SleuthSayers: Double Event

SleuthSayers: Double Event: I have had an unusual experience recently.  For one thing, I have a story, "Welcome to JFR!", in the November/December issue of El...

SleuthSayers: From the Response Time Front by R. T. Lawton

SleuthSayers: From the Response Time Front:   It's a frequently asked question on the Short Mystery Fiction Society posting board as to how long the wait time is for  replies on sh...

One Writer's World: My New Series Character

One Writer's World: My New Series Character: Over the summer I came up with the idea for a new mystery, a stand-alone I thought, but as the story line itself evolved, the woman at the c...

SleuthSayers: Short Takes: The 2016 Nominees for the Best Short ...

SleuthSayers: Short Takes: The 2016 Nominees for the Best Short ...: by B.K. Stevens "Being short does not mean being slight," Flannery O'Connor maintains in "Writing Short Stories."...

SleuthSayers: Watch Your Language: Fighting Words in Young Adult...

SleuthSayers: Watch Your Language: Fighting Words in Young Adult...: by B.K. Stevens When my first young-adult mystery came out last month, many people asked me how writing mysteries for teenagers is diffe...

New Books by MWA Members – November 2015 (MWA)

New Books by MWA Members – November 2015 (MWA)

Nasty. Brutish. Short.: "Heat Death" by Bill Cameron

Nasty. Brutish. Short.: "Heat Death" by Bill Cameron: On Twitter, Bill Cameron offered copies of the July/August 2015 AHMM , featuring this Skin Kadash story, and I was lucky enough to get one. ...

Via Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: New AHMM Podcast

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: New AHMM Podcast: PodOmatic | Best Free Podcasts : Eve Fisher reads her story "Drifts" from the January/February 2006 issue of AHMM. Recorded live a...

Via Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: It's All about Variety -- Janet Hutchings, Editor ...

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: It's All about Variety -- Janet Hutchings, Editor ...: IT’S ALL ABOUT VARIETY | SOMETHING IS GOING TO HAPPEN

Via SleuthSayers: Behind the Scenes

SleuthSayers: Behind the Scenes: Jackie Sherbow by Jackie Sherbow We SleuthSayers are very fond of the ladies at Dell’s mystery magazines. A name that often arises ...

Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: “Shanks Holds the Line” by Robert Lopresti

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Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Kevin Egan: Writing What I know—Not Always So Easy...

 As it happens Karl just brought the mail in and that included the June issue of AHMM that features Mr. Egan's story on the cover.....

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