SMFS Member Publishing News: The Referee by C.W. Blackwell

  

SMFS list member C.W. Blackwell’s short story, The Referee, is published at Shotgun Honey. You can read the tale for free here.

SMFS Members Published in Wolfsbane: Best New England Crime Stories 2023

Several SMFS list members are published in the recently released book, Wolfsbane: Best New England Crime Stories 2023. Published by Hale Street Press, the read is available in print at Amazon. The members in the book are:

 

Brenda Buchanan with "Assumptions Can Get You Killed.”

 

Bruce Robert Coffin with “One for the Road.”

 

Zakariah Johnson with "Not Too Sharp."

 

Paula Messina with "Which Way New England?"

 

Editor Susan Oleksiw with “The House on Riverbend Road."

 

Bonnar Spring with "Good Deed for the Day."

 

Editor Leslie Wheeler with “Whoop!”

 

Amazon Description:

Wolfsbane: Best New England Crime Stories 2023 once again brings together many of the best writers in the genre in our region. These 21 stories cover the full range of crime fiction, from the traditional amateur sleuth to the cop in the world of self-driving cars and AI bots running your home. The award-winning authors take us to the streets of Boston where drug dealers congregate, and yet show us the true character of some of those on the mean streets. A decent man goes undercover and learns a few lessons the hard way, and a lawyer faces his own hard reality. Every story brings new insight and fresh perspective to the world of crime, the criminals, and the victims caught among them.

Read the work of these award-winning writers: Jason Allison, Christine Bagley, Brenda Buchanan, Christine H. Chen, Bruce Robert Coffin, Michael Ditchfield, Judith Green, Connie Johnson Hambley, Sean Harding, Eleanor Ingbretson, Zakariah Johnson, Paula Messina, Susan Oleksiw, Robin Hazard Ray, Ray Salemi, Lauren Sheridan, Bonnie Spring, Gabriela Stiteler, Frances Stratford, Leslie Wheeler, Carolyn Marie Wilkins

SMFS Member Podcast News: The Perfect Patsy by Bern Sy Moss

 

SMFS list member Bern Sy Moss’ short story, The Perfect Patsy, is featured this week at Mysteryrat's Maze podcast. Produced by Kings River Life Magazine, the podcast can be heard here.

 

Website Description:

This episode features the mystery short story The Perfect Patsy written by Bern Sy Moss. It is read by local actor Jessica Williams. The Perfect Patsy was published online in 2017 by Mysterical-E.

In each episode, we share with you mystery short stories and mystery novel first chapters read by actors from the San Joaquin Valley. Our theme song was written and performed by Kevin Memley. If you enjoyed this episode please review or rate it as that helps more people be able to find us! Also, consider subscribing so you never miss an episode-both to this podcast and to our podcast newsletter.

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You can find more mystery fun on our websites Kings River Life Magazine and KRL News and Reviews.

SMFS Member Publishing News: Glass Houses by Brandon Barrows

SMFS list member Brandon Barrows short story, Glass Houses, was published yesterday at TOUGH.  You can read the story online for free here.

SMFS Member Publishing News: The Unvarnished Gary Phillips: A Mondo Pulp Collection by Gary Phillips

Today is publication day for SMFS list member Gary Phillips’ new book, The Unvarnished Gary Phillips: A Mondo Pulp Collection. Published by Three Rooms Press, the read is available in digital and print at the publisher, Amazon, and other vendors.

 

Publisher Description:

Award-winning author, screenwriter, and editor Gary Phillips gathers his most thrilling, outlandish, and madcap pulp fiction in an 17-story collection that straddles the line between bizarro, science fiction, noir, and superhero classics. Aztec vampires, astral projecting killers, oxygen stealing bombs, undercover space rangers, aliens occupying Los Angeles, right wing specters haunting the ’hood, masked vigilantes and mad scientists in their underground lairs plotting world domination populate the stories in this rip-snorting collection. In these pages grindhouse melds with blaxploitation along with strong doses of B movie hardcore drive-in fare. Phillips, editor of the Anthony Award-winning The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir, and author of One-Shot Harry, and Matthew Henson and the Ice Temple of Harlem, said this about pulp. “The most common definition of pulp is it’s fast-paced, a story containing out there characters and a wild plot. There is that. But certainly, as we’ve now arrived at the era of retro-pulp, these stories have elements of characterization…not just action but a glimpse behind the steely eyes of these doers of incredible deeds.” As an added bonus, Phillips resurrects Phantasmo, a Golden Age comics character created by Black artist-writer E.C. Stoner in an all-new outing of ethereal doings.

SMFS Members Published in Black Cat Weekly #110

SMFS list members are published in Black Cat Weekly #110. Published by Wildside Press, the issue is available here in digital format. The members and their stories are:

 

N.M. Cedeño with "A Matter of Trust."

 

Mark Thielman with "Grimalkin."

 

Website Description:

Our mystery selections kick off with “A Matter of Trust,” N.M. Cedeño’s tale of a genetic genealogy detective trying to prove an illegitimate child’s claim to a family trust. Thanks to Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken for this one. And Acquiring Editor Barb Goffman has a Halloween-appropriate tale in “Grimalkin,” by Mark Thielman, in which a cat may be more than it seems. We also have fantasist Phyllis Ann Karr’s first sale—which turns out to be a mystery!—and a novel by British master J.S. Fletcher. And, of course, no issue is complete without a solve-it-yourself puzzler from Hal Charles.

Continuing our seasonal celebration of all things Halloween, we have a pair of dark delights—tales by Adrian Cole and me. Have some ghoulish shivers on us!

For lovers of science fiction, we have a recent tale by Norman Spinrad, plus classics by Charles V. De Vet and Lester del Rey. Great stuff.

 

 Here’s the complete lineup:

Mysteries / Suspense / Adventure:

“A Matter of Trust,” by N.M. Cedeño [Michael Bracken Presents short story]

“The Case of the Munificent Musketeer,” by Hal Charles [Solve-It-Yourself Mystery]

“Grimalkin,” by Mark Thielman [Barb Goffman Presents short story]

“An Economical Means of Murder,” by Phyllis Ann Karr [short story]

The Herapath Property, by J.S. Fletcher [novel]

 

Science Fiction & Fantasy:

“In the Court of the Pumpkin King,” by Adrian Cole [short storyx, Nick Nightmare series]

“Sand,” by John Gregory Betancourt [short story, SCP series]

“Quarantine,” by Norman Spinrad [short story]

“Survival Factor,” by Charles V. De Vet [short story]

“The Band Played On,” by Lester del Rey [novelet]

SMFS Member Publishing News: The Refuge by James Patrick Focarile

SMFS list member James Patrick Focarile’s short story, The Refuge, appears in the recently released anthology, JOURN-E: The Journal of Imaginative Literature, Vol. 2, No. 2, Autumnal Equinox 2023, Whole #4. The read is available in print format at Lulu.Com.

 

Website Description:

This is the fourth issue of JOURN-E: THE JOURNAL OF IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE, Vol. 2, No. 2, Autumnal Equinox 2023, Whole #4. As with the previous issues, JOURN-E is a presentation of short fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and illustration across the various genres of the high imagination: Adventure, Detection & Mystery, Fantasy, Horror & the Supernatural, and Science Fiction.