Silver Falchion winners, Veterans Day

cj Sez: The Killer Nashville International Conference was an amazing weekend of workshops and presentations. My fellow panelists on the Writing Romantic Suspense panel were awesome. Congratulations to the Silver Falchion Winners:

Best Attending Author:  Palmetto Poison – C. Hope Clark

Best Novel:

Romantic Suspense: Truth Be Told – Hank Phillippi Ryan

Cozy/Traditional: Hunting Shadows – Charles Todd

Historical: Death on Blackheath – Anne Perry

Private Detective/Police Procedural: Field of Prey – John Sandford

Speculative: Fear City – F. Paul Wilson

Literary Suspense: The Day She Died – Catriona McPherson

Political Thriller/Adventure: I am Pilgrim – Terry Hayes

Crime Thriller: In the Blood – Lisa Unger

Best First Novel:

Cozy/Traditional/Historical: The Life We Bury – Allen Eskens

Literary Suspense: The Weight of Blood – Laura McHugh

Mystery/Thriller: The Black Hour – Lori Rader-Day

Best Children’s Picture Book: An Armadillo in Paris – Julie Kraulis

Best Children’s Chapter Book: The Haunted Library – Dori Hillestad Butler, Illustrated by Aurore Damant

Best Middle Grade: Still Life (The Books of Elsewhere, Book #5) – Jacqueline West

Best Young Adult: Grunge Gods and Graveyards – Kimberly G. Giarratano

Best Nonfiction: Mainstream Crime Reference: 400 Things Cops Know – Adam Plantinga

Best Single-Author Collection: Seeing Red: From the Case Files of Detective James T. Kirkland – Terry Odell

Best Multi-Author Anthology: In the Company of Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon – Edited by Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger

Best Long-form Novelty Fiction/Poetry/Graphic/Experimental: The Undertaking of Lily Chen – Danica Novgorodoff (Graphic Novel)

Best Nonfiction: Memoir/Biography: Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War – Karen Abbott

Best Nonfiction: Academic: The Figure of the Detective: A Literary History and Analysis – Charles Brownson

Best Nonfiction: True Crime: The Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America’s Coldest Cases – Deborah Halber

Veterans Day is November 11. Originally known as Armistice Day, it began as a day to remember the end of World War I. Germany signed an armistice with the Allies that signaled the end of the war at 11 a.m. on 11 November 1918. President Woodrow Wilson declared the day a holiday in 1919, and it was renamed Veterans Day in 1954. 

I send my grateful Thank You to all who have served and are serving in our United States military. To the men and women risk life and limb as they are sent into harm’s way to protect our American freedoms, I pray the Lord will watch over you and bring you safely home. SALUTE !!

From my Facebook page.

NaNoWriMo writers, are you plugging along? Stay with it! When the challenge ends at midnight November 30, you'll have the draft of a brilliant new novel.

You-all guys keep on keeping on, and I'll try to do the same. 

cj

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