SMFS Member Publishing News: Pongo’s Lucky Day by Craig Faustus Buck

SMFS list member Craig Faustus Buck’s mystery short story, Pongo’s Lucky Day, was published today at Kings River Life Magazine. You can read the piece for free online here.

SleuthSayers: It Is What It Is... Or Is It? by Craig Faustus Buck

SleuthSayers: It Is What It Is... Or Is It?: Special treat today.  I first met Craig Faustus Buck at Bouchercon in Long Beach in 2014, when we shared a panel on short stories, but my fo...

Little Big Crimes Review: Head Over Heels by Craig Faustus Buck

Little Big Crimes: Head Over Heels, by Craig Faustus Buck: "Head Over Heels," by Craig Faustus Buck, in Murder-a-Go-Go's, edited by Holly West,  Down and Out Books, 2019. This is th...

SMFS Member Podcast News: Craig Faustus Buck

SMFS list member Craig Faustus Buck’s short story, “Race to Judgement” from Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine: November/December 2018 is the current selection for the EQMM Podcast. The story is a Macavity Award nominee. Mr. Buck is one of a number of SMFS members that are currently nominees for the Macavity Awards. They will be handed out at Bouchercon in Dallas at the end of the month.

Synopsis:

In this episode of our podcast series we provide listeners with the opportunity to hear a story that is currently nominated for a major award in the mystery field. The Macavity Awards, sponsored by Mystery Readers International, will be presented at the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention in Dallas, Texas (which runs from October 31 to November 3). In the short-story category, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story writer Craig Faustus Buck is nominated for “Race to Judgment,” first published in EQMM’s November/December 2018 issue. He read the story for us from his home in Southern California.

SMFS Member Publishing News: Craig Faustus Buck

SMFS list member Craig Faustus Buck’s short story, “Hat Box” is read aloud by Carina Cojeen at “Mathew Toffolo’s Summary.”  Also included with the video is a short interview with Mr. Buck. You can read the interview and watch the twitter story here. 

News from SMFS Member Craig Faustus Buck

As he posted earlier today....

If anyone's in the mood to write a Twitter story (280 characters or less), there's a site that will have an actor read it and produce a short video for free (they try to upsell you to add visuals for $40). It's a lot of fun. Here's mine (a "reprint" of a story many of you have read)::
https://storypitches.com/2019/06/03/twitter-story-story-hat-box-by-craig-faustus-buck/

Enjoy,

Craig

The First Two Pages: “Race to Judgment” by Craig Faustus Buck

The First Two Pages: “Race to Judgment” by Craig Faustus Buck

Something Is Going To Happen: “Diatribes of the Diaphragm” (by Craig Faustus Buck)

Something Is Going To Happen: “Diatribes of the Diaphragm” (by Craig Faustus Buck)

SMFS Short Story Saturdays: Craig Faustus Buck

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, Craig Faustus Buck shares “Liar’s Poker” by way of PDF as the May 2017 publication was at Spinetingler Magazine which no longer exists.

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.

SMFS Member Publishing News: Craig Faustus Buck

SMFS list member Craig Faustus Buck’s short story, “Pongo’s Lucky Day” appears online at Retreats From Oblivion: The Journal Of Noircon.  Mr. Buck refers to his tale as “snowboarder noir.”

SleuthSayers: 2017 Macavity Award Short Story Nominees Dish on Their Stories

SleuthSayers: 2017 Macavity Award Short Story Nominees Dish on T...: by Paul D. Marks Today I’m giving over my post to the 2017 Macavity Award Short Story Nominees. There’s six of us and I’m both lucky and h...

Short Story Month: Craig Faustus Buck

StoryADay.org proclaimed May International Short Story Month back in 2013. As the short story, in the mystery genre is the reason why the Short Mystery Fiction Society exists, we join in the celebration each year. The SMFS spin on festivities is to highlight one or more members’ online stories per day.

Today, Craig Faustus Buck shares via PDF link the short story “Blank Shot” published in the Black Coffee anthology (2016) edited by Andrew Macrae.

If you’d like to be included, email the link to your story to KevinRTipple  at Verizon dot net.

Gerald So Interviews 2017 Derringer Finalist Craig Faustus Buck

Gerald So Interviews 2017 Derringer Finalist Craig Faustus Buck

SMFS Member Nominees for Killer Nashville’s 2016 Silver Falchion Award

The following members have been nominated for awards at this year’s Killer Nashville convention. The complete list of nominees is on the 2016 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Finalists website. Winners will be announced at the 2016 Killer Nashville Guest of Honor & Awards Dinner.

In the Best Fiction Short Story Anthology category there are two nominees.

Kaye George is nominated for Murder On Wheels.

Josh Pachter is nominated for The Tree of Life.

In the Best Nonfiction Young Adult Book category, P. A. De Voe is nominated for Warned, A Mei-hua Adventure. While grateful to be nominated, P. A. would like it to be noted that, despite the nominated category, her book was entered as and is a historical young adult mystery/adventure. The book is also listed a nominee in the Judges’ Choice Award.

In the Best Mystery/Crime category, BV Lawson is nominated for Dies Irae.

In the Best Fiction Adult Book category, member Craig Faustus Buck is nominated for Go Down Hard.