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Anna Stolley Persky is a lawyer, journalist, and essayist who recently turned fiction writer. Her first published fiction, “The Jews on Elm Street,” will appear in EQMM’s September/October 2024 issue (on sale August 13 ), in the Department of First … Continue reading →

Shawn Reilly Simmons is the author of nine mystery novels and more than twenty-five published short stories, two of which have won the Agatha Award for best short story. She is also an Anthony Award-winning anthologist and the president and … Continue reading →

In EQMM’s upcoming September/October issue (on sale August 13), talented new writer Kai Lovelace has a story in the Department of First Stories. Entitled “Head Start,” it’s a scary Halloween tale of the psychological suspense variety. When he isn’t writing … Continue reading →

Andrew McAleer is the author of 101 Habits of Highly Successful Novelists and coeditor (with Gay Toltl Kinman) of Edgar & Shamus Go Golden. He recently completed two books featuring his father John McAleer’s Golden Age detective Henry von Stray, which will be … Continue reading →

Essayist and short story writer Kevin Mims has contributed posts to this site on a number of different topics. This time he offers some thoughts about a classic, but sometimes overlooked,  TV crime drama. You may want to revisit the … Continue reading →

Jay Randall is the fiction-writing pseudonym of a freelance author who lived in Asia for many years. His articles and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, Smithsonian, Scientific American, and Newsweek, among many other publications, but his first work of … Continue reading →

In 1991, John J. McKeon’s first novel, The Serpent’s Crown, was called “powerful, riveting and timely” by the New York Times Book Review. But shortly thereafter he became engrossed in a quarter-century career as a freelance business journalist. He’s recently … Continue reading →

This week we have a post from an author who will make his fiction debut in the Department of First Stories of our July/August 2024 issue (on sale June 11) with the moving story “Letters From Tokyo.”  Yoshinori Todo is a … Continue reading →

Art Taylor has won the Edgar and Anthony and multiple Agatha, Macavity, and Derringer awards for his short fiction. He is one of a very rare breed of writer these days: one who devotes most of his time to the … Continue reading →