SMFS Member Publishing News: All The Love You Can Buy For A Dollar: Crime Stories by Lamont A. Turner

SMFS list member Lamont A. Turner reported that his latest book, All The Love You Can Buy For A Dollar: Crime Stories, is now out at Amazon.

 

Amazon Description:

Private detectives, ghosts, hitmen, mad scientists, goons, simpletons, cops, and femmes fatales all come together for a literary gestalt in this new collection of crime fiction that continues the time-honored tradition established by writers such as Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Mickey Spillane, and James Ellroy, among other luminaries.

SMFS Member Publishing News: Harold Emanuel

SMFS list member Harold Emanuel’s new book is Murder in the Sunset Years: Lionel Trevor/Tech Squad Mysteries. Published last month in digital and print formats, the collection of short stories is available at Amazon.

Synopsis:

Bodies are piling up in Sun Coast Shores. It’s up to Professor Lionel Trevor and his Community College Tech Squad to solve these murders.

This book is a collection of five murder mysteries, all of which take place in and around a Florida retirement community. Each week the professor leads a workshop of students who are studying forensic technology. In conjunction with local Sheriff Tony Maggio, they must first figure out who killed an actor performing in a local community theater production. In subsequent stories they determine who murdered a man whose body was found by the lake after the community’s Fourth of July celebration, why a trophy wife was found dead in her driveway, and who had it in for a local music teacher and two elderly ladies who enjoyed knitting as their hobby.

The professor and his students dig through the evidence and, using the latest forensic technology, bring five murderers to justice.

SMFS Member Publication News: John M. Floyd

SMFS list member John M. Floyd has another book out. Published by Dogwood Press, the book is a collection of his short stories titled, The Barrens. Released today, it is available in hardback from Amazon and other vendors.

Amazon Synopsis:

For the past twenty years Mississippi author John M. Floyd has been one of the most widely-published short story writers in America. His work has been nominated for the Edgar Award, has won the Derringer Award three times, and has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize. In addition, his stories have been listed among the top fifty mysteries of the year seven times by Best American Mystery Stories editor Otto Penzler, and twice among the top twenty. He was even recently awarded the Edward D. Hoch Memorial Golden Derringer Award for lifetime achievement in short mystery fiction. The work of John M. Floyd has been praised by James Patterson, Nevada Barr, Jan Burke, Carolyn Haines, Steve Hamilton, Marcus Sakey, Tom Franklin, and many others. Douglas Preston has called him a master of the art of the short story. Never has that talent been more evident than in this seventh collection of Floyd short fiction. All thirty stories contained in The Barrens are mystery/suspense, most are set in the steamy South, and six of them are installments in his popular Law and Daughter series, featuring Sheriff Lucy Valentine and her crimesolving mother Fran. Like his previous books (Rainbows End, Midnight, Clockwork, Deception, Fifty Mysteries, and Dreamland), the adventures here are full of quirky characters, Hitchcockian tension, and (maybe most important of all) plenty of plot twists and surprises. Welcome to The Barrens. Proceed with caution . . .

SleuthSayers: Living the Dream: Self-Publishing II by SMFS Member Steve Liskow

SleuthSayers: Living the Dream: Self-Publishing II: by Steve Liskow Last time, I discussed the potential slings and arrows of publishing yourself. If you're not used to the publishing ju...