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.

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. 

Killer Nashville’s 2019 Silver Falchion Award SMFS Member Finalists

The SMFS is proud to announce that again this year members of the SMFS have been nominated for the 2019 Silver Falchion Awards. Winners will be announced at the 2019 Killer Nashville Guest of Honor & Awards Dinner in late August.  The complete list of nominees is on the 2019 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Finalists site. The nominated members are:

In the Mystery category, the nominee is Ann Parker for A Dying Note.

In the Procedural category there are two nominees. They are:

Bruce Robert Coffin for Beyond the Truth.

James Doherty for An Obscure Gave.

In the Young Adult category, the nominee is Alison McMahan for “Kamikaze Iguanas” in the anthology, Scream & Scream Again.

In the Short Stories category, the nominee is Marianne Donley for “The Roman Coin” in the anthology, Untethered: Sweet, Funny, and Strange Tales of the Paranormal.

2018 Agatha Award Winners

Malice Domestic™ handed out their 2018 Agatha Awards last night at the annual convention. As previously announced, there were Six SMFS list members nominated in three categories

In the Best Short Story category this year there was a tie for two SMFS list members. The two winning members are:

Leslie Budewitz  for “All God’s Sparrows” in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine: May/June 2018.

Tara Laskowski for “The Case of the Vanishing Professor” in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine: May/June 2018.

SMFS salutes and congratulates our members on this honor.

As the full list of nominees and winners is not currently up at Malice Domestic, head over to The Rap Sheet for more information. 

SMFS Agatha Award Nominees 2018

Established in 1989, Malice Domestic™ is an annual fan convention in the metropolitan Washington D.C. area that celebrates the traditional mystery, best typified by the works of Agatha Christie, containing no explicit sex, excessive gore, or violence. Malice Domestic 31 (May 3-5, 2019) sees six SMFS members up for an Agatha Award in three different categories.

In the Best Short Story category this year there are four members that are nominated. Those members are:

Leslie Budewitz  for “All God’s Sparrows” in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine: May/June 2018.

Barb Goffman for “Bug Appetit” in  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine: November/December 2018.

Tara Laskowski for “The Case of the Vanishing Professor” in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine: May/June 2018.

Art Taylor for “English 398: Fiction Workshop” in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine: July/August 2018.

We also have members up for Agatha Awards for longer works. Those members are:

Bruce Robert Coffin is up for the Agatha Award in the Best Contemporary Novel category for Beyond the Truth.

Edith Maxwell is up for the Agatha Award in the Best Historical Novel category for Turning the Tide.

SMFS salutes our members on this honor and wishes them all the best as they represent SMFS at Malice Domestic.

SMFS Agatha Award Nominees

Established in 1989, Malice Domestic™ is an annual fan convention in the metropolitan Washington D.C. area that celebrates the traditional mystery, best typified by the works of Agatha Christie, containing no explicit sex, excessive gore, or violence.

Malice Domestic 30 (April 27- 29, 2018) sees four SMFS members up for the Agatha Award for Best Short Story. Those members are:

Barb Goffman for “Whose Wine is it Anyway” in the anthology, 50 Shades of Cabernet (Koehler Books).

Debra Goldstein for “The Night They Burned Miss Dixie’s Place” in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine (May/June 2017).

Gigi Pandian for “The Library Ghost of Tanglewood Inn” (Henery Press).

Art Taylor for “A Necessary Ingredient” in the anthology Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea (Down &Out Books).

Please note that each short story is linked to where you can read the work for free thanks to the efforts of Janet Rudolph and her Mystery Fanfare blog.

Additionally, Edith Maxwell is a nominee in the Best Historical Novel category for her mystery, Called To Justice. 


Also nominated in the Best First Novel category is Micky Browning for Adrift: A Mer Cavallo Mystery.

SMFS salutes our six members on this honor and wishes them all the best as they represent SMFS at Malice Domestic.