The View from The Keyboard: mystery

Wednesday, June 28, 2023

Progress on a Few Fronts

Just two placements this month (okay, there might be one tomorrow!), A Sherlock Holmes piece, “The Babbington Inheritance,” for A Year of Mystery 1886 (Belanger Books), plus a science fiction short/long flash, “Sunrise on Eris,” for Rhapsody of the Spheres from Third Flatiron. This latter is my twenty-first professional-rates placement.

However, during this month I have also completed a lengthy interview with Steve Southard, “Poseidon's Scribe,” which will be going live soon. This was a real opportunity as it gave me the chance to showcase all my main areas of endeavour, Sherlock Holmes writing, Tales of the Middle Stars and so much more. I'll post a link when it's open.

EDIT—It's open! Read it here!

Latest news on A Tradition of Evil is that the publishers are aiming for a July release, so before long my first novel will be on the shelves! Once again, I'll post the moment it's live at Amazon.

I've not done much composition lately, with writing effort at the moment going into the textual material for a brand new dedicated author website, coming in the not too distant future. This will feature essays, listings, purchase links, free reads, lashings of artwork and so forth.

More news as it breaks!

Mike Adamson

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

A Pleasant Surprise!

Being nominated for an award is always the most pleasant of surprises, and I was more than thrilled to discover such a recognition had come my way recently.

My mystery piece “The White Calf and the Wind,” one of my “Inspector Trevelyan Mysteries,” has been nominated in the category of ”Best Long Story” for the 2023 Derringer Awards. The graphic of the finalist pool appears below. This came right out of left field—it was published in Black Cat Mystery Mgazine #11, in February, 2022. It had previously been accepted for the magazine Hybrid Fiction, due for release in September, 2020, but this was one of those occasions when an accepting market folds before release.

The Derringers are organised by the Short Mystery Fiction Society, which has been around since 1996.

The awards are announce around May 1^st each year, and I shall be on the edge if my swat until then!

Cheers,

Mike Adamson

ABOUT ME

The content of this section vanished when I had a catastrophic login issue years back and I never got around to rebuilding it... Well, here we go! I've lived in Australia most of my life, and had aspirations for a career in the arts at a young age. I encountered no success at first and was somewhat gun-shy of trying again, but in the mid-80s I found myself a regular contributor to the long-gone Underwater Geographic magazine, on marine mammal issue, and indeed my first published fiction was a short story in that magazine. In the later 90s, when I had already worked up a Bachelor's Degree (double major in both Marine Biology and Archaeology) I placed a story or two with a website, which made me think more seriously about coming back to creative writing. But it was not until after I had completed my Doctorate in 2012 that I scored a few non-paying placements and decided to take a crack at the fiction markets. That choice has led directly to my current situation I'm a writer of short and long material, considered myself an artist when I was younger, am an enthusiastic photographer and have been in the hobby of building models for 55 years with barely a break. My pets of choice are cats and dogs, and long ago I qualified as a scuba diver, through I've not hand a tank on my back in half my life. This is one of a collection of blogs I run, the others being Digital Kosmos (a photography showcase) and The World in Miniature (my model blog, though this one has been sadly neglected for years now--too much writing going on to do much building!) I hope you'll enjoy the wealth of material to read on this blog!