premise: Michael J. McCann is a Canadian author of crime fiction and supernatural fiction. His crime novel "Sorrow Lake", the first March and Walker Crime Novel, is a finalist for the 2015 Hammett Prize. He is also the author of the Donaghue and Stainer Crime Novel series and "The Ghost Man", a supernatural thriller. He is a member of the Crime Writers of Canada.
hypothesis: 2018 was the first time that someone considered whether Michael J. McCann should have a prize for one of his books. 
reason: He was up for an award in 2015 so saying that 2018 as the first year that he was considered for an award would be definitively incorrect. 