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Tag Archives: magazines
“Poster Child” (by Michael Bracken)
Michael Bracken is the winner of two Derringer Awards for his short fiction, and in 2016 he received the Edward D. Hoch Memorial Golden Derringer for Lifetime Achievement in Short Mystery Fiction. That award has special significance in regard to … Continue reading
Posted in Anthologies, Books, Conventions, Fiction, Genre, Guest, History, Magazine
Tagged crime, e-book, journal, lit mag, magazine, magazines, mystery, mystery fiction, newsstand, periodicals, short story
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“My Father and Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine” (by Richard Chizmar)
Richard Chizmar is the coauthor (with Stephen King) of the bestselling novella Gwendy’s Button Box and the founder/publisher of Cemetery Dance magazine and the Cemetery Dance Publications book imprint. He has edited more than thirty anthologies and has won two World Fantasy awards and four … Continue reading
“Raoul Whitfield: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Best of Them” (by Boris Dralyuk)
Two weeks ago Mark Evan Walker contributed an article to this site about largely forgotten mystery writer Brett Halliday and his most famous character, Michael Shayne. This week another writer who has faded from memory—and was perhaps never given his … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Characters, Fiction, Guest, History, Noir, Novels, Writers
Tagged black mask magazine, blackmask, characters, history, literature, magazines, noir, novel, raoul whitfield, writers, writing_technique
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“The Wonderful, Terrible, Mysterious West” (by Susan Salzer)
When Susan Salzer’s March/April 2012 story “The Saint of Pox Island” was named a finalist for the Western Writers of America’s Spur Award this spring, we did a search of EQMM’s 72-year-long awards list (which you can find here, on … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Awards, Characters, Conventions, Fiction, Genre, Guest, Historicals, Noir, Western
Tagged genre, literature, magazines, mystery, noir, setting, western, wild west, writers
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“A Lifetime With Ellery Queen” (by Francis M. Nevins)
On this first day of new postings for 2013, our first order of business has got to be to wish everyone who visits our blog a happy New Year! Our first post, however, is one in which we depart from … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Ellery Queen, Guest, History, Magazine, Writers
Tagged critical work, ellery queen, elleryqueen, elleryqueenmm, francisnevins, frederic dannay, literature, magazines, manfred b lee, writers
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“Looking Back on a Half-Century Love Affair with EQMM” (by Josh Pachter)
Josh Pachter falls into an unofficial group connected to EQMM that he doesn’t mention in the following post: most valued friends of the magazine. He started out in the category we treasure most of all: devoted EQMM reader. From there, by the trail of events … Continue reading
Posted in Conventions, Editing, Guest, History, Magazine, Writers
Tagged ellery queen, elleryqueen, elleryqueenmm, eqmm, fiction, fred dannay, golden age, history, literature, magazines, manfred b lee, NYC, translation, travel, writers
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“From Noir to Julius” (by Dave Zeltserman)
Dave Zeltserman’s crime-noir novels Small Crimes and Pariah were both selected by The Washington Post as best books of the year. His short story “Julius Katz” won the Private Eye Writers of America’s Shamus Award for best P.I. story, and a second story in that series, … Continue reading
Posted in Characters, Guest, Noir, Writers
Tagged dave zeltserman, elleryqueenmm, eqmm, fiction, genre, literature, magazines, noir, private eye, writing
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Causes in Fiction
With Labor Day just past and the political season heating up, I thought I’d revisit a topic I made a post about in June 2010, on EQMM’s forum. For many people Labor Day is now nothing but an end-of-summer day … Continue reading
Posted in Editing, Fiction, Magazine, Politics
Tagged causes, current events, editing, fiction, literature, magazines, politics, publishing
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“Location, Location, Location” (by Marilyn Todd)
In my June 6th post “Taking Us There” I discussed settings from the standpoint of the character-like role they can play in a story. Marilyn Todd comes at the subject from a different angle—seeing setting as a source of inspiration. … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Guest, Setting
Tagged ancient greece, dark, ellery queen, elleryqueen, elleryqueenmm, eqmm, exotic, France, Greece, jerome, literature, locale, location, magazines, marilyn todd, noir, novel, short story, wild west, wild_west
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