We’re thrilled to share that Stealing Time has been named a Top Pick in the 2025 Silver Falchion Awards by Killer Nashville!

The Silver Falchion Awards recognize the best in mystery, thriller, and suspense fiction. In its second year, according to Killer Nashville, Top Picks are chosen by their judges as books “they couldn’t put down and couldn’t stop thinking about.”

That’s exactly what we hoped to create with Stealing Time—a high-stakes time-travel heist filled with heart, humor, and a twisty emotional journey between a teenage girl and her younger, 1980s-version father.

​To be recognized alongside so many incredible authors and storytellers is an honor. We’re grateful to the Killer Nashville team, the judges, and our readers for making this possible.

We picked up two awards this week: the 2025 Falchion Finalist for Best Juvenile/Y.A., and a 2025 Next Generation Indie Book Award YA Finalist.

I don't write to win awards. I write to tell stories that I find interesting, often to push myself to write something I wasn't sure I could. I write stories that I'd like to read.

So I don't write for awards.

But it's great to win awards like the Silver Falchion, part of the Killer Nashville Writers Conference, whose jury is comprised of seasoned crime writers. 

The Silver Falchion, along with positive reviews in the Denver Post, Dayton Daily News and hundreds of positive reader reviews on Goodreads, NetGalley and Amazon, validate something special for me.

That an idea for a book that my daughter and I kicked around years ago was not only a fun idea but is now a real, tangible book that people enjoy and recommend. 

We've had responses from people who say they don't read YA or don't read time travel but loved the book! 

And for that, I am grateful and appreciative. ​Much thanks go to my daughter, Rebecca, and to my co-author, Tilia. And, to my wife, Deborah, who talks up the book more than I do.