Being nominated for an award is always the most pleasant of surprises, and I was more than thrilled to discover such a recognition had come my way recently.
My mystery piece “The White Calf and the Wind,” one of my “Inspector Trevelyan Mysteries,” has been nominated in the category of ”Best Long Story” for the 2023 Derringer Awards. The graphic of the finalist pool appears below. This came right out of left field—it was published in Black Cat Mystery Mgazine #11, in February, 2022. It had previously been accepted for the magazine Hybrid Fiction, due for release in September, 2020, but this was one of those occasions when an accepting market folds before release.
The Derringers are organised by the Short Mystery Fiction Society, which has been around since 1996.
The awards are announce around May 1st each year, and I shall be on the edge if my swat until then!
Cheers,
Mike Adamson
