Two bits of exciting short story news to report:
1. My locked room mystery story "The Hindi Houdini" has been nominated for a Macavity Award! The award is given out by Mystery Readers International at the Bouchercon mystery convention in October.
This is the short story that appears in Fish Nets: The Second Guppy Anthology, and was nominated for an Agatha Award earlier this year. In “The Hindi Houdini,” magician Sanjay Rai, aka The Hindi Houdini, solves a locked room mystery at the Napa Valley winery theater where he performs.
Best Mystery Short Story Macavity Nominees:
2. "The Haunted Room," a Jaya Jones locked room mystery story, will appear in the Bouchercon 2014 Anthology.
If you subscribe to my email newsletter, you got a sneak peak of an earlier version of "The Haunted Room."
The Bouchercon 2014 anthology will include stories by:
Thank you to everyone who congratulated me on social media over the last couple of weeks! I always thought I was rather old fashioned because of my love of impossible crime stories that were quite popular during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, so it's really fun to see that people are enjoying my locked room mysteries.
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| Locked room mystery "The Hindi Houdini" appears in FISH NETS: The Second Guppy Anthology, published in 2013. |
This is the short story that appears in Fish Nets: The Second Guppy Anthology, and was nominated for an Agatha Award earlier this year. In “The Hindi Houdini,” magician Sanjay Rai, aka The Hindi Houdini, solves a locked room mystery at the Napa Valley winery theater where he performs.
Best Mystery Short Story Macavity Nominees:
- Reed Farrel Coleman: "The Terminal" (Kwik Krimes, edited by Otto Penzler; Thomas & Mercer)
- John Connolly: "The Caxton Private Lending Library & Book Depository" (Bibliomysteries: Short Tales about Deadly Books, edited by Otto Penzler; Bookspan)
- Martin Limon: "The Dragon's Tail" (Nightmare Range: The Collected Sueno and Bascom Short Stories, Soho Books)
- Gigi Pandian: "The Hindi Houdini" (Fish Nets: The Second Guppy Anthology, edited by Ramona DeFelice Long; Wildside Press)
- Travis Richardson: "Incident on the 405" (The Malfeasance Occasional: Girl Trouble, edited by Clare Toohey; Macmillan)
- Art Taylor: "The Care and Feeding of Houseplants" (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March/April 2013)
2. "The Haunted Room," a Jaya Jones locked room mystery story, will appear in the Bouchercon 2014 Anthology. If you subscribe to my email newsletter, you got a sneak peak of an earlier version of "The Haunted Room."
The Bouchercon 2014 anthology will include stories by:
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| "The Haunted Room" will appear in the Bouchercon anthology, coming in October 2014. |
- Patricia Abbott
- Roger R. Angle
- Craig Faustus Buck
- Bill Cameron
- Judith Cutler
- Ray Daniel
- Phillip Depoy
- Sharon Fiffer
- Delaney Green
- Eldon Hughes
- Tanis Mallow
- Krista Nave
- Gigi Pandian
- Jeffery Deaver
- Edward Marston
- Al Abramson
Thank you to everyone who congratulated me on social media over the last couple of weeks! I always thought I was rather old fashioned because of my love of impossible crime stories that were quite popular during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, so it's really fun to see that people are enjoying my locked room mysteries.