Causes for Celebration!

Wonderful news from both coasts!

  

On the east, my cousins Scott and Kassi French Okes, who just celebrated their third wedding anniversary, are now having another joyful day.

Their beautiful daughter, Elizabeth Breanne, was born on November 16, weighing 8 pounds and 2 ounces and 20.5 inches long.

Scott's proud mother, MaryBeth, is happy to be a MiMi.

On the west, wonderful short story writer, husband, father, professor, and friend, Art Taylor, has won the Macavity (presented by Mystery Readers International) for his story "The Care and Feeding of House Plants," which won an Agatha earlier this year.

Congratulations all!

Barb Goffman's Macavity

Congratulations to Barb Goffman, excellent mystery short story author and program coordinator for Malice Domestic, who won the 2013 Macavity Award, given by Mystery Readers International and Mystery Readers Journal at Bouchercon,  for “The Lord is my Shamus” published in the anthology Chesapeake Crimes: This Job Is Murder (Wildside Press 2012) and republished in her collection, Don't Get Mad, Get Even (Wildside Press 2013). Her newest stories are: "Dead and Buried Treasure," in All Hallows' Evil (Mystery and Horror, LLC) and "Operation: Knock Her Down A Peg," to appear in The Killer Wore Cranberry: Room For Thirds (Untreed Reads Publishing).