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cj Sez: On Saturday evening, Clay Stafford, Founder of the Killer Nashville Writers Conference, announced the conference’s 2021 Silver Falchion Award Winners. 

Congratulations go out to…

Best Cozy Winner: Rose by Any Other Name / Becki Willis

Best Comedy Winner: Con Me Once / J. L. Delozier

Best Attending Author Winner: Love Power / Martha Reed

Best Action Adventure Winner: The Crow’s Nest / Richard Meredith

Best Thriller Winner: The Divine Devils / R. Weir

Best Suspense Winner: Ring of Conspiracy / J. Robert Kinney

Best Supernatural Winner: Borrowed Memories / Christine Mager Wevik

Best Book of the Year Winner: Borrowed Memories / Best Supernatural / Christine Mager Wevik

Short Story Collection / Anthology Winner: Couch Detective Book 2 / James Glass

Best Sci-Fi / Fantasy Winner: Odyssey Tale / Cody Schlegel

Reader’s Choice Award Winner: A Palette for Love and Murder / Saralyn Richard

Best Nonfiction Winner: Words Whispered in Water / Sandy Rosenthal

Best Mystery Winner: Code Gray / Benny Sims

Best Juvenile / Y.A. Winner: Irish Town / Matthew John Meagher

Best Historical Winner: The Lost Wisdom of the Magi / Susie Helme

Best Unpublished First 50 Pages:

      Winner: Crooked / Suspense / Mary Bush

      First Runner-Up Winner: Choosing Guilt / Mystery / Frances Aylor

      Second Runner-Up Winner: The Forget-Me-Knot / Mystery / Richard McGonegal

  (cj note: In case you’re curious: A falchion is a medieval, single-handed, one-edged bladed weapon that originated in Europe. One site described it as reminiscent of a contemporary machete.)

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Sisters In Crime also announced a winner!

“Congratulations to D. Ann Williams, winner of the 2021 Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award! #SinC created the award in 2014 to honor the memory of pioneering African-American crime fiction author Eleanor Taylor Bland with a $2,000 grant to an emerging writer of color.”

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Writerly/Readerly quote:

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   cj Sez: This from another author’s recent Facebook thread: Do you remember the first book you read and loved? Okay, so I'm weird; I have two. There were obviously other books that I read in school, but there are two that I remember and loved.

True story: One winter, I'd walk about a half hour through crunchy snow to Detroit’s now-demolished Mark Twain library so I could sit in a corner and read "Last of the Mohicans" when I was about nine or ten. (That was way before it became too dangerous to let your kids play in your own yard.) The adventure stayed with me and inspired my writing, as did a second book.

   About that same time, I was the winner of a school spelling bee where I won a Webster's Dictionary with my named engraved on gold on the cover. I actually did read most of it, because words and their meanings have always fascinated me.

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  You can ask your local library to order my eBooks. You’ll need to give them the ISBN number of the title you want to borrow.

THE DAWGSTAR … ISBN 978-17369146-0-1

DEATH ON THE YAMPA … ISBN 978-1-7369146-1-8

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  That’s it for today’s post. You-all guys keep on keeping on, and I’ll try to do the same. 

cj

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