I’ve known this for months but can only talk about it now that the table of contents has been released. My short story “The Honey Trap” will appear in the Mystery Writers of America anthology Ice Cold, edited by Jeffery Deaver and Raymond Benson, the only Americans selected to write James Bond novels.
The editors also invited the following authors to contribute: Joseph Finder, J.A. Jance, John Lescroart, Laura Lippman, Gayle Lynds with John Sheldon, Katherine Neville, Sara Paretsky, and T. Jefferson Parker. Not bad company to keep, eh?
MWA anthologies (this will be my second appearance in one, after The Blue Religion, which was edited by Michael Connelly) are only open to members. Submissions are blind, so there’s no bias for or against any particular author. The story has to succeed on its own merits. I’m delighted to be in this one, which has a Cold War theme. The other MWA members included are Gary Alexander, Virginia Cole, Alan Cook, Brendan DuBois, Vicki Doudera, Katia Lief, Robert Mangeot, Jonathan Stone and Joseph Wallace. It will be out next April.
In other news, my Storytellers Unplugged essay, Reading out loud, went live yesterday morning. I also received my contributor copies of issue #70 of Cemetery Dance magazine last night. I have a review of Doctor Sleep and an interview with Hard Case Crime editor Charles Ardai in this issue, along with my usual News from the Dead Zone column.
