SMFS Member Publishing News: Behind the Deli by Leslie Elman

SMFS list member Leslie Elman reports that her short story, Behind the Deli, is the selection this month at Stone’s Throw: A Rock And A Hard Place Publication. You can read the short story here.

Publication News: Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

 

The May/June issue of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine has arrived and it features:

James R. Benn. "The Refusal Camp." 

Susan Breen. "Detective Anne Boleyn."

Leslie Elman. "Renee Takes Things."

John M. Floyd. "The Dollhouse."

Joseph Goodrich. "Death in Paris."

Publication News: Vautrin

The new issue of Vautrin is out and contains several stories by members of the Society.

Michael Bracken. "Crush." 

Leslie Elman. "The Troll Was An Old Man."

Paul J. Garth. "Aperture."

Brian Silverman. "Where the Happy People Go."

Something Is Going To Happen: “Not From Around Here” by Leslie Elman

 Something Is Going To Happen: “Not From Around Here” by Leslie Elman

The First Two Pages: “The Summer Uncle Cat Came To Stay” by Leslie Elman

 The First Two Pages: “The Summer Uncle Cat Came To Stay” by Leslie Elman

SMFS Members Nominated for the 2021 Edgar Awards

The nominees for 2021 Edgar Awards, so named to honor Edgar Allen Poe, have been announced by the Mystery Writers Of America. Winners will be announced on April 29, 2021. There are twelve categories in fiction and nonfiction and SMFS list members have been nominated this year in two categories.

 

The nominated members and their categories are:

 

Best Short Story 

Leslie Elman for “The Summer Uncle Cat Came to Stay," published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine: January/February 2020 issue. 

Joseph S. Walker for "Etta at the End of the World," published in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine: May/June 2020 issue. 

James W. Ziskin for “The Twenty-Five-Year Engagement,” in the anthology, In League with Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Sherlock Holmes Canon.

 

 

The G. P. Putnam’s Son Sue Grafton Memorial Award

James W. Ziskin with Turn To Stone: An Ellie Stone Novel published by Seventh Street Books. The book is also under consideration for a Lefty for Best Historical Mystery Novel.

 

 

SMFS salutes our list members in this accomplishment and wish them all the best as they represent the SMFS. The full list of all the nominees can be found on the MWA website.