SMFS Member Publishing News: In The End by Jacqueline Freimor

SMFS list member Jacqueline Freimor reported that her short story, In the End, was published in Rock and a Hard Place: Issue 11, Summer 2024. Published by Rock and a Hard Place Press, the read is available at Amazon.

 

Amazon Description:

You realize you've kidnapped a baby . . . And you're the good guy

You thought you knew the story of Ken McElroy and Skidmore, MO

The world or your family. Choose

You've spent your life not getting involved, but now you're faking it for your life and hers

Rock and a Hard Place Magazine returns with issue 11, featuring more of the most breathtaking, sweltering, realest fiction around, featuring some of the world’s finest writers at their grimiest and most unforgiving, including:

Joshua Murray, Colin Brightwell, Stefen Styrsky, Mary Thorson, Jay Bechtol, Jacqueline Freimor, Jason Allison, Christine Blackwicks, Jane Hertenstein, Anthony Neil Smith, John Weagly, and Casey Woolfolk

Rock and a Hard Place is the literary magazine that knows that when you go 11 out of 10, you’re bound to get 86’d.

2022 Black Orchid Novella Award Winner: Jacqueline Freimor

 

SMFS congratulates SMFS list member Jacqueline Freimor for her Black Orchid Novella Award win for “The Case of the Bogus Cinderellas."  Presented by The Wolfe Pack and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, the winning novella is scheduled to appear in the July/August 2023 issue of the magazine. More about The Wolfe Pack: The Official Nero Wolfe Literary Society can be found at their website. More about the award can also be found at the AHMM website. 

Publication News: Best Mystery Stories of the Year

 

The first volume in Otto Penzler's new series The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year has been released.  Seven of the twenty stories are by members of the Society:

Michael Bracken. "Blest be the Ties That Bind." Black Cat Mystery Magazine.

Martin Edwards. "The Locked Cabin." The Book of Extraordinary Impossible Crimes and Puzzling Deaths.

John Floyd. "Biloxi Bound." The Strand Magazine.

Jacqueline Freimor.  "That Which is True." Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine.

Tom Mead. "Heatwave."   Detective Thrillers Short Stories.

Joseph Walker. "Etta at the End of the World." Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine.

Andrew Welsh-Huggins. "The Path I Took."  Mystery Tribune.