Karen Harrington
@kharringtonwrites.bsky.social
Stories w/ LittlebrownYR / Mystery fiction w/ EQMM / Shotgun Honey / Mystery Tribune / Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine / Starlite Pulp
2023 Derringer #Flashfiction winner
Best American Mystery & Suspense 2024
www.karenharringtonbooks.com
2023 Derringer #Flashfiction winner
Best American Mystery & Suspense 2024
www.karenharringtonbooks.com
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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!
September 12, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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!
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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.
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.
September 12, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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.
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.
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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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June 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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.
jamesdfhannah.substack.com/p/36-five-fo...
jamesdfhannah.substack.com/p/36-five-fo...
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Anyone looking for good #murder #mystery on #booksky, this is the one!
@meproctor.bsky.social is an author to follow!
@meproctor.bsky.social is an author to follow!
I'm waiting for the follow up! By the way, you know I have one out? Bop City Swing, completely different from your theme, but there's horror in there too... www.amazon.com/Bop-City-Swi...
Bop City Swing
Amazon.com: Bop City Swing: 9798315615972: Proctor & Thayer, Proctor, M.E., Thayer, Russell: Libros
www.amazon.com
May 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Anyone looking for good #murder #mystery on #booksky, this is the one!
@meproctor.bsky.social is an author to follow!
@meproctor.bsky.social is an author to follow!
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The Dairy Queen in Cleburne shortly after it opened in 1947.
May 19, 2025 at 12:02 AM
The Dairy Queen in Cleburne shortly after it opened in 1947.
Hard to write when this cute girl keeps asking me to play. :)
April 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Hard to write when this cute girl keeps asking me to play. :)
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April 16, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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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...
www.amazon.com/Trouble-Texa...
April 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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...
www.amazon.com/Trouble-Texa...
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...
www.amazon.com/Trouble-Texa...
April 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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...
www.amazon.com/Trouble-Texa...
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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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#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.
jamesdfhannah.substack.com
April 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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.
jamesdfhannah.substack.com/p/34-five-fo...
jamesdfhannah.substack.com/p/34-five-fo...
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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...
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...
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April 10, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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...
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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...
April 8, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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...
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Interesting.
And here’s some truly harrowing data from Deloitte.
Readership of male bestsellers: 55% men, 45% women.
Readership of female bestsellers: 19% men, 81% women.
(It gets worse when you figure in race and queerness!)
www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insigh...
Readership of male bestsellers: 55% men, 45% women.
Readership of female bestsellers: 19% men, 81% women.
(It gets worse when you figure in race and queerness!)
www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insigh...
April 9, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Interesting.
Interesting.
And here’s some truly harrowing data from Deloitte.
Readership of male bestsellers: 55% men, 45% women.
Readership of female bestsellers: 19% men, 81% women.
(It gets worse when you figure in race and queerness!)
www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insigh...
Readership of male bestsellers: 55% men, 45% women.
Readership of female bestsellers: 19% men, 81% women.
(It gets worse when you figure in race and queerness!)
www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insigh...
April 9, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Interesting.
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Fellow writers, go get this. It is so inspiring when the well is dry.
Routledge is offering 20% off The Gift of Story this April as part of their sale.
bit.ly/4hJEPNI @stenhousepub.bsky.social
bit.ly/4hJEPNI @stenhousepub.bsky.social
April 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Fellow writers, go get this. It is so inspiring when the well is dry.
David Foster Wallace's 5 Rules for Great Writing
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nofilmschool.com/david-foster...
David Foster Wallace's 5 Rules For Great Writing
David Foster Wallace has some great nuggets of wisdom here.
nofilmschool.com
April 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
David Foster Wallace's 5 Rules for Great Writing
nofilmschool.com/david-foster...
nofilmschool.com/david-foster...
Is this true for you, too? #writingcommunity
March 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Is this true for you, too? #writingcommunity
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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.
March 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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.
March 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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.