Friday, August 07, 2020

Making the Claymore Cut

Just a fortnight ago, we brought you the two categories of this year’s finalists for the Silver Falchion Awards, to be given out during Tennessee’s annual Killer Nashville conference. Today we follow that up with the list of as-yet-unpublished novels that have been shortlisted for the 2020 Claymore Award, courtesy of Mystery Fanfare:

• C.C. Anderson, Sunday Split
R.G. Belsky, The Baghdad Conspiracy
Alexander Bruce, Of Empires and Eternities
Mary Bush, Crooked
Kathy Cuddihy, Safe Harbours
Nicholas Holloway, Three Houses on a Hill
Geoffrey Hyatt, A Coffin for Mr. Blackpoole
Michael Jordan, A Desperate Race
William Kaufmann, Killing Bodhi
Edson Knapp, Ghosts of Kilimanjaro
Grace Lawler, Astral Exile
Michael Byers Lewis, The Pilate Scroll
Lisa Malice, Dead Ringer
Kevin Maris, Forged in Lightning
William Burton McCormick, Ghost
Mark Renshaw, Cyborn
Steven Sanders, War Wolves
Sheila Sobel, Time Flies
J.B. Stevens, The Red Exit
Victory Witherkeigh, The Girl

According to the Killer Nashville Web site, the Claymore “assists new and rebranding English-language fiction authors to get published, including possible agent representation, book advances, editor deals, and movie and television sales.” Entries can come from an extensive variety of genres, but they all must contain “elements of thriller, mystery, crime, or suspense.”

Since this month’s in-person Killer Nashville event was cancelled as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the winner of the Claymore Award will be announced online come August 22.

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