HAPPY NEW YEAR, DEAR READERS!
We’re celebrating our 10th Anniversary all year! Watch for monthly reprints of short stories from our first four anthologies by our Mesdames and Messieurs. We also have some exciting news and reviews to share with you this month.
NEWS AND REVIEWS
The Quarantine Review‘s Issue 14 includes both Mme Lisa de Nikolits’ Everything You Dream is Real and The Mesdames of Mayhem’s In The Spirit of 13 on their “Holiday Hotlist”.
Here’s a link: https://www.thequarantinereview.ca/main/issue14
BLOG TOUR
Join Mme Lisa de Nikolits‘ blog tour! It’s running until January 14, 2023. For more information about the blog tour, including dates and blogs, here’s the link.
https://www.silverdaggertours.com/sdsxx-tours/everything-you-dream-is-real-book-tour-and-giveaway
CONGRATULATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
Mme Melissa Yuan-Innes is celebrating the new year with her first publication in On Spec, the Canadian Magazine of the Fantastic. Her poem, “Needles”, appears in Issue #122, Vol 32, No 4.
Current Issue #122 VOL 32 No 4 | onspecmag (wpcomstaging.com)
Reviewer, Jamieson Wolf, named Melissa‘s latest book, The Shapes of Wrath, one of the best books of 2022. https://jamiesonwolf.com/2022/12/28/best-books-of-2022/
Mme Melodie Campbell’s latest post on SleuthSayers appeared on December 24th: “Not even a Mouse: If Santa doesn’t bring smiles, this might…”
https://www.sleuthsayers.org/2022/12/not-even-mouse-if-santa-doesnt-bring.html
Mme Rosemary McCracken wrote a wonderful tribute to Jack Batten, crime fiction reviewer, on her blog, Moving Target. Jack wrote his Whodunit column for nearly 24 years and he was especially supportive of the Mesdames of Mayhem, reviewing all our anthologies. Here’s the link: https://www.rosemarymccracken.website/post/batten-says-farewell
ANNOUNCEMENTS
10’TH ANNIVERSARY SHORT STORIES
To celebrate our 10th anniversary, on the 15th of each month this year, we’ll be reprinting a story by a Mme or Monsieur from our first four anthologies. We’re going alphabetically and we’re delighted that Mme Cathy Astolfo will be our first author with “The Outlier” from 13 Claws. Her story won the Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence for Best Short Story – and it’s one of the scariest stories we’ve ever read.
DERRINGER AWARDS
Reminder: Submissions for the Derringer awards open on January 1st. To submit a story, you must be a members of the Short Mystery Fiction Society by December 31, 2022. Authors may submit up to two stories and these can be their own work or those of a friend. The friend does not need to be a member of SMFS. For full details and updates, check the website.
https://shortmystery.blogspot.com/2020/09/derringer-awards-policy.html
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