Category Archives: Characters

“A Long Time Ago in an Emirate Far, Far Away . . .” (by Josh Pachter)

Posted on July 29, 2015 by somethingisgoingtohappen

The author of more than four dozen published short stories and numerous translations, Josh Pachter has long been a valued contributor to EQMM. His stories typically have interesting settings, a result of his wide-ranging travels. In this post, he talks … Continue reading →

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“Location, Location, Location: Writing and Place” (by Elle Wild)

Posted on July 15, 2015 by somethingisgoingtohappen

EQMM’s September/October issue (on sale August 11) contains a Department of First Stories debut that readers won’t want to miss, Elle Wild’s “Playing Dead.” Though it is the author’s first paid fiction publication, she is not a newcomer to the … Continue reading →

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“‘Black Rock:’ The Making and Unmaking of the Social World” (by Steven Gore)

Posted on July 8, 2015 by somethingisgoingtohappen

Yesterday EQMM’s August 2015 issue went on sale. It contains the first EQMM story by Steven Gore, private investigator, short-story writer, and author of six crime novels (the most recent of which is February 2015’s Night Is the Hunter). Steven … Continue reading →

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“The Series P.I.—Some Pros and a Con” (by Harley Mazuk)

Posted on May 20, 2015 by somethingisgoingtohappen

Harley Mazuk’s first published work of fiction appeared in EQMM’s January 2011 issue. Normally a “first” is assigned to our Department of First Stories, but the tale was so thoroughly rooted in the old-style hardboiled tradition that we decided to … Continue reading →

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CRIME FICTION IN JAPAN

Posted on April 29, 2015 by somethingisgoingtohappen

Over the past few years EQMM has received a number of excellent stories from Japanese writers, and that has inspired me to expand on a post I made on EQMM’s Web-site forum four years ago, shortly after the Fukushima nuclear … Continue reading →

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“I Am a Genre Writer” (by Margaret Maron)

Posted on April 22, 2015 by somethingisgoingtohappen

Margaret Maron’s achievements as a mystery and crime writer have been recognized by all of our field’s major organizations. She is a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America, a recipient of the Malice Domestic Convention’s Lifetime Achievement Award, … Continue reading →

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“Hold That Thought” (by Dandi Daley Mackall)

Posted on April 15, 2015 by somethingisgoingtohappen

Dandi Daley Mackall is the author of more than 450 books, many of them for children and young adults. In 2012, she won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Young Adult Mystery for her novel The Silence of Murder … Continue reading →

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“And Then There Was Why: The Mystery in Mystery Fiction” (by Tim L. Williams)

Posted on April 8, 2015 by somethingisgoingtohappen

Tim L. Williams’s short stories began appearing in EQMM in 2005. A number of them have gone on to be nominated for, or to win, major awards in the field. In 2011 he received the International Thriller Award for his … Continue reading →

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“Roads and Wilderness: Two Novels by James M. Cain” (by Zoë Z. Dean)

Posted on March 25, 2015 by somethingisgoingtohappen

Zoë Z. Dean (a pseudonym for Kentucky writer Lauren James) debuted in EQMM’s Department of First Stories in November 2014 with the story “Getaway Girl”—for which she has just won the Mystery Writers of America’s Robert L. Fish Memorial Award … Continue reading →

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“A Break in the Order of Things: Coincidence in Fiction and in Life” by Steven Gore

Posted on March 11, 2015 by somethingisgoingtohappen

Steven Gore is a former private detective who told EQMM he spent decades  “investigating murder, fraud, organized crime, corruption, and drug, sex and arms trafficking.”  He has been featured, for his investigative work, on 60 Minutes. The San Francisco Bay … Continue reading →

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