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Delighted to share that my story “Home” appears in the new May/June issue of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. It’s my debut in EQMM! Thank you to all who will read the new issue and to editor Jackie Sherbow.

Thursday Treats: 3/19/2026

As scheduled, my latest roundup of #PublishingNews for #ShortStories and #Books went live overnight. Come check it out and add to your #ReadingLists. #Booksky

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I'm back in Woman's World with a new solve-it-yourself mystery! If you happen to subscribe or see the current issue dated March 23 in your check-out aisle, take a look at "Harmonica Blues" on page 43. 🕵️‍♀️

Surprised and happy to share the news that my tiny crime story “Internal Breach” won Prime Number Magazine’s 53-word story contest. The story linked below will appear on their site thru December.

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Great New Reads From the Short Mystery Fiction Society About Shortmystery, genre insight from every perspective: reading, writing, revising, submitting, editing, publishing, and publicity.

September publication news from the Short Mystery Fiction Society.
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If you read Woman’s World… check out my solve-it-yourself mini mystery “Fresh-baked Fraud” on page 45 of the new issue! 😊

A Right Cozy Culinary Crime (A Right Cozy Crime) A Right Cozy Culinary Crime (A Right Cozy Crime) - Kindle edition by Jones, Wendy H. , Macleod, Sheena , Swartz, Jeanne, Ireland, Sandra, Harkrader, Lisa Knudsen, McNair, Marti M., Lemmon, Nicolette , Lawrence, Sheila Dene’, Frost, Shana, Snyder, DK, Barr,Paula. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading A Right Cozy Culinary Crime (A Right Cozy Crime).

DK Snyder's short story "Lemons and Lies" appears in the new anthology "A Right Cozy Culinary Crime," edited by Wendy H. Jones, and published by Scott and Lawson Publishers.

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JULY NEWS FROM THE SHORT MYSTERY FICTION SOCIETY About Shortmystery, genre insight from every perspective: reading, writing, revising, submitting, editing, publishing, and publicity.

July publication news from the Short Mystery Fiction Society
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A great beach read is now available for pre-order! Thanks to editor @wendyhjones.bsky.social

I'm delighted that my new short mystery story "Lemons and Lies" will be published in the anthology "A Right Cozy Culinary Crime" edited by the inimitable @wendyhjones.bsky.social Congrats to all my fellow contributors!

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In case you missed it, after a two-year hiatus, I've reopened my weekly #Crime #Poetry site The Five-Two to subs. Distressed and outraged at the state of the world? Channel that into original poetry of our times: poemsoncrime.blogspot.com/2025/02/subm... Deadline Monday, March 24, 2025.

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Hello! Just got here from my first January Jumpstart write-in!

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Here’s my surreal prose poem published in The Ekphrastic Review based loosely on Vermeer’s Lady Writing a Letter with Her Maid

Bygones — a Good Death Story by DK Snyder Bygones by DK Snyder If he weren’t standing in his brother Tim’s apartment, Justin wouldn’t have recognized the withered man slumped in the to…

My 200-word story in Punk Noir Magazine for their recent "good death" themed call.
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