October 2023

It brings me great pleasure to share that my crime/coming-of-age story “Beauty and the Beyotch” won the Macavity Award for Best Mystery Short Story published in 2022. The story also took home the Agatha and Anthony Awards earlier this year. It was published in issue 29 of Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, and for a few more days, I’ll leave it up here on the website for folks to read. Just click on the “Beauty and the Beyotch” tab or look for the title in the drop-down box. I last won the Macavity in 2013, so it looks like years ending in 3 are good for me.

I wish congratulations to the other authors nominated for Best Mystery Short Story, Brendan DuBois, Donna Moore, Anna Scotti, Catherine Steadman, Jess Walter, and Melissa Yi, as well as the winners in the four other categories.