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News March 8, 2019

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Mar/Apr 2019

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Mar/Apr 2019 Vol. 153 No. 3 & 4, Whole No. 930 & 931
Contents
Joyce Carol Oates “The Women Friends” art by Mark Evan Walker
Kristopher Zgorski: Blog Bytes
Steve Steinbock: The Jury Box
Harley Mazuk “The Road From Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, EQMM, Janet Hutchings, Jackie Sherbow, Joyce Carol Oates,Manzanar” (Black Mask)
Liza Cody “Life and Death in T-Shirts”
Bill Pronzini “Bugs”
Michael Cowgill “Call Me Chuckles” (Dept. of First Stories)
T.A. Owen “The ABCs of the Case” (verse)
John Lantigua “The Revenge of the Puma”
Tom Tolnay “Papa’s Snowshoes”
Paul D. Marks “Fade-Out on Bunker Hill”
Scott Masear: Cartoon
Sophia Huneycutt “A Perfect Life” (Dept. of First Stories)
Peter Sellers “Closing Doors”
R.J. Koreto “The Girl on the Roof”
Susan Dunlap “Aunt Jenna Was a Spy”
Robert S. Levinson “All About Evie”
Lucy Ribchester “Mortal Thoughts”
Dean Jobb: Stranger Than Fiction (preview)
Peter Turnbull “Tom of Tinsley”
Paul Halter “The Helm of Hades” (Passport to Crime) Translated from the French by John Pugmire.
Carolyn Hart “All Kinds of Fear”
Doug Allyn “The Girls in the Fourth Row” art by Jason C. Eckhardt
Classified Marketplace
Michael Wiley “Spray”
Indicia

Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Janet Hutchings
Associate Editor: Jackie Sherbow
Senior Director Art & Production: Porter C. McKinnon
Senior AD: Victoria Green
Cover: Chris Clor

192 pages
$7.99 on newsstands until April 23, 2019
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine website
Dean Jobb’s Stranger Than Fiction

EQMM and AHMM Mystery Value Pack-8 $7.95
Mystery Double Issue Value Pack-12 $15.95
EQMM and AHMM Mystery Value Pack-16 $12.95

Uncategorized January 8, 2019

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Jan/Feb 2019

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Jan/Feb 2019 Vol. 153 #1 & 2, whole #928 & 929
Contents
Steve Hockensmith “My Christmas Story” art by Mark Evans
Ragnar Jónasson “Don’t Panic”
Hollis Seamon “Dead People’s Clothes”
Thomas Kastura “Enough is Enough” (Passport to Crime) Translated from the German by Mary Tannert
Michael Bracken “Wishing Tree”
Kristopher Zgorski: Blog Bytes
O’Neil De Noux “The Pain”
Happy Birthday, Sherlock Holmes!
Steve Steinbock: The Jury Box
Cecilia Fulton “The Father of the Corpse” (Dept. of First Stories)
A.J. Wright “Grace”
Peter Kanter: Statement of Ownership
Keith Hann “The Dragon’s Mark” art by Jason C. Eckhardt
Batya Swift Yasgur “Poof”
Simon Brett “Entries and Exits”
Brendan DuBois “Sideways Breakfast”
Mat Coward “Shall I Be Murder?
Doug Crandell “Shanty Falls”
Robert Lopresti “Please Do Not Disturb”
Lia Matera “Snow Job”
John M. Floyd “On the Road with Mary Jo”
Terence Faherty “The Cardboard Box”
David Dean “Snow Boy”
G.M. Malliet “Whiteout”
Marketplace
Dean Jobb: Stranger Than Fiction (preview)

Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Janet Hutchings
Associate Editor: Jackie Sherbow
Senior Director Art & Production: Porter C. McKinnon
Senior AD: Victoria Green
Cover: Nataša Ilinčić
Cartoon: Scott Masear
192 pages
$7.99 on newsstands until February 19, 2019
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine website
Dean Jobb’s Stranger Than Fiction

EQMM and AHMM Mystery Value Pack-8 $7.95
Mystery Double Issue Value Pack-12 $15.95
EQMM and AHMM Mystery Value Pack-16 $12.95

News November 10, 2018

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Nov/Dec 2018

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Nov/Dec 2018 Vol. 152 #5 & 6, whole #926 & 927
Contents
Michael Sears “The Honest End of Sybil Cooper” art by Jason C. Eckhardt
Steve Steinbock: The Jury Box
Bill Pronzini “Smoke Screen”
Barb Goffman “Bug Appétit”
Dennis McFadden “Lake Desolation”
O.A. Tynan “Jenny’s Necklace”
Dean Jobb: Stranger Than Fiction (preview)
John H. Dirckx “Where the Red Lines Meet”
Kristopher Zgorski: Blog Bytes
Peter Lovesey “Agony Column”
Reed Johnson “Open House”
Josh Pachter “50”
Jean-Claude Mourlevat “Take Care, Love” (Passport to Crime) Translated from the French by Samuel Ashworth
Stacy Woodson “Duty, Honor, Hammett” (Dept. of First Stories)
David Dean “Human Resources”
Susan Dunlap “A House in the Country”
Marilyn Todd “Downton Shabby” (verse)
Craig Faustus Buck “Race to Judgement”
Marilyn Todd “Long Slow Dance Through the Passage of Time”
Jehane Sharah “The Screening” (Dept. of First Stories)
Dave Zeltserman “Archie for Hire” (Julius Katz) art by Ron Bucalo
Marketplace
Anna Scotti “Krikon the Ghoul Hunter”
Index to Volumes 151 & 152—2018
2018 EQMM Readers Award Ballot

Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Janet Hutchings
Associate Editor: Jackie Sherbow
Senior Director Art & Production: Porter C. McKinnon
Senior AD: Victoria Green
Cover: Debut Art
192 pages
$7.99 on newsstands until December 18, 2018
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine website
Dean Jobb’s Stranger Than Fiction

EQMM and AHMM Mystery Value Pack-8 $7.95
Mystery Double Issue Value Pack-12 $15.95
EQMM and AHMM Mystery Value Pack-16 $12.95

News September 4, 2018

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Sep/Oct 2018

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Sep/Oct 2018 Vol. 152 #3 & 4, whole #924 & 925
Contents
S.J. Rozan “Chin Yong-Yun Helps a Fool” art by Ron Bucalo
Dean Jobb’s Stranger Than Fiction preview
Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins “The Big Run” (Black Mask)
Doug Allyn “Defender of the Dead”
Amy Myers “Murder in Aladdin’s Cave”
Kristopher Zgorski: Blog Bytes
Richard Helms “The Man With Two Grins”
Steve Steinbock: The Jury Box
Jeremy Herbert “Palmetto Springs” (Dept. of First Stories)
Nancy Novick “How Does He Die This Time?” (Dept. of First Stories)
De Paepe and Depuydt “End of the Line” (Passport to Crime) Translated from the Flemish by Josh Pachter
Jennifer Soosar “Playground of the Rich”
Lou Manfredo “Rizzo’s Gun Moll”
Marilyn Todd “First Dates Are Always the Tricky Ones”
John Lantigua “The Cuban Prisoner”
G.M. Malliet “Maui: The Road to Hana”
Tom Tolnay “Sometimes You Have to Climb a Mountain”
Twist Phelan “Game” art by Jason C. Eckhardt
Paul Charles “The Case of the Smoking Knife”
Robert S. Levinson “For the Memoir”
Scott Loring Sanders “Window to the Soul”
Classified Marketplace
Sharon Hunt “Promises to Keep”

Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Janet Hutchings
Associate Editor: Jackie Sherbow
Senior Director Art & Production: Porter C. McKinnon
Senior AD: Victoria Green
Cover: Mrsim/gettyimages.com
192 pages
$7.99 on newsstands until October 23, 2018
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine website
Dean Jobb’s Stranger Than Fiction

EQMM and AHMM Mystery Value Pack-8 $7.95
Mystery Double Issue Value Pack-12 $15.95
EQMM and AHMM Mystery Value Pack-16 $12.95

News July 2, 2018

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Jul/Aug 2018

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Jul/Aug 2018 Vol. 152 #1 & 2, whole #922 & 923
Contents
Jane Haddam “Mahadevi” art by Laurie Harden
Jon L. Breen: The Jury Box
John H. Dirckx “Officer Down”
Art Taylor “English 398: Fiction Workshop”
Sigrid Nunez “Hotel Story”
Timothy O’Leary “Made Men”
François Bloemhof “Proof” (Passport to Crime) Translated from the Afrikaans by Josh Pachter
Peter Turnbull “The Lost Contents”
Marvin Kaye writing as Archie Goodwin “Post No Bulls”
Jane Jakeman “The Pale Eyes of Winter”
Kristopher Zgorski: Blog Bytes
William Dylan Powell “Curse of the White Armadillo”
Gemma Clarke “Last Call” (Dept. of First Stories)
David Dean “The Mercy of Thaddeus Burke” (Black Mask)
Janice Law “The Professor”
Alaric Hunt “Hidden in Shadow” (Black Mask)
Peter Lovesey “Angela’s Alterations”
Louisa Luna “Edgewise”
Thomas K. Carpenter “The Lightness of Man” art by Ron Bucalo
Amy Myers “Classic Betrayal”
Classified Marketplace
Dean Jobb: Stranger than Fiction (Preview)

Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Janet Hutchings
Associate Editor: Jackie Sherbow
Senior Director Art & Production: Porter C. McKinnon
Senior AD: Victoria Green
Cover: Brian Stauffer/theispot.com
192 pages
$7.99 on newsstands until August 21, 2018
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine website

EQMM and AHMM Mystery Value Pack-8 $7.95
Mystery Double Issue Value Pack-12 $15.95
EQMM and AHMM Mystery Value Pack-16 $12.95

Interviews June 18, 2018

AHMM or EQMM?

In May 2017, I asked author B.K. Stevens about the differences between Alfred Hitchcock’s and Ellery Queen’s mystery magazines. Here is her response from her interview that appears in The Digest Enthusiast book six:

“I don’t see sharp differences between the two digests—they’re both excellent mystery magazines, and I enjoy them both and have friends who write for each. Some people say AHMM is more open to stories with paranormal elements; I’ve never done a careful comparison, but that rings true. It hasn’t really been a consideration for me, though, since I didn’t write my first story with a paranormal element until recently. (It’s called “One-Day Pass,” and I’m happy to say AHMM accepted it a couple of months ago. But it’s an old-fashioned ghost story, rather than a story featuring trendier creatures such as zombies or shape-shifters—I think either magazine would be open to that sort of story.) It may also be that AHMM is more open to over-the-top humor, which I love. Again, though, I’ve never made a real comparison.”

Stevens’ “One-Day Pass” appears in the May/June 2018 edition of AHMM.

TDE Update May 17, 2018

Michael Bracken Interview

Award-winning author and copywriter, Michael Bracken, delivers a terrific 17-page interview for The Digest Enthusiast book eight. Michael is the author of over 1,200 short stories and several novels. He garnered the Edward D. Hoch Memorial Golden Derringer Award for lifetime achievement in short mystery fiction in 2016. Shown here is the opening spread that kicks off the discussion that includes career highlights, writing tips and techniques, and comments on his stories from Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, Espionage, Weird Menace, AHMM, Mystery Weekly Magazine, EQMM, Needle, Down & Out: The Magazine, Black Cat Mystery Magazine, and others. TDE8 is coming soon.

Note: Photography by Amber Bracken.

News May 13, 2018

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine May/Jun 2018

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine May/Jun 2018 Vol. 151 #5 & 6, whole #920 & 921
Contents
Doug Allyn “Big Blue Marble” art by Ron Bucalo
Steve Steinbock: The Jury Box
E. Gabriel Flores “La Loca Bella”
Peter Sellers “The Cooler”
Hollis Seamon “It’s Never Just the Wind”
Paul Halter “The Fires of Hell” (Passport to Crime) Translated from the French by John Pugmire
Richard Helms “The King of Gonna”
Sherry Lalonde “Garden-Variety Criminal” (Dept. of First Stories)
William Hallstead “Booked”
Steve Hockensmith “Where the Strange Ones Go”
Susan Dunlap “A Day at the Beach”
2017 Readers Award
R.T. Raichev “A Chronicle of Deaths Foretold”
Benjamin Percy “Suspect Zero”
Majorie Eccles “The Painter’s Wife” art by Laurie Harden
Maaja Wentz “Inside of a Dog” (Dept. of First Stories)
Bill Pronzini “A Time of Fury”
Hilary Davidson “Answered Prayers”
Tim Baker “Fatal Fog” (Black Mask)
Carlos Orsi “The Glass Floor”
Classified Marketplace
Kristopher Zgorski: Blog Bytes
Dean Jobb: Stranger than Fiction (Preview)

Publisher: Peter Kanter
Editor: Janet Hutchings
Associate Editor: Jackie Sherbow
Senior Director Art & Production: Porter C. McKinnon
Senior AD: Victoria Green
Cover: Anna & Elena Balbusso/The iSpot.com
192 pages
$7.99 on newsstands until June 19, 2018
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine website

Opening Lines March 20, 2018

Opening Lines

Selected from a digest featured in The Digest Enthusiast book five:

“The telephone was ringing when I walked into my office. I thought I knew who it was, but I tossed my hat on the desk and answered it anyway.”
“Gorilla of the Gasbags” by Bill Crider EQMM Mar/Apr 2014

Interviews March 18, 2018

Bill Crider’s Blog Bytes

EQMM August 2007 cover — EQMM August 2007 with Bill Crider’s first Blog Bytes column

The Jan/Feb 2018 issue of EQMM may have been the last issue to feature Bill Crider’s long running column: Blog Bytes. Here’s what he said about it in our interview for The Digest Enthusiast five:

“I’m not sure how ‘Blog Bytes’ came about, as I inherited the column from Ed Gorman, who called me and asked me to take over for him. I suspect that the column was the idea of the EQMM editor, Janet Hutchings, who wanted to start making some connections with the online world, but it could have been Ed’s idea. When I agreed to do the column (in 2007; hard to believe it’s been almost 10 years), Ed sent me some of his columns to look at. They were all between 400–415 words, so I’ve stuck to that with my own column.

“The only thing that worried me about doing the column was whether there would be enough new blogs and websites to keep it going. I needn’t have worried. Another thing that occurred to me a few years ago was that some blogs deserved a repeat mention because people might have missed the first one or might have forgotten about it. So I now lead with a repeat each time.”

EQMM cover image from Galactic Central.