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SMFS Lunch at Bouchercon

Member Michael Bracken sends in the two pictures below of members gathering before the lunch.

Today in MYSTERY HISTORY: 10/12/2017 Bouchercon commences today

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SMFS Members among 2017 Macavity Award Nominees

The Macavity Award is named for the “mystery cat” of T.S. Eliot (Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats). Each year The Macavity Awards are nominated and voted on by members of Mystery Readers International, subscribers to Mystery Readers Journal, and friends and supporters of MRI who all nominate and vote for their favorite mysteries in four categories. The winners will be announced at opening ceremonies at Bouchercon in Toronto, Thursday, October 12.

We have four members of the Short Mystery Fiction Society nominated this year in two categories.

In the category of  Sue Feder Memorial Award for Best Historical Novel:

Edith Maxwell for Delivering The Truth, Midnight Ink.

In the category of Best Short Story:

Craig Faustus Buck for “Blank Shot” in Black Coffee, Darkhouse Books.

Paul D. Marks: “Ghosts of Bunker Hill” in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Dec. 2016.

Art Taylor for “Parallel Play” in Chesapeake Crimes: Storm Warning, Wildside Press.

The full list of all the 2017 Macavity Award Nominees can be found on the website. Congrats and good luck to all the nominees and especially to those members of the SMFS!

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.