LIttle Big News: The Red Envelope

Hard to believe there is any medium I haven't already reported this, but my "The Red Envelope," winner of the Black Orchid Novella Award, is in the current, July/August issue of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.  I also talked about writing it at Trace Evidence and found something different to say about the process at SleuthSayers.

Derringer Award Winners, 2013

The winners of the Derringer Awards were announced today by the Short Mystery Fiction Society.  Congratulations to all!

Best Flash Story:
The Cable Job - Randy DeWitt

Best Short Story:
Getting Out of the Box - Michael Bracken

Best Long Story:
When Duty Calls - Art Taylor

Best Novelette:
Wood-Smoke Boys - Doug Allyn

Little Big News: Derringer Award Winners

A big mazeltov to all!

Best Flash Story: "Lessons Learned" by Allan Leverone

Best Short Story: "Touch of Death" by B.V. Lawson

Best Long Story: Tie "A Drowning at Snow's Cut" by Art Taylor and "Brea's Tale" by Karen Pullen

Best Novelette: "Where Billy Died" by Earl Staggs

Little Big News: Derringer Nominees

Congrats to all the 2012 Derringer Awards nominees!  Now the members of the Short Mystery Fiction Society (me included) have to read all of these stories and vote....

Finalists for Best Novelette:

Jeffrey Cohen, "The Gun Also Rises: an Aaron Tucker Mystery," Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, January/February 2011

Toni L. P. Kelner, "In Brightest Day," Home Improvement: Undead Edition, August 2011

Doug Allyn, "A Penny for the Boatman," Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, March/April 2011

David Dean, "Tomorrow's Dead," Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, July 2011

Earl Staggs, "Where Billy Died," Untreed Reads, August 2011

Finalists for Best Long Story

Art Taylor, "A Drowning at Snow's Cut," Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, May 2011

Trina Corey, "Facts Exhibiting Wantonness," Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, November 2011

Trey Dowell, "Ballistic," Untreed Reads, July 2011

Karen Pullen, "Brea's Tale," Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, November 2011

William Burton McCormick, "Blue Amber," Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, June 2011

Finalists for Best Short Story:

Elizabeth Zelvin, "Death will Tank Your Fish," Murder New York Style: Fresh Slices, 2011

B.V. Lawson, pen name of Bonnie Vanaman, "Touch of Death," Absent Willow Review Online Magazine, April 2011

Ruth M. McCarty, "Sisters in Black," Best New England Crime Stories 2012: Dead Calm, November 2011.

Cathi Stoler, "Fatal Flaw." Beat to a Pulp Online, April 2011

Adam Renn Olenn, "Coronation," Best New England Crime Stories 2012: Dead Calm, November 2011.

Finalists for Best Flash Fiction Story:

Warren Bull, "Company Policy," Yellow Mama, August 2011

John Kenyon, "Countdown," Thrillers, Killers, and Chillers, April 2011

Al Leverone, "Lessons Learned," Shotgun Honey, July 2011

Melodie Campbell, "The Perfect Mark," Flash Fiction Online Magazine, July 2011

Kathleen Ryan, "Heat of Passion," A Twist of Noir, February 2011

LIttle Big News: Agatha Nominees

Congratulations to all, especially the short story nominees!

"Disarming" by Dana Cameron, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine - June 2011
"Dead Eye Gravy" by Krista Davis, Fish Tales: The Guppy Anthology
"Palace by the Lake" by Daryl Wood Gerber, Fish Tales: The Guppy Anthology
"Truth and Consequences" by Barb Goffman, Mystery Times Ten
"The Itinerary" by Roberta Isleib, WMA Presents the Rich and the Dead

Little Big News: Barry Nominations

Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine has announced the nominees for the Barry Award.  Congratulations to the short story nominees!

• “Thicker Than Blood,” by Doug Allyn (Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine [AHMM], September 2011)
• “The Gun Also Rises, by Jeffrey Cohen (AHMM, January-February 2011)
• “Whiz Bang,” by Mike Cooper (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine [EQMM], September-October 2011)
• “Facts Exhibiting Wantonness,” by Trina Corey (EQMM, November 2011)
• “Last Laugh in Floogle Park,” by James Powell (EQMM, July 2011)
• “Purge,” by Eric Rutter (AHMM, December 2011)

LIttle Big News: Edgar Nominations

Congrats to all:

BEST SHORT STORY

"Marley’s Revolution" – Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine by John C. Boland (Dell Magazines)
"Tomorrow’s Dead" – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by David Dean (Dell Magazines)
"The Adakian Eagle" – Down These Strange Streets by Bradley Denton (Penguin Group USA – Ace Books)
"Lord John and the Plague of Zombies" – Down These Strange Streets by Diana Gabaldon (Penguin Group USA – Ace Books)
"The Case of Death and Honey" – A Study in Sherlock by Neil Gaiman (Random House Publishing Group – Bantam Books)
"The Man Who Took His Hat Off to the Driver of the Train" – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Peter Turnbull (Dell Magazines)

Little Big News: Shamus nominees

The Private Eye Writers of America have announced the nominees for the 2011 Shamus Award. Here are the best private eye stories of the year:

Best P.I. Short Story:
• “The God of Right and Wrong,” by Steven Gore (Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, January/February 2010)
• “The Lamb Was Sure to Go,” by Gar Anthony Haywood (Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, November 2010)
• “The Girl in the Golden Gown,” by Robert S. Levinson (Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, March/April 2010)
• “Phelan’s First Case.” by Lisa Sandlin (Lone Star Noir, edited by Bobby Byrd and Johnny Byrd; Akashic Books)
• “A Long Time Dead,” by Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins (The Strand Magazine, June-Sept. 2010)

Little Big News: Arthur Ellis Award Nominees

The Crime Writers of Canada have announced their nominees for the year. Congrats to all! Here are the short story finalists:

"In it Up to My Neck" Jas R. Petrin, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine

"So Much in Common" Mary Jane Maffini, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

"The Big Touch" Jordan McPeek, Thuglit.com

"The Piper's Door" James Powell, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

"The Bust" William Deverall, Whodunnit: Sun Media’s Canadian Crime
Fiction Showcase

Little Big News: Edgar Winner

Congratulations to Doug Allyn for winning the Mystery Writer of America Edgar Award for best short story of the year.

"The Scent of Lilacs" –

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Doug Allyn (Dell Magazines)

Little Big News: Thriller Nominations

The International Thriller Writers have announced their nominations for the best of the year. Here are the short stories noms. Congrats to all you thrillerers!

Mike Carey – "Second Wind." The New Dead, St. Martin's)
Michael Connelly – "Blue on Black." The Strand Magazine
Richard Helms – "The God for Vengeance Cry" Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
Harley Jane Kozak – "Madeeda." Crimes By Midnight
Nicolas Kaufman – "Chasing the Dragon" ChiZine Magazine
Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins – "Long Time Dead" The Strand Magazine

Little Big News: Spinetingler Nominees

Spinetingler Magazine has listed their nominees for many awards, including the Best Online Crime Story of 2011. You can vote here. Congratulations to all.

Times Past by Matthew C. Funk from All Due Respect

Hold You by Steve Weddle from A Twist of Noir

Pillow Talk by Jodi MacArthur from Beat to a Pulp

The Girl with a Clock for a Heart by Peter Swanson from Mysterical-E

Secretario by Catherynne M. Valente from Weird Tales

Ghostman on Third by Chad Eagleton from The Drowning Machine

Carpaccio By Lily Childs from Thrillers, Killers ‘N’ Chillers

How to Jail by Dennis Tafoya from Crime Factory

Home Invasion by Jen Conley from Thuglit

Beat on the Brat by Nigel Bird from The Drowning Machine

Little Big News: Derringer Winners

The Short Mystery Fiction Society has just announced the winners of the Derringer Award for 2011. Congratulations to all!

Best Flash Fiction Story (under 1,000 words)
TIE:
"The Book Signing," by Kathy Chencharik, in Thin Ice: Crime Stories by New England Writers. Edited by Leslie Wheeler, Mark Ammons, Barbara Ross, Kat
Fast, Level Best Books, November, 2010
and
"The Unknown Substance" by Jane Hammons, A Twist of Noir December 27,
2010

Best Short Story (1,001-4,000 words)
"Pewter Badge," by Michael J. Solender, Yellow Mama, August, 2010

Best Long Story (4,001-8,000 words)
TIE:
"Care of the Circumcised Penis" by Sean Doolittle, in Thuglit
Presents: Blood, Guts & Whiskey Edited by Todd Robinson, Kensington
Publishing Corp., May, 2010
and
"Interpretation of Murder" by B. K. Stevens, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery
Magazine, December, 2010

Best Novelette (8,001-17,500 words)
"Rearview Mirror" by Art Taylor,
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine March, 2010

LIttle Big News: Derringer Nominees

The Short Mystery Fiction Society has listed their nominees for best stories of 2010. Congratulations to all!


Flash Story (-1000 words)

"Blues in the Night," by Carol Kilgore, *Dark Valentine*, May 2010

"Homeless," by Patricia Morin, *MYSTERY MONTAGE*, 2010

"Stick a Needle in My Eye," by Julia Madeleine, *Powder Burn Flash*No. 302, May 5, 2010

"The Book Signing," by Kathy Kencharik, *THIN ICE: CRIME STORIES BYNEW ENGLAND WRITERS*, 2010

"The Unknown Substance," by Jane Hammons, *A Twist of Noir*, Dec.27, 2010


Short Story (1001 - 4000 words)


"My Asshole Brother" by Eric Beetner, *A Twist of Noir,* May 7, 2010

"Seventy-hours of Less" by Michael J. Solender, *A Twist of Noir,* April 23, 2010

"Broken Down on the Bonneville Flats" by Jack Bates, *Beat to a Pulp,* October 17, 2010

"Angel of Mercy" by David Price, *Beat to a Pulp,* Jan. 31, 2010

"Pewter Badge" by Michael J. Solender, *Yellow Mama," August, 2010.



Long Story (4001 - 8000 words)

"A Tour of the Tower," by Christine Poulson, *Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine*, March/April 2010

"Care of the Circumcised Penis," by Sean Doolittle, *THUGLIT PRESENTS: BLOOD, GUTS, AND WHISKEY*, 2010

"Interpretation of Murder," by B. K. Stevens, *Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine*, December 2010

"Silicon Kings," by Richard Helms, *The Back Alley Webzine*, April 2010

" The Little Nogai Boy," by R. T. Lawton, *Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine*, September 2010


Novelette (8001 - 17,500 words)

"Deserters," by Chris Muessig, *Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine*, March 2010

"Rearview Mirror," by Art Taylor, *Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine*, March 2010

"The Gods for Vengeance Cry," by Richard Helms, *Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine*, November 2010

"The Man With One Eye," by Stephen Ross, *Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine*, December 2010

"The Scent of Lilacs," by Doug Allyn, *Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine*, September/October 2010

Little Big News: Agatha Nominations

Malice Domestic has announced the nominees for the Agatha Awards of 2011. Here are story nominations. Congratulations to all.

"Swing Shift" by Dana Cameron, Crimes by Moonlight(Berkley)
"Size Matters" by Sheila Connolly, Thin Ice (LevelBest Books)
"Volunteer of the Year" by Barb Goffman,Chesapeake Crimes: They Had it Comin' (Wildside Press)
"So Much in Common" by Mary Jane Maffini, ElleryQueen Mystery Magazine - Sept./Oct. 2010
"The Green Cross" by Liz Zelvin, Ellery QueenMystery Magazine - August 2010

Little Big News: Edgar Nominations

The Mystery Writers of America have announced the Edgar Nominations. Here are the short story nods:

"The Scent of Lilacs" – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Doug Allyn (Dell Magazines)
"The Plot" – First Thrills by Jeffery Deaver (Tom Doherty – Forge Books)
"A Good Safe Place" – Thin Ice by Judith Green (Level Best Books)
"Monsieur Alice is Absent" – Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
by Stephen Ross (Dell Magazines)
"The Creative Writing Murders" – Dark End of the Street by Edmund White (Bloomsbury)

And the winner of the Robert L. Fish Memorial Award for best first story is
"Skyler Hobbs and the Rabbit Man" – Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine by Evan Lewis (Dell Magazines)

Congratulations to all!