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Mark S. Bacon

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Mystery writer and journalist; former newspaper police reporter.

9:25 am - January 30, 2013 -

Index to online flash fiction

Several stores from Cops, Crooks & Other Stories in 100 Words have appeared in online literary magazines over the past year.  Here is a list (with links) including the current issue of 100 Word Story plus two reprints from Flashshot.

 Stymie, A Journal of Sport and Literature

The Light in Coach Morgan’s Office

 Micro Horror

Never an Empty Seat at Maggie’s

 101 Words

Details

Southern Duo

 100 Word Story

Walking Alone

Just an Accident

 

Flashshot

 

NEXT WEEK begins a two-part series on writing flash fiction.  The stories are based on interviews with three writers who share their stories and their techniques for creating flashy fiction.

 

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7:31 am - January 23, 2013 -

Coming soon to an iPhone near you

Ether Books will soon be publishing Mysteries & Murder a collection of my mystery and crime flash fiction stories as an iPhone app.  You download the app and read the stories at your leisure, right on your phone.  (Almost) each one is exactly 100 words.   The book should be available about Feb. 8.  Look for it at www.etherbooks.com

Some of the stories are taken from Cops, Crooks & Other Stories in 100 Words, others are new to this collection.  Check out The Blond Bombshell Case, The Detective Sergeant’s Wife Problem, and many more stories.

If you have a phoMysteries & Murder coverne with the Android operating system, Ether Books will soon have book apps for you.  Check back at etherbooks.com.

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11:37 am - January 16, 2013 -

Not whodunit, who wrote it

How do fictional detectives get their names?  Is it the writer’s history?  Are they descriptive of the character’s personality?  What would that say about Joe Nesbo’s  Harry Hole?  Are private eye names designed to be remembered?

Can you remember who created some of the most famous characters in detective fiction?  Try this quiz.  Each question is the name of a fictional detective.  Select the author who created him or her.  Answers next week.

1. Philip Marlowe

a. Robert B. Parker

b. Raymond Chandler

c. Dashiell Hammett

d. Mickey Spillane

 

 

2. Kinsey Millhone

a. Diane Mott Davidson

b. Sara Paretski

c. Susan Wittig Albert

d. Sue Grafton

 

 

3.  Auguste Dupin

a. Edgar Allen Poe

b. Georges Simenon

c. Fodor Dostoyevsky

d. Leslie Charteris

 

 

4. Jackson Brodie

a. Kate Ross

b.  J.A. Jance

c. Amanda Quick

d. Kate Atkinson

 

 

 

5. Sgt. Jim Chee

a. Nevada Barr

b. Robert Barnard

c. Josephine Tey

d. Tony Hillerman

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