January Magazine is a Web-based book-related publication. Founded by author Linda L. Richards

Linda L. Richards

- Biography :Richards was born in Vancouver, Canada, and reared in Vancouver, Los Angeles, California, and Munich, Germany. She started January Magazine in 1997 as an experiment in Web technologies in support of the computer books she was writing at the time....

 and graphic artist/photographer David Middleton in 1997, January has added various sections and offshoot publications since.

January is recognized for its "well-written" book reviews as well as the author interviews it has published, including exchanges with Salman Rushdie, Dennis Lehane

Dennis Lehane

Dennis Lehane is an American author. He has written several award-winning novels, including A Drink Before the War and the New York Times bestseller Mystic River, which was later made into an Academy Award-winning film. Another novel, Gone, Baby, Gone, was also adapted into an Academy...

, Loren D. Estleman

Loren D. Estleman

Loren D. Estleman is an American writer of detective and Western fiction. He writes with a manual typewriter....

, Stuart M. Kaminsky

Stuart M. Kaminsky

Stuart M. Kaminsky was an American mystery writer and film professor. He is known for three long-running series of mystery novels featuring the protagonists Toby Peters, a private detective in 1940s Hollywood; Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov, a Moscow police inspector; and veteran Chicago...

, Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood, is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C...

 and others. The ezine's crime-fiction section won a Gumshoe Award for Best Crime Fiction Website in 2005. January incorporated blog technology in December 2006.

In May 2006, the magazine's crime-fiction newsletter, The Rap Sheet, was spun off as a completely independent blog under the editorship of crime-fiction editor and Seattle media personality J. Kingston Pierce. The Rap Sheet and January Magazine maintain a cooperative association, with Richards and Pierce contributing to both publications.

External links

• January Magazine, http://www.januarymagazine.com

• The Rap Sheet, http://therapsheet.blogspot.com/