the many amazing women who've elevated our genre thru the decades, and now

So pleased that uk ex-barrister and best-selling author loved Dice. Thanks so much for your support @harriet_tyce

I’m with you @harriet_tyce a UK edition of Dice would be fantastic- so topical and relevant to that audience.

I love this review- Alyson analyses the way Dice is not just about this jury, these teenagers or even just the court system but about our society and how we can make it better. Please read it and check out Alyson’s blog - there are so many thoughtful reviews there. Thx Alyson Baker

Looks like Unity Books Wellington is an ideal place for #yeahnoir lovers to pick up some great reads!! We spy #2023Ngaios winner BETTER THE BLOOD, plus 2024 contenders claire baylis & @davidbishop, along with all our pals in #DarkDeedsDownUnder, and international friends-of-the-Ngaios

Extremely chuffed to be shortlisted for the Booksellers Choice Award, along with a wide-range of very fine Aotearoa books. Bookshops have been unbelievably supportive of Dice. Hope you can spend some time in a bookshop this weekend. Allen & Unwin Aotearoa NZ Allen & Unwin Booksellers Aotearoa

Delighted that Sista, Stanap Strong! A Vanuatu Women’s Anthology is off to the FestPAC bookfair in Hawai’i! (Yeah nah we said we’d carry the bags but she’s off to see the world without us, eh ⁦Rebecca T. Olul-Hossen⁩ 😎) ⁦Te Herenga Waka University Press⁩ Fergus Barrowman⁩ ⁦Creative New Zealand⁩

A fantastic birthday present to find out Dice has been included on the Ngaio Marsh Awards best novel long-list. Very honoured - congratulations to all. Allen & Unwin Aotearoa NZ Allen & Unwin

Congrats to #yeahnoir storytellers and #2024Ngaios longlistees claire baylis (DICE) and Eleanor Catton (BIRNAM WOOD), who've just been revealed on shortlist for Ned Kelly Award for Best International Crime, alongside UK and US authors The Listener The Spinoff Steve Braunias

Very honoured and very excited that Dice has been shortlisted for the Australian Ned Kelly Award for Best International Fiction. Congratulations to all.

From madcap Latin American capers to an unexpected Japanese sleuth, a neurodivergent expert on toxic botanicals to an ex-detective and a legal researcher harnessing real-life expertise in captivating tales; your #2024Ngaios Best First Novel finalists. Welcome to #yeahnoir whanau!

Thanks Ngaio Marsh Awards and those who have reposted. Hugely appreciate all the work that has gone into these awards and the fantastic promotion of all the books with the free library events and the social media. So awesome.

Thanks Chris. Studying at the IIML was integral to me writing Dice. Looking at how jurors approached sexual violence in real life informed my fiction – it is such a great programme and just huge to have Damien Wilkins and @YvetteTinsley from the Law faculty as my supervisors.

Can you solve the case of the #2024Ngaios? We've gathered the suspects; all are first-time offenders! The Bookshop Detectives are on the case... Meet us in the library on Wed 28 August for final clues and interrogations, before the culprit is revealed! wordchristchurch.co.nz/programme/ngai…

UK readers, this superb #yeahnoir debut DICE, which just won #2024Ngaios Best First Novel at WORD Christchurch, will be out in your neck of the woods in November. A devastating thriller giving readers a jury-eyed view of criminal justice realities. Pre-order: waterstones.com/book/dice/clai…

So very excited, chuffed, amazed to have won the Ngaio Marsh Awards Best First Novel award. Congratulations to David, Jennifer and all the finalists. Thx Craig S, Word Festival &Ngaio Marsh, Allen & Unwin Aotearoa NZ Allen & Unwin

Thanks The Listener Craig Sisterson for this write up about the Ngaio Marsh Awards. Before Dice was published by Allen & Unwin it was part of my PhD thesis at the IIML at THW uni. Thx Damien, @YvetteTinsley & all my PhD cohort for your support and feedback. Allen & Unwin Aotearoa NZ

I’m looking forward to this discussion and to hearing the other writers at the Hawkes Bay Readers & Writers festival- gran your tickets

Reminder! The big annual event for the bookish and the writerly is just around the corner Verb Wellington: verbwellington.nz/festival-progr…