SMFS Member Podcast News: EPISODE 155: “Sit. Stay. Die.” by Michael Bracken and Sandra Murphy

  

The current EQMM podcast features SMFS list member Sandra Murphy who reads the short story, Sit. Stay. Die, co-written with fellow member Michael Bracken. The short story appeared in the Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine: July/August 2022 issue. The podcast is available here for free.

 

Website Description:

EQMM was brought into the world by two writers who collaborated on nearly every piece of fiction they wrote, Frederic Dannay and Manfred B. Lee. This month we feature a story by two writers who have collaborated with each other several times, most recently on a story for EQMM. Michael Bracken is the author of well over a thousand published short stories and he’s a recipient of the Edward D. Hoch Memorial Golden Derringer Award for Lifetime Achievement, among other honors. Sandra Murphy is a Derringer Award winner who has had a collection of stories published by Untreed Reads. She is the reader for this recording of “Sit. Stay. Die.” by Michael Bracken and Sandra Murphy, first published in the July/August 2022 issue of EQMM.

SMFS Member Podcast News: EPISODE 154: "The Man Who Read John Dickson Carr" by William Brittain – Read by Josh Pachter

 

The current EQMM podcast features SMFS list member Josh Pachter reading William Brittain’s short story, The Man Who Read John Dickson Carr. The podcast is available here for free.

 

EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Our fiction podcast this month is a classic by author William Brittain, who wrote for EQMM from 1964 to 1983. It’s read by EQMM author and translator Josh Pachter, who has edited three collections of William Brittain’s stories. Here is “The Man Who Read John Dickson Carr,” from the December 1965 issue of EQMM. It was the first in a series of stories, all published in EQMM, whose titles begin “The Man Who."

SMFS Member Podcast News: Josh Pachter

SMFS list member Josh Pachter  reads his short story, “The Secret Lagoon” for Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Podcast Episode #131. The story appeared in print in the September/October 2019 issue of the magazine. You can listen to the story on the website.

From the site:

Derringer Award winner Josh Pachter is a translator, editor, and short-story writer. His translations and tales appear regularly in our pages—the former in the Passport to Crime department—and his recent editorial work has been published in anthologies from Untreed Reads, Mysterious Press, and Akashic Books. Here he reads his story "The Secret Lagoon" from the September/October 2019 issue.

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.