Member Podcasts: Debra Goldstein

Mysteryrat's Maze has a new podcast up, featuring Ariel Linn performing Debra Goldstein's Fourth of July story, "Pig Lickin' Good." 

 

SMFS Member Podcast News: Debra Goldstein

SMFS list member Debra Goldstein is interviewed about her book, Three Treats Too Many, and more at The Cozy Corner with Alexia Gordon. This podcast is on Spotify. It can be heard here.

Kensington Publishing: Modifying the Hook in Cozy Mystery Writing by Debra Goldstein

Modifying the Hook in Cozy Mystery Writing by Debra Goldstein For years, I read cozy mysteries. Then, I decided to write one.  I immediately realized I needed to analyze the elements found in

Jungle Red Writers: How Cozy Does It Have to Be? by Debra Goldstein

Jungle Red Writers: How Cozy Does It Have to Be?: ((Breaking news: And the winner of DON'T LOOK FOR ME  is Tracy Wirick! And the winner of SISTER DEAR is  Itsjustjenni Email me your addr...

SMFS Member Publishing News: Debra Goldstein

SMFS list member Debra Goldstein sends word that her book, Two Bites Too Many: A Sarah Blair Mystery, was released Tuesday, September 24rth.  Published by Kensington Books, the read is available in mass market paperback, audio and digital formats from Amazon, the publisher, and other vendors.

Synopsis:

Far from a domestic goddess, Sarah Blair would rather catch bad guys than slave over a hot stove. But when a dangerous murder boils over in Wheaton, Alabama, catching the killer means leaving her comfort zone …
 
Things are finally looking up for Sarah Blair following her unsavory divorce. Settled into a cozy carriage house with her sassy Siamese cat, RahRah, she has somehow managed to hang on to her modest law firm receptionist job and—if befriending flea-bitten strays at the local animal shelter counts—lead a thriving social life. For once, Sarah almost has it together more than her enterprising twin, Emily, a professional chef whose efforts to open a gourmet restaurant have hit a real dead end …
 
When the president of the town bank and city council is murdered after icing Emily’s business plans, all eyes are on the one person who left the scene with blood on her hands—the Blair girls’ sharp-tongued mother, Maybelle. Determined to get her mom off the hook ASAP, Sarah must collect the ingredients of a deadly crime to bring the true culprit to justice. But as neighbors turn against her family, can she pare down the suspects before another victim lands on the chopping block?
 
 Includes quick and easy recipes!

SMFS Member Publishing News: Debra Goldstein

SMFS list member Debra Goldstein sends word that her book, Should Have Played Poker, originally published in April 2019, was released on August 6, 2019, in a mass market paperback edition from Harlequin Worldwide Mystery.

HWM Synopsis:

A Fatal Discard

Carrie Martin hasn’t seen her mother in twenty-six years—not since her mom abandoned the family and disappeared. Then she walks into Carrie’s law office, gives Carrie a sealed envelope and makes a shocking confession. Before opening the envelope, Carrie heads to the Sunshine Village retirement home to ask her father about her past. But when she arrives, she finds her mother murdered and another resident—the woman who helped raise her—seriously injured.

Instructed to leave the sleuthing to the police, Carrie continues pursuing why someone would target the two most important women in her life, which quickly puts her at odds with her former lover—the detective assigned to her mother’s case. As Carrie and her cosleuths, the Sunshine Village Mah jongg players, attempt to unravel the secrets of Wahoo, Alabama, their efforts put Carrie in danger and show her that truth and integrity aren’t always what she was taught to believe.

SMFS Member Publication News: Debra Goldstein

SMFS list member Debra Goldstein’s short story “Lions, Tigers, and Sharks: A Valentine’s Day Mystery Short Story” appears at Kings River Life Magazine. You can read it here.

SleuthSayers: Agatha Award Finalists: Best Short Story

SleuthSayers: Agatha Award Finalists: Best Short Story: By Art Taylor The annual Malice Domestic convention is right around the corner—April 27-29 in Bethesda, Maryland—and two of us SleuthSaye...

Short Mystery Fiction Society in the inSinC- December 2016

Past President Jan Christensen has an article in the December issue about SMFS. She explains a little bit about the group and how she became involved in it. The interesting piece is on page 16.

Also in the issue just before that is a two page article from SMFS member Debra Goldstein on "Short Mystery Anthologies." This piece is the first of a two part interview article with editors Michele Slung, Jon Betancourt, and Jay Hartman. Debra also is the Head of the SinC Short Story Initiative adopted by the group under the moniker, "We Love Short Stories."

You can read the December issue of inSinc: The Sisters in Crime Quarterly at:
 http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.sistersincrime.org/resource/resmgr/insinc/inSinC-December-2016.pdf

Lots of good stuff to read so make sure you take a look.

Thank you to Jan Christensen for providing the link to the issue.


Kevin R. Tipple
President-SMFS