Some reading opportunities of interest
this week….
Fellow SMFS list member Mike McHone
announced last week that his short story, The Suicide Disease, was published
online at Cold Caller. Mr. McHone stated that this is his 50th story
published. Read the tale for free here.
Fellow SMFS list
member Abe Margel announced that his short story, Redside Ride, was
published online at Academy of the Heart
and Mind. The story is free to read here.
Mr. Margel is also in the new issue of the online
publication, Yellow Mama #116. Along with Abe Margel (Exit Through the
Back Door) are SMFS list members Elizabeth Dearborn (Who Knew?), Joan Leotta (My Child's New Friends: Poem), J. R. Lindermuth (The Choice), Joan
Leotta (My Child's New Friends: Poem”), and Ed Teja (Clever is for Horses), among
other works. As always, you can read the issue for free at the website.
Also now out is the latest issue of Black Cat
Weekly. SMFS list member Steve Liskow announced the publication of his
short story, Pictures at an Execution, appears in Black Cat Weekly #250.
His story is also the latest in a long line of SMFS list members being featured
on the cover. You can pick up the latest issue here.
Also now out is Thriller Magazine:
June 2026. The latest issue features five crime fiction tales. Available at
various vendors, you can also pick it up at Amazon. This magazine
is also part of their Kindle Unlimited program. During
the current ninety-day trial program, as an Amazon Prime member, you can read
for free.
Speaking of the Kindle Unlimited
program, while poking at the offerings, I discovered that the anthology, Streets
of Your Town: PI Stories, is coming out on June 27th. Per the
Amazon author listing, Frank Zafiro, Phillip Thompson, Meagan Lucas, Gary
Phillips, Craig McDonald, Douglas Corleone, Chris Bauer, Jo Ayker, Mark Newman,
and Sean O'Leary, all have stories in read. It will be part of the program at
release or you can preorder it at Amazon now
for $6.99.
By the way, and this is a pet peeve,
when something claims to be freaking UNLIMITED, it really should mean UNLIMITED.
The Kindle Unlimited program limits you to twenty titles at a time in
your “library.” When you are sharing your deal with an adult son who is really
into fantasy reads, you hit 20 titles very fast. You then discover that you are
very limited at Kindle Unlimited.
Back in early April
in a previous edition of this column, I told you that author Beau Johnson announced on Threads that his books, out
of print due to the demise last year of the previous publisher, were coming
back into print. Shotgun Honey released, A Better Kind of Hate: Stories, in both eBook and print format the day after that
column ran. The Big Machine Eats: Stories, part of the Bishop
Rider series, in both eBook and print formats is now available at the publisher and
Amazon.
Rock and a Hard Place
Press has announced they are publishing Curtis
Ippolito’s new crime fiction
read, Waves of Burden. Learn more at the publisher
with vendor links to pick it up in either print or eBook formats, or go to Amazon for the eBook only. It releases on June 24rth.
It is my current read via an ARC at the time I am writing this post. Look for
the review here soon.
Speaking of upcoming
reviews, months ago through NetGalley I was able to read and review the soon to
be released anthology, Birds of Prey: New Crime Stories. Edited
by Harlan Coben and C.J. Box, the book features eleven short stories. Published
by The Mysterious Press, the book comes on
June 23rd in a variety of formats. I will have a publication
day review of it here on the blog next week. The read is up on Amazon and other vendors to preorder as well.
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Until next time….
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