Crime and Suspense

Welcome to the Crime and Suspense ezine website, a place for fans and writers of crime, suspense and mystery stories.

We like Golden Age crime stories, classic P.I. stories, modern detective stories, historical mysteries, spooky suspense, and cozy mysteries. If you are looking for stories that make your palms sweat, make you look over your shoulder or cause you to check in the closet and under the bed before you turn out the lights, this is the place!

And here's some incentive—if you either renew your subscription to Crime and Suspense before November 30th of this year, or enter a new subscription before that date, your name will be placed into a drawing for a $50 Barnes & Noble gift card! (Yes, if you are one of those who already renewed this month when the notices went out, you are also eligible for the drawing) The drawing will be held on or about December 1, to allow time for holiday shopping with the gift card.

So renew that subscription! Or start a new one! Buy a gift subscription for someone who loves crime fiction! We want to keep Crime and Suspense going for a long time.

Beginning with the May/June 2008 issue, any author whose story is accepted, and is not already a subscriber to the ezine, shall receive a FREE one-year subscription to the ezine—a $12 value! This is in addition to any story fee paid.

Please note: only one such free subscription can be given to an author, however, and it is not retroactive to authors who have stories accepted before this issue.

In the last issue, there were three giveaway drawings for our subscribers. Here are the results of those giveaway drawings:

If you are SUBMITTING a story, read the Guidelines and the Themes!
Some people send in stories without paying attention, thus assuring that their story probably will be rejected.

Giveaways!

We have more great stuff for our subscribers!

You'll notice that we have a review in this issue of Peggy Ehrhart's new book, SWEET MAN IS GONE. She has very graciously agreed to provide an autographed copy of that book to one lucky soul! So, if you want to be entered into that drawing, check out the details in the current issue of Crime and Suspense! (And don't forget to read the review in the current issue!)

LOST SOULS t-shirt and book. In the current issue we have an audio interview with Lisa Jackson, the author of LOST SOULS, which book was reviewed in our last issue. Lisa was a fun interview, and she and her publicist have offered to provide a bounty of giveaway items: five copies of her book, each with a LOST SOULS t-shirt! Their generosity knows no bounds, let me tell ya! To get the details on how to be in on the drawing for one of these five LOST SOUL packages,check the current issue of Crime and Suspense!

* Please Note: you MUST be a subscriber to the ezine to receive any of these items. Sorry, but that's the way it works. Take a look at the rules governing prizes and giveaways HERE.

For a selection of sterling silver bookmarks visit PerfectlyEngraved.co.uk. You can also personalize and add a special message to your bookmark by having it engraved, making a fantastic gift.

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We're looking for stories with a variety of themes, as well as for well-written stories that do not follow a specific theme.

Here are the submission guidelines and the themes for full details.

If you are SUBMITTING a story, read the Guidelines and the Themes! All issues this year through October are themed. If your story doesn't fit a theme, or you can't identify that theme clearly in the email that goes with the story, don't send it.

The second Féile Fidelma, an international gathering of enthusiasts of the Sister Fidelma Mysteries, will be held in Cashel. Co. Tipperary, Ireland, September 5 - 7, 2008.

Great Manhattan Mystery Conclave

Oct. 31 - Nov. 2, 2008

Public Safety Writers Association Conference

June 18-21, 2009

Magna Cum Murder

Oct. 24 - 26, 2008

Please note: the events, conventions and conferences placed here are all, as far as we know, friendly to small-press and independently-published authors. If you discover that one is not, let us know and we will stop advertising that con. We believe in supporting the cons which support small press and independent publishers.

If you have a competitive nature, and are a writer of any sort, check out the new menu option above, Contests and Opportunities! I'll be updating it with new information as often as possible, but it has quite a few entries already. Maybe you can find a niche for your writing itch.

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I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

- James Joyce

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