Thursday, March 19, 2026

Thursday Treats: 3/19/2026

 

The latest reading opportunities…

 

 


Murderous Ink Press released the new anthology, Crimeucopia - A Coterie Of Dicks. SMFS list members Josh Pachter, Gerald Elias, Jim Guigli, M. Proctor, and others, have short stories in the read. Pick it up at Amazon and elsewhere.

 



Rock and A Hard Place announced their new book, A Woman’s Guide to True Crime by Mary Thorson was now out. Each piece in the book details a historical event by way of the victims, the killers, or the woman impacted by the crime. You can learn more about the book at their website.

 




Musician and author Tim Bryant has been busy. The Ballad of Peechie Keen: A Dutch Curridge Mystery is out as is the short story collection, Angels, Unaware: Stories from East Texas.

 




SMFS list member Nikita Costiuc announced that his short story, A Yellow Speck, appears online at the Canadian literary journal, Moonlit Getaway. He bills it as a “southern gothic” tale. You can read it for free at the website.

 



SMFS list member DK Snyder announced that her solve-it-yourself mystery, Harmonica Blues, was published in the March 23rd issue of Woman’s World Magazine. The issue is available now on newsstands, grocery stores, and elsewhere. You are looking for the issue with Valerie Bertinelli on the cover.

 


For Friday the 13th, Punk Noir published, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You #2 — a PUNK NOIR Magazine series. This series of short stories are all free to read online at their website. SMFS list member Elizabeth Dearborn (Shop Till You Drop) and Wil A. Emerson (Scored Zero), short stories appear as do others.

  

SMFS member Barb Goffman shared the news of the latest issue of Black Cat Weekly. As always, the issue is full of short stories, novellas, and more. You can pick it up here. A single digital issue is $2.99, but the longer subscriptions are the real deal and the way to go.

 


Inkd Publishing announced their Kickstarter for the anthology, Detectives, Sleuths, & Nosy Neighbors III. The book will include short stories by SMFS list members, N. M. Cedeño (The Assassination Game), Shari Held (The Mansion on the Hill), Kathleen Marple Kalb (Spring Death Cleaning), Aime Kluck (Peril in Provincetown), Bev Myers (Three Fingers of Fate), Karen Oden (Murder at Angelique), and SB Watson (The Silent Herd), among others, are going to be in the anthology scheduled to be out in June.


 

Bev Myers also has a short story in the new anthology, The Dichotomy of Love. Published by Lowell & Benson Publishing, the read is available at Amazon and other vendors. 

 

 

 

Until next time….

 



Kevin R. Tipple ©2026

 

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