SMFS Member Publication News: John Floyd March 2020

SMFS list member John Floyd’s latest book, Lighten Up A Little: 300 Doses of Humorous Verse, was published earlier this week. Published by Dogwood Press, the print version is available at the publisher, Amazon, and at other vendors.

Synopsis:

Award-winning Mississippi author John M. Floyd is best known for his crime/suspense stories and his multiple mystery series featuring characters like Angela Potts, Chunky Jones, and Old West private eye Will Parker. Fans of those stories are often surprised to learn that Floyd has also published poetry in more than 100 different markets. His poems, however, are not about social issues or angst or philosophy. They are just fun. Their purpose is to make you smile, or maybe even Laugh Out Loud. As it turns out, the title of this book is also its message: We all need to take the world a little less seriously.

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SMFS Member Publication News: John M. Floyd

SMFS list member John M. Floyd has another book out. Published by Dogwood Press, the book is a collection of his short stories titled, The Barrens. Released today, it is available in hardback from Amazon and other vendors.

Amazon Synopsis:

For the past twenty years Mississippi author John M. Floyd has been one of the most widely-published short story writers in America. His work has been nominated for the Edgar Award, has won the Derringer Award three times, and has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize. In addition, his stories have been listed among the top fifty mysteries of the year seven times by Best American Mystery Stories editor Otto Penzler, and twice among the top twenty. He was even recently awarded the Edward D. Hoch Memorial Golden Derringer Award for lifetime achievement in short mystery fiction. The work of John M. Floyd has been praised by James Patterson, Nevada Barr, Jan Burke, Carolyn Haines, Steve Hamilton, Marcus Sakey, Tom Franklin, and many others. Douglas Preston has called him a master of the art of the short story. Never has that talent been more evident than in this seventh collection of Floyd short fiction. All thirty stories contained in The Barrens are mystery/suspense, most are set in the steamy South, and six of them are installments in his popular Law and Daughter series, featuring Sheriff Lucy Valentine and her crimesolving mother Fran. Like his previous books (Rainbows End, Midnight, Clockwork, Deception, Fifty Mysteries, and Dreamland), the adventures here are full of quirky characters, Hitchcockian tension, and (maybe most important of all) plenty of plot twists and surprises. Welcome to The Barrens. Proceed with caution . . .