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Recent Posts
Tag Archives: short stories
“Discovering a Character” (by Melodie Johnson Howe)
Melodie Johnson Howe’s fiction has been recognized at both novel and short-story length with nominations for the Edgar, Anthony, Agatha, and Barry Awards. Though her output is not large, she is one of our genre’s most dependable writers in terms … Continue reading →
Posted in Characters, Fiction, Guest
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Tagged characters, elleryqueen, elleryqueenmm, fiction, literature, novel, short stories, short story, story_to_novel, writers, writing_technique
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“Black Mask Magazine, Steve Fisher, and The Noir Revolution” by Keith Alan Deutsch
Keith Alan Deutsch is publisher and conservator of Black Mask Magazine, a publication that has a long-established connection to EQMM. He is also the co-author of several reference and scholarly books relating to Black Mask, hardboiled, and noir fiction. They … Continue reading →
Posted in Guest, History, Magazine, Noir
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Tagged black mask, ellsworth, fiction, film, hardboiled, magazines, noir, print, pulp, short stories, steve fisher, woolrich
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“You Are What You Read” (by Jonathan Santlofer)
A bestselling crime novelist and winner of the Nero Wolfe Award, Jonathan Santlofer only turned to writing fiction after he’d become well known as a painter. He has been the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts painting grants … Continue reading →
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Tagged authors, CFA, class, crime fiction academy, crime writing, edgar, edgar_allan_poe, elleryqueenmm, eqmm, hammett, jonathan santlofer, literature, noir, poe, publish, short stories, short story, woolrich, writers
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Taking Us There
Many of my own happy memories of Ed Hoch resurfaced with Doug Greene’s post about the much-missed author on this blog last week. Ed and I spoke almost every week over the seventeen years we worked together as writer and … Continue reading →
Posted in Fiction
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Tagged ed hoch, Edgar Awards, edhoch, ellery queen, elleryqueen, exotic, literature, locale, location, mystery, publishing, setting, short stories, short story, writers, writing_technique
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“The Moment of Decision” — Perched on the Edge of What Happens Next (by Art Taylor)
This week, as promised, we have a post by Art Taylor, a writer whose reviews and critical essays are regularly featured in magazines and newspapers. The authors whose work he discusses here are some of my favorites (and I hope … Continue reading →
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Tagged arttaylor, ellery queen, eqmm, johnupdike, magazines, MWA, mystery, noir, publishing, short stories, stanleyellin, suspense, writers
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Two Awards Ceremonies
On Thursday, April 26, 2012, the Mystery Writers of America held its annual Edgar Allan Poe Awards dinner in New York. It was a special night for Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and our sister publication Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. Two … Continue reading →
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Tagged Agatha, awards, Edgar Awards, ellery queen, eqmm, magazines, Malice Domestic, MWA, short stories
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SOMETHING IS GOING TO HAPPEN 