Dean Jobb’s novel, A Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue, (published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.) is nominated for The Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book sponsored by David Reid Simpson Law Firm (Hamilton) with a $300 prize
Dean Jobb writes historical true crime. His latest book, A Gentleman and a Thief, the story of a daring jewel thief who targeted New York’s Jazz Age elite, is a national bestseller and a New York Times Editors’ Choice. He is the author of The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream, which recreates the hunt for a Victorian era Canadian doctor-turned-serial killer, and Empire of Deception, the tale of a fugitive American swindler in 1920s Nova Scotia. All three books are published by HarperCollins Canada. He has won the CrimeCon and Crime Writers of Canada awards for best true crime book and has been a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize and the American Library Association’s Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. His monthly true crime column, “Stranger Than Fiction,” appears in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and he has written for Air Mail, CrimeReads, the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, The Irish Times and other major publications. He is a professor at the University of King’s College in Halifax, where he teaches in the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction program. Find him at www.deanjobb.com.
William Watt’s novel, Predators in the Shadows, is nominated for the Best Unpublished Crime Novel manuscript written by an unpublished author sponsored by ECW Press with a $500 prize.
William is a retired educator living in North York, Ontario. He graduated from York University with combined honours in English and sociology and later earned a Master of Education degree at the University of Toronto.
To keep busy after retirement, he took on a succession of activities. He owned a chocolate shop, trained security guards to write reports, worked for Statistics Canada, sold cars, and interviewed homeless people as part of a health study for McMaster University.
At age seventy, William enrolled in two short-story writing courses at George Brown College. As he had always enjoyed reading murder mysteries, one of his stories introduced Toronto Police detective, Joe Latimer. It was so well received by both his writing class and his reading group, that his sister, Marlene, suggested he develop the character into a novel.
This led to another course at George Brown where he received advice from Rob Brunet regarding plot development and timing. He later met Robert Rotenberg at Noir at the Bar who offered valuable guidance on character development and chapter structure. Although neither gentleman has read Predators in the Shadows, both read excerpts of a previous endeavour and provided constructive criticism. Through Rob and Robert, he learned that writing is truly a craft that is developed through hard work and feedback from more experienced writers.
William and his wife, Vanessa, enjoy bird watching and have travelled to many parts of Canada to photograph their feathered, and occasionally, furry friends.
Liz Ireland’s novella, Mrs. Claus and the Candy Corn Caper (published in Halloween Cupcake Murder, by Kensington Press) is nominated for Best Crime Novella sponsored by Carrick Publishing with a $200 prize.
Elizabeth Bass, aka Liz Ireland, has been navigating the changing seas of publishing for thirty years, and has published fifty works of romance, women’s fiction, and mystery. As Liz Freeland she wrote the award-winning Louise Faulk historical mystery series, and as Liz Ireland she writes the Mrs. Claus cozy mysteries, in which recently married April Claus investigates naughty elves and sneaky snowmen in the ultimate cozy village, Christmastown. Originally from the United States, Liz now lives on Vancouver Island in British Columbia.
Linda’s debut short story “The Electrician” was published this past November in the Sisters in Crime – Canada West’s anthology, Crime Wave 3: Dangerous Games and is nominated for Best Crime Short Story. She’s seeking a home for her debut mystery thriller Off the Mark and she’s plotting out the sequel.
As a former producer, writer, and director of factual series television, Linda’s credits include three seasons as the senior story producer on the true crime show Murder She Solved (W Network, OWN, True Crime Network). After her TV career, Linda retrained as a crime analyst but soon concluded that she was better suited to writing about crime than trying to solve it.
Linda lived in Vancouver for many years but now resides in her hometown of Calgary with her husband, daughter, dog, and two cats.
Lorrie Potvin’s novel, A Trail's Tears, is nominated for the Best Unpublished Crime Novel Manuscript written by an unpublished author sponsored by ECW Press.
Tradeswoman, artist, and teacher Lorrie Potvin, a queerishly Two-Spirited Citizen of the Métis Nation of Ontario, is the author of Horses in the Sand – A Memoir (2022). Her first book, First Gear – A Motorcycle Memoir (2015), the essays - My tattoos speak of life and loss and Why I’m thankful for multiple sclerosis (Globe & Mail) were published under her previous surname, Jorgensen, as was the short story, The 13th Dock, Writing At Wintergreen, an anthology edited by Helen Humphreys.
Working and teaching in the trades for over 30 years, Potvin holds an Inter-Provincial Red Seal in Auto Body Repair and Refinishing from Algonquin College and a diploma in Technological Education from the Faculty of Education, Queen’s University, with additional qualifications in Manufacturing and Special Education. In 2022, she was named an Alumni Award of Distinction recipient from Algonquin College for Apprenticeship and was a nominee for the Ontario Premier’s Award in the same category.
Winner of the Sisters in Crime 2024 PRIDE Award for emerging 2SLGBTQIA+ writers, Lorrie lives near Perth with her partner Paula and Tig, the Cairn Terrier, writing and creating art from scrap metal.
David A. Poulsen novel, The Dark Won't Wait, (published by Red Deer Press) is nominated for Best Juvenile / YA Crime Book sponsored by Superior Shores Press with a $250 prize.
David A. Poulsen has been a broadcaster, teacher, football coach, rodeo cowboy, stage and film actor, and--most of all--writer. His writing career began in earnest when his story The Welcomin’ won the 1984 Alberta Culture Short Story Competition. He is now the author of 33 books, many for middle readers and young adults. The 2012 winner of the Sakura Medal in Japan for his YA novel, Numbers, David’s most recent book is The Dark Won’t Wait, a teen thriller/mystery that has been short-listed for a Crime Writers Canada Award of Excellence. David is approaching 3000 school presentations as a visiting author/presenter. “I never tire of sharing my love for reading and writing with kids of all ages.”
Nate Hendley’s book, Atrocity on the Atlantic: Attack on a Hospital Ship During the Great War (published by Dundurn Press) is nominated for The Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book sponsored by David Reid Simpson Law Firm (Hamilton) with a $300 prize.
Nate Hendley is a Toronto-based journalist and author. His work has appeared in The National Post, Maclean’s magazine, and numerous trade and business publications. He has also written scripts for podcasts, feature articles for the website of TVOntario and several books, primarily in the true-crime genre.
Nate’s last book, The Beatle Bandit won the Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence for Non-Fiction 2022 and was nominated for a Heritage Toronto 2022 Book Award.
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Johanne Seymour is a French Quebec actress, writer, director and novelist.
She started her career as an actress on stage, TV and in films, before she switched to directing plays and writing for the popular comedy stage act: Jacques et Normand. She then went on to write a TV sitcom called Santa Maria. Interested in broadening her horizons, she later studied video at NYU and TV and film directing at l’Institut national de l’image et du son. Her movie La dernière pomme won the Bonzaï for best student short at the Tunis film festival (2000).
Johanne worked as a screen writer (Santa Maria, Diva, Séquelles) and a TV director (Emma, Cent titres, Chanson pour Anna, La dernière pomme, L’Invitation) before she started writing the Kate McDougall crime novels in 2015. She adapted Le cri du cerf, the first novel of the series, under the title Séquelles. The mini series was first shown on Séries+, where it gathered the highest ratings ever for an in-house production. It continued its career on Crave and his now shown on Netflix.
Rinzen et l’homme perdu, her seventh novel and first of her new crime novel serie, has been hailed as a “series who will mark Quebec literature” and her literary opus Le Goût de l’élégance is a French Quebec best-seller. Fracture, her last novel published in 2023, received rave critics and is short listed for the Crime writers awards.
Johanne also works as a script editor and script adviser and she is the founder of Les Printemps meurtriers, which was a popular crime festival in her town of Knowlton, Québec (2012–2016).
Le roman Fracture de Johanne Seymore (publié par Libre Expression) est nominé pour le meilleur livre policier en langue française.
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Johanne Seymour est une actrice, écri-vaine, réal-i-atrice et romancière franco-québécoise.
Elle a commencé sa carrière en tant que comédienne au théâtre, à la télévision et au cinéma, avant de se tourner vers la mise en scène de pièces de théâtre et l'écriture pour la comédie populaire Jacques et Normand. Elle a ensuite écrit une sitcom télévisée in-ti-tulée Santa Maria. Dési-reuse d'é-lar-gir ses horizons, elle a ensuite étudié la vidéo à l'Université de New York et la ré-ali-sation de télévision et de cinéma à l'Institut national de l'image et du son. Son film La dernière pomme a remporté le Bonzaï du meilleur court métrage étudiant au festival de Tunis (en 2000). Deux mille
Johanne a travaillé comme scénariste (Santa Maria, Diva, Séquelles) et réalisatrice pour la télévision (Emma, Cent titres, Chanson pour Anna, La dernière pomme, L'Invitation) avant de se lancer dans l'écriture des romans policiers de Kate McDougall en 2005. (2 mile quize) Elle adapte Le cri du cerf,(cer) le premier roman de la série, sous le titre Séquelles. La mini-série a été diffusée pour la première fois sur les ondes de Séries+, où elle a re-cue-illi les meilleures cotes d'écoute jamais enregistrées pour une production interne. Il a poursuivi sa carrière sur Crave et la sienne est maintenant diffusée sur Netflix.
Rinzen et l'homme perdu, son septième roman et le premier de sa nouvelle série de romans policiers, a été salué comme une « série qui mar-quera la littérature québécoise » et son opus littéraire Le Goût de l'élégance est un best-seller franco-québécois. Fracture, son dernier roman publié en 2023,(deux miles veight trois) a reçu des critiques élo-gieuses et est pré-sélectionné pour les Crime writers Awards du excellence.
Johanne travaille également comme ré-dactrice et con-seillère en scénario et elle est la fon-datrice des Printemps meur-triers, un festival policier populaire dans sa ville de Knowlton, au Québec (2012-2016).
Catherine Astolfo is nominated for The Best Crime Short Story, for her story Farmer Knudson, From Auntie Beers: A Book of Connected Short Stories, published by Carrick Publishing.
Catherine Astolfo is an award-winning writer of short stories and the author of seven novels and two novellas. Catherine won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Short Story in 2012 for "What Kelly Did" and again in 2018 for “The Outlier,” which is included in the Mesdames of Mayhem Anthology, 13 Claws. Catherine’s most recent book is Auntie Beers. With an historical twist and quite different from her other novels, this one is a collection of connected short stories. Published by Carrick Publishing. Catherine is a Derrick Murdoch award winner for service to Crime Writers of Canada and a Past President. Auntie Beers is available everywhere. Check out all her books at catherineastolfo.ca.