N. M. Cedeño

Upcoming Publications!

In May 2024, Private Dicks and Disco Balls, an anthology of short mysteries set in the 1970s was published by Down & Out Books. Edited by Michael Bracken, this book contains my story “A Woman’s Place” and is a follow up to Groovy Gumshoes: Private Eyes in the Psychedelic Sixties (Down & Out Books 2022), in which my story “Nice Girls Don’t” was published. Both stories feature private detective Jerry Milam, an Austin-based World War II veteran and former cop who suffered a serious injury in a car wreck, leaving him with a limp and chronic pain.

Another anthology in which I have a story, Detective, Sleuths, and Nosy Neighbors was published in May 2024. My story entitled “The Ghostly Lady’s Curse” is the first story in the anthology! The story is about a young woman who knows nothing about her family history until she visits her father’s family’s ancestral home and discovers the place is considered cursed because of how many deaths occurred there. But were all those deaths accidents or were they murder?

My ghost story “A Lonely Death” is in the anthology Noncorporeal II from Inkd Publishing published in June 2024! If you like spooky stories check out this anthology. My story features a snake-bit cowboy ghost and the family whose house he inadvertently enters. Do the people see the ghost or does the ghost see the people, and why?