CITY author Danuta Reah, pictured, has been shortlisted for a Crime Writers' Association dagger award for her short story Glazed.
"It's not exactly a dagger, more a badge. I've won one before, in 2005, but I can't tell you what it looks like because the box is so tight I can't get it open," she says.
She and husband Ken will be in London next month for the ceremony - there's
£1,500 for the winner but she's up against some big names - and he'll be able to claim some of the credit.
He's a potter and she asked him about some of the techniques involved for the story.
It's from an anthology on revenge, Getting Even, edited by Sheffield's erotic novelist Mitzi Szereto.
"I did try writing an erotic story once but it ended up dark and funny," she says.
Danuta is working on a new crime novel set partly in Poland, to be published not under her own name but her alter ego, Carla Banks.
"My publishers have decided people don't want to read books set in Sheffield. I think they're wrong," she says.
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