Sunday, March 1, 2015

2015 Derringer Award Nominees

The Short Mystery Fiction Society has announced the nominees for the 2015 Derringer Awards.  Congrats to all the nominees!!

FLASH

Because Melissa Yi    Fiction River Special Edition: Crime   
Sweet Smells     Jed Power    Shotgun Honey   
HOW LIL JIMMIE BEAT THE BIG C Joseph DAgnese Shotgun Ho
Foodies    Rob Hart    Shotgun Honey   
Knockout    Eryk Pruitt    Out of the Gutter Online   
Because    Travis Richardson    Out of the Gutter Online   

SHORT

The Least of These    BV Lawson    Plan B Magazine Volume III   
Killing Sam Clemens William Burton McCormick Sherlock Holmes MysteryMagazine    
A Friend in Brown Mary E. Stiba Rogue Wave:  Best New England Crime Stories
The Bad Son    Britni Patterson Carolina Crimes: 19 Tales of Lust Love and Longing   
The Kaluki Kings of Queens Cathi Stoler    Murder New York Style: Family Matters   

LONG

A Hopeless Case    Hilary Davidson All Due Respect (issue #4)   
Separation Anxiety    Angel Luis Colón All Due Respect   
The Ultimate Mystery M. H. Callway World Enough and Crime
The Missing Money    James T. Shannon    Rogue Wave:  Best New England Crime Stories   
Dead Men Tell No Tales Cathy Wiley Chesapeake Crimes: Homicidal Holidays   

NOVELETTE

Hitlers Dogs    Doug Allyn Fiction River Special Edition: Crime   
Infernal Trey Dowell Untreed Reads   
BUSTING RED HEADS Richard Helms Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine   
The Monster in Our Midst Kris Nelscott Fiction River Special Edition: Crime
Juba Good Vicki Delany Ocra Books   

4 comments:

reverenderyk said...

This makes my day.

sandra seamans said...

Congratulations, Eryk!

GroupofFour said...

Please note that "Because" by Richardson was not a finalist in the FLASH category.
Tony Rudzki
SMFS Derringer Coordinator

sandra seamans said...

Yes, I know Tony, but I hate stealing that one shiny moment from a writer just because of a foul-up. And when I posted it, he was a finalist.