Featured Authors:

Each year, Love is Murder honors registered conference authors and their books with its prestigious LOVEY awards in 10 categories. We encourage attendees to read nominees' novels before the conference and be ready to vote for your favorites!

For the 2013 conference, the LOVEY nominees are:

BEST FIRST NOVEL

COURTING MURDER / Bill Hopkins

PERFIDY / M. E. May

SOULJOURNER / Dody Marriott

IN HER SHADOW / August McLaughlin

BEST TRADITIONAL / AMATEUR SLEUTH

A SMALL HILL TO DIE ON / Elizabeth Duncan

THE LIGHTKEEPER'S LEGACY / Kathleen Ernst

THE TRASHY GOURMET / David Ciambrone

WHERE DID YOU DIE / Patricia K. Batta

EMMA WINBERRY AND THE EVIL EYE / Helen Osterman

CROSS CURRENTS / Powell Smily, with Susan Smily and Honora Finkelstein

DABLLERS / Kathryn Flatt

MURDER IN THE ROUND / Patricia Rockwell

THE LOST ARTIST / Gail Lukasik

TEARS OF THE JAGUAR / A. J. Hartley

BEST PI / POLICE PROCEDURAL

PORTRAIT OF MURDER / Rob Riley

THE SONS OF JUDE / Brandt Dodson

BEST THRILLER

COMPANY ORDERS / David J. Walker

THE NINTH DAY / Jamie Freveletti

THE BLACK STILETTO : BLACK & WHITE / Raymond Benson

HITMAN : DAMNATION / Raymond Benson

BEST PARANORMAL / SCI-FI

WALK-IN / Honora Finkelstein and Susan Smily

WHEN THE MOON IS GIBBOUS & WAXING / Angela Parson Myers

LAST WOOL AND TESTAMENT / Molly MacRae

BEST SUSPENSE

A BITTER VEIL / Libby Fischer Hellmann

MOONLIGHT FOR MAGGIE / Karen l. Syed

BEST HISTORICAL

ARCHIE MEETS NERO WOLFE / Robert Goldsborough

THE BOOTLEGGER'S NEPHEW / Sarah Wisseman

DEATH AT WOODS HOLE / Frances McNamara

MACBETH, A NOVEL / A. J. Hartley

BEST SERIES

THE WATCH (AJ Garrison crime novels) / Jerry Peterson

KILLERFIND (Rhetta McCarter mysteries) / Sharon Woods Hopkins

GET FLUFFY (Pampered Pets mystery series) / Sparkle Abbey

THE JANUS REPRISAL (Robert Ludlum’s Covert One series) / Jamie Freveletti

TRICKSTERS POINT (The Cork O’Connor series) / William Kent Krueger

THY WILL BE DONE (The Lord’s Prayer mystery series) / Richard Davidson

SECRET HOLLOWS (Mary O’Reilly paranormal series) / Terri Reid

BEST SHORT STORY

EARLY CHRISTMAS (in A James Early Christmas and Other Stories of the Season) / Jerry Peterson

HARRY'S FALL FROM GRACE (a prequel to the Grace Marsden series) / Luisa Buehler

CAPITAL PARTNERS (in Writes of Spring) / Libby Fischer Hellmann

THE LOVE NEST (in The Legend of Judgment Rock &Other Mystery Stories) / Sharon Love Cook

THE CASE OF THE EXTRA INGREDIENT (in Hot Crime, Cool Chicks) / Mary Welk

Works must be available to readers through at least two (2) of the normal channels; e.g., Amazon, B&N, Kindle, Nook, etc. This does not include blogs, newsletters,on-line groups, etc.

Authors may enter their works in as many categories as they wish but may enter only one title per category.

It is understood by all parties that by entering the contest the creator and holder of copyright of any entered works gives to the LIM board permission to publicize the entry and use its title, excerpts, and authors name in promotion of the contest prior to and for the duration of the conference as they see fit.