2024 SMFS Member Shamus Award Nominees

Earlier this week, The Private Eye Writers of America announced their Shamus Award nominees for the 2024 Shamus Awards. There are three categories for awards given for private eye novels and short stories first published in the United States in 2023. The nominated SMFS list members:

 

Best Original PI Paperback 

Gabriel Valjan for, Liar’s Dice, published by Level Best Books.

 

Best PI Short Story 

Libby Cudmore for, Beyond Belief, online at TOUGH (May 2023). 

Joesph S. Walker for, Making The Bad Guys Nervous, in Black Cat Weekly #102.

 

SMFS congratulates our member nominees as well as all the nominated authors.

 

Per the website:  The winners for Shamus Awards will be announced at the Bouchercon Opening Ceremonies in Nashville, Tennessee Thursday, August 29th 6:30 to 8:00pm (Delta Ballroom A, floor 2) Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center  

2023 SMFS Member Shamus Award Nominees

Earlier this week, The Private Eye Writers of America announced their Shamus Award nominees for the 2023 Shamus Awards. There are four categories for awards given for private eye novels and short stories first published in the United States in 2022. SMFS list members are nominated in two of the four categories. The categories and members nominated are:

 

Best Original PI Paperback

Gabriel Valjan for, Hush Hush, published by Level Best Books.

 

Best PI Short Story

Libby Cudmore for, Charlie’s Medicine, in Lawyers, Guns, and Money: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of Warren Zevon, published by Down & Out Books. Edited by SMFS list members Libby Cudmore and Art Taylor.

O’Neil De Noux for, A Jelly of Intrigue, in Edgar & Shamus Go Golden: Twelve Tales of Murder, Mystery, and Master Detection from the Golden Age of Mystery and Beyond, published by Down & Out Books. Edited by Gay Toltl Kinman and Andrew McAleer.

 

SMFS congratulates our member nominees as well as all the nominated authors.

2023 SMFS Member Anthony Award Nominees

 

Earlier this week, several SMFS list members were nominated for the 2023 Anthony Awards in various categories. The winners will be announced at Bouchercon: San Diego on Saturday evening, September 2, 2023. The full list of nominees and more information can be found at the official website. The nominated books and short stories by SMFS list members are:

 

Best Anthology

 

Land of 10,000 Thrills: Bouchercon Anthology 2022. Edited by SMFS list member Greg Herren (Down & Out Books).

 

Lawyers, Guns, and Money: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Music of Warren Devon. Edited by SMFS list members by Libby Cudmore and Art Taylor (Down & Out Books).

 

Low Down Dirty Vote Volume 3: The Color of My Vote. Edited by SMFS list member Mysti Berry (Berry Content Corporation).

 

Paranoia Blues: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Paul Simon. Edited by SMFS list member Josh Pachter            (Down & Out Books).

 

Best Short Story

 

Barb Goffman for "Beauty and the Beyotch." (Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine #29)

 

Bruce Robert Coffin for "The Impediment." (Deadly Nightshade: Best New England Crime Stories 2022,  Crime Spell Books).

 

Curtis Ippolito for "The Estate Sale." (Vautrin - Volume 4, Issue 1, Summer 2022)

 

Best Children’s/ Young Adult Novel

 

Fleur Bradley for Daybreak on Raven Island. (Viking Books for Young Readers) 

 

Best Paperback/eBook/Audiobook

 

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

SMFS Member Publishing News: Debra Goldstein

SMFS list member Debra Goldstein sends word that her book, Should Have Played Poker, originally published in April 2019, was released on August 6, 2019, in a mass market paperback edition from Harlequin Worldwide Mystery.

HWM Synopsis:

A Fatal Discard

Carrie Martin hasn’t seen her mother in twenty-six years—not since her mom abandoned the family and disappeared. Then she walks into Carrie’s law office, gives Carrie a sealed envelope and makes a shocking confession. Before opening the envelope, Carrie heads to the Sunshine Village retirement home to ask her father about her past. But when she arrives, she finds her mother murdered and another resident—the woman who helped raise her—seriously injured.

Instructed to leave the sleuthing to the police, Carrie continues pursuing why someone would target the two most important women in her life, which quickly puts her at odds with her former lover—the detective assigned to her mother’s case. As Carrie and her cosleuths, the Sunshine Village Mah jongg players, attempt to unravel the secrets of Wahoo, Alabama, their efforts put Carrie in danger and show her that truth and integrity aren’t always what she was taught to believe.

SMFS Member Publication News: Jacqueline Seewald

SMFS Member Jacqueline Seewald’s latest book, Death Promise, is now out from Encircle Publications.  It is available in both paperback and eBook formats directly from the publisher, as well as Amazon, and elsewhere.

Publisher Synopsis:

In this sequel to DEATH LEGACY, New York, psychiatrist Dr.Daniel Reiner hires consultant Michelle Hallam to help him investigate the disappearance of an alleged half-sister in Las Vegas, Nevada. The situation soon becomes complicated, involving Daniel and Michelle in investigating several murders. This fast-paced novel combines elements of suspense thriller, mystery and romance.