Saturday, April 4, 2020
SleuthSayers: Creating "Rhonda and Clyde," Issue #5, BCMM, by John M. Floyd
SleuthSayers: Creating "Rhonda and Clyde," Issue #5, BCMM: Last month I posted a column here about the writing of one of my recent short stories, "Crow's Nest" (EQMM, Jan/Feb 2020 is...
Friday, April 3, 2020
SleuthSayers: Character Bios by O'Neil De Noux
SleuthSayers: Character bios: Character Bios It's hard to write a column when you see this headline online from the New York Times : 13 Deaths in a Day: An 'A...
Jacqueline Seewald: Writing: Fiction Mistakes and How to Fix Them
Jacqueline Seewald: Writing: Fiction Mistakes and How to Fix Them: I initially wrote a blog for this week entitled “Life and Writing in the Time of Coronavirus.” My husband suggested it. However, when I gav...
SMFS Official Announcement: 2020 Derringer Award Finalists
Since 1998, the Short
Mystery Fiction Society has awarded the annual Derringers—after the popular
pocket pistol—to outstanding published stories. The awards recognize
outstanding stories published during 2019. Results of membership voting are
scheduled to be posted on May 1, 202020.
As graphically posted late last night
to our list by 2020 Derringer Awards Coordinator Tony Rudzki, these
are the official 202020 Derringer Award Finalists:
Flash
|
Author
|
Lucky
|
Trey
Dowell
|
The Two-Body Problem
|
Josh
Pachter
|
2 Percent
|
Lissa Marie Redmond
|
Birdbrain
|
C J
Verburg
|
The
Six-Year-Old Serial Killer
|
Chris Chan
|
Short
|
|
The Kindly
Dark
|
J. B.
Toner
|
Love, or
Something Like It
|
Michael
Bracken
|
A Sure Thing
|
C.C.
Guthrie
|
On the
Road with Mary Jo
|
John Floyd
|
Pig
Lickin’ Good
|
Debra H.
Goldstein
|
Long
|
|
Miss
Starr’s Good-bye
|
Leslie
Budewitz
|
None Shall
Sleep
|
Sylvia
Maultash Warsh
|
Pretty
Dreams
|
Peter W.
J. Hayes
|
See Humble
and Die
|
Rick Helms
|
Lucy's
Tree
|
Sandra
Murphy
|
Novelette
|
|
Her
Sister's Secrets
|
Brendan
DuBois
|
The
Cripplegate Apprehension
|
Rick Helms
|
The Concrete Smile
|
Frank
Zafiro
|
The Dutchy
|
Doug Allyn
|
I Called
to Say You're Dead
|
Stephen
Greco
|
A vote of the SMFS membership will determine the winner in each category. Results will be announced in May 2020.
For more on the Derringers and the rules, please see the Derringer Awards Policy post
Kevin R. Tipple
President-SMFS
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
SMFS Member Publishing News: Jacqueline Flaum
SMFS list member Jacqueline Flaum’s new novella, The
Yellow Fever Revenge, is now available on Amazon in eBook format.
Synopsis:
Plague of Biblical
proportions
When yellow fever rumors arise in 1878, Elizabeth McAlister knows how bad it can be — black vomit, raging fevers, thrashing victims wild with pain. She survived in 1867 when two thousand others did not.
But the ring of shop bell announces a threat more terrifying than yellow fever for her. Barkley Mills, the brutal man who raped her and fathered her son, is now living in Memphis. He will surely recognize himself in their boy’s face.
As the fever devastates towns in a steady march up the Mississippi River to Memphis, Elizabeth plots revenge—and finds love.
When yellow fever rumors arise in 1878, Elizabeth McAlister knows how bad it can be — black vomit, raging fevers, thrashing victims wild with pain. She survived in 1867 when two thousand others did not.
But the ring of shop bell announces a threat more terrifying than yellow fever for her. Barkley Mills, the brutal man who raped her and fathered her son, is now living in Memphis. He will surely recognize himself in their boy’s face.
As the fever devastates towns in a steady march up the Mississippi River to Memphis, Elizabeth plots revenge—and finds love.
SMFS Member Publishing News: Edith Maxwell
Today is publication day for SMFS list member Edith
Maxwell’s new book, Murder at the Taffy Shop. Writing as Maddie
Day, the book is published by Kensington Publishing
and exclusive to Barnes
and Noble in print format for one year. This is the second book in the Cozy
Capers Book Group Mystery Series that started with Murder on Cape
Cod.
Publisher
Synopsis:
Cape Cod bicycle shop owner Mackenzie “Mac” Almeida and her mystery book
club find a certain accusation of murder quite the stretch . . .
When your mother is an astrologist and your dad is a minister, you learn to keep an open mind. Which is just what Mac loves to do—exercise her mind by puzzling out fictional clues in the mystery novels she reads and discusses with her Cozy Capers Book Group.
But now Mac’s friend Gin has found herself in a sticky situation. After wealthy genealogist Beverly Ruchart is found dead outside Gin’s taffy shop, the candy maker becomes a person of interest. When it’s revealed that Beverly was poisoned the night Gin brought a box of taffy to a dinner party at Beverly’s house, she’s bumped to the top of the suspects list. It’s up to Mac and her Cozy Capers crime solvers to unwrap this real-life mystery. But this time they might have bitten off more than they can chew . . .
When your mother is an astrologist and your dad is a minister, you learn to keep an open mind. Which is just what Mac loves to do—exercise her mind by puzzling out fictional clues in the mystery novels she reads and discusses with her Cozy Capers Book Group.
But now Mac’s friend Gin has found herself in a sticky situation. After wealthy genealogist Beverly Ruchart is found dead outside Gin’s taffy shop, the candy maker becomes a person of interest. When it’s revealed that Beverly was poisoned the night Gin brought a box of taffy to a dinner party at Beverly’s house, she’s bumped to the top of the suspects list. It’s up to Mac and her Cozy Capers crime solvers to unwrap this real-life mystery. But this time they might have bitten off more than they can chew . . .
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)