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Fanfare! Black Coffee

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Now Death Will Us Part, a nasty story of undying love, is one of 23 short stories in Black Coffee, a collection of mystery noir which was released last week. This is my first short story to be included in an anthology. :)
 
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Now that must be a great feeling!! :) Many congratulations! May I ask, was your story spotted by a compiler, or was there a call for anthology submissions which you responded to?
 
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Now that must be a great feeling!! :) Many congratulations! May I ask, was your story spotted by a compiler, or was there a call for anthology submissions which you responded to?
I responded to a call for submissions
 
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You got there on merit then. Some anthologies I have seen, that were not based on a submissions call, show a suspiciously close relationship between editor and authors ... e.g. same creative writing course, or same geographical location, or overlap in employment, etc. Am I cynical? Er -- yes.
 
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You got there on merit then. Some anthologies I have seen, that were not based on a submissions call, show a suspiciously close relationship between editor and authors ... e.g. same creative writing course, or same geographical location, or overlap in employment, etc. Am I cynical? Er -- yes.
Have to admit at least one of the editors and I both live in the Bay Area but we've not met, in person, yet. The call for submissions went out through Sisters in Crime, an organization I heartily recommend to other mystery writers - female or otherwise. There are now "brothers" in the organization, too.
 
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