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September Convention Roundup (by Jackie Sherbow)

In several previous years I’ve posted on this site about my experiences at the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention. That gathering of mystery fans, writers, and others in the business takes place in a different city each autumn. This year, neither … Continue reading

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Conversations with James M. Cain and Edgar Winner John McAleer (by Andrew McAleer)

Andrew McAleer is the author of 101 Habits of Highly Successful Novelists and co-editor, with Gay Toltl Kinman, of the mystery anthology Edgar & Shamus Go Golden. He recently completed a volume of short mystery stories featuring his father John McAleer’s Golden … Continue reading

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Three Degrees of Separation From Florabel Muir (by Joseph Koenig)

Joseph Koenig’s first novel, Floater (1986), was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award. His fiction has also brought him nominations for the Shamus and Macavity awards, and his novel Brides of Blood (1993) was named a New York Times … Continue reading

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Cop Club (by Paul Ryan O’Connor)

Paul O’Connor has written comics, and for decades he developed video games, most recently as game director for Amazon’s Lord of the Rings. He makes his fiction debut in EQMM’s current issue (September/October 2023) with the story “Teddy’s Favorite Thing,” … Continue reading

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“Mystery”: A Small Word for a Big Canon (by David Knadler)

After a long absence, David Knadler has returned to EQMM’s pages with the story “Five-Hat Minimum” (September/October 2023). The tale stars series character John Ennis, who came to life twenty years ago in a story for our magazine. Ennis was … Continue reading

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Eight Dollars Well Spent (by Gabriela Stiteler)

Gabriela Stiteler’s first published fiction, “Two Hours West of Nothing,” appears in EQMM’s current issue (September/October), in the Department of First Stories. A writer and educator based in Portland, Maine, Gabriela grew up in Northwestern Pennsylvania. She came to love … Continue reading

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We Can’t Write “Diverse” Characters and Expect Our Stories to Remain Unchanged (by Amita Murray)

Amita Murray is the author of two series of mystery novels: Her Arya Winters series, begun in 2021, has been optioned for TV, and her historical series featuring the Marleigh sisters just debuted this year with the novel Unladylike Lessons … Continue reading

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Heron and the Temples of Alexandria: The Best Stories Aren’t the Obvious Ones (by Thomas K. Carpenter)

Thomas K. Carpenter has been contributing stories featuring Magistrate Ovid, from Ancient Alexandria, to EQMM and AHMM since 2015. In our September/October issue (on sale now) Ovid’s most complex case comes to life in the novella “Death and Omens in … Continue reading

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Can Any Author Write Any Character, Regardless of Identity Differences? (by Rob Osler)

Rob Osler made his fiction debut in the Department of First Stories of EQMM’s January/February 2021 issue with the story “Analogue,”  which went on to win the Robert L. Fish Award for best short story by a new American author. … Continue reading

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Writing Is More than Output: Why Writers Shouldn’t Fear AI (by Twist Phelan)

A popular novelist with two series (the Finn Teller spy novels and the Pinnacle Peak mysteries) to her credit, Twist Phelan is also a prolific contributor to EQMM. Her EQMM stories have won two ITW Awards and Canada’s Arthur Ellis … Continue reading

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