Some reading opportunities of interest this week.
SMFS
list member Norman Birnbach announced
that his short story, Bad Drivers & Careless People, was published online
at Bull magazine. Billed as a “… noir
retelling of The Great Gatsby…” you can read it, for free, here.
SMFS
list member Edith Maxwell’s short
story, Labor’s Peril, appears online in the latest installment of Kings River
Life Magazine. You can read it online, for free, here.
Black
Cat Weekly #262 is out and includes the short story, Sugar
and Spice and a Spoonful of Vice, by Ashley-Ruth
M. Bernier of the SMFS. You can pick up the latest issue here.
SMFS
list member Elizabeth Zelvin announced that her latest short story collection, Rifts
& Reprisals: Collected Stories II, is now available in digital form
at Amazon. The fifteen tales were previously published between 2017
and 2025 in EQMM, AHMM, Black Cat Mystery Magazine, and online
at Yellow Mama. This book joins her previously published short story
collection, Breaches
& Betrayals: Collected Stories,
released in 2016 and also available on Kindle Unlimited.
Punk
Noir Press announced on Twitter that FAFO—A
Punk Noir series had started. The first group of four stories are online, and
free to read here. Had 138
submissions. Word count limit of 300 words. The results should be highly
entertaining.
A reminder that quite a few SMFS list members are in the new anthology, Hooked on Urban Legends—and Murder! The members are Editor Barb Goffman (Into the Woods), Shari Held (The House of Blue Lights Revisited), Kathryn Holland (A Knocking at Fairweather Hall), Smita Harrish Jain (Poison Maidens), Jane Limprecht ( Alan Orloff (Face to Face), Pat Remick (Screaming Jenny), KM Rockwood (They Lurk In The Lake), Daphne Silver (A Curse to Remember), Shannon Taft (The Cave Man), and Joseph S. Walker (The Things We Remember). Published by Wildside Press, the read is available in digital and prints formats at Amazon.
SMFS
list member, and editor, Michelle Kubitz
announced that Shotgun Honey Books will be releasing the new anthology, Daydream
Believer: Crime Stories Inspired by the Songs of the Monkees!. The book
includes a short story by fellow SMFS list member Alan
S. Orloff as well as tales by numerus other
folks. Proceeds go to American Library Association. You can preorder the book
now at the publisher
or at Amazon.
I
have been a fan of author Frank Zafiro
for quite a few decades now. His latest read in his River City police
procedural series, The Quick of the Night, is coming out on September 15th.
Published by Code
4 Press, the read is available now for
preorder at Amazon and will be part of the Kindle Unlimited program at time of
publication.
Also
out on September 15th is the latest read from author C. W.
Blackwell. The Cold Dark Forever: A Novel, published by Shotgun Honey Books,
is a crime fiction read set in 1942. The read is now available for preorder at Amazon.
Also
out on the 15th is the young adult read, It Should Have Been
You: A Novel by Lynn Slaughter. Now published by Picarones Press, an
imprint of Misti
Media Publishing, the book is available for preorder at
the White City Press.
Back
last June, professor and author John
A. Tures did a guest post
here on the blog about his book, Branded, published by Huntsville Independent
Press. His next book, Independent Thought, is now up for preorder at the same
publisher. This sequel deals with the possibility of a third-party presidential
candidate and more.
Until next time….
Kevin R. Tipple ©2026
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