2024 SMFS Member Anthony Award Nominees

Earlier this week, several SMFS list members were nominated for the 2024 Anthony Awards in various categories. The winners will be announced at Bouchercon: Nashville on Saturday evening, August 31, 2024. The full list of nominees and more information can be found on the Facebook announcement. The SMFS list members that reported on the SMFS list their nominated books and short stories are:

 

Best Anthology

Here in the Dark: Stories by Megan Lucas (Shotgun Honey Books, July 2023)

 

Happiness Is a Warm Gun: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of The Beatles, Editor Josh Pachter (Down & Out Books, October 2023).

 

The Adventure of the Castle Thief and Other Expeditions and Indiscretions by Art Taylor (Crippen and Landru, February 2023).

 

School of Hard Knox: Stories That Break Father Ronald Knox's Commandments for Crime Fiction. Edited by SMFS list members Donna Andrews, Greg Herren, and Art Taylor (Crippen and Landru, August 2023).

 

Best Short Story

Barb Goffman for “Real Courage” (Black Cat Mystery Magazine #14, Wildside Press, October 2023).

 

James D.F. Hannah for “Knock” (Playing Games, Editor Lawrence Block, Subterranean Press, July 2023)

 

Dru Ann Love and Kristopher Zgorski for “Ticket To Ride.” (Happiness Is a Warm Gun: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of The Beatles, Editor Josh Pachter, Down & Out Books,  October 2023).  

 

Best Hardcover Novel

James L'Etoile for Face of Greed: A Novel (Oceanview Publishing, November 2023)

 

Best Paperback Original

James D.F. Hannah for Because the Night: A Henry Malone Novel (Down & Out Books, June 2023)

 

2023 SMFS Member Anthony Award Nominees

 

Earlier this week, several SMFS list members were nominated for the 2023 Anthony Awards in various categories. The winners will be announced at Bouchercon: San Diego on Saturday evening, September 2, 2023. The full list of nominees and more information can be found at the official website. The nominated books and short stories by SMFS list members are:

 

Best Anthology

 

Land of 10,000 Thrills: Bouchercon Anthology 2022. Edited by SMFS list member Greg Herren (Down & Out Books).

 

Lawyers, Guns, and Money: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of Warren Devon. Edited by SMFS list members by Libby Cudmore and Art Taylor (Down & Out Books).

 

Low Down Dirty Vote Volume 3: The Color of My Vote. Edited by SMFS list member Mysti Berry (Berry Content Corporation).

 

Paranoia Blues: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Paul Simon. Edited by SMFS list member Josh Pachter            (Down & Out Books).

 

Best Short Story

 

Barb Goffman for "Beauty and the Beyotch." (Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #29)

 

Bruce Robert Coffin for "The Impediment." (Deadly Nightshade: Best New England Crime Stories 2022,  Crime Spell Books).

 

Curtis Ippolito for "The Estate Sale." (Vautrin - Volume 4, Issue 1, Summer 2022)

 

Best Children’s/ Young Adult Novel

 

Fleur Bradley for Daybreak on Raven Island. (Viking Books for Young Readers) 

 

Best Paperback/eBook/Audiobook

 

James L’Etoile for Dead Drop: A Detective Nathan Parker Novel (Level Best Books)

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SMFS Member 2017 Anthony Award Nominations

SMFS congratulates B.K. Stevens and Art Taylor for their 2017 Anthony Award Nominations.

B. K. Stevens was nominated in the "Best Novella" category for her story, "The Last Blue Glass" published in the April 2016 issue of  Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine.

Art Taylor's Agatha award winning story "Parallel Play" published in the anthology Chesapeake Crimes: Storm Warning is a nominee in the "Best Short Story" category.

Also nominated in the "Best Anthology" category is Blood On The Bayou: Bourchercon Anthology 2016 featuring the short stories of a number of SMFS members.

The full list of nominees can be found at the Bouchercon 2017 website. Winners to be announced on October 15, 2017 at Bouchercon 2017.