Karen Harrington

Bits of reviews describing the short story collection WHATEVER KILLS THE PAIN by C.W. Blackwell as "A LIVE WIRE" "A TREMENDOUS READ" "HITS IT OUT OF THE PARK" "A STIFF SHOT OF NOIR"

A HUGE shoutout to everyone who has bought, rated, reviewed, or helped spread the word about WHATEVER KILLS THE PAIN. The response has been beyond wonderful. Thank you!

I read BEARTOOTH this summer and loved it.

Next month we're opening subs galore.

DAYDREAM BELIEVER: Stories Inspired by the Songs of the Monkees edited by @lawrenceallen.bsky.social and @michellekubitz.bsky.social

Shotgun Honey Books - short and full length novels.

One Eye Press - novellas and short fiction.

Flash fiction.

Mark Stevens' inspiration for his new mystery came "in a flash" — in 2001 The author tells how books he wrote since then informed his new release, "No Lie Lasts Forever" — and why we're fascinated by serial killers.

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Things are heating up at That Noise at 2 AM, where we’re talking to the one and only S.A. Cosby about Southern fiction, funeral homes, and his new novel, KING OF ASHES.

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Writing tip.

Scattered, Smothered, Covered & Chunked: Crime Fiction Inspired by Waffle House Scattered, Smothered, Covered & Chunked: Crime Fiction Inspired by Waffle House - Kindle edition by Bracken, Michael, Woodson, Stacy. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Scattered, Smothered, Covered & Chunked: Crime Fiction Inspired by Waffle House.

Coming this Wednesday on my blog is my #Review of this one. #Anthology amzn.to/3YQKPO0

Anyone looking for good #murder #mystery on #booksky, this is the one!

@meproctor.bsky.social is an author to follow!

The Dairy Queen in Cleburne shortly after it opened in 1947.

Hard to write when this cute girl keeps asking me to play. :)

"I don't understand why this book is taking so long to write!" I say after finishing one chapter and rewarding myself with a large cake and a three year nap.

Wait. What? #booksky #writing

It's pub day for TROUBLE IN TEXAS, the 4th anthology from Sisters in Crime North Dallas. My story is "You Know What You Did" - Mysterious billboards appear along Highway 380, designed to expose a Texas family. But who put them there and why?
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So excited for this!

It's pub day for TROUBLE IN TEXAS, the 4th anthology from Sisters in Crime North Dallas. My story is "You Know What You Did" - Mysterious billboards appear along Highway 380, designed to expose a Texas family. But who put them there and why?
www.amazon.com/Trouble-Texa...

#34: Five for Them, One for Me, with C.W. Blackwell C.W.'s latest, WHATEVER KILLS THE PAIN, is out July 18. It's available for pre-order now.

Before we get busy building guillotines, That Noise at 2 AM is talking to @cwblackwell.bsky.social about his excellent new short story collection, WHATEVER KILLS THE PAIN—out July 18, published by @rhppress.bsky.social.

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on my way to Amazon.....:)

An Interview with Sudha Balagopal - SmokeLong Quarterly In 2024 SmokeLong hosted our second SmokeLong Workshop Prize competition. Our workshop participants reported almost 300 publications to us before November 1, 2024. In 2025, we’ll be featuring one writ...

Today on the blog we have SmokeLong Workshop Prize long-listee @sudhab.bsky.social talking about her story "We Have Little Time Left”, published by Atlas + Alice and written from a Fitness workshop prompt about bodies ⭐ www.smokelong.com/an-interview...

Cover of the March/April 2025 issue of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, the first edited by new eic Jackie Sherbow

For my latest newsletter, I spoke with Jackie Sherbow, the new editor-in-chief of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine — and only the 4th in its entire history: buttondown.com/thecrimelady...

Interesting.

Interesting.

Awesome! I can't wait to read it.

Fellow writers, go get this. It is so inspiring when the well is dry.

David Foster Wallace's 5 Rules For Great Writing David Foster Wallace has some great nuggets of wisdom here.

David Foster Wallace's 5 Rules for Great Writing
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Is this true for you, too? #writingcommunity

The Sisters in Crime North Dallas chapter just shared the cover reveal for our upcoming anthology and it's fire! I have a new story in it called "You Know What You Did." It's out April 15.

The Sisters in Crime North Dallas chapter just shared the cover reveal for our upcoming anthology and it's fire! I have a new story in it called "You Know What You Did." It's out April 15.

Watched this terrific talk - 7 Secrets of Publishing Short Stories from @charliefish.bsky.social . Lots of great info! Highly recommend.

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