Here's the news!
I think this is the first time I have had stories in four consecutive issues of my favorite periodical, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. "Professor Pie is Going to Die" is in the May/June issue but I predict a long drought before my next appearance there.
This tale is about the host of a 1960s children's TV show who returns to the city of his fame only to discover that someone is NOT a fan. I wrote pieces about my inspiration at Trace Evidence and SleuthSayers.
My story "No Exit," in Murder Most International was inspired by a trip to Barcelona. Oddly enough, it is my second story to include a phony fistfight on the Ramblas.
And speaking of world travel, I have a story in the June ish of Mystery Magazine. "The Gate of Hades" was inspired by a trip to Greece. In the Peloponnese you can see the hole which is supposed the exit from which Heracles dragged Cerberus.
Here is a picture I took of it.
My biggest news is set in the future tense. Down and Out books has revealed the cover of Crimes Against Nature: New Stories of Environmental Villainy, which will be published on October 7th. This is the first anthology I have ever edited and it includes 15 stories by some of the biggest names in the biz. More on that next time.
Finally, see below a new song.
Have a great summer!
