My first middle grade short story, "The Haunted Typewriter," is out today! Super Puzzlestastic Mysteries: Short Stories for Young Sleuths from Mystery Writers of America, is a Mystery Writers of America anthology edited by the super-puzzletastic (and overall super guy) Chris Grabenstein.

The middle grade short story collection features 20 mysteries starring young sleuths from terrific kidlit authors including Bryan Patrick Avery, Fleur Bradley, Sheela Chari, Lamar Giles, Steve Hockensmith, Peter Lerangis, Kate Milford, James Ponti, and Chris Grabenstein (who’s also the editor).

It's a really fun collection for kids (and kids at heart!), because each of the stories presents all the clues, and challenges the reader to guess the solution before they turn to the back of the book for the solutions.

My story is a locked room mystery (of course!).

In “The Haunted Typewriter,” 11-year-old Tara Chandran and her best friend Kevin Byrne have just formed a detective agency to solve a theft in their apartment building. But now they have an even bigger mystery to solve—an old fashioned typewriter sealed in a locked room begins typing coded messages. With the help of the stage magician who lives next door (The Hindi Houdini), Tara and Kevin must crack the code to discover whether the typewriter is truly haunted.