R.G. Belsky Winning the Silver Falchion Award for Best Attending Author from Killer Nashville 2020 is one of my biggest thrills ever – and that coveted Silver Falchion medal has been a huge boost to my writing career. It also comes after I won the Killer Nashville Claymore Award a few years earlier, which helped […]
Bradley Harper After winning the Silver Falchion in 2019 for Best Mystery (A Knife in the Fog), and again in 2020 as Best Suspense and Book of the Year (Queen’s Gambit), I’m seen by industry professionals as a serious writer. I’ve gotten several invitations to participate or lead author panels and been on several podcasts. […]
Dana Chamblee Carpenter When The Devil’s Bible won Killer Nashville’s Silver Falchion for Best Novel in 2018, I was overwhelmed with gratitude. Having a group of your peers affirm your work gives you the kind of confidence boosts that lasts—even in those darker times of self-doubt when it’s just you and your computer. But there […]
2020 Claymore Award Winner – Nicholas Holloway I first came across the Claymore Award after submitting my debut novel, The Loop, for the 2020 Silver Falchion. I read the requirements for the Claymore and while Three Houses on a Hill was still in its infancy, I had about a hundred pages already written. I figured, […]
Entering a writing competition takes a certain amount of confidence. I didn’t have it. It took a long time to work up the courage to enter DAUGHTERS OF BAD MEN in the Killer Nashville Claymore competition. This manuscript had been my secret project for a few years, and I had only shared it with my […]
If success begets success, I’ll be successful. Does that make sense? I’ve been writing for over 40 years, but always for business or the Army, never for myself or for attribution. The most I ever got was a signature block that authorized me to sign “For the Commander” of my Battalion, my Group, or my […]
Networking Works I’ve been to four Killer Nashville writers conferences, and one thing they always tell you is to network. Talk to other authors, even if that means prying open the clamshell and forcing your introverted psyche to trick your recalcitrant legs to walk up to a stranger, open your mouth, and ask what they’re […]
“Wow! I’m thrilled with Bonnie Bailey‘s success which she attributes to Killer Nashville. Way to go! It just goes to show you what hard work and participation in one of my favorite conferences can do. I’m happy to have been a small part of it. Congratulations to Ms. Bailey and, of course, to Killer Nashville. […]