Sunday, February 18, 2018

Some very good news:
My story, “Windward,” from the anthology Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea (Down and Out Books), has been selected to be in The Best American Mysteries of 2018 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), by editors Louise Penny and Otto Penzler. Which is really cool, and a huge surprise.


A list of all the authors:
Louis Bayard, Banana Triangle Six, published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
Andrew Bourelle, Y Is for Yangchuan Lizard, published in D Is for Dinosaur, edited by Rhonda Parrish
T.C. Boyle, The Designee, published in the Iowa Review
Michael Bracken, Smoked, published in Noir at the Salad Bar, edited by Verena Rose, Harriette Sackler, and Shawn Reilly Simmons
Burke, James Lee, The Wild Side of Life, published in the Southern Review
Lee Child, Too Much Time, published in No Middle Name
Michael Connelly, The Third Panel, published in Alive in Shape and Color, edited by Lawrence Block
John Floyd, Gun Work, published in Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea, edited by Andrew McAleer and Paul D. Marks
David Edgerley Gates, Cabin Fever, published in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
Charlaine Harris, Small Signs, published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
Rob Hart, Take-Out, published in MysteryTribune
David H. Hendrickson, Death in the Serengeti, published in Fiction River, edited by Kevin J. Anderson
Andrew Klavan, All Our Yesterdays, published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
Martin Limon, PX Christmas, published in The Usual Santas, edited by Peter Lovesey
Paul D. Marks, Windward, published in Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea, edited by Andrew McAleer and Paul D. Marks
Joyce Carol Oates, Phantomwise: 1972, published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
Alan Orloff, Rule Number One, published in Snowbound, edited by Verena Rose, Harriette Sackler, and Shawn Reilly Simmons
William Dylan Powell, The Apex Predator, published in Switchblade
Scott Loving Sanders, Waiting on Joe, published in Shooting Creek and Other Stories
Brian Silverman, Breadfruit, published in MysteryTribune