Just a reminder that you can meet me and others who write crime, sci-fi, fantasy, and other genres and in various media at the 2025 Creatures, Crimes & Creativity Conference, starting on Sept. 19, 2025, in Columbia, MD.
I’ll be on the Friday morning panel on screenwriting.
But I’ll also be signing my own hooks after the panel and during the big group signing.
I’ll also be reading at Noir at the Bar. A little something that just meets the word count (more or less). Never before published, including here.
Awards
Congratulations to the Bouchercon New Orleans 2025 Anthony Award Nominees
2025 Shamus Award Winners via the Private Eye Writers of America.
2025 Derringer Awards: Short Mystery Fiction Society Awards via Mystery Fanfare.
Agatha Award Winners 2025 via Lesa’s Book Critiques.
2025 Anthony Awards Nominees via Locus.
“Women’s crime writing has come of age”: Sisters in Crime’s 25th Davitt Awards winners announced.
Pictures from that event here.
Book Reviews
Aubrey Nye Hamilton Reviews: Bump and Run: A Wade Durham Novel by Richard Helms
Excerpts
The First Two Pages: “Swan Club” by Anne Laughlin
Flash Fiction
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