SMFS Member Nominees for 2024 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award

The SMFS is proud to announce that again this year members of the SMFS have been nominated for the 2024 Silver Falchion Award. As stated on their homepage, winners will be announced in mid-August at the conference. The complete list of nominees is on the 2024 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Finalists site. The nominated SMFS list members are: 

 

Best Cozy

Peggy Rothschild with Playing Dead: A Novel (Berkley).

 

Best Historical

Richard Helms for Vicar Brekonridge: A Vicar Brekonridge Novel (Level Best – Historia).

Jessica Sly for The Art of Misdirection: Isles of Illusion Book 2 (Mountain Brook Ink). 

Nina Wachsman for The Courtesan's Secret: A Venice Beauties Mystery (Level Best Books).

Best Investigator (Includes Procedural, Serious P. I., Detective, And Noir)

Mark Troy for Splintered Loyalty: An Ava Rome Mystery (Down & Out Books)

Best Nonfiction

Judy Penz Sheluk for Finding YOUR Path to Publication: A Step-by-Step Guide (Superior Shores Press).

 

Best Anthology (Awarded To Individual Author Or Collection Editor)

Richard Helms for Paper Walls / Glass Houses (Black Arch Books).

Art Taylor for The Adventure of the Castle Thief and Other Expeditions and Indiscretions  (Crippen & Landru Publishers).

 

Best Thriller

Cathi Stoler for With a Twist: A Murder on the Rocks Mystery (Level Best Books).

SMFS Member Nominees for 2024 Killer Nashville Claymore Award

The SMFS is proud to announce that members of the SMFS have been nominated for the 2024 Killer Nashville Claymore Award in numerous categories. The award recognizes the best unpublished book based on the first fifty pages of the manuscript. The winners will be announced in August during Killer Nashville. The SMFS list member finalists are:

 

Best Cozy

Bern Sy Moss with Death at Sunset.

 

Best Mystery

James L’Etoile with Lost Life.

 

Best Short Story Collection/ Anthology (Awarded To Individual Author Or Collection Editor)

Ashley-Ruth Bernier with Mayhem Can’t Stop De Mas. 

P.M. Raymond with Things Are As They Should Be and other words to live by. 

P..K. Richard with Pocket Money and Other Stories.  

Jennifer Slee with Eternal Return & Other Stories.

 

Best Supernatural

James L’Etoile with Second Sight.

 

Best Suspense

Denise Johnson with Misconception.

 

Catherine Stoler with Hear No Evil.

 

The full list of the finalists for this year is at the website.

SMFS Member Nominees for Killer Nashville’s 2023 Claymore Award

The SMFS is proud to announce that members of the SMFS have been nominated for the 2023 Killer Nashville Claymore Award in numerous categories. The award recognizes the best unpublished book based on the first fifty pages of the manuscript. The winners will be announced in August during Killer Nashville. The SMFS list member finalists are:

 

Best Comedy

Axel Milens with 10,000 Girls and One Ice Pick

Erica Obey with The Riddle of the Fifth Earl.

 

Best Investigator

Jennifer and Jessica Slee with Still Life.

 

Best Literary

Jennifer and Jessica Slee with Perfect Fifth.

 

Best Mainstream/Commercial

Debra H. Goldstein for The Night for Sinners.

 

Best Short Story Collection/Anthology

Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier with Naomi Sinclair Spills the (Bush) Tea.

Robert Mangeot with Parts of the Problem.

Anna Scotti with They Look Like Angels.

Jennifer Slee with Eternal Return and Other Stories.

Tom Wood with Doomstone and Other Thrilling Tales.

 

Best Suspense

Cynthia Rice with The Last Broken Girl.

 

The full list of the finalists for this year is at the website.

SMFS Member Nominees for Killer Nashville’s 2023 Silver Falchion Award

The SMFS is proud to announce that again this year members of the SMFS have been nominated for the 2023 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 2023 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Finalists site. The nominated SMFS list members are: 

 

Best Cozy 

Debra H. Goldstein for Five Belles Too Many (Kensington). 

Lori Robbins for Murder in Third Position (Level Best Books). 

Peggy Rothschild for A Deadly Bone to Pick (Berkley Prime Crime).

 

 

Best Historical 

Richard Helms for A Kind and Savage Place (Level Best Books). 

Nina Wachsman for The Gallery of Beauties: A Venice Beauties Mystery  (Level Best Books).

 

 

Best Investigator 

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

Emilya Naymark for Behind the Lie (Crooked Lane Books).

 

 

Best Mainstream/Commercial

Vinnie Hansen with One Gun (Misterio Press).

 

 

Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy 

Elle Hartford for Beauty and the Alchemist (Phoenix & Kelpie Press).

 

 

Best Western 

Gerald Elias with Roundtree Days: A Jefferson Dance Western Mystery (Level Best Books). 

 

Additionally, An Element of Mystery: Sweet, Funny, and Strange Tales of Intrigue (Bethlehem Writers Group, LLC.) is a Silver Falchion Award finalist in the Best Short Story Collection / Anthology category. SMFS list member Debra H. Goldstein’s short story, Death in the Hand of the Tongue, is included.