Welcome back to “Thursday Treats.” Viewership dropped significantly again, week to week, so maybe this was not the bright idea I thought it was when I started it.
Michael Bracken recently announced that
his short story, Takes the Cake, appears at the “Micromance Magazine Substack.”
You can read it here for free. By
the way, he also announced that the Mickey Finn: 21st Century Noir
annual anthology series will continue. He has a new publisher (no word if the
previous volumes will also be republished) and that once he has release dates
for the sixth and seventh books with the new folks, he will put the call out at
his website. http://www.CrimeFictionWriter.com
Authors John M. Floyd, Steve Liskow, Nick
Guthrie and several others appear in Black Cat Weekly #232. This is a weekly
publication featuring short stories and novellas in multiple genres. You can
buy individual issues or one of the far better subscription deals at blackcatweekly.com.
Nick Guthrie also announced that his
short story, The Youth of Today, appears online at the Urban Pigs Press. You
can read it for free here.
Fellow SMFS list member by Justin L. Murphy announced on the list that his true crime book, Ruth Snyder: The Real-Life Murderess Inspiring The Modern Femme Fatale. Available at Amazon in digital form, the book details the 1927 Ruth Snyder case. This is the fourth book in his True Crime series.
Author Kris Bock reached out recently to
me recently to let me know she had another book in her The Accidental
Detective Mystery Series about to come out. Something Prowling in
Paradise Park: A Kate Tessler Amateur Sleuth Mystery comes out on March
2nd in digital format from Thule Publishing. You can preorder it now
on Amazon and other vendors. Make sure you
come to the blog this Sunday as she is contributing a guest post featuring an excerpt
from the new book. Just as she has done for previous book in this series and
her other reads.
Author Tom Milani announced his short
story, Someday You Will, appears at The Yard: Crime Blog. You can read the tale
for free here.
The March/April issue of Alfred
Hitchock’s Mystery Magazine is now out. Authors Kevin Egan, R. T. Lawton,
and others, are in the new issue. Learn more at the website.
So, if AHMM is out, you already
know that the new issue for Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine is out. It
is and includes short stories by Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier, David Dean, John M.
Floyd, Robert Lopresti, Josh Pachter, Marilyn Todd, and others. Learn more at
the website.
Author Lois Winston announced that her
latest novel, Embroidered Lies and Alibis, is now out. This is
the 15th book in her long running Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery
Series. You can learn more about the mystery on her website or just go
straight to Amazon and get it in
various formats.
Until next time….
Kevin R. Tipple ©2026









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