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Karen Harrington

@kharringtonwrites.bsky.social
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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

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Brandon Barrows @brandonbarrows.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
THE LAST REQUEST is cheap in ebook today! openroadmedia.com/contributor/...
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Brandon Barrows | Open Road Media
Books written by Brandon Barrows | Open Road Media
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C.W. Blackwell @cwblackwell.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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!
Bits of reviews describing the short story collection WHATEVER KILLS THE PAIN by C.W. Blackwell as
"A LIVE WIRE"
"A TREMENDOUS READ"
"HITS IT OUT OF THE PARK"
"A STIFF SHOT OF NOIR"
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Shotgun Honey @shotgunhoney.com · 12/09/2025
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.
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Karen Harrington @kharringtonwrites.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
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Mark Stevens' inspiration for his new mystery came "in a flash" — in 2001
The author tells how books he wrote since then informed his new release, "No Lie Lasts Forever" — and why we're fascinated by serial killers.
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James D.F. Hannah @jamesdfhannah.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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...
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Karen Harrington @kharringtonwrites.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Writing tip.
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Kevin R. Tipple @krtipple.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Coming this Wednesday on my blog is my #Review of this one. #Anthology amzn.to/3YQKPO0
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Scattered, Smothered, Covered & Chunked: Crime Fiction Inspired by Waffle House
Scattered, Smothered, Covered & Chunked: Crime Fiction Inspired by Waffle House - Kindle edition by Bracken, Michael, Woodson, Stacy. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Scattered, Smothered, Covered & Chunked: Crime Fiction Inspired by Waffle House.
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Jeff Vande Zande @jeffvandezande.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Anyone looking for good #murder #mystery on #booksky, this is the one! @meproctor.bsky.social is an author to follow!
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Traces of Texas @tracesoftexas.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
The Dairy Queen in Cleburne shortly after it opened in 1947.
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Karen Harrington @kharringtonwrites.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Hard to write when this cute girl keeps asking me to play. :)
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Pat Wahler @patwahlerauthor.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Wait. What? #booksky #writing
"I don't understand why this book is taking so long to write!" I say after finishing one chapter and rewarding myself with a large cake and a three year nap.
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Karen Harrington @kharringtonwrites.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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...
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Karen Harrington @kharringtonwrites.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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...
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James D.F. Hannah @jamesdfhannah.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
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...
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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.
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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
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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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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Sarah Weinman @sarahweinman.com · 08/04/2025
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...
Cover of the March/April 2025 issue of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, the first edited by new eic Jackie Sherbow
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Karen Harrington @kharringtonwrites.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Interesting.
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Karen Harrington @kharringtonwrites.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Interesting.
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Dev Petty @devpetty.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Fellow writers, go get this. It is so inspiring when the well is dry.
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Karen Harrington @kharringtonwrites.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
David Foster Wallace's 5 Rules for Great Writing nofilmschool.com/david-foster...
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David Foster Wallace's 5 Rules For Great Writing
David Foster Wallace has some great nuggets of wisdom here.
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Karen Harrington @kharringtonwrites.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Is this true for you, too? #writingcommunity
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Karen Harrington @kharringtonwrites.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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.
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Karen Harrington @kharringtonwrites.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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.
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Karen Harrington @kharringtonwrites.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Watched this terrific talk - 7 Secrets of Publishing Short Stories from @charliefish.bsky.social . Lots of great info! Highly recommend. community.flashfictionmagazine.com/c/video-repl...
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Seven Secrets of Publishing Short Stories with Charlie Fish | Authors Only Collective
Are you fed up with impersonal rejection letters? Charlie Fish, founder and editor of Fiction on the Web, lifts the lid on how literary magazines work and how to navigate them to improve your hit rate...
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Charlie Fish & Fiction on the Web @charliefish.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Fiction on the Web is open to submissions of short stories in six genres: literary, sci-fi, fantasy, humour, horror and crime. www.fictionontheweb.co.uk/p/submission...
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Karen Harrington @kharringtonwrites.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Best American Mystery & Suspense 2024 is currently $1.99 on Kindle. (My story "The Mysterious Disappearance of Jason Whetsone" is in this great collection! ) #shortstories #mysteryreaders #mysteries www.amazon.com/dp/B0CTG9QBV...
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The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2024: S.A. Cosby Edits the Newest Entry in the Renowned and Popular Story Series, Dive into the Year's Best in Mystery and Suspense
Amazon.com: The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2024: S.A. Cosby Edits the Newest Entry in the Renowned and Popular Story Series, Dive into the Year's Best in Mystery and Suspense eBook : Cosby, S.A., Cha, Steph: Tienda Kindle
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Karen Harrington @kharringtonwrites.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
www.scottishbooktrust.com/articles/bri... Brilliant writing advice from famous authors
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Brilliant writing advice from famous authors
Looking for a little bit of inspiration from the greats? Author Sarah Forbes Stewart shares her favourite writing advice from some of the best writers around.
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Karen Harrington @kharringtonwrites.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Love #writingcommunity #amwriting #raybradbury
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Karen Harrington @kharringtonwrites.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
h/t to The Writer's Circle FB post. I feel seen. (Particularly about Halloween.)
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M.E. Proctor @meproctor.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Today at Punk Noir Magazine, in our Windmills series, we have @michelleegarrett.bsky.social with the very dark "Tilting at Pinwheels" punknoirmagazine.wordpress.com/2025/03/05/t...
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Tilting at Pinwheels by Michel Lee Garrett
Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com Tilting at Pinwheels by Michel Lee Garrett  “He always loved the sunrise, you know?”  “Did he? Never really watched one myself.” “Take it in, then. Your…
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Chef Reactions @chefreactions.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Laminatoooooors…. Mount up!
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Karen Harrington @kharringtonwrites.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” ― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
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Karen Harrington @kharringtonwrites.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
A piece of my flash fiction that came out a year ago. #FlashfictionFriday flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2024/02...
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SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Last chance to join us for this wild, story-generating ride. One participant in last year's March Micro Marathon published 19 stories from it. What could you write in the buzz of 24 prompts, 150+ supportive fellow writers, small groups that have your back, live webinars, and a friendly squirrel? 🐿️
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Shotgun Honey @shotgunhoney.com · 26/02/2025
New Fiction: "Stick Talk" by Chris Lee. shotgunhoney.com/fiction/stic...
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Stick Talk by Chris Lee
The kid wore hate in his eyes like shades in the summer. If you saw him standing outside the store that day, you’d have sworn he’d burn a damn hole through the door. Alfredo’s Deli was almost empty…
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PoetNotaRockStar @poetnotarockstar.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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Andrew Porter @andrewporter01.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Today is the paperback pub day for THE DISAPPEARED! Thrilled that this beautiful new edition from Vintage Books is out in the world! See the replies for more details!
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M.E. Proctor @meproctor.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Go look at @mikemchone.bsky.social 's story and see if mine gets you going.... it's called "The Ability to Swing" (title borrowed from Thomas Dolby, hats off!). It begins: Innocence doesn’t do it for me. If it ever did, it was before I knew what the word meant ... www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXQGF3F9
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Guilty Crime Story Magazine: Issue 13 - Winter 2025
Amazon.com: Guilty Crime Story Magazine: Issue 13 - Winter 2025 eBook : Barrows, Brandon, Foster, Luke, Jensen, William, Proctor, M.E., White, Robb T., McHone, Mike: Books
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Keith Roysdon @keithroysdon.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I've got a couple of new stories out. In the latest HOOSIER NOIR, my story "The Devil's Cut" is one of my favorites I've written in the past couple of years. It's full of corn fields and lonely roads, a quiet convenience store and a cemetery that's all too busy. www.amazon.com/Hoosier-Noir...
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Hoosier Noir Vol. 7
Hoosier Noir Vol. 7 - Kindle edition by Turner, N.B., Johnson, Zakariah, Powers, Katrina, Clapp, JD , Brownman, Chuck , Roysdon, Keith, Nedecky, Joel, Ridgely, Ed. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Hoosier Noir Vol. 7.
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Karen Harrington @kharringtonwrites.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Did you hear about the Italian chef? He pasta away. Get it? I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip your waitress.
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Karen Harrington @kharringtonwrites.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
A piece of my flash fiction that came out a year ago. #FlashfictionFriday flashfictionmagazine.com/blog/2024/02...
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Karen Harrington @kharringtonwrites.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Thursday writing/reading vibe.
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C.W. Blackwell @cwblackwell.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Check it out—the latest RHP issue just dropped!!
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Karen Harrington @kharringtonwrites.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
No lies detected
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