Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Bouchercon 2025 Panel: Short Stories: Creating Memorable Characters


 I am lucky enough to be moderating a panel at Bouchercon in New Orleans next month.  I created a poster.

Sunday, July 13, 2025

Sunday, May 11, 2025

Shanks Gets Lost


 I believe "Shanks Gets Lost" is the 34th appearance by my grouchy mystery writer.  He shows up in Black Cat Weekly, 193.

Sunday, March 16, 2025

The Chortling Man


 I have a story in the new issue of Black Cat Weekly, #185. "The Chortling Man" is a sequel to "The Accessories Club," which Otto Penzler put in his list of Distinguished Stories the year it came out. Both stories are about a retired cop who finds himself a member of a club of criminals who try to figure out how each one committed a crime... a sort of reverse of Agatha Christie's Tuesday Club Murders, or Asimov's Black Widowers.

Monday, February 24, 2025

That One Friend


 And we are starting the year off right.  "That One Friend" is in #182 of Black Cat Weekly, thanks to editor Barb Goffman.

Saturday, January 4, 2025

The Nurse Log


 In preparing my review of the year I discovered that I hadn't given this story its own mention.  "The Nurse Log" appeared in Agatha and Derringer Get Cozy. My fifth anthologized tale of 2024.