SMFS Member Publishing News: The Courtesan's Pirate: A Venice Beauties Mystery by Nina Wachsman

SMFS list member Nina Wachsman reported that today is publication day for her book, The Courtesan's Pirate: A Venice Beauties Mystery. Published in digital format by Level Best Books - Level Historia, this is the third book in the series that began with TheGallery of Beauties: A Venice Beauties Mystery. The read is available at Amazon and other vendors.

 

Amazon Description:

1614. At long last, Belladonna has been reunited with Isaak, a pirate captain, on the island of Jamaica. Amidst the chaos of hurricanes and Spanish marauders, they are separated. When she discovers her beloved Isaak is captured and bound for execution in Spain, Belladonna goes back to Venice, planning to leverage her allies to save him, only to learn her influence has diminished. Now facing cunning adversaries and shifting alliances, she must navigate perilous intrigues in a high-stakes bid to rescue Isaak from a tragic fate. Belladonna risks everything, including her own safety, in a daring gambit to save the man she loves.

SMFS Member Publishing News: The Courtesan's Secret: A Venice Beauties Mystery by Nina Wachsman

  

Today is publication day for SMFS list member Nina Wachsman's mystery, The Courtesan's Secret: A Venice Beauties Mystery. Published in digital and print by Level Best Books, this is the second book in the series that began with The Gallery of Beauties: A Venice Beauties Mystery.

 

Amazon Description

When an envoy from the New World comes to Venice, the elite courtesan Belladonna fears the secret of her origins may be revealed. The Spanish are after him, for he carries the map to a great treasure. When the envoy disappears, his enemies shift their pursuit to Belladonna, their only key to his whereabouts.

To avoid capture by the Spanish, Belladonna must abandon her luxurious palazzo, and take refuge in the Ghetto with her friend, Diana, the rabbi’s daughter. Hiding in plain sight behind the Ghetto walls, she must find the envoy and confront her past. Faced with terrible choices and an uncertain future, Belladonna must decide whether to sacrifice all she has achieved for a love she has always desired.

SMFS Member Publishing News: Good Help is Hard to Find by Nina Wachsman

Nina Wachsman’s short story, Good Help is Hard to Find, appears in the anthology, Night Terrors Vol. 22: Short Horror Stories Anthology. Published by Scare Street, the read is now available in digital and print formats at Amazon and other vendors.

 

Synopsis:

Terror lurks just out of sight. But it won’t stay hidden for long…

A terrifying science experiment unleashes a phantasmal killer from beyond the grave. An ancient tome devours the minds of all who dare read its endless pages. And a donut shop waitress discovers a sinister secret ingredient, that keeps customers coming back for more…

Scare Street is proud to present a breathtaking new collection of diabolical tales. Every page unleashes a new terror, torn straight from the darkest shadows of the night.

You’ve seen them before, just out of the corner of your eye. Dark, slimy things, slithering through the shadows when you turn off the light.

And now you hear them, scraping on the door of your bedroom, as you pull the covers over your head.

And as their footsteps creak across the floor, you wonder…

Will this be the last sound you ever hear?

 

This volume features the following stories:

1. Soul Bottle by Jack Neel Waddell

2. Good Help is Hard to Find by Nina Wachsman

3. Snowblind by Clarence Carter

4. Jaws of Glass by Matthew R. Davis and Roger Davis

5. Aiyana’s Hearth by Craig Crawford

6. The Dashwood Donut Emporium is Now Hiring by Kat Sokol

7. Black Wolf's Sedan by P. D. Williams

8. Something in the Water by Margaret Eve

9. At the Cemetery Gates by D. C. Marcus

10. The Nobody Book by Adam Vine

11. Good Company by Madeline Jacobson

12. Haunting Memories by Justin Boote

13. Darling Daughter by Justin Moritz

14. The Doll by Ron Ripley and Kevin Saito

SMFS Member Publishing News: Off the Wall by Nina Wachsman

Nina Wachsman’s short story, Off the Wall, has been published online in State of Matter: Issue 6. You can read it for free here.

SMFS Member Award Winners at 2022 Killer Nashville

Three SMFS list members won awards at the Killer Nashville Conference last weekend. The full list of winners can be found at the website. The SMFS list members who received awards as listed below:

James L’Etoile won a Silver Falchion Award in the 2022 Killer Nashville Best Book By Attending Author  category for Black Label (Level Best Books, July 2021).

Jeffrey James Higgins won the overall 2022 Killer Nashville Claymore Award for Shaking. The unpublished manuscript also won a Killer Nashville Claymore Award For Best First Fifty Unpublished Pages in the Best Mystery category.

Nina Wachsman won a Killer Nashville Claymore Award For Best First Fifty Unpublished Pages for the manuscript, The Surrealist Circle, in the Best Historical category.

Member Publication News: Nina Wachsman

 

This is the publication day of Nina Wachsman's novel The Gallery of Beauties.

Publication News:`Justice For All

 Sisters in Crime New York/Tri-State Chapter has just released their fifth anthology, Justice For All: Murder New York Style 5.  Stories by members include:

D. M. Barr: "A Trial for the Books."

Nancy Good: "What Matters Most."

Kathleen Marple Kalb: "The Thanksgiving Ragamuffin."

Nina Mansfield: "Windy WIllows."

Mary Jo Robertiello: "Family Matters."

Cathi Stoler: "The Art of Payback."

Nina Wachsman: "Laundry After Midnight."