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Use our “Announce It” form to notify The Short Order of any and all Mystery, Short Story, Writing, Website, and Event Announcements. You can use the form provided or send the information via email. We ask that you "package" the announcement together into one or more brief paragraphs and send it along to the Editor. Please make it as short and sweet as possible without sacrificing any info; names, dates, email addresses, website URL's, etc. Announcements are the responsibility of the Announcee and The Short Order takes no responsibility for any mis-information. Current Announcements are listed below.
Previous Announcements: Vol 3 Num 1 -- April 1999 Announcements
Also check the SMFS email discussion list for mystery related Announcements. Other Previous Announcements: Vol 1 Num 4 -- September 1997 Announcements
Vol 2 Num 2 -- July 1998 Announcements
Vol 2 Num 3 -- November 1998 Announcements ### |
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11/20/99 Name = anthony neil smith
Email Address = mailto:ansmith@netdoor.com
Event Location = PLOTS WITH GUNS!
Info URL = http://www2.netdoor.com/~ansmith
Description = We have just published the winter issue of Plots With Guns online. Great new fiction. Drop by, read something.
We're always open for submissions. Check the site for guidelines--make sure what you want to send is what we're looking for. ### >> October 1999
>> SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
>> NEFARIOUS -- Tales of Mystery
The Windjammer Company is pleased to announce a Call for Submissions for a new Mystery theme website currently in production. "NEFARIOUS -- Tales of Mystery" is a new website dedicated to fans of Mystery of all genres -- fiction and non-fiction. Scheduled to go live on the World Wide Web at the end of October or in November 1999, NEFARIOUS -- Tales of Mystery will be publishing mystery Fiction, mystery Fact, and maybe even mystery Fantasy (if there is such a thing?). We are looking for authors and artists working in the Mystery field to contribute to the website. For further information see our Submission Guidelines at the URL below or email ( ned@thewindjammer.com ) for a copy of the guidelines.
Submission Guidelines: http://www.thewindjammer.com/html/submissions.html
The Windjammer Company: http://www.thewindjammer.com/
Thank You for your time and interest in NEFARIOUS -- Tales of Mystery.
R.K.Foster
Editor, NEFARIOUS -- Tales of Mystery ### 10/10/99 Name = Mary C. Dalton
Email Address = marydalt@juno.com
Event Dates = February 4 - 6, 2000
Event Location = Embassy Suites Hotel, Schaumburg, IL Description = Plans for the 2nd Annual "Love is Murder" Conference for writers (and readers) of mystery, suspense and thriller fiction are underway! Join authors Barb D'Amato, Hugh Holton, Eleanor Taylor Bland, Michael Allen Dymmoch and many others for a weekend that includes a High Tea Tribute to Daphne Du Maurier, talks and panels on short story mysteries, the Supernatural As Muse, Writing Mysteries for Children, and others, as well as visits by agents, editors, forensic experts, pychologists, and other "field" authorities. Cost: $155 covers meals and events. For more information send e-mail inquiry to mystery@harper.cc.il.us or marydalt@juno.com. ### 10/10/99 Short Order subscriber Scott Nicholson won the grand prize in the Writers of the Future contest. Nicholson received $6000 in prize and publication money for his winning story "The Vampire Shortstop." The contest was judged by best-selling SF/F writers including Anne McCaffrey, Larry Niven, and Algis Budrys. The story appears in the anthology Writers of the Future Vol XV.
nicholson@boone.net
Visit The Haunted Computer at http://users.boone.net/nicholson ###
10/06/1999 Announcement Type = Blatant Self Promotion
Name = Michael Tombs
Email Address = Michael.Tombs@tesco.net
Info URL = http://michael_tombs.tripod.com/WritersQuotes.html
Description = Professional and amateur writers alike can draw inspiration from 'The Writers Daily Quote'. This daily newsletter features a quotation about writers and the art of writing, language, literature and books. The service is free, and e-mail addresses are NEVER divulged to third parties. Give it a try! ###
Thu, 9 Sep 1999 I want to share the good news that my story, KILL LEADER, a noirish tale of vengeance, violence and volleyball, can be read on Plots With Guns
http://www2.netdoor.com/~ansmith/
I hope you enjoy it. Mark Troy <metroy@tamu.edu>
http://www.tamu.edu/marshome/staff_pages/murder.html ### I have an interview with crime/thriller writer James W. Hall posted at http://users.boone.net/nicholson/ghostwr11.htm.
Scott Nicholson
nicholson@boone.net
Visit The Haunted Computer at http://users.boone.net/nicholson ### |
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8/5/99 Plots With Guns, Fall 99
We've just posted the latest issue of Plots With Guns, an internet crime writing journal, at http://www2.netdoor.com/~ansmith
This issue, fiction from L.C. Mohr, Art Montague, Russ Miller, and Elisabeth Clark. Plus, 3 stories held over from the summer issue, including a Charlie the Hook story from Victor Gischler, whose work is forthcoming in Best American Mystery Stories 1999.
We're always looking for new hardboiled crime fiction and poetry (there is too such a thing), as long as there's a gun in it. Our submission guidelines are available on the site.
Drop by, give it a spin.
Neil Smith
ansmith@netdoor.com
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8/12/99
Dear Mystery Reader,
"Outlined in Chalk" is publishing later than usual this month in honor of Peter Straub's MR. X contest, which launches today. Last month, Peter Straub offered Outlined in Chalk readers the first chapter of his upcoming book, MR. X. Well the book is in stores now, and you can win a signed copy by visiting the MR. X Web site:
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/peterstraub/
(Starting this week, 5 signed copies will be given away each week for the next 6 weeks.)
Want to win a trip to the Edgar Awards in New York? Want to become a published mystery author, too? Finish a short mystery story by James Ellroy, author of CRIME WAVE, and you could be the winner of the VINTAGE CRIME/BLACK LIZARD Finish the Mystery Contest!
http://www.randomhouse.com/vintage/blacklizard/
Anson Lang
alang@randomhouse.com
http://www.randomhouse.com/books/mystery
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8/27/99
Blue Murder Magazine is proud to announce our new sister publication, BLUE FICTION MAGAZINE. This on-line pub is a paying market and will feature general short fiction and serialized novellas.
First issue launches October 30, 1999. BFM is now accepting fiction submissions for consideration. For queries and guidelines, please go to:
http://www.bluefiction.com
Or, email the editor, Troy Dufrene at words@bluefiction.com.
Best,
David Firks
Blue Murder Magazine
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8/11/99
Murder Mystery Weekends
My wife and I own a Bed & Breakfast in Southern Vermont. We are about 4 hours northeast of the New York City metropolitan area. We host Murder Mystery weekends throughout the year for individuals as well as for corporate and private groups. We have been doing them for about a year now and have found them to be a wonderful way to bring in guests. The people who attend are uniquely curious, highly educated and very open to leaving the "real" world behind for a weekend of fun, laughs and, of course, murder.
Debbie & John Bailey
Innkeepers
The Austin Hill Inn
austinhi@sover.net
http://www.Austinhillinn.com
Phone:1-800-332-RELAX (7352)
Alt Phone: 1-802-464-5281
Fax: 1-802-464-1229
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Deadly Alibi Press is publishing a collection of my Amelia Watson stories, soon to be available (Christmastime or thereabouts). Most of the stories have appeared in the pages of MIMM, some in a slightly different form, though there is one original tale in the collection, and for those who know Amelia, its revelations might be shockers!
Michael Mallory <m-mallory@email.msn.com>
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8/18/99
My name is Judy Lineberger and I am an online illustrator who has recently illustrated e-book jackets and other e-book illustrations that will also go into print. Should you or any of your authors choose to enhance their work by original illustration, I would like to be considered.
You can see my style work on my website at ( http://www.telltalesinc.com ).
Thank you for your time and consideration.
Judy
Writer4750@aol.com
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