The Private Eye Writers Bulletin Board

Word on the street is…

This is something new-ish I’m trying out here, but it really depends on you. If you’re a private eye writer, and you’ve got something in a private eye vein coming out in the next little while, please let me know via email, DM or just use the Comments Section on this page, and I’ll post it here. All I ask is that you keep it short, keep it pithy and keep it relevant (ie: P.I.-related). If you’re not sure, check out What the hell is a private eye, anyway?

Don’t worry–I’ve got plenty of thumb tacks.

Also, let me know what you think about this idea…

Sara Bickley
Long-time reader, first-time caller’s 1940s pastiche “Snow White and Rose Red,” in which PI Rose Vogel gets mixed up in a bicoastal power struggle, will appear in the Raconteur Press anthology Pinup Noir: Sultry Murder Jazz, due out February. (January 2025)

Max Allan Collins
My new movie Blue Christmas is coming out from VCI/MVD on Blu-ray and DVD on November  5.  It marks my return to indie filmmaking for the first time since 2006. The film, based on A Wreath for Marley, combines elements of Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon and Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, and features 1940s Chicago P.I. Richard Stone. (October 2024).

J.R. Sanders
A Killing Way, my fourth Nate Ross novel, is due out this month. Recovering a stolen painting—when your client already knows who stole it—should be a simple job for a private eye. But when that client’s silent film legend William S. Hart, the painting’s a priceless Charlie Russell, your suspect’s already dead, and your name’s Nate Ross, can anything be simple? (August 2024)

O’Neil De Noux
I have a new PI novel coming out in June. In Golden Dandelions, New Orleans private eye Lucien Caye is summoned to the mansion of a wealthy New Orleanian whose daughter has been kidnapped. (June 2014)

Lamont Turner
Twelve House Books just released my collection of PI  and crime stories called All The Love You Can Buy For A Dollar, and my novel Never The Night, which stars my PI, Robert Doverman. Another collection of short stories featuring Doverman is soon to follow. (June 2014)

Rick Helms
The first title in my Charleston (SC) based PI series, Holy City, drops on July 31 from Black Arch Books. Features a new PI named Whitlock, who works primarily for the richest and most powerful family in the state. (May 2024)

John Shepphird
I may be biased—but this audiobook of Deception Specialist, featuring my scam artist turned private eye Jack O’Shea, turned out great. (May 2024)

Gary Coffin
Due in July is Smudge of Black, my second Orson Carver novel (after Mercy Lake). In this story, ex-cop and ex-con Orson Carver opens his new P.I. practice in Montreal, Quebec and is immediately drawn into chasing a serial killer who turns out to be someone from his past. (April 2024)

Jim Beaver
My new mystery novelette, Blood Snow is now out. In it, a murder at a Wild West theme park leads private investigator Rick Buchanan on a quest to track down the killer, someone he is afraid may be a close friend. (March 2024)

Dana King
My sixth Nick Forte novel, Off the Books, launched March 15. Forte leaves Chicago to investigate what he thinks is a BS case downstate and finds himself involved in police corruption and human trafficking. (March 2024)

Josh Pachter
“Texas Kinda Attitude,” the seventh story in my series about Texas PI Helmut Erhard, is in the May/June issue of EQMM. (March 2024)

Ron Miller
A Velda short story, “Velda Does a Favor,” will be published in a forthcoming issue of Black Cat Mystery Magazine. (March 2024)

Paul Kemprecos
Announcing the release of The God in the Sea, the ninth in my Cape Cod-based Aristotle “Soc” Socarides series. The first in the series, Cool Blue Tomb, was awarded a Shamus for Best Original Paperback, and a later book, Shark Bait, was nominated in the same category. I collaborated with Clive Cussler on eight books in the NUMA Files series before turning back to the PI genre. (March 2024)

Lawrence Kelter
Hope your 2024 is off to good start.  I have a new first-in-series PI novel debuting next week, Man Killer and was hoping you might do a bit about me on Thrilling Detective. Gina Cototi is a feisty Sicilian sparkplug, a Brooklyn-based private eye with a fondness for family, friends, and one roguishly handsome Casanova named Rocco Benelli. Hey, nobody’s perfect. (January 2024)

Michael Bracken
Prohibition Peepers: Private Eyes Duing the Noble Experiment (which I edited) was released in September by Down & Out Books,  with stories by me, Susanna Calkins, David Dean, Jim Doherty, John M. Floyd, Nils Gilbertson, Richard Helms, Hugh Iessig, Steve Liskow, Leigh Lundin, Adam Meyer, Penny Mickelbury, Joseph S. Walker, and Stacy Woodson. (Winter 2024)

Christopher Chan
My article “The Problems are Real,” a history of educational PBS mystery series such as Mathnet, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?, and Ghostwriter, and my novella “Macie is Missing” from my Funderburke and Kaiming series, were published in the magazine Mystery, Crime, and Mayhem‘s most recent issue, Winter Crimes. (Winter 2024)

Max Allan Collins
The 40th arrniversary Nate Heller novel, Too Many Bullets, has just been published by Hard Case Crime. The saga began with True Detective in 1983, winning the Best Novel Shamus. This one reveals the truth about the RFK assassination. Additionally, a Nate Heller podcast (think Golden Age Radio) is in the works with YouTube celebrity/film director Robert Meyer Burnett directing audio scnpts written by me, based on the original novels. A pilot has been completed and a crowd-funding effort (KickStarter) began in December. Todd Stashwick from Picard (season three) is Nate Heller. Additionally, I am wrapping up the edit on my low-budget indie film Blue Christmas, based on my private eye novella “A Wreath for Marley,” which we shot in October. Look for it on physical media and streaming services Christmas 2024. (Winter 2024)

Teel James Glennn
My Urban Fantasy PI tale Starring Jack Silence, “Dead Men Do Tell Tales,” is out in the current issue of Cirsova Magazine and a sequel, “Necromancing the Stone,” will be in the Fall issue. I just signed a three book contract and turned in the first book for the Paradise Investigations series. Not Born of Woman is a noir PI saga set in 1939 NY. It will be out from Crossroad Press in 2024.  (Winter 2024)

April Kelly
My story “Freezer Burn,” featuring a pair of larcenous yahoos too dumb to know what they have stolen and who they re-e-e-ally should not have pissed off, will be coming out in an upcoming issue of Mystery Magazine. (Winter 2024)

Jiro Kimura
S.J. Rozan’s novel Paper Son, featuring Lydia Chin and Bill Smith, has won the 2023 Maltese Falcon Award, awarded by the members of the Maltese Falcon Society of Japan for the best hardboiled novel published in Japan. The winning author receives a certificate of merit and a falcon sculpture crafted in wood. (Winter 2024)

Robert Lopresti
“When You Put it That Way” appeared in the November/December 2023 issue of Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. “I Saw Her Standing There” appeared in Happiness is a Warm Gun: Crime Stories Inspired by Songs of the Beatles (2023), “Harborville” appeared in  the September 11 issue of Tough, and “Memorial” appeared in Black Cat Weekly. (Winter 2024)

Tom Milan
My story “Ballad of a Dead Man” was pubiished online by Urban Pigs Press. (Winter 2024)

Patrick H. Moore
My Nick Crane PI crime thriller, 27 Days, has been named a finalist in the General Thriller category of the 2023 America Fiction Awards! (Winter 2024)

Richie Narvaez
My short story “The Domino Room” was published in Vautrin (November 2023). My story “Raûl and Rita in ‘It’s a Wonderful Wife'”–about married sleuths who investigate a murder on Christmas Eve, 1939–was published as a holiday chapbook by Crippen & Landru in January 2024. (Winter 2024)

I. J. Parker
I released the 23rd book of the Akitada Mysteries this past suilrner. The title is Spring Festival in Akaiwa. The Akitada series features an eleventh-century Japanese nobleman-sleuth. The eighteen-year-old Akitada won a Shamus marry years ago. (Winter 2024)

Stephen D. Rogers
“Stagnant” appeared in Black Cat Weekly, “Goes Around” appeared in Malice, Matrimony, and Murder, “Rain Always Falls'”appeared in Black Cat Mystery Magazine and “Sugar and Spice” appears in Mickey Finn: 21st Century Noir Vol. 4. (Winter 2024)

Ken Sutherland
My novel Balance: The 200-Year Journey of Andrew Crauford is now live. I’ll never be able to write like John Steinbeck, but a thrilling thing happened to me on my birthday. I got a letter from the award committee at Reed Magazine, the literary arm of San Jose State University, informing me that my short story “Swoop!” is one of three finalists for The John Steinbeck Award For Fiction. (Winter 2024)

Gay Total Kinman
“Death by Orca” is set in the Pacific Northwest where a P.I. investigates a very fishy insurance claim. “Poodles are Out –Pants are In” was originally published in More Groovy Gumshoes. A P.I., in the 1960s, investigates a car accident that turns out to be more than meets the eye–or the tree. In “Assassination, “ a senator is killed when his car goes over the edge of a cliff in San Diego. His colleagues hire a P.L to find out if a foreign potver was involved in the death. (Winter 2024)

Joseph S. Walker
I had two private eye stories pubhsheo rn 2023, both in anthologies edited by Michael Bracken for Down & Out Books. “Getting Away Clean” appears in Prohibition Peepers: Private Eyes During the Noble Experiment, and “We Are the Stonewall Girls” in More Groovy Gumshoes: Private Eyes in the Psychedelic Sixties. My story “Crime Scene” was selected for inclusion in the 2023 editions of both Best American Mystery and Suspense and Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year. (Winter 2024)

Steven Walker
I have written three private eye novels set in WWII in all formats with a third in editing.

Andrew Welsh-Huggins
My 2021 EQMM short story about Columbus private eye Andy Hayes, “Home For The Holidays,” is now available as a podcast (read by me) at podomastic.com. (Winter 2024)

CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS:

• The Best Private Eye Stories of the Year
  An annual anthology celebrating the best private eye short srories published each year, will be released by Level Short, an imprint of Level Best.
• Private Eye Writers Of America Accepting Submissions for 2024 Shamus Awards
  For works published in 2023.

FURTHER INVESTIGATION

• Have You Heard the News?
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• The Private Eye Writers of America
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