Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Society Members' News: January 2017

The members below reported their publishing successes this month: 

Michael Bracken, “Mr. Private Eye Behind the Motel with a .38” in the anthology  Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea, Down & Out Books (January 2017) as well as “Twink” in Heater, Vol 4 No. 12 ( December 2016).

Micki Browning, Adrift: A Mer Cavallo Mystery, Alibi: Random House (January 2017). 

Peter DiChellis, “Disaster Adjuster” in Kzine: Issue 17 (January 2017).

Gail Farrelly, “Keys to the Kingdom” in The Yonkers Tribune as a three part serial from January 23-27, 2017.

John M. Floyd, “A Green Thumb” in Seeds (January 4, 2017) as well as “Relative Strangers” in the January 16, 2016 edition of Woman’s World. John also had “Merrill’s Run,” in Mystery Weekly  January 2017 edition and was the free read to all on the 17th. “Gun Work” in the anthology Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea, Down & Out Books (January 2017).

Debra H. Goldstein, A Garden for Adonis was published in Seeds  (January 11, 2017).

Gay Toltl Kinman, “Vengeance Is Mine: The Clement Case” in the anthology Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea, Down & Out Books (January 2017).

Paul D. Marks, “Windward” in the anthology Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea, Down & Out Books (January 2017).

O'Neil De Noux, “Featuring Martin and Lewis" in the anthology Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea, Down & Out Books (January 2017).

Alan Orloff, “Father's Favorite” in Mystery Weekly (January 2017).

Art Taylor, “A Necessary Ingredient” in Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea,   Down & Out Books ( January 2017).


When, and only when he makes the call onlist, email news for next month's post to SMFS President Kevin R. Tipple (KEVINRTIPPLE at VERIZON dot NET).

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