Thursday, February 12, 2026

Thursday Treats: 2/12/2026

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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