The Cage

 

It has been a bizarre week at the Lopresti house.  On Monday my story "The Cage" appeared in Better Off Dead, Vol. 1: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Elton John and Bernie Taupin.I also wrote about it last week at SleuthSayers.

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.

The Trouble WIth Lucy

 My story "The Trouble With Lucy" appears in Black Cat Weekly, #202.

 

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.

Links for the Short Mystery Fiction Society

 I will be interviewed at the Short Mystery Fiction Society Watercooler this Thursday, so here are links to a few websites I will no doubt discuss.

 A Completely Unhelpful Guide to Being Published in Japan

Bouchercon 2023: What Librarians Wish Readers and Writers Knew... RESOURCES

A Textbook Case: Advice for Fiction Writers

Little Big Crimes

Robert Lopresti Authorfella  

 

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.

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.