SMFS list members are published in the Ellery
Queen’s Mystery Magazine: January/February 2025 issue. The issue is
available at the publisher
and other vendors. The SMFS members that reported being in the issue are:
David Bart with “Going the Distance.”
Marcelle Dubé with “No Title, No Clout.”
Paul Ryan O'Connor with “As You See The World.”
Josh Pachter with a translation of François Bloemhof’s
“The Wages of Sin.”
Manon Wogahn with “Kanab Noon.”
SMFS list members are published in the Ellery
Queen’s Mystery Magazine: November/December 2024 issue. The issue is
available at the publisher
and other vendors. The SMFS members that reported being in the issue are:
K.L.Abrahamson with “Enough Thank You.”
Leslie Elman with “The Commission.”
James D.F. Hannah with “Twenty Centuries.”
Billie Livingston with “Whatever Satisfies the Soul.”
Robert Lopresti with “Welcome to JFR!”
Twist Phelan with “Double Parked.”
Anna Scotti with “Not with Hibiscus, but with Blood.”
Jeff Soloway with “The Theft of Las Meninas.”
SMFS list members are
published in the Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine: September/October
2024 issue. The issue is available at the publisher and
other vendors. The SMFS members that reported being in the issue are:
Tom Andes with “Hell Bent for Leather.”
Richard Helms with “The Gaslight Sonata.”
R.T. Lawton with “Recidivism.”
Josh Pachter with “The Wind Phone.” Josh Pachter
reports that he also translated Marlen Visser’s short story, “The Night Watch.”
Andrew Welsh-Huggins with “Through Thick and Thin.”
SMFS list members are published in the Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine: July/August 2024 issue. The issue is available at the publisher and other vendors. The SMFS members that reported being in the issue are:
Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier with “Murder Can’t Stop de
Carnival.”
David Dean with “Shall I Be Mother?”
Sharyn Kolberg with “Somebody That I Used to Know.”
Twist Phelan with “An Ounce of Prevention.”
Jeff Soloway with “Our Fathers’ Secrets.”
Matthew Wilson “Redbeard.”
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine has announced the winners of their annual Readers Awards. The SMFS list members on the list this year that reported their success are:
#1 David Dean for
"Mrs. Hyde" in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine: March/April 2023.
#2 Richard
Helms for “Spear Carriers” in the Ellery
Queen Mystery Magazine: November/December 2023
issue.
#3 Paul Ryan
O’Connor for “Teddy’s Favorite Thing” in the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine:
September/October 2023 issue.
SMFS list members are published in the Ellery
Queen’s Mystery Magazine: May/June 2024 issue. The issue is available at
the publisher
and other vendors. The SMFS members that reported being in the issue are:
Michael Bracken with "Bermuda Triangle."
Hope Hodgkins, "When Baptists Go Bad."
Josh Pachter with “Texas Kinda Attitude.”
Twist Phelan with "Artificial Hearts."
Anna Scotti "A New Weariness."
Larry Sweazy with "The Low Waters."
Art Taylor with “Dark Thread, Loose Strands.”
SMFS list members are published in the Ellery
Queen’s Mystery Magazine: March/April 2024 issue. The issue is available at
the publisher and other vendors. The SMFS members that reported being in the
issue are:
Nils Gilbertson with "Apple Juice."
Karen Harrington with "Fish Around and Find
Out."
Richard Helms with "The Four-Nine Profile."
Twist Phelan with "Aim: A Finn Teller Story."
SMFS list member Josh Pachter’s short story, City of
Light, is featured today at Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine's Fiction Podcast.
Read by the author, the podcast can be heard here.
Episode Description:
Our latest podcast episode will whisk
listeners off to Paris for an adventure filled with fine food and wine, paired
with a side of revenge. Here, from our March/April 2020 issue, is "City of
Light" by Josh Pachter, one of EQMM's most prolific contributors and
translators.
SMFS list members are published in the Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine: January/February 2024 issue. The issue is available at the publisher and other vendors. The SMFS members that reported being in the issue are:
Elizabeth Elwood with “How Mary’s Garden Grew.”
Jacqueline Freimor with “Where the Heart Is.”
Erica Obey with “The Problem of the Vanishing Sopranos.”
Anna Scotti with "Into the Silent Land."
SMFS list member Andrew Welsh-Huggins’ short story, Home
for the Holidays, is featured this week at Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine's
Fiction Podcast. Read by the author, the podcast can be heard here.
EPISODE DESCRIPTION
Andrew Welsh-Huggins is an accomplished author who has been
nominated for Shamus, Derringer, and ITW Thriller awards. We're thrilled to
feature his reading of "Home for the Holidays," a Christmastime
thriller from our Jan/Feb 2020 issue, as the latest entry in our podcast
series.
SMFS list members are published in the Ellery
Queen’s Mystery Magazine: November/December 2023 issue. The issue is
available at the publisher and other vendors. The SMFS members in the issue
are:
Richard Helms with "Spear Carriers."
David Krugler with “Kit’s Pad.”
SMFS list members are published in the Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine: September/October 2023 issue. The issue is available at the publisher and other vendors. The SMFS members in the issue are:
Curtis Ippolito with “Green and California Bound.”
William Burton McCormick with “Balloon.”
Twist Phelan with “Soon It’ll Be Over.”
Anna Scotti with “It’s Not Even Past.”
SMFS list members are published in the Ellery
Queen’s Mystery Magazine: July/August 2023 issue. The issue is available at
the publisher and
other vendors. The SMFS members in the issue are:
Daniel C. Bartlett with “The Riverside Incident.”
(Black Mask story)
John M. Floyd with “The Deacon’s Game.”
Bev Vincent with “His Father's Son.”
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine has announced the winners of their annual Readers Awards. The SMFS list members on the list this year are:
#3 Anna Scotti for “Schrödinger, Cat” in the March/April
2022 issue.
#4 Karen Harrington for “Lucky Stars” in the May/June
2022 issue.
#6 David Dean for “The Wedding Funeral.”
G.M.
Malliet for ““Something Blue” in the November/December
2022 issue.
#7 Twist Phelan for “The Kindness of Strangers.”
#8 David Dean with “The King’s Ferret.”
#9 Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier with “Rise” in the March/April 2022 issue.
Wendy
Hornsby with “Cardigans.”
Josh Pachter’s
translation of “Russian for Beginners” by Dominique Bibeau in the March/April
2022 issue.
Art Taylor
with “We Are All Strangers Here” in the September/October
2022 issue.
#10 Michael Bracken and Sandra Murphy with “Sit. Stay.
Die.” in the July/August
2022 issue.
Josh
Pachter with “Their Last Bow” in the January/February
2022 issue.
SMFS list members are published in the Ellery Queen’s
Mystery Magazine: May/June 2023 issue. The issue is available at the publisher
and other vendors. The SMFS members in the issue are:
Libby Cudmore with “Wait for the Blackout.”
G.M. Malliet’s with “The Pact.”
Sandra Murphy with “What’s the Holdup?”
Twist Phelan with “Judge Not.”
Website Description:
May/June 2023
FICTION
Down the Fire Road by Doug Crandell
The Pact by G.M. Malliet
Squatter’s Rites by Hal Charles
What’s the Holdup? by Sandra Murphy
The Incurious Man by Terence Faherty
The Third Lady by Robert Edward Eckels
Friday the Thirteenth by Marilyn Todd
A Flash of Headlights by Ken Linn
A Cruise to Eternity by John Lantigua
Wait for the Blackout by Libby Cudmore
Chalk by Bill Pronzini
Something Blue by L.A. Wilson, Jr.
Judge Not by Twist Phelan
PASSPORT TO CRIME
The Wendigo’s Spell by Paul Halter
BLACK MASK
The Life and Times of Big Poppa by Michael A. Gonzales
SPECIAL FEATURE
2022 EQMM Readers Award
DEPARTMENT OF FIRST STORIES
The Body in Cell Two by Kate Hohl
Drive, Mary by Archer Sullivan
REVIEWS
Blog Bytes by Kristopher Zgorski
The Jury Box by Steve Steinbock
Stranger Than Fiction by Dean Jobb
SMFS list members are published in the Ellery
Queen’s Mystery Magazine: March/April 2023 issue. The issue is
available at the publisher,
Amazon, and other vendors. The SMFS members in the issue are:
K.L. Abrahamson with “Mushrooming with Murray.”
Terena Elizabeth Bell with "Meth. "
Mike McHone: "Carver (and) [Company].”
Josh Pachter, translation of Marjolein van der Gaag's
"Beneath the Surface."
Website Description:
March/April 2023
FICTION
Mrs. Hyde by David Dean
Drinking in the Afternoon by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Carver (and) [Company] by Mike McHone
The Sleeper of Coldwreath by Tom Mead
Mushrooming With Murray by K.L. Abrahamson
Snowbound by Brendan DuBois
Meth by Terena Elizabeth Bell
What You Know, What I Know by Michael Kardos
Shame the Devil by Joseph Goodrich
The Balance of Some Things by Sacha Bissonnette
The Secret Sister by Doug Allyn
PASSPORT TO CRIME
Beneath the Surface by Marjolein van der Gaag
BLACK MASK
Game Four by Travis Kennedy
DEPARTMENT OF FIRST STORIES
The Eye by Savio Pham
Midnight Run by L.S. Kunz
POETRY
Bad Boy by Michael Wiley
REVIEWS
The Jury Box by Steve Steinbock
Stranger Than Fiction by Dean Jobb
Blog Bytes by Kristopher Zgorski
The current EQMM podcast features two short stories by SMFS list member Twist Phelan. The stories originally appeared in the January/February 2020 and current January/February 2023 issues. Podcast #160 is available here for free.
EPISODE DESCRIPTION
This month, we feature the work of Crime Writers of
Canada Awards of Excellence and International Thriller Award winner Twist
Phelan, who is well known for her novel series: the Pinnacle Peak mysteries and
the Finn Teller spy thrillers. The author is a prolific short-story writer, and
here she reads two of her shorter-length stories: "Used to Be" and
"It's A Small World (After All)" from the pages of EQMM, in the
January/February 2020 and current January/February 2023 issues respectively.
Stay tuned, as we have several more stories coming out by Twist Phelan this
year.
SMFS list members are published in the Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine: January /February 2023 issue. The issue is available at the publisher, Amazon, and other vendors. The SMFS members in the issue are:
Jacqueline Freimor with “The Picardy Third.”
Josh Pachter translates from Dutch the
short story, A Normal Life, by Marion Pauw.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
January/February 2023
FICTION
The Murder of Sir Henry Baskerville by
Elizabeth Elwood
Dissonance by Lou Manfredo
The Picardy Third by
Jacqueline Freimor
The Killing of Henry Davenport by John
Shen Yen Nee and S.J. Rozan
Vengeance by Michael Mcguire
The Bowser Boys are Back in Town by Hal
Charles
American Lovers by E.A. Aymar
Goodbye, Ms. Damico by Bill Pronzini
There Will Be No Encore by John H. Dirckx
American Night by Zandra Renwick
The Reigate Squires by
Terence Faherty
It’s a Small World (After All) by Twist Phelan
Can The Cat Catch The Rat? by Steve
Hockensmith
BLACK MASK
The Butcherbirds of Twelfth Street by Matt
Coleman
DEPARTMENT OF FIRST STORIES
The Soiled Dove of Shallow Hollow by Sean Mccluskey
Errand for a Neighbor by Bill Bassman
PASSPORT TO CRIME
A Normal Life by Marion Pauw
NONFICTION AND REVIEWS
Blog Bytes by
Kristopher Zgorski
The Jury Box by Steve Steinbock
Stranger Than Fiction by Dean Jobb