Author Archives: somethingisgoingtohappen

“The Magical Mystery Bookstore” (by Jenny Milchman)

Posted on July 25, 2012 by somethingisgoingtohappen

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 | 2 Comments

“Revisionist History” (by Jon L. Breen)

Posted on July 18, 2012 by somethingisgoingtohappen

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 | 4 Comments

Contributions from the Classics

Posted on July 11, 2012 by somethingisgoingtohappen

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 | 1 Comment

IN CASE YOU HAVEN’T FOUND THEM YET

Posted on July 11, 2012 by somethingisgoingtohappen

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 | 1 Comment

“Location, Location, Location” (by Marilyn Todd)

Posted on July 5, 2012 by somethingisgoingtohappen

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 | 1 Comment

“You Are What You Read” (by Jonathan Santlofer)

Posted on June 27, 2012 by somethingisgoingtohappen

A bestselling crime novelist and winner of the Nero Wolfe Award, Jonathan Santlofer only turned to writing fiction after he’d become well known as a painter. He has been the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts painting grants … Continue reading →

Posted in Guest | Tagged authors, CFA, class, crime fiction academy, crime writing, edgar, edgar_allan_poe, elleryqueenmm, eqmm, hammett, jonathan santlofer, literature, noir, poe, publish, short stories, short story, woolrich, writers | 3 Comments

“A Story Is a Story Is a Story” (by Tom Tolnay)

Posted on June 20, 2012 by somethingisgoingtohappen

Tom Tolnay’s short fiction has appeared in a variety of national consumer magazines, in literary magazines, and in magazines in the mystery and fantasy fields such as EQMM and AHMM. This week he talks about the recurring attempt to separate … Continue reading →

Posted in Fiction, Guest | Tagged arthur krystal, creative writing, ellery queen, elleryqueen, elleryqueenmm, genre, genre fiction, lit, literary fiction, literature, noir, sci fi, science fiction, scifi, the new yorker, ursula leguin | 6 Comments

“The Misadventures of Ellery Queen” (by Dale C. Andrews)

Posted on June 13, 2012 by somethingisgoingtohappen

Dale Andrews (along with his co-author Kurt Sercu) has the distinction of having received an award for his first published work. “The Book Case” (May 2007) received a second-place scroll in the EQMM Readers Award competition, finishing only one point … Continue reading →

Posted in Guest, Translation | Tagged e-book, ebook, ellery queen, elleryqueenmm, eqmm, Japan, literature, MWA, novel, pastiche | 5 Comments

Taking Us There

Posted on June 6, 2012 by somethingisgoingtohappen

Many of my own happy memories of Ed Hoch resurfaced with Doug Greene’s post about the much-missed author on this blog last week. Ed and I spoke almost every week over the seventeen years we worked together as writer and … Continue reading →

Posted in Fiction | Tagged ed hoch, Edgar Awards, edhoch, ellery queen, elleryqueen, exotic, literature, locale, location, mystery, publishing, setting, short stories, short story, writers, writing_technique | 5 Comments

“Memories of Ed” (by Doug Greene)

Posted on May 30, 2012 by somethingisgoingtohappen

There are many ways in which individuals can make contributions to the field of mystery and suspense fiction other than by writing the stories and novels we love to read. In recent years, conventions such as Bouchercon and Malice Domestic … Continue reading →

Posted in Guest, Memorial | Tagged classic_mystery, doug greene, douggreene, ed hoch, Edgar Awards, edhoch, ed_hoch, ellery queen, elleryqueen, eqmm, friendship, literature, Malice Domestic, memoriam, MWA, mystery, noir, publishing, short story, suspense, writers | 10 Comments