SMFS Member Award Winners at 2022 Killer Nashville

Three SMFS list members won awards at the Killer Nashville Conference last weekend. The full list of winners can be found at the website. The SMFS list members who received awards as listed below:

James L’Etoile won a Silver Falchion Award in the 2022 Killer Nashville Best Book By Attending Author  category for Black Label (Level Best Books, July 2021).

Jeffrey James Higgins won the overall 2022 Killer Nashville Claymore Award for Shaking. The unpublished manuscript also won a Killer Nashville Claymore Award For Best First Fifty Unpublished Pages in the Best Mystery category.

Nina Wachsman won a Killer Nashville Claymore Award For Best First Fifty Unpublished Pages for the manuscript, The Surrealist Circle, in the Best Historical category.

Murder Books: Murder Books Interviews James L’Etoile

 Murder Books: Murder Books Interviews James L’Etoile

Publication News: Mystery Readers Journal

 The Winter issue of the Mystery Readers Journal is out and the theme is Cold Cases.  It features many articles by Society members:

• Heating Up a Cozy Series With a Cold Case by Leslie Budewitz
• Blowing the Dust Off by Kate Fellowes
  
• The Coldest Cases Are Solved (Incorrectly) by Ron Katz 
• A Snitch in Time by James L’Etoile
• Cylinder Seals, the Bronze Age Rubber Stamp by M.A. Monnin
• Just What Is a Cold Case? by Sandra Murphy
• The Marketville Mysteries: Cold Case Cozies by Judy Penz Sheluk