SMFS Members Published in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine: September/October 2023

 

Several SMFS list members are published in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine: September/October 2023 issue. The issue is available at the publisher and other vendors. Those members are:

 

Michael Bracken with “Smitty’s Roadside Diner.” Cowritten with fellow member Sandra Murphy.

 

John M. Floyd with “The Pod Squad.”

 

O’Neil De Noux with “The Little Irène Escapade.”

 

Sandra Murphy with “Smitty’s Roadside Diner.” Cowritten with fellow member Michael Bracken.

 

Albert Tucher with “The English Major.”

 

Elizabeth Zelvin with “Death Will Stream Your Game.”

SMFS Members Published in Shotgun Honey Presents: Thicker Than Water

 

Today is publication day for Shotgun Honey Presents: Thicker Than Water.  This new anthology includes short stories by a number of our members. Published by Shotgun Honey Books, the read is currently available in print at the publisher and in digital format at Amazon. The SMFS list members that reported that they are in the read are:

 

Francelia Belton with “On the Fifth Day."

 

Jay Butkowski with “The Knight’s Tale.”

 

James D. Hannah with "Ashes in Your Mouth."

 

Karen Harrington with "Whatever Happened to Jill Dawn Meade?"

 

Curtis Ippolito with "Shifting the Blame."

 

Meagan Lucas with “We Have a Wolf.”

 

Cate Moyle with ”SheilaOSomething9.”

 

Lori Robbins with "Mirror Image."

 

Jessica Slee with “Woodpeckers.”

 

Rob D. Smith with "There Are Many Wolves."

 

Julie Tollefson with "Some Things Never Change."

 

Publisher Description:

The fifth installment of the Shotgun Honey Presents anthology series. In this special edition, 20 authors present tales featuring female protagonist who navigate the precarious boundaries of the darker spaces of humanity.

With stories from Francelia Belton, Jason Butkowski, James D.F. Hannah, Karen Harrington, Curtis Ippolito, Meagan Lucas, Bobby Mathews, Cate Moyle, Jonathan Newman, Lori Robbins, J. Rohr, Jessica Slee, Rob D. Smith, Mary Thorson, Julie Tollefson, Ilyn Welch, Holly West, Michael Wiley, Maura Yzmore, and editor Ron Earl Phillips.

All proceeds of this anthology will donated to benefit breast cancer research.

This collection is dedicated to Carolyn Jean Phillips, and to those who fought.

SMFS Member Publishing News: Apple, Table, Penny, … Murder by Carol Wright

SMFS list member Carol Wright’s novelette, Apple, Table, Penny, … Murder, was published last month by Cozy Den Press. The read is available in paperback at Amazon and other vendors.

 

Amazon Description:

How can you explain a disappearance when everyone denies it happened?

Recently widowed Suzy Kemp decides to downsize to an independent-living apartment in a retirement community. But when she goes in for her final health screening, she becomes confused and is abruptly confined to a memory care unit . . . with no way out. What's worse, she suspects the late-night departure of another resident has a sinister cause. No one takes her suspicions seriously, so she's determined to investigate on her own, to uncover what happened to her neighbor and to prove she hasn't lost her mind.

SMFS Member Publishing News: Town Ain't What It Used to Be by Jay Butkowski

 

SMFS list member Jay Butkowski’s short story, Town Ain't What It Used to Be, was recently published at Punk Noir Magazine. You can read the piece for free online here.

SMFS Member Publishing News: Family and Other Ailments: Crime Stories Close to Home by M. E. Proctor

SMFS list member M. E. Proctor’s short story collection, Family and Other Ailments: Crime Stories Close to Home was recently released by Wordwooze Publishing. Published in digital and print formats, the read is available at Amazon and other vendors.

 

Amazon Description:

Blood ties. The family we’ve been given, the friends we make, the loves we keep, and those we lost. The twenty-six stories in Family and Other Ailments teeter on the brink, hover at the periphery or even the possibility of crime. Under a soft light and at an angle, they're all love stories.

The collection opens with “Spy Head,” a tale of friendship after a crushing trauma. In “Texas Two-Step,” brotherhood leads to a wicked double-cross. “Razorbills” shows a young woman seeking freedom from the prison-like caring of her sibling. “Black and Tan” slips into domestic horror, as does “Mutti,” with a hint of the fantastic. “Hour of the Bat” and “Bag Limit” are deep woods Texas noir, while “A Head for Numbers” and “No Recoil” go west, to the stark unforgiving beauty of the desert.

M.E. Proctor draws characters with a tender touch. She catches them at an inflexion point in their lives, a moment of choice. We feel what they feel, see what they see, and their voices linger for a long time in our memory.

SMFS Member Publishing News: Sins of the Father by James Patrick Focarile

SMFS list member James Patrick Focarile’s short story, Sins of the Father, is published at Close to the Bone Publishing. The story is free to read online here.

SMFS Member Publishing News: River Secret by Anne Swardson

SMFS list member Anne Swardson’s short story, River Secret, is now published in Black Cat Weekly #101. Published by Wildside Press, the issue is available here in digital format.

 

Publisher Description:

Black Cat Weekly #101 presents 10 great tales of mystery. fantasy, and science fiction -- a pair of novels, a novella, and 7 short stories. Hours of great reading await!

 

Mysteries / Suspense / Adventure:

“Lost Boy” by Neil S. Plakcy [Michael Bracken Presents short story]

“The Case of the Disappearing Document” by Hal Charles [Solve-It-Yourself Mystery]

“River Secret” by Anne Swardson [Barb Goffman Presents short story]

“A Network of Crime,” by Nicholas Carter [novella]

Anybody’s Pearls, by Hulbert Footner [short story collection]

 

Science Fiction & Fantasy:

“Knocker Baby,” by Phyllis Ann Karr [short story, Bart Maverel series]

“Gentlemen: Please Note,” by Randall Garrett [short story]

“Killer Cat,” by Joseph Payne Brennan [short story]

“Pen Pal,” by Stephen Marlowe [short story]

The Hidden Kingdom, by Francis Beeding