Member and 2015 Best Short Story Derringer winner Cathi Stoler recently appeared on the Long Island cable TV show The Writer's Dream, hosted by Linda Maria Frank. Also available on YouTube, Cathi's episode is embedded below:
Monday, February 15, 2016
Society Members' News
- Erik Arneson, "Heritage", Shotgun Honey (February 12, 2016)
- Peter DiChellis, "Jailhouse Jive", Pure Slush Vol. 10 (February 2016)
- "The Interrogation", Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (March 2016)
- Gail Farrelly, "Valentine's Day Spirit", Yonkers Tribune (February 13, 2016)
- John M. Floyd, "A Gamble with Death", Woman's World (February 1, 2016)
- “Snow Way Out”, Woman's World (February 15, 2016)
- Susan Furlong writing as Lucy Arlington, Off the Books, Berkley Prime Crime (February 2016)
- Robert Lopresti, "Street of the Dead House" will be reprinted in Year's Best Dark Fantasy and Horror ed. Paula Guran, Prime Books (June 2016)
- William Burton McCormick, "The Interpreter", Over My Dead Body! (February 2016)
- Steve Pease writing as Michael Chandos, "Bus Stop", Shotgun Honey (February 15, 2016)
- "Hotel Hate" accepted to Darkhouse Books' Black Coffee anthology
- Julie Tollefson, "An Abundance of Patience", Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (March 2016)
Email news for next month's post to G_SO at YAHOO dot COM.
Monday, February 1, 2016
2016 Derringer Submissions Update
From 2016 Derringer Awards Coordinator Tony Rudzki, this is the final tally of submissions received for consideration. Judging takes place February 1–29. Finalists will be announced March 1.
Flash Story (Up to 1,000 Words)
A High Ridge Homecoming
A Park in California
A Spontaneous Decision
A Woman's Touch
Airplane Mode
And in the End
Bacon Bits
Baker Street, Boston
Beautiful Killer
Breakfast
Breaking Point
Brianna's Way
Clutching at Paws
Flexing Her Bitch Muscle
Flip-Flop
Heavy Debt
Here's To Bad Decisions: Red's Longneck Hooch
Hero
How I Got Into The Navy
Lucky
Molly Nights
Monarchs
No More
Noche de Milagros
Party Princess
Payment to the Universe
Perfect Timing
Revenge of the Cellphone
Rock Off
Seven Odd Bullets
The Day After Memorial Day
The Family Business
The Hard Screw
The Interview
The Plan
The Wheelman
The Wrong Girl
This Was Now
Trash Pick-Up
Turn That Frown Upside Down
Violet Eyes
Ways to Make Money In Prison
Wicked Wanda
Wood Man
Top
Short Story (1,001–4,000 Words)
A Day Like No Other
A Good Beginning
A Shifting Plan
Acceptance Speech
Bargaining Chip
Blood Diamonds
Boston Banshee
Brotherhood
Caveat Emptor
Coffee Date
Dead Man on a School Bus
Deadly Signals
Death in the Library
Devil's Due
Don't Let the Cop into the House
Down Home
Down the Rickety Stairs
Driftwood
Fireworks (From Judge Lu's Ming Dynasty Case Files)
First Rodeo
Fix Me
Foolproof
Fork
Fractured Memories
Gracie's Bucket List
Hell Hath No Fury
Here's What Happened
It Bothers Me
Joe Park's Little Girl
Kill Switch
Last Mango in Paradise
Lawyers, Drugs and Money
Life Lesson
Lucky Man
Maybelle’s Last Stand
Murder for The B Team
Murder on Elm Street
Nakhshon
Nick of Time
On Record
Pearls of Wisdom
Plastic Paddies
Police Navidad
Pompo's Disguise
Rattled
Sewing on Sunday
Silent Measures
Sleeping In
Soliciting Misery
Stranger at the Door
String Theory
Tell Me Where He Lies
Tempest in a Teapot
Ten Things I Hate About My Wife
The Bag Lady
The Bucket List
The Case of the Dead Lady Blues
The Conflagration at the Nameless Cotton Gin
The Cunning Woman
The Demise of My Wives
The Discovery
The Donut Dealer
The Eyes Have It
The First Wife
The Headless Horseman
The Heir Hunt
The Hunt
The Interview
The Mountain Top
The Muse
The Nearly Ruined Thanksgiving
The Truth of What You've Become
The Wheels on the Bus
The Wrinkle Curse
Thor's Breath
Twilight Ladies
Vehicular Homicide
Wait, What?
We on the Train!
What If?
Words Can Kill
Top
Long Story (4,001–8,000 Words)
#grenadegranny
A Game of Love
A Killing at the Beausoleil
A Pocketful Of Sand
A Questionable Death
A Year Without Santa Claus?
A Harrowing Death
Beneath Still Waters
Big and Shady
Broad Daylight
Bump in the Night
Childhood's Hour
Crack-Up at Waycross
Dark Chamber
Death of the Turban
Dentonville
Devious Doings in Dallas
Elder Brother
Eleanor
Entwined
Goodnight Irene
Grasshoppers
Ground Hog Day
Hagiophobia
Heartfelt
Just a Old Lady
Kill Me Again Slowly
Lake People
Last Rights
Life is a Big Headache
Lupe's Lemon Elixir
Marry in May and Rue the Day
Mr. Kill-Me
My Enemies Have Sweet Voices
Old Doc Sloan
Old Friends
Om
On Target
On The Ramblas
One of Them
Our Man Julian
Out of Balance
Pill Bug
Play the Man
Puppy Love and Zombies
Shooting at Firemen
Sparrow's Flight
Stand-In
Street of the Dead House
Sudden Death
Tell the Others
The Color of Guilt
The Decoy
The Fibonacci Sequence
The Immortality Mushroom, From Judge Lu's Ming Dynasty Case Files
The Jackpot
The Letter B
The Man in the Dick Tracy Hat
The Man Who Loved Pie
The Monkey's Ghost
The Orchid Grower
The Seagull and the Skull
The Sutton Project
The Trouble with Virgins
The War of the Janitors
The White Game
Thrice the Brinded Cat
Walking the Dog
Where the Buffalo Roam
Top
Novelette (8,001–20,000 words)
Commission
Crazy Cat Ladies
Driver
Glow Grass
Industrial Gray
La Rouge Jolie
Little Miss Somebody
Living Underwater
Quack and Dwight
Quarryville, Texas
Shooting Stars
The Comeback
The Curse of Cloud Castle
The Whiplash Brokers
Top
If you submitted a story before January 31, 11:59 P.M. Eastern deadline and it is not listed, email TONY dot RUDZKI at GMAIL dot COM.
- Flash Story (Up to 1,000 Words)
- Short Story (1,001–4,000 Words)
- Long Story (4,001–8,000 Words)
- Novelette (8,001–20,000 Words)
Flash Story (Up to 1,000 Words)
A High Ridge Homecoming
A Park in California
A Spontaneous Decision
A Woman's Touch
Airplane Mode
And in the End
Bacon Bits
Baker Street, Boston
Beautiful Killer
Breakfast
Breaking Point
Brianna's Way
Clutching at Paws
Flexing Her Bitch Muscle
Flip-Flop
Heavy Debt
Here's To Bad Decisions: Red's Longneck Hooch
Hero
How I Got Into The Navy
Lucky
Molly Nights
Monarchs
No More
Noche de Milagros
Party Princess
Payment to the Universe
Perfect Timing
Revenge of the Cellphone
Rock Off
Seven Odd Bullets
The Day After Memorial Day
The Family Business
The Hard Screw
The Interview
The Plan
The Wheelman
The Wrong Girl
This Was Now
Trash Pick-Up
Turn That Frown Upside Down
Violet Eyes
Ways to Make Money In Prison
Wicked Wanda
Wood Man
Top
Short Story (1,001–4,000 Words)
A Day Like No Other
A Good Beginning
A Shifting Plan
Acceptance Speech
Bargaining Chip
Blood Diamonds
Boston Banshee
Brotherhood
Caveat Emptor
Coffee Date
Dead Man on a School Bus
Deadly Signals
Death in the Library
Devil's Due
Don't Let the Cop into the House
Down Home
Down the Rickety Stairs
Driftwood
Fireworks (From Judge Lu's Ming Dynasty Case Files)
First Rodeo
Fix Me
Foolproof
Fork
Fractured Memories
Gracie's Bucket List
Hell Hath No Fury
Here's What Happened
It Bothers Me
Joe Park's Little Girl
Kill Switch
Last Mango in Paradise
Lawyers, Drugs and Money
Life Lesson
Lucky Man
Maybelle’s Last Stand
Murder for The B Team
Murder on Elm Street
Nakhshon
Nick of Time
On Record
Pearls of Wisdom
Plastic Paddies
Police Navidad
Pompo's Disguise
Rattled
Sewing on Sunday
Silent Measures
Sleeping In
Soliciting Misery
Stranger at the Door
String Theory
Tell Me Where He Lies
Tempest in a Teapot
Ten Things I Hate About My Wife
The Bag Lady
The Bucket List
The Case of the Dead Lady Blues
The Conflagration at the Nameless Cotton Gin
The Cunning Woman
The Demise of My Wives
The Discovery
The Donut Dealer
The Eyes Have It
The First Wife
The Headless Horseman
The Heir Hunt
The Hunt
The Interview
The Mountain Top
The Muse
The Nearly Ruined Thanksgiving
The Truth of What You've Become
The Wheels on the Bus
The Wrinkle Curse
Thor's Breath
Twilight Ladies
Vehicular Homicide
Wait, What?
We on the Train!
What If?
Words Can Kill
Top
Long Story (4,001–8,000 Words)
#grenadegranny
A Game of Love
A Killing at the Beausoleil
A Pocketful Of Sand
A Questionable Death
A Year Without Santa Claus?
A Harrowing Death
Beneath Still Waters
Big and Shady
Broad Daylight
Bump in the Night
Childhood's Hour
Crack-Up at Waycross
Dark Chamber
Death of the Turban
Dentonville
Devious Doings in Dallas
Elder Brother
Eleanor
Entwined
Goodnight Irene
Grasshoppers
Ground Hog Day
Hagiophobia
Heartfelt
Just a Old Lady
Kill Me Again Slowly
Lake People
Last Rights
Life is a Big Headache
Lupe's Lemon Elixir
Marry in May and Rue the Day
Mr. Kill-Me
My Enemies Have Sweet Voices
Old Doc Sloan
Old Friends
Om
On Target
On The Ramblas
One of Them
Our Man Julian
Out of Balance
Pill Bug
Play the Man
Puppy Love and Zombies
Shooting at Firemen
Sparrow's Flight
Stand-In
Street of the Dead House
Sudden Death
Tell the Others
The Color of Guilt
The Decoy
The Fibonacci Sequence
The Immortality Mushroom, From Judge Lu's Ming Dynasty Case Files
The Jackpot
The Letter B
The Man in the Dick Tracy Hat
The Man Who Loved Pie
The Monkey's Ghost
The Orchid Grower
The Seagull and the Skull
The Sutton Project
The Trouble with Virgins
The War of the Janitors
The White Game
Thrice the Brinded Cat
Walking the Dog
Where the Buffalo Roam
Top
Novelette (8,001–20,000 words)
Commission
Crazy Cat Ladies
Driver
Glow Grass
Industrial Gray
La Rouge Jolie
Little Miss Somebody
Living Underwater
Quack and Dwight
Quarryville, Texas
Shooting Stars
The Comeback
The Curse of Cloud Castle
The Whiplash Brokers
Top
If you submitted a story before January 31, 11:59 P.M. Eastern deadline and it is not listed, email TONY dot RUDZKI at GMAIL dot COM.
Friday, January 15, 2016
Society Members' News
- Gail Farrelly, "What are You Doing New Year's Eve?", Kings River Life (December 30, 2015)
- John M. Floyd, "Up Perscope", Flash Bang Mysteries #2 (Winter-January 2016)
- "Night Moves", Woman's World (January 25, 2015)
- Kaye George, "This Isn't the Way" Flash Bang Mysteries #2 (Winter-January 2016)
- Paul Lees-Haley, "The Therapist", Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (January-February 2016)
- Robert Lopresti's Greenfellas was picked as one of Kings River Life's Best Books of 2015
- Patricia L. Morin, Deadly Illusions, ten-story collection (December 2015)
- Mary Reed and Eric Mayer writing as Eric Reed, The Guardian Stones (Poisoned Pen Press, January 2016)
- Jacqueline Seewald, The Killing Land, a romantic Western thriller (Five Star/Cengage, January 20, 2016)
- B.K. Stevens, "Still Life in South Dakota", Mystery Weekly Magazine (January 2016)
- "A Sporting Chance", Kings River Life (January 2, 2016)
- Elizabeth Zelvin, Breaches & Betrayals: Collected Stories (January 2016)
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Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Society Members' News
- Gail Farrelly, "The Ghost Who Came to Dinner", Kings River Life (November 23, 2015)
- "Tattletales", Yonkers Tribune (November 23, 2015)
- Terrie Farley Moran, "Inquiry and Assistance", Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine (January-February 2016)
- Robert Petyo, "The Principal's Kids", Mystery Weekly Magazine (December 2015)
- Richard Posner writing as Miles Archer, Never Kill a Cat and Other Stories (Untreed Reads, November 17, 2015)
- Kathleen A. Ryan, "A Spontaneous Decision", Crooked Holster: Ritual ed. Jo Young and Sandra Kohls (December 13, 2015)
- John Weagly, "Knife Fight on Christmas Avenue", Shotgun Honey (December 21, 2015)
- "The Woman Who Waltzed with Ulysses S. Grant", Spelk (December 23, 2015)
- "Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Goose", a play at Raven Theatre, 6157 N. Clark, Chicago, IL (December 9, 2015 thru January 3, 2016)
- "Raccoon Pants", part of THE FIVE MINUTE MILE: THEATRE ON THE RUN, Cone Man Running Productions at Queensbury Theatre, 12777 Queensbury Lane, Houston, TX (December 9 thru December 19, 2015)
- "A Pigman Walks Among Us", part of POP UP THEATER 2015: FREAK SHOW, Panglossian Productions at the Williamsburg Library, 515 Scotland Street, Williamsburg, VA (December 11, 2015)
- "Syphilis Steve and the Christmas Miracle" and "Azzmetta Abbington's Mistletoe Meatballs" are both part of A VERY SPECIAL THEATREGASM CHRISTMAS SPECIAL Theatre ‘d Art at Cottonwood Center for the Arts, 427 E. Colorado Avenue, Colorado Springs, CO (December 11 thru December 13, 2015)
- "Azzmetta Abbington's Mistletoe Meatballs", part of HOBO ROBO 8: HOBOS WITH THEIR EYES ALL A-GLOW, Hobo Junction Productions at Stage 773, 1225 W. Belmont Chicago, IL (December 14 thru December 16, 2015)
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Saturday, November 28, 2015
Flash and Bang: A Short Mystery Fiction Society Anthology
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| Cover ©2015 Untreed Reads Publishing Cover design by Ginny Glass |
Member and Untreed Reads editor-in-chief Jay Hartman called for unpublished mystery, suspense, or thriller stories containing either a "flash" or a "bang".
Limiting submissions to one flash (300–1,000 words) and one short (1,500–3,000 words) per member, Jay received more than 300.
His selection of 19 stories ranges from historical to contemporary, cozy to hardboiled, amateur and animal sleuth to police and private detective:
- "The Conflagration at the Nameless Cotton Gin" by Bobbi A. Chukran
- "The Perfect Crime" by Herschel Cozine
- "Don't Let the Cop into the House" by O'Neil De Noux
- "Fireworks" by P.A. De Voe
- "Rosie's Choice" by John M. Floyd
- "The Wrong Girl" by Barb Goffman
- "Murder on Elm Street" by Su Kopil
- "Silent Measures" by B.V. Lawson
- "Don't Be Cruel" by JoAnne Lucas
- "A Simple Job" by Andrew MacRae
- "Arthur" by Sandra Murphy
- "Thor's Breath" by Suzanne Berube Rorhus
- "Beautiful Killer" by Judy Penz Sheluk
- "A Day Like No Other" by Walter A.P. Soethoudt (translated by Willem Verhulst)
- "The Raymond Chandler Con" by Earl Staggs
- "The Bag Lady" by Laurie Stevens
- "Fractured Memories" by Julie Tollefson
- "The Fruit of Thy Loins" by Albert Tucher
- "Sierra Noir" by Tim Wohlforth
Individuals: If you purchase the paperback ($16.00) and ebook ($4.99) at the same time from the Untreed Reads Store, the ebook cost will be subtracted from your total.
Retailers and Libraries: All Untreed Reads print editions are available to be ordered through Ingram or printed through Espresso Book Machine. Ebook editions may be purchased at 200+ retailers and library distributors. If you are unable to obtain an ebook edition through your preferred retailer, please contact Jay Hartman (JHARTMAN at UNTREEDREADS dot COM).
To order directly from Untreed Reads:
- By purchase order: Complete the Winter 2015 catalog order form (Pages 49–51) and email to Jay Hartman or fax to (866) 946-5364. You will receive a complete quote before order is finalized.
- By credit card or PayPal: Email JHARTMAN at UNTREEDREADS dot COM or phone (510) 861-0663.
Reviewers: Email Jay Hartman for ebook review copies.
- Kevin R. Tipple's review on Kevin's Corner (September 28, 2015)
- Astilbe's review on Long and Short Reviews (December 11, 2015)
- Bill Crider's review on Mystery Scene Magazine's blog (as appeared in print issue No. 143, Winter 2016)
If you decide to review or carry copies of Flash and Bang at your bookstore or library, feel free to comment below. We're glad to steer readers your way.
Independent bookstores carrying copies:
- IndieBound
- The Mysterious Bookshop, 58 Warren St., New York, NY 10007
Also available through these resellers:
Library vendors:
- Baker and Taylor Blio
- Baker and Taylor 360
- Freading
- Hoopla
Subscription services:
- Oyster
- Scribd
- Storytel
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Thursday, November 19, 2015
Society Members' News
- Peter DiChellis, "Soliciting Misery", Over My Dead Body! (October 2015)
- John M. Floyd, "Business Class", Saturday Evening Post (November-December 2015 print edition)
- "Three Strangers, Woman's World (November 26, 2015)
- Kaye George, "Heartbreak at Graceland", Memphis Noir (Akashic Books, November 2015)
- William Burton McCormick, "Deadly Signals", The Saturday Evening Post (October 30, 2015)
- A.J. Pompano, "The Bucket List", Best New England Crime Stories 2016: Red Dawn (November 2015)
- Jacqueline Seewald, Stacy's Song reprinted in ebook form (Clean Reads Press, November 2015)
- "Death Hereafter", Mystery Weekly Magazine (November 2015)
- "The Heir Hunt", Over My Dead Body! (October 2015)
- C.A. Verstraete, "The Nearly Ruined Thanksgiving", Mystery Weekly Magazine (November 26, 2015)
- "Puppy Love and Zombies", Young Adventurers: Heroes, Explorers, and Swashbucklers ed. Austin S. Camacho, Intrigue Press (December 1, 2015)
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