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."


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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: