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“The Trials of Writing at 65 MPH” (by M.C. Lee)
Fiction writers come from all walks of life, as this post demonstrates. And those who really have it in them to write will often endure many difficulties, even hardships, to make it possible. I’ve known writers who composed all their … Continue reading
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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“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
“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
“Writing a New Series” (by Dave Zeltserman)
Dave Zeltserman is the author of the Julius Katz mystery series, which began in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and has won the Shamus and multiple EQMM Readers Awards. Its next entry, “Archie on Loan,” will appear in EQMM’s 75th-anniversary issue (September/October … Continue reading
“The Italian Butcher” (by Michael Berg)
Michael Berg made his EQMM debut in our 2015 September/October double issue, with “The Last Run,” translated from the Dutch by Josh Pachter. A former television and radio host, interviewer, documentarian, and program director in the Netherlands, he set off … Continue reading
“How I Do What I Do, and Why” (by Percy Spurlark Parker)
Percy Spurlark Parker’s fiction debut was a story for EQMM’s Department of First Stories in 1972. Since then he’s authored two published novels and dozens of short stories, which have appeared not only in EQMM but in AHMM, Mike Shayne … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Characters, Editing, Ellery Queen, Fiction, Genre, Guest, Publishing, Setting, Story, Writing
Tagged advice, character, editing, mystery, private eye, puzzle, story, technique, tips, writing, writing tips
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“Solving for Sherlock Holmes” (by Dana Cameron)
Readers of Dana Cameron’s Anna Hoyt stories for EQMM know that this Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Award-winning author, who is also an archaeologist, has a special interest in historical fiction. In fact, even when her chosen setting isn’t historical, she’ll … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Characters, Editing, Fiction, Guest, Holmesian
Tagged baker street irregulars, characters, deduction, editing, homage, mystery, pastiche, sherlock holmes, writing
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“The Writer Cop” (by O’Neil De Noux)
O’Neil De Noux has been a regular contributor to EQMM for more than twenty years. He’s written both historical mysteries and contemporary police procedurals for us, and his wider work includes science fiction and mainstream historicals. His superb sense of … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, Editing, Fiction, Genre, Guest, Police Procedurals, Setting, Story, Writing
Tagged detective, editing, fiction, forensics, police, procedural, realism, story, tips, writing
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CHILD CHARACTERS IN CRIME FICTION
Using child characters in crime fiction involves navigating land mines. This is something I wrote about a couple of years ago on EQMM’s website, but as I’ve had a few additional thoughts about it since then, here’s an update to … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, Editing, Fiction, Publishing, Writers
Tagged characters, child characters, controversy, editing, elleryqueenmm, eqmm, fiction, writers, writing, writing_technique
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