Genre Fantasy, Mystery Children Two daughters | Name Toni Kelner Role Author | |
Partner Stephen Paul Kelner, Jr. Awards Agatha Award for Best Short Story Nominations Macavity Awards for Best Short Story, Anthony Award for Best Short Story Books Down Home Murder, Wed and buried, Death of a damn Yankee, Mad as the Dickens, Tight as a Tick | ||
Toni LP Kelner is an award-winning author of two mystery series: the eight Laura Fleming novels, which include: Wed and Buried, Death of a Damn Yankee, Tight as a Tick, and several others; and the Where Are They Now? series, which debuted in January 2008 with Without Mercy. She has also edited two urban fantasy anthologies with Charlaine Harris. Many Bloody Returns, a collection of stories about vampire birthdays, was released in September 2007, and Wolfsbane and Mistletoe, a collection of werewolf Christmas stories, was released in October 2008. A third anthology, as edited with Harris, Death's Excellent Vacation, is expected to be released in August 2010. Kelner has written a number of short stories in anthologies and magazines. Her most recent are "Skull and Cross-Examinations" and "Kangaroo Court".
Kelner's short fiction has been nominated for the Agatha, the Anthony, and the Macavity awards, and her story "Sleeping With the Plush" won the Agatha for Best Short Story of 2006. Her novels have been nominated for several RT BOOKclub awards, and Kelner won an RT BOOKclub Career Achievement Award.