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A New Weariness has been selected for Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2025, editors Otto Penzler and John Grisham! This my third time 'round for BMSY, and all three stories feature my "librarian on the run" character from Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. Thank you, editors and EQMM readers!
Breasts, a prose poem, will appear in "Women in a Golden State" (Gunpowder Press) coming soon!
The new, revamped Chautauqua Journal will include my poems, Kanawha Street and Philadelphia in Saying It Plan, the first edition of the new journal!
Smoke, an essay about my sister Marcy, was published in the last-ever issue of the venerable Chautauqua Literary Journal.
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Cannonball, a prose poem, was chosen for the Syracuse Cultural Center's WOMEN ARTISTS DATEBOOK 2025 - it's a great honor to be included once again!
On Blackpoint Road, my screenplay based on the original short story published in The Saturday Evening Post, was a finalist for the CLAYMORE COMPETITION at KILLER NASHVILLE!
The short story It's Not Even Past was selected a finalist for the Derringer Prize!
It's Not Even Past was also selected for "Best Mystery Stories of the Year (2024)" by the Mysterious Press, and the anthology has received a RAVE REVIEW from Kirkus! There's a link to it just below.
Three stories from my "librarian on the run" Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine series have now been included in "Best Mystery Stories of the Year!" You'll find all three stories, AND two brand new stories, never before published, in the Down&Out Books collection, coming in June. Preorder It's Not Even Past now! (scroll up for link) A pre-order link for the new "Best Mysteries" is coming soon!
AND MORE NEWS!
A New Weariness has been selected for Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2025, editors Otto Penzler and John Grisham! This my third time 'round for BMSY, and all three stories feature my "librarian on the run" character from Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. Thank you, editors and EQMM readers!
Breasts, a prose poem, will appear in "Women in a Golden State" (Gunpowder Press) coming soon!
The new, revamped Chautauqua Journal will include my poems, Kanawha Street and Philadelphia in Saying It Plan, the first edition of the new journal!
Smoke, an essay about my sister Marcy, was published in the last-ever issue of the venerable Chautauqua Literary Journal.
Link to purchase - scroll up.
Cannonball, a prose poem, was chosen for the Syracuse Cultural Center's WOMEN ARTISTS DATEBOOK 2025 - it's a great honor to be included once again!
On Blackpoint Road, my screenplay based on the original short story published in The Saturday Evening Post, was a finalist for the CLAYMORE COMPETITION at KILLER NASHVILLE!
The short story It's Not Even Past was selected a finalist for the Derringer Prize!
It's Not Even Past was also selected for "Best Mystery Stories of the Year (2024)" by the Mysterious Press, and the anthology has received a RAVE REVIEW from Kirkus! There's a link to it just below.
Three stories from my "librarian on the run" Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine series have now been included in "Best Mystery Stories of the Year!" You'll find all three stories, AND two brand new stories, never before published, in the Down&Out Books collection, coming in June. Preorder It's Not Even Past now! (scroll up for link) A pre-order link for the new "Best Mysteries" is coming soon!
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