Career Authors: Five Deadly Force Myths by Jeffrey James Higgins

 Career Authors: Five Deadly Force Myths by Jeffrey James Higgins

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 The unpublished manuscript also won a Killer Nashville Claymore Award For Best First Fifty Unpublished Pages in the Best Mystery category.

Nina Wachsman won a Killer Nashville Claymore Award For Best First Fifty Unpublished Pages for the manuscript, The Surrealist Circle, in the Best Historical category.

SMFS Member Nominees for Killer Nashville’s 2022 Silver Falchion Award

The SMFS is proud to announce that again this year members of the SMFS have been nominated for the 2022 Silver Falchion Awards. As stated on their homepage, winners will be announced in mid-August at the conference. The complete list of nominees is on the 2022 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Finalists site. The nominated SMFS list members are: 

 

Best Comedy

Chris Chan for Sherlock's Secretary (MX Publishing, December  2021)

 

Best Investigator

Emilya Naymark for Hide in Place (Crooked Lane Books, February 2021)

 

Best Juvenile / YA

William Burton McCormick for A Stranger From the Storm (Independently Published, October 2021)

 

Best Nonfiction

Chris Chan for Murder Most Grotesque: The Comedic Crime Fiction of Joyce Porter (Level Best Books, September 2021)

 

Best Suspense

Jeffrey James Higgins for Furious: Sailing into Terror (Black Rose Writing, May 2021)

 

Best Attendee Thriller Finalists

James L’Etoile for Black Label (Level Best Books, July 2021)

 

Additionally, Lies Along the Mississippi: A Memphis Mysteries Anthology (Malice in Memphis, A Killer Writing Group, July 2021) is a Silver Falchion Award finalist in the Best Short Story Collection / Anthology category. SMFS list members Jackie Ross Flaum and Lynn Maples have short stories in the book. 

Member Publication News: Jeffrey James Higgins

 Jeffrey James Higgins is publishing Forsaken, a new serial on Amazon's Vella.