When Women Didn't Count gets used

Big event for me today.  I was in the Research and Writing Studio in the library today, helping a student with a sociology project.  I realized that he might be helped by a quotation I mention in my new book which Praeger will be publishing in late June.

I happened to have it on a flash drive in my pocket so I slapped it into the computer and pulled up the PDF.  I found the quotation, found the citation, and checked it in the bibliography.  They all worked (yay!) and I quickly linked to the source of the quotation.  The student was amazed.  "I can't believe the government was studying this subject in 1870!"

They were.  And guess what?  When Women Didn't Count just received its first research use..

SMFS and Shanks

The Short Mystery Fiction Society is celebrating Short Story Month.  Today they call out "Shanks Holds The Line," which is available for free here.   Thanks, SMFS!

Nakhshon in the Washington Independent Review of BOoks

The Washington Independent Review of Books highlighted the nominees for the Agatha Award for Best Short Story, and invited them to "suggest an additional story — a recent favorite — for readers here to seek out, with bonus points for any resonance or connections with their own works."

B.K. Stevens, nominated for her excellent story "The Last Blue Glass," had this to say:

When I looked for a story “connected” to mine, I thought of Robert Lopresti’s “Nakhshon,” published in Jewish Noir. In both stories, someone others see as helpless gets caught up in a wrenching situation and decides to strike back. The situations and the decisions are very different, but both characters face tough, potentially deadly dilemmas.

Take a Box escapes

A friend told me today that a friend of hers was at some kind of musical/religious retreat recently and someone said "This song is by Rob Lopresti.  I think he lives in Bellingham."  And sang this one.  It's always nice when one of my little darlings sprouts wings and flies away from home.

Lopresti Italiano

From Sherlock Magazine:

In attesa del suo romanzo presto edito in Italia, l'autore americano torna con un altro suo ottimo racconto sulla prestigiosa Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.

So now you know.

Today in Mystery History in EQMM

Bill Crider is a wonderful writer and an all-around nice guy. This is the first paragraph of his Blog Bytes column in the latest Ellery Queen's: "Since this is the January/February issue of EQMM, it's time to think of calendars and to remind you of Rob Lopresti's Today in Mystery History. It was updated only intermittently toward the end of 2016, but perhaps it will return to its regular daily schedule in 2017. You'll find authors' birthdays, dates of first publication of famous crime stories and novels, dates well-known crime movies opened, and more. That's the kind of trivia that's hard to resist."

Black Orchid Memories

At Trace Evidence, the Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine blog, they asked winners of the Black Orchid Novella Award to tell what they remember about the event.  I am proud to be included.