KILLER NASHVILLE!

 Hi folks,

I was just notified the novel I'm currently working on was named a Finalist in the Killer Nashville Claymore Awards. This is a prestigious award and I'm stoked. But, I'm even more stoked that a student in my online novel-writing class--Les Edgerton's Bootcamp for Writers--is also a finalist for the novel she's finishing up in class. And... Cheryl Arko was a Finalist last year also, for another novel she wrote in class!

2023 Killer Nashville Claymore Award Finalists

Awarded to the Best First 50 Pages of an Unpublished Manuscript at the time of entry into the competition.

Finalists are chosen from hundreds of submissions. As a benefit to Finalists, for entrants who are interested, Killer Nashville will make every effort to help Finalists secure an agent and/or publisher. Our goal is to see each and every Finalist manuscript published.

Winners in each category and overall best manuscripts will be announced at the 2023 Killer Nashville Awards Ceremony on Saturday, August 19, 2023 in Nashville, Tennessee. Finalists are heavily encouraged to attend to meet with agents, editors, publishers, and fellow writers.

2023 Killer Nashville Claymore Award Finalists

BEST ACTION ADVENTURE

 Greg Baldwin / The Napoleon Document
Sharon Barnes / Shanghai Sunset
Nordean Baxter / Black Power
David Darling / Signs of Anubis
Les Edgerton / Francois Roberge – The Fixer
Dennis Meredith / The Czar Bomb
Richard Meredith / The Double Cross of Brigid
Ryan Pote / False Horizon
John Righten / The Englander
Patrick Weill / The Mazatlan Showdown

BEST SCI-FI / FANTASY

 Cheryl Arko / Touch of the Elegrian

 Arnie Benn / The Intrepid: Dawn Of The Interstellar Age

 Michele Brady Boom / A Nest at Four O'Clock

 Mary Butler / Death of a Druid

 Anthony Catalano / Once We Were Perfect

 Savannah Jackson / Scars of Fire

 JS Morrison / The Pieces of My Self

 Colleen Story / The Untold Story of King Midas

 Troy A. Thompson, M.D. / Crumble's End: Flame and Scar

 Kane Williams / Perils of the Past

 

Wish us both luck! And, if you get a chance to attend, please do—this is one of the premier writing conventions in the world!

 

Blue skies,

Les