My wife, Tara Laskowski, and I were so pleased to be invited as joint guests on the podcast It Was…
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The First Two Pages: “None Shall Sleep” by Sylvia Maultash Warsh
In April 2015, B.K. Stevens debuted the blog series “The First Two Pages,” hosting craft essays by short story writers…
Continue reading →March Newsletter
I just published my March newsletter—and what a lot has changed since the last one in December. Who could’ve anticipated?…
Continue reading →Read “Better Days”
Thanks to Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, for a limited time you can read my story “Better Days” online for free.…
Continue reading →“Better Days” Named Agatha Finalist
Thank you to the Malice Domestic community for choosing my story “Better Days” as a finalist for this year’s Agatha…
Continue reading →My End-of-Year Newsletter
A Macavity Award and two new stories headline this final newsletter of the year, with previews of more to come…
Continue reading →Macavity Award Win!
We’d just finished trick-or-treating and had sat down for Halloween dinner when the news from Bouchercon popped up on my…
Continue reading →CrimeReads: “State of the Crime Novel”
I appreciate the various roundtables that CrimeReads has hosted in recent years in advance of major mystery conferences—panel discussions on…
Continue reading →Bouchercon!
Fresh off a fun weekend—the Sisters in Crime Author Extravaganza in Ellicott City, MD, and an “in conversation” event with…
Continue reading →SleuthSayers: Anthony Finalists for Best Short Story
Thanks to Barb Goffman for hosting this year’s Anthony Award finalists for Best Short Story at SleuthSayers this week. Barb…
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