J.E. Seymour lives and writes in southern
New Hampshire.
Coming Events:
November 17th, 2010, 7pm - Book Launch for "Lead Poisoning" at Water Street Books, Exeter, NH
Water Street Books
News: My debut novel, "Lead Poisoning," will be released by Mainly Murder Press November 1st 2010.
Published
stories:
"Monday" - A Twist of Noir April 2010
"From a Distance" - reprint, Mysterical-E December 2009
"Brotherly Love" - Beat to a Pulp November 2009 -
10th place in the Preditors and Editors Readers Poll for best
other
short story of 2009.
"Lights Out" - "Quarry," an anthology of crime fiction by New England writers, Level Best Books November 2009
"Out of the Shadows" - Mysterical-E September 2009
"The Wrong Place" - Darkest Before the Dawn April 2009
"Exile" - Crooked March 2009
"Coming
Home" - A Twist of Noir January 2009. I have an amateur
film maker working on a movie of this story. Should be done in
2011.
"The Big Bash" - "Deadfall," an anthology of crime fiction by New England Writers, Level Best Books November 2008
"Fade Away" - Mouth Full of Bullets March
2007
"Blackbird" - reprinted in Thriller UK
July 2006
"Blackbird" - Shred of Evidence February 2006 - tied for 20th place in
the Preditors and Editors readers poll for best Mainstream short story
of 2006
"Let Me Call You Sweetheart" - A Cruel World January 2006
"Life's a Beach" - "Windchill," an
anthology of crime fiction by New
England writers, Level Best Books November 2005.
"Slow Burn" - Shots Crime and Mystery
Magazine, summer 2005
"From a Distance" - A Cruel World
summer 2005
"Murder by Committee" - Mysterical-E
summer 2005
"Fish in the Trees" - Shots Crime and
Mystery Magazine, summer 2004
Read Blackbird here: Blackbird
About my work
Coming
soon:
"Pale Horse" - Thrilling Detective
"Lead Poisoning" - Mainly Murder Press, November 2010
Out for consideration:
"Mickey Takes a Dive" - sent to AHMM, 7/22/10
"Hard Lessons" - sent to EQMM, 7/22/10
"Disappearing Act" - sent to EQMM, 10/27/09, rejected 12/3/09, sent to AHMM, 12/14/09, rejected, sent to LBB
"Death in the Family" - sent to Strand Magazine, 11/26/08
Links:
Mainly Murder Press
Thrilling Detective
Preditors and Editors Readers' Poll
Works in progress:
Short stories!
I'm also finishing up a sequel to "Lead Poisoning" tentatively titled
"Normal, NH" and editing a prequel to "Lead Poisoning" - "Stress
Fractures."
email
Reviews:
"Quarry" was reviewed in the North Shore Book Notes at Wicked Local Rockport Arts.
"Coming Home" was reviewed at Eastern Standard Crime in January of 2009. 3 out of a possible 5 fedoras. Not bad.
"Deadfall" was reviewed in the North Shore Book Notes at Wicked Local Rockport Arts.
For those of you interested in
learning how to write crime fiction, I will be teaching classes at the
Workshop Studio in Rollinsford, NH. http://theworkshopstudio.org/index.html
What's one of the most important things for a new writer to know?
Yog's Law - Money Flows Toward The Writer. (Borrowed from James D. Macdonald.)
November 16th Jungle Red Writers Blog talks about "Quarry"
Links to other crime fiction
writers: