Established
in 1989, Malice
Domestic™ is an annual fan
convention in the metropolitan Washington D.C. area that celebrates the
traditional mystery, best typified by the works of Agatha Christie, containing
no explicit sex, excessive gore, or violence. Malice Domestic 32 (May 1-3, 2020)
sees seven SMFS list members up for an Agatha Award in three different
categories.
In the “Best
Short Story” category this year there are four members that are nominated.
Those members are:
Kaye
George for “Grist for the Mill” in A Murder of Crows (Darkhouse Books).
Barb
Goffman for “Alex’s Choice” in Crime Travel (Wildside Press)
Cynthia Kuhn
for “The Blue Ribbon” in Malice
Domestic 14: Mystery Most Edible (Wildside Press)
Art
Taylor for “Better Days” in Ellery Queen
Mystery Magazine: May/June 2019.
We also
have members up for Agatha Awards for longer works. Those members are:
Tara
Laskowski is up for the Agatha Award in the “Best First Mystery Novel” for One
Night Gone.
Ang
Pompano is up for the Agatha Award in the “Best First Mystery Novel” for When
It’s Time For Leaving.
Edith
Maxwell is up for the Agatha Award in the “Best Historical Novel” category for Charity’s
Burden: A Quaker Midwife Mystery (Midnight Ink).
SMFS
salutes our members on this honor and wishes them the best as they represent
SMFS at Malice Domestic. The full list
of nominees can be found at the Malice
Domestic website.
So pleased to be on this list myself--and alongside such fine writers. Appreciating our community here. :-)
ReplyDeleteIt’s so great to be on this list with these friends and wonderful writers. Good luck to everyone!
ReplyDeleteThanks to the SMFS members for their support over the years and to SMFS President Kevin Tipple for sharing this news now. I'm thrilled by this nomination and look forward to toasting all the finalists in May at Malice.
ReplyDeleteThank you, SMFS! Very honored to be rubbing elbows with writers I admire so much. Congratulations to everyone.
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