J.E. Seymour lives and writes in southern New Hampshire.  

Coming Events:



News:  My debut novel, "Lead Poisoning," will be released by Mainly Murder Press in December of 2010.  


Published stories:


"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




Coming soon:


"Pale Horse" - Thrilling Detective


"Lead Poisoning" - Mainly Murder Press, December 2010



Out for consideration:


"Disappearing Act" - sent to EQMM, 10/27/09, rejected 12/3/09, sent to AHMM, 12/14/09

"What Goes Around" - sent to Back Alley, 3/27/09


"Death in the Family" - sent to Strand Magazine, 11/26/08


Links:

Mainly Murder Press

Thrilling Detective

Beat to a Pulp

Darkest Before the Dawn

Crooked

A Twist of Noir

Preditors and Editors Readers' Poll

Shots

Mysterical-E

A Cruel World

Level Best Books

Shred of Evidence

Thriller UK

Mouth Full of Bullets




Works in progress:

Short stories!



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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: