SMFS Members Published in Private Dicks and Disco Balls: Private Eyes in the Dyn-O-Mite Seventies

Today is publication day for the anthology, Private Dicks and Disco Balls: Private Eyes in the Dyn-O-Mite Seventies. Published by Down & Out Books, the anthology was edited by SMFS list member Michael Bracken. The read is available from the publisher, Amazon, and other vendors. The SMFS list members that reported their stories in the book are:

 

N.M. Cedeño with "A Woman's Place."

 

Alan Orloff with "Stayin' Alive."

 

Gary Phillips with "The Darklight Gizmo Matter."

 

Stephen D. Rogers with "An Eye for an Eye."

 

Bev Vincent with "Houston, We Have a Problem."

 

Andrew Welsh-Huggins with "Cold Comfort."

 

Amazon Description:

The Sixties were a time of great cultural upheaval, and that upheaval continued into the 1970s. In the midst of all this, private eyes worked with clients across the generations, from those still clinging to the social mores of Nixon's "silent majority" to those who embraced the rapid societal changes that began in the 1960s.

From old-school private eyes to the Baby Boomers coming of age and entering the trade, these private eyes will take readers on a funky frolic through the Dyn-O-Mite Seventies.

Contributors include Ann Aptaker, N.M. Cedeño, Bill Fitzhugh, James A. Hearn, Laura Oles, Alan Orloff, Gary Phillips, Neil S. Plakcy, William Dylan Powell, Stephen D. Rogers, Mark Thielman, Bev Vincent, and Andrew Welsh-Huggins.

SMFS Members Published in The Killing Rain: Left Coast Crime 2024 Anthology

Today is publication day for The Killing Rain: Left Coast Crime 2024 Anthology. Published by Down & Out Books, the anthology was edited by SMFS list member Jim Thomsen. The read is available from the publisher, Amazon, and other vendors. The SMFS list members that reported their stories in the book are:

 

John Bosworth with "A Bad Place to Die."

 

Smita Harish Jain with "Oil and Water."

 

Bonnar Spring with "Go With the Flow."

 

Bev Vincent with "Payback."

 

Publisher Description:

The Puget Sound region is beautiful, lush with green trees, sun-sparkled waters, wide-open spaces and white-capped mountains. It’s also rich with darkness, gunmetal gray skies, rain-slicked streets, and deep shadows that give cover to its darkest secrets. Small wonder that this corner of America is a high-demand lifestyle destination — and, not so long ago, the serial killer and Sasquatch-conspiracy capital of the country.

The Killing Rain captures that delicious dichotomy in all its deliciously dark glory, through short stories ranging from the cozy to the hardboiled, all charged with depicting Seattle as a real or imagined place. These crime tales have been collected in conjunction with “Seattle Shakedown” — the name we’ve given to the return of Left Coast Crime to the Pacific Northwest. It takes place from April 10-14 in Bellevue, Washington, just a hop and skip from Seattle across Lake Washington.

And, with an enticing foreword from LCC Guest of Honor Megan Abbott, The Killing Rain will be the perfect shivery companion for what’s (almost) sure to be the Seattle area’s shivery early-spring weather. Edited by Jim Thomsen, who grew up on an island near Seattle and went to boarding school in the shadows of the nearby Green River, at a time America’s most prolific serial killer was just getting started. Coincidence? Good crime fiction doesn’t allow for it!

SMFS Members Published in Trouble in Tucson: A Left Coast Crime Anthology

 

SMFS list members are published in the Trouble in Tucson: A Left Coast Crime Anthology. The read is available in print from Amazon. The members in the book are:

 

Cynthia Sabelhaus with “High Times in Javelina Junction.”

 

Elena E. Smith with “One Night at Fred’s.”

 

Amazon Description:

Have a little murder with a side of castor beans. Perhaps some ghostly mischief is more to your liking. Trouble in Tucson is a collection of stories to make you smile or ponder the more serious side of life.

Authors / Contributors: 

EVA ELDRIDGE 

SUSAN CUMMINS MILLER 

KRIS NERI 

MINERVA RAZ 

MARY BALL 

CYNTHIA SABELHAUS 

ELAINE A. POWERS 

CONDA DOUGLAS 

LYNN NICHOLAS 

JEFFREY J. MARIOTTE 

JANET ALCORN 

PATRICK WHITEHURST 

ELENA SMITH 

EMMA PEREZ 

KATHY McINTOSH 

AMBRE LEFFLER

SMFS Members Published in Down & Out: The Magazine, Volume 2, Issue 1

SMFS list members are published in Down & Out: The Magazine, Volume 2, Issue 1, published earlier this month by Down & Out Books. The read is available in digital and print formats at Amazon. The SMFS list members with short stories in this issue are:

Richard Prosch  with “Capitol Offense.”

Sylvia Maultash Warsh with “The Veiled Heart.”

Synopsis:

In this issue, pioneering TV writer and producer April Kelly opens with a wicked story that may remind you to pay attention to what you eat.

Brendan DuBois appears with the story of an assassination and its aftermath—from the killer’s point of view.

Ray Daniel & Kellye Garrett team up with a story that brings together characters from their own series.

Our feature is by Walter Satterthwait, who comes at us with his first new story in a while. The lead character, Fallon, helps—in his own way—solve a murder at a monastery.

Edgar Award-winning author Sylvia Maultash Warsh brings us a piece about deception in the world of art, and we welcome Benjamin Boulden back with his second story for us.

Robb T. White returns following his Best Mystery Stories of 2019 entry in our pages, and Dane F. Baylis, Richard Prosch and Richard Risemberg debut in our magazine with some of the most entertaining crime fiction you’ll find.