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 The award recognizes the best unpublished book based on the first fifty pages of the manuscript.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 The award recognizes the best unpublished book based on the first fifty pages of the manuscript.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.

Killer Nashville’s 2020 Claymore Award SMFS Member Finalists

The SMFS is proud to announce that members of the SMFS have been nominated for the 2020 Killer Nashville Claymore Award. The award recognizes the best unpublished book based on the first fifty pages of the manuscript. The top three finalists and the winner will be announced on August 22, 2020 during the virtual Killer Nashville event. The two SMFS list member finalists are:

William Burton McCormick with Ghost.

J. B. Stevens with The Red Exit.

The complete list of finalists for the Claymore and more information can be found on the website.