Monday, June 18, 2018
SleuthSayers: Story & Structure: "English 398: Fiction Workshop"...
SleuthSayers: Story & Structure: "English 398: Fiction Workshop"...: By Art Taylor Writers often get questions about the weight of character and plot in their works, the balance between them—which they start...
Sunday, June 17, 2018
SMFS Member Nominees for the 2018 Macavity Awards
The Macavity Award is named for the “mystery cat” of T.S. Eliot (Old
Possum’s Book of Practical Cats). Each year The
Macavity Awards are nominated and voted on by members of Mystery
Readers International, subscribers to Mystery Readers Journal,
and friends and supporters of MRI who all nominate and vote for their favorite
mysteries in four categories. The winners will be
announced at opening ceremonies at Bouchercon in St. Petersburg, Florida in
September.
This year we have five members of the
Short Mystery Fiction Society nominated in the category of Best Short Story. The nominees are:
Craig Faustus Buck for “As Ye Sow” in the anthology, Passport to Murder: Bouchercon Anthology 2017, published by Down & Out
Books.
Terence
Faherty for “Infinite Uticas” in Ellery
Queen’s Mystery Magazine: May/June 2017.
Barf
Goffman for “Whose Wine is it Anyway” in the
anthology, 50
Shades of Cabernet published by Koehler Books.
Paul D. Marks for “Windward” in the anthology,
Coast
to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea, published by Down & Out
Books.
Art Taylor for “A Necessary Ingredient” in the
anthology, Coast
to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea, published by Down & Out
Books.
The full list of all the 2018 Macavity Award Nominees can be
found on the website. Congrats
and good luck to all the nominees and especially to those members of the SMFS!
Saturday, June 16, 2018
SMFS Short Story Saturday: Mo Walsh
SMFS Short Story Saturdays
was born out of the very successful International Short Story Month this year.
Each Saturday we feature a SMFS list member whose work can be read online for
free. These short stories are at least a year old and were not previously
linked to during the May 2018 Short Story Month event.
Today for
SMFS Short Story Saturdays, Mo Walsh offers “Breaking
Point” archived at Spinetingler Magazine as well as “The
Night Clerk” archived over at Flash Bang Mysteries: Winter 2016.
If you would
like to be included and are a
member of the SMFS list at yahoo groups, email the link to your story to
KevinRTipple at Verizon dot net. If you are not a member, this would be a good
time to check us out at Yahoo Groups.
Sunday, June 10, 2018
Little Big Crimes Review: Kyiv Heat by Alex Shaw
Little Big Crimes: Kyiv Heat, by Alex Shaw: "Kyiv Heat," by Alex Shaw, in Noirville, Fahrenheit Press, 2018. Gennady Dudka is a top director of the Ukraine's Secur...
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