Ann Shortell's debut novel, CELTIC KNOT, has won a Gold Medal in Religious Fiction from the Next Generation Book Awards and a Bronze Medal in Regional Fiction from the IPPY Awards, and is now a finalist in two Canadian book awards.

This 'history with a mystery' is shortlisted for the Whistler Independent Book Awards and the MIramichi Reader's "The Very Best!" Book Awards. Winners of both awards will be announced this autumn.

Shortell's first in a series of CLARA SWIFT TALES was a finalist for both the 2018 Sarton Women’s Book Award for Historical Fiction and the 2018 Foreword Indies Book Of The Year in Multicultural Fiction.

As a manuscript, CELTIC KNOT was a finalist for Crime Writers of Canada's 2017 'Unhanged' Arthur Ellis Award.

In another century, Shortell was a journalist and award-winning non-fiction author. She is a past director of Crime Writers of Canada and a member of the Writers' Union of Canada, the Historical Novel Society, the Canadian Authors Association, the IBPA, and Sisters In Crime.

Clara Swift is now off having new misadventures during hingepoints in North American history even as you read this, while Shortell is hard at work on sequel AN IRISH GOODBYE.