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Recent Posts
- See How We Celebrated the Edgars, the Robert L. Fish Award, and the EQMM Readers Awards This Year: Our 2024 Photo Gallery (by Janet Hutchings)
- A Mystery Website—Easy to Launch, But So Hard to Keep Fresh (by Jiro Kimura)
- “Ten Questions for William Link” (with Andrew McAleer)
- “Tell Me Why” (by Pat Gaudet)
- When Mysteries and Westerns Meet (by Larry D. Sweazy)
Monthly Archives: July 2012
“The Magical Mystery Bookstore” (by Jenny Milchman)
Jenny Milchman is a new writer, and yet she has already influenced not only the mystery field but the wider bookselling world. Her first paid professional publication, the short story “The Closet,” will appear in EQMM’s November issue (on sale … Continue reading
Posted in Bookshops, Fiction, Guest
Tagged book shop, books, booksellers, bookshop, bookstore, bring your child to a bookstore, childrens books, elleryqueenmm, eqmm, literature, nancydrew, suspense, youngadult
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“Revisionist History” (by Jon L. Breen)
Jon L. Breen will need no introduction to readers of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. He is a fiction writer with several novels to his credit and many of his short stories have appeared in EQMM. For today’s blog, though, he … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Guest, Magazine
Tagged classic_mystery, editing, editorial, ellery queen, elleryqueenmm, eqmm, exotic, headon hill, jon l breen, jonbreen, literature, mistakes, publishing, rare, revision
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Contributions from the Classics
2012 has seen celebrations around the world of the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens (February 7, 1812—June 9, 1870). It had been my intention to blog about Dickens this week. He’s one of the great writers in history … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction
Tagged classic literature, dumas, ellery queen, elleryqueen, elleryqueenmm, eqmm, fiction, itw, literature, musketeers, romance, thriller, twistphelan
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IN CASE YOU HAVEN’T FOUND THEM YET
For nearly two years, EQMM has been producing monthly podcasts of stories from the magazine’s archives. Most often, they are readings by the authors; sometimes full or partial dramatizations are featured. A couple of authors have composed and performed music … Continue reading
Posted in Magazine, Welcome
Tagged ahmm, alfred hitchcock, anthology, elleryqueen, eqmm, podcasts, podomatic
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“Location, Location, Location” (by Marilyn Todd)
In my June 6th post “Taking Us There” I discussed settings from the standpoint of the character-like role they can play in a story. Marilyn Todd comes at the subject from a different angle—seeing setting as a source of inspiration. … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Guest, Setting
Tagged ancient greece, dark, ellery queen, elleryqueen, elleryqueenmm, eqmm, exotic, France, Greece, jerome, literature, locale, location, magazines, marilyn todd, noir, novel, short story, wild west, wild_west
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SOMETHING IS GOING TO HAPPEN 