From the group keeping mystery & crime stories in the public eye since 1996
Tuesday, August 31, 2021
Publication News: Robert Edward Eckels
Crippen and Landru has published Never Trust A Partner, a collection of con game stories by Robeert Edward Eckels.
Publication News: Pulphouse Fiction
Issue 13 of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine is out and it features:
Joe Cron: "Art of the Homeless."
O'Neil De Noux: "The Return of NOPD in 2006."
David H. Hendrickson: "When the Sun Goes Down."
Publication News: This Time For Sure
The ironically-titled Bouchercon 2021 anthology This Time For Sure includes stories by Society members:
Elizabeth Elwood: "The River of My Return"
Alan Orloff: "Killing Calhoun Again."
David Heska Wanbli Weiden: "Turning Heart."
Andrew Welsh-Higgins: "The Lake."
Sunday, August 29, 2021
Award News: Derringer Award Video
The Derringer Awards were supposed to be formally presented at Bouchercon. Since that event was cancelled the organizers asked Society president Robert Lopresti to make a video announcing the awards. It is now available here.
Saturday, August 28, 2021
Award News: Barry Awards
Congratulations to the Society's members who won Barry Awards.
David Heska Wanbli Weiden won the Best First Novel prize for Winter Counts.
The Best Paperback Original Award went to James Ziskin for Turn to Stone.
Award News: Anthony Awards (Corrected)
Congratulations to the Society's members who won the Anthony Awards tonight!
David Heska Wanbli Weiden won the Best First Novel prize for Winter Counts.
Richie Narvaez took the Best Juvenile/Young Adult award for Holly Hernandez and the Death of Disco.
Thursday, August 26, 2021
Award News: SIlver Falchion
Killer Nashville has announced the Silver Falchion Awards. Congratulations to Bruce Robert Coffin whose Within Plain Sight won the Best Investigator prize.
Awards: Macavity
Congratulations to SMFS members who won the Macavity Awards this week:
Best Short Story: "Elysian Fields," by Gabriel Valjan, in California Schemin': THe 2020 BOuchercon Anthology.
Best First Novel: Winter Counts, by David Heska Wanbli Welden.
Sue Feder Memorial Award for Best Historical Mystery: Turn to Stone, by James W. Ziskin.
Wednesday, August 25, 2021
Tuesday, August 24, 2021
Sunday, August 22, 2021
Publication News: Mystery, Crime, and Mayhem
The latest issue of Mystery, Crime, and Mayhem, "Long Ago," is out now. It includes:
"The Javelin in Her
Hand," by Joslyn Chase
"Komrades," by Leah R. Cutter
"Shattered," by Diana Deverell
"John Hart Crenshaw and the Haunting of Abraham Lincoln," by David H. Hendrickson
"Sundown," by Lynn Maples
"Little City Blues," by Annie Reed