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Category Archives: Editing
COUNTING THE I’S
Back in 2009 I received a note from a reader observing that more than half the stories published in EQMM that year employed first-person narration. It wasn’t something I’d noticed, mainly because there are actually several different viewpoints that fall … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, Editing, Fiction, Genre, Magazine, Publishing, Readers
Tagged crime fiction, editing, first person, focus, mystery fiction, narration, narrative, publishing, reading, short story, style, third person, viewpoint
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“Screaming Blue Murder—Writing For Television” (by Cath Staincliffe)
Cath Staincliffe’s work first appeared in EQMM in January 2016. Her latest EQMM story, “The Rat,” is featured in our current issue, March/April 2017, and a third story will appear in EQMM later this year. The Manchester writer is a founding member … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Characters, Editing, Guest, Police Procedurals, Writers, Writing
Tagged crime, detective, mystery, police, procedural, screenwriter, screenwriting, television, tv, writers, writing
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“Making Sense of the Confusion of Tongues” (by Bertil Falk)
Bertil Falk is a Swedish newspaper and TV journalist, an author of mystery fiction, a translator, and a former editor of DAST magazine (a Swedish journal devoted to detective stories, science fiction, and fantasy). His first novel saw print when he was … Continue reading
Posted in Editing, Fiction, Genre, Guest, International, Magazine, Passport, Thrillers, Writers, Writing
Tagged crime, globalization, languages, scandinavia, television, thriller, writers, writing
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“I Know Words, the Best Words” (by Harley Mazuk)
Harley Mazuk has contributed four stories in the classical private-eye tradition to EQMM, beginning with his very first professional fiction publication, which appeared in the January 2011 issue of EQMM. Three of the stories, including the first, belong to a … Continue reading
“Collaborative Sleuthing: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Stu Palmer’s and Craig Rice’s Withers/Malone Team-Ups in EQMM” (by Arthur Vidro)
Many EQMM readers will know Arthur Vidro as the contributor of two online stories: “The Ransom of EQMM #1” and “The Mistake on the Cover of EQMM #1.” The latter formed the basis for our 75th Anniversary Contest of 2016. Both … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Characters, Editing, Ellery Queen, Guest, History, Magazine, Publishing, Writers, Writing
Tagged crime, ellery queen, magazine, mystery, stuart palmer, suspense, writers, writing
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WHAT’S IN A WORD?
As we approach the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, with so much talk in the air of “political correctness,” I thought it timely to re-post a piece I put up on this site on January 22, 2014. —Janet Hutchings This … Continue reading
“Of Jigsaws, Roller Coasters, Crosswords, and Mazes” (by A.J. Wright)
Although his work appears in EQMM for the first time in our January/February 2017 issue, on sale December 20, A.J. Wright is a historical mystery novelist who already has three books to his credit, all belonging to a series set … Continue reading
REFLECTIONS FROM A READING WEEK
I’ve been immersed in submissions over the past week and it’s revived an old line of thought. . . . Every editor receives a share of manuscripts from writers who’ve never had a word in print on which a copyright … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, Editing, Fiction, Genre, Publishing, Story, Writers, Writing
Tagged craft, editorship, language, reading, submission, submissions, writers, writing
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“The Return of Poggioli: T.S. Stribling’s Sleuth Given a New Home in EQMM” (by Arthur Vidro)
Arthur Vidro is a freelance fiction editor who publishes a thrice-yearly print journal called (Give Me That) Old-Time Detection (please direct any inquiries to oldtimedetection@netzero.net). He is also the author of two stories for EQMM. The first of them, “The … Continue reading
