PURCHASE LINK: CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT The 1970s! Disco! Abba! The Eagles! Richard Nixon. The end of the Vietnam War. Women’s Rights. And, umm, yeah, other stuff. I was born mid-decade and have no real memories of the 1970s. Writing about the 1970s, for me, isn’t a matter of “write …
PURCHASE LINK: BLACK CAT WEEKLY ; AMAZON; find it also on various library ebook services My story entitled “A Matter of Trust” was published in Black Cat Weekly #110 on October 8, 2023, via editor Michael Bracken. The story features genetic genealogy private investigator Maya Laster who first appeared in …
PURCHASE LINK: BLACK CAT WEEKLY ; AMAZON ; VARIOUS LIBRARY SERVICES I admit that the ending of my story “Short-Term Murder” in issue #88 of Black Cat Weekly may include wishful thinking. The plot of the story revolves around a murder in a short-term vacation rental in a neighborhood. Two …
PURCHASE LINK: BLACK CAT WEEKLY ; AMAZON ; Submitting short stories to markets and getting the right story in the hands of the right editor at the right publisher to fit with other stories in a given anthology or magazine is like tossing dice. Or maybe I’m throwing proverbial spaghetti …
PURCHASE LINK: BOOKSHOP.ORG ; AMAZON My father is the family genealogist. He did extensive research into both his family and my mother’s family. Dad’s family is rather straightforward—all arriving in Texas in the 1870s and 1880s from what is now the Czech Republic. My mother’s mother was Irish American. Her …
PURCHASE LINK: AMAZON ; BLACK CAT WEEKLY ; The fact that the victim in my story entitled “Merry Library Murder” is a librarian is not a sign of hidden hostility or wishful thinking. Rather, the opposite is true. I set the story in a library because I spend a lot …
PURCHASE LINK: AMAZON ; By N.M. Cedeño People like to ask writers, do you ever use details from your life in your writing? Answer: Sometimes. It depends on what I’m writing. If I’m writing science fiction or noir, nothing in the story may be evocative of my life. Other times, …
PURCHASE LINK: BLACK CAT WEEKLY ; AMAZON “Serenity, Courage, Wisdom” is a crime fiction short story set in New Orleans. The title is inspired by a prayer that my parents had on the wall in their kitchen. The story features a medical student named Flor faced with the loss of …
PURCHASE LINK: CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT In 2020, I came across a call for submissions for mystery short stories to be included in an anthology. The anthology was to be called Groovy Gumshoes: Private Eyes in the Psychedelic Sixties. The editor, Michael Bracken, wanted stories set in the 1960s featuring …
PURCHASE LINK: AMAZON ; BOOKSHOP.ORG Print ; BOOKSHOP.ORG ebook ; Barnes & Noble ; and many other sites I have a story in Crimeucopia: Say What Now? entitled “Reaching for the Moon.” What’s it about? An anonymous astronaut in the Apollo program wanders from Houston to Galveston and gets himself …
