WRITING NEWS
Books:
In December 2011, The Mystery Company published a Twentieth Anniversary Edition of DEADSTICK, the novel that introduced my metaphysical detective, Owen Keane. This edition, which includes both a new afterword and a Keane chronology, is available as both a trade paperback and as an eBook in several popular formats.
I'm very pleased to have DEADSTICK back in print, and I hope it will soon be joined by the other titles in the Keane series.
DEADSTICK can be ordered using the following links:
amazon.com - barnesandnoble.com - The Mystery Company (various eBook formats) - indiebound.com
In April 2011, Five Star released the first full-length novel featuring my Hollywood historical P.I., Scott Elliott, since RAISE THE DEVIL. DANCE IN THE DARK is set in 1969, at the height of the Vietnam War. In it, Elliott tangles with rock musicians, flower children, and motorcycle gangs while awaiting word of a son missing in action.
DANCE IN THE DARK can be ordered using the following links:
amazon.com - barnesandnoble.com - indiebound.com
In February 2011, Perfect Crime Books published Elliott's first collection of short stories. THE HOLLYWOOD OP brings together all the published Elliott tales and one new one, "Sleep Big," which lands Elliott in a mystery that baffled Philip Marlowe himself (or at least the screenwriters of Marlowe's The Big Sleep).
Perfect Crime has published several outstanding story collections, including a two-volume collection of Shamus Winners for Best Short Story. Every fan of the private eye genre will want to own that one.
THE HOLLYWOOD OP can be ordered using the following links:
amazon.com - indiebound.com - barnesandnoble.com
Short Stories:
I had four new short stories published 2011, which tied my record.
One was the story I described above, "Big Sleep," from my collection THE HOLLYWOOD OP.
Two were in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. "A Bullet from Yesterday," an Elliott story set in 1954, can be found in the January 2011 issue. The March/April double issue contains "No Mystery," the latest title in my Star Republic series. The Star Republic stories are short tales whose protagonist, a reporter for an Indianapolis newspaper, is drawn to wisps of the supernatural and preternatural. "No Mystery" is the seventh story in the series. I recently did a recording of "No Mystery" for the magazine's podcast. It can be accessed from the EQMM web site or by using this link.
Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine published a stand-alone story, "Change the Ending," in its July/August 2011 issue. The story is set on Michigan's Mackinac Island.
Be on the lookout for "After Cana," an Owen Keane story. It should appear in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine sometime in 2012. Keane comes very close to being a true "armchair detective" in this one.
I also have two stories in recent anthologies. BY HOOK AND BY CROOK, edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, Tyrus Books, reprints a story of mine set in Jackson, Wyoming, "The Caretaker." It's as close as I've come to a western. My one and only horror story, "Uncanny," is currently available in an anthology called TWICE THE TERROR, edited by Jeani Rector and published by Bear Manor Media.